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5 French startups that fit the bill for LeWeb London’s “Sharing Economy” program.

Apr 23, 2013 by LiamBoogar

This week Loic & Geraldine LeMeur announced the program for LeWeb London (June 5th & 6th), which includes marketplace giants Etsy, Airbnb, ZipCar & TaskRabbit. This will be the 2nd LeWeb London, and the first LeWeb event since Leweb was acquired by Reed MIDEM at the end of last year, so...

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April 16th, join Cookening, Drivy & Capitaine Train for Paris UX Design event UXD4Startups

Apr 2, 2013 by LiamBoogar

The second edition of UXD4Startups – Paris’ first dedicated UX Design event – has been set for April 16th. The event, who’s theme “Designing efficient services users trust” will touch on best practices for website design, product development, and problem solving. Hosted by the veritable Olivier Desmoulin, the event...

[European StartUp Scene]

Alven Capital close to closing their 120 million euro fourth fund

Mar 8, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Alven Capital announced this week on their blog that they are “very close to reaching their hard cap of 120M€,” and thus closing their 4th fund, Alven Capital IV. The firm, which has made investments in iAdvize, Drivy, Mailjet, Textmaster, Qosmos, Commerce Guys & more, has been pretty quiet lately, despite...

[Events][The Sharing Economy]

Loic & Geraldine announce the LeWeb London theme: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy

Feb 5, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Via a new video posted to the LeWeb YouTube account yesterday, Loic & Geraldine Le Meur have announced the theme for LeWeb London: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy. The event, set to take place on June 5th & 6th in central London, will be their second event in London,...

[The Sharing Economy]

Voiturelib becomes Drivy: International Plans for 2013?

Jan 4, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Today Voiturelib announced they have changed their name to Drivy, and can now be found at Drivy.com. This doesn’t surprise me, given that the startup raised €2 Million from Index Ventures last summer, and there was no way Index would invest in a company that wasn’t going to go international. Drivy...

[eCommerce][The Sharing Economy]

Zilok Auto snags €1.5M from Jaina & the new Ecomobilité Ventures

Oct 11, 2012 by LiamBoogar

ZIlok Auto announced yesterday a new round of funding from Marc Simoncini’s Jaina Capital & Ecomobilité Ventures, a Joint Venture fund by SNCF, Total & Orange. Zilok Auto is a peer-to-peer car rental service which hopes to help you monetize the 90% of the time you don’t use your car in...

[European StartUp Scene][Events]

Rejoignez Une Startup – Feedback from Recruiting Startups

Oct 8, 2012 by LiamBoogar

Two weekends ago was held the 1st edition of Rejoignez Une Startup (“Join a Startup”), a startup recruiting event which aimed to attract top-level engineering talent to interest them in working for startups. More than 40 startups – including Capitaine Train (just raised $1.4M), VoitureLib (just raised $2M - here’s an...

[The Sharing Economy]

Paulin Dementhon on the future of P2P Car Sharing

Sep 27, 2012 by LiamBoogar

Just last week, P2P Car-sharing service Voiturelib announced a fund-raising round of €2 Million – investors included Alven Capital & Index Ventures. The service, which counts 5,000 cars actively available to rent in France alone and more than 50,000 registered users as of September, allows everyday Joe’s like you and...

[European StartUp Scene][Events]

Rejoignez Une Startup! 45 Funded French Startups offer 140 jobs 09/22

Sep 18, 2012 by LiamBoogar

If you’ve just landed in France, or have just landed on this site, today is your lucky day: RejoignezUneStartup (“Join a Startup”) is the event not only for job seekers, but for entrepreneurs looking to see what’s going on in France. This no-bullshit job fair has brought together 45 startups, whom,...

[Developer][European StartUp Scene]

P2P ride-sharing service Voiturelib.com : an outsourcing success story

Jun 14, 2012 by Wessel

In today’s article, we’re taking a look at a French startup called Voiturelib.com – a P2P car sharing service. Founder and CEO Paulin Dementhon tells a fascinating tale on how he started Voiturelib and how he successfully outsourced his web development as a business guy by himself. Paulin Dementhon, a...

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