Liam Boogar
#ConnectedContest We're bringing 10 Startups to Connected Conference for free!
Connected Conference is only 6 weeks away and we’ve already announced dozens of great speakers, and 3-day program that will blow you away, and, oh yeah, a giant Connected Home in the middle of the venue. Inside our Exhibition Hall, in addition to a giant home, a giant 3D Experience powered by our Official Sponsor Autodesk, […]
Happn, Devialet & Marie Ekeland's new VC Fund – all this & more at #ParisFounders Spring Edition
#ParisFounders is just around the corner (April 29th), and tickets are selling so fast we’ve had to change venues, from Palais Brongniart to Dauphine. We’ve only got 800 tickets available this time, more than double what we were able to fit this time last year, when we were hosted by Google France – we had 150 people on […]
8 month after surgery, Carmat's 2nd artificial heart recipient speaks: alive & mobile
When Carmat announced last year that they had put their artificial heart in a patient, who survived 75 days after having a one week prognosis, it became clear the medical technology was on the brink of its next leap forward. Earlier this month, French publication JDD reported that Carmat performed another artificial heart transplant (which we […]
Europe's #1 Hosting Provider threatens to leave if latest French surveillance law passes
France’s latest proposed law may just scare off one of its biggest digital champions. After the French Government revealed a proposed law, nearly one year in the works, last month, critics jumped on what they consider to be an overreach of the government’s power without checks & balances. Among the critics, Octave Klaba, Polish-born founder of OVH.com, […]
20 Million members across 18 Markets: Blablacar acquires Carpooling.com & What's Next?
Blablacar, the number 1 ride-sharing platform, has acquired its largest competitor Carpooling.com, adding a variety of new markets and creating a pan-European ride-sharing platform. In addition, Blablacar also made an acquisition of Hungarian Autohop – the two acquisitions will bring Blablacar across all of Europe (“From Amsterdam to Prague,” as they put it), and will remove Blablacar’s […]
This is not an April Fool's Joke: France is blocking Dailymotion's acquisition. Again.
Déjà vu. Seriously. Headlines in France look all too familiar: France’s Economic Minister favors a less Asian more European partner in the sale of Dailymotion, which announced that it was in exclusive talks with China’s PCCW two weeks ago. What’s crazy is that, since the last time that Dailymotion’s acquisition by Yahoo!, France has changed out its […]
Partech Ventures announces the Biggest European Seed Fund. Ever.
Partech Ventures announced this morning that they have closed a new €60 Million Seed Fund – Partech Entrepreneur II – with LPs including BPIFrance, seven corporations (Carrefour, Econocom, EdenRED, Groupama, Ingenico, Neopost, Renault-Nissan), as well as 50 entrepreneurs, including Eric Carreel (Withings), Marc Menasé (Menlook – a Partech investment) & Oliver Goy (Lendix). The fund will […]
France's Civil Code has been compiled on Github.
“If we consider a law to be a group of texts modified by different bodies of the government, we can treat them likecollaboratively defined text documents… there is another group of people who, for the last 50 years, work collaboratively on ever-evovling texts: developers. They have created extremely efficient tools for working together and tracking their […]
How do we save Digital Journalism? We turn Journalists into Super Heroes
tl;dr version: Journalists need tools that are built for the part of their job that is still done over the phone, on pen & paper, and in a non-scalable way. That’s why we’re building Omniscient. I find myself in the back of a room full of France’s top media companies – everything from Dailies (LeFigaro, LaTribune, LeParisien), to Lifestyle […]
1500 candidates & 70 Recruiters, Paris Startup Job Fair returns March 28th!
The Paris Startup Job Fair returns for its 4th edition on Saturday March 28th, bringing together 1500 developers, designers, data scientists, marketers, salespeople & more. The 1500 passionate people will be meeting up to 70 recruiters, startups of all shapes, sizes, sectors & goals. In this 4th edition, we’re excited to welcome, in addition to amazing startups (all […]