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Coorpacademy raises €3.2 million to accelerate its expansion
Although slower to take-off, the momentum of the Edutech sector continues to accelerate in France and across Europe. Coming off the recent announcement of Kartable’s €1.2 round just a couple of weeks ago, Coorpacademy, which launched just 18 months ago and counts ex-Google France president Jean-Marc Tassetto as one of their cofounders, have just closed a €3.2 million series […]
Vinify seeks to take the hassle and complexity out of the wine experience
Vinify are not only looking to change the way people buy wine, but also want to empower wine lovers to choose the wine that suits them best. Founded last year by a 4-man cofounder team including Antoine Ayoub, Benjamin Pipat, Felix Le Chevallier and Michael Fillion, and now a part TheFamily, Vinify have recently come out […]
Europioneers Award’s 2014 winners announced
After 6 months of competition, the European Commission, with Deloitte, European Young Innovators Forum and HUB Institute, announced the 2014 Europioneers Award winners at last week’s 20k participant strong Web Summit in Dublin. This year’s big winner was Hungarian entrepreneur Peter Arvai, co-founder of Prezi who took the European Web Entrepreneur of the Year Award, an award […]
Selectionnist bring fashion media and m-commerce even closer with mobile app launch
Launched in early 2014 by Dealissime cofounders Tatiana Jama and Lara Rouyres, Selectionnist seeks to bridge the gap between ecommerce and brands featured in fashion magazine print ads and articles. While the first iteration of Selectionnist started as a site where via search consumers could find and, ultimately, buy clothes, shoes, other accessories, and other […]
Agorize raises €2 million to fuel its idea crowdsourcing platform
Armed with several high-profile international clients, including such names as Philips, Microsoft, Youtube, BNP Paribas, Blablacar and many more, Agorize have closed a €2 million round with Iris Capital and Capnamic Ventures. Agorize’s principal goal is to enable companies to tap in to the potential offered by communities to help them in the ideation process. Agorize have already built […]
Criteo beats estimates with big Q3 revenue jump
Criteo announced their Q3 results yesterday which beat all analyst estimates. Announcing €194 million in revenue, which was a 71% y-o-y increase, they easily beat initial analyst estimates of €72.7 million. They also came in strong on the earnings side of things, reporting net income of €11.5 million, up from €3.0 million last year. As a result, they […]
France leads the world on wifi hotspots…for now
France currently leads the world in terms of number of public wifi hotspots with 13 million (commercial and community hotspots) according to a far-reaching study by global wi-fi provider iPass. The US comes in second in terms of number of hotspots at 9.8 million and the UK third at 5.6 million. Europe overall has the world’s largest […]
PhotoBox completes its second acquisition in a month by scooping up its rival Hoffmann
With 30 million members, PhotoBox is now Europe’s leading online digital photo service. Up until now, PhotoBox has had a physical presence in Europe in just Paris, London, and Sweden, as well as in Australia. With the recently announced acquisition of Valencia-based Hoffmann, a company founded in 2009 with its strength in the digital creation […]
Soon to be launched Névo connected watch to take on Withings’ Activité
The wearable market has seen several of new devices on the market in recent months, particularly the connected watches. While iWatch has certainly been the most heralded, Withings also made a big splash with their state-of-the art connected watch Activité which launched this fall. Now a new entrant the Névo, which is result of […]
EduTech startup Kartable raises €1.2 million
The EduTech sector continues to grow rapidly around the globe and France is no exception. French startups like 360Learning, Neodemia, digiSchool, Unishared and more seek to capitalize on the rapidly increasing need in for more innovative models to both early and life-long learning. As the traditional education system continues to come under pressure in France and elsewhere, these […]