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Drivy raises €31M and confirms its position as European leader of peer-to-peer car rental
5 years ago, Paris-based Drivy decided to tackle the rental car industry with its peer-to-peer model, providing a lower-priced, consumer-oriented service, and changing the way we think about renting cars. Since the platform was created in 2010, Drivy became Europe’s largest car rental marketplace, with 850,000 users across France, Germany and Spain. Today, Drivy has […]
France VCs looking harder at hardware (infographic)
Next month, numerous movers and shakers from the global hardware and IoT ecosystem will descend on Paris for the 3rd edition of the Connected Conference. While those outside the industry might question why Paris is the home to one of the top events on everything connected, insiders know all too well the formidable IoT and hardware […]
Julie Desk raises €600K from France’s 1st super angel syndicate SIDE Capital
Virtual Assistant service Julie Desk has raised €600,000 from the recently launched SIDE Capital, a new super angel syndicate which includes the founders of Blablacar (valued at $2 Billion), Showroom Privé (IPO in 2015), PriceMinister (acquired by Rakuten) & A Little Market (sold to Etsy). Julie Desk was the result of a pivot away from collaborative planning app WePopp, and founders Julien […]
French investment is growing, just not as fast as the rest of Europe
Tech.eu released their French Tech Funding trends for 2015 this week (you can download their report here), which revealed quite a bit of insights into the French Tech market. The report, which aggregates Fundraising and exit data about french technology companies, has quite a bit of takeaways – some of which are obvious, some of which aren’t – the […]
Doubling down on digital, Michelin acquires table reservation service Bookatable
Michelin has acquired London-based Bookatable, Europe’s leading online table-reservation service, working with 15,000 restaurants & managing more than 34 million covers worth of reservations. Bookatable had raised upwards of $70M from Balderton Capital (via Johan Brenner, currently GP at Swedish fund Creandum) & Wellington Partners (via Daniel Waterhouse, who is now a Partner at Balderton Capital). Bookatable was […]
Can France overcome its self-bashing handicap to become a "Startup Factory"?
“Bienvenue en France, la Startup Republique!” For the past 18 months or so, since LaFrenchTech began to make noise abroad, I began hearing talk of the Startup Republique. A play off of Israel’s coined “Startup Nation” tagline, which has brought out voices in favor and in opposition on the topic. Contrary to the US, where waving […]
Streamroot raises $2.5M seed funding to redesign video streaming infrastructure
Streamroot, the native peer-to-peer video streaming technology just announced it has raised $2.5M in seed funding led by Partech Ventures and with the participation of Walnut Venture Associates, Cherrystone Angel Group, Jean-David Blanc and Bpifrance. The Startups aims to help broadcasters solve one of the biggest challenges they are facing today: a rocketing video traffic, […]
Valued at €660 Million, can Parrot compete with DJI for the Drone throne?
Last month Parrot announced that they would seek to raise €300 Million, including €90 Million contributed from CEO & founder Henri Seydoux himself & another €30 Million from BPIFrance. Since October, Parrot’s stock (listed on the Paris-based Euronext) has dropped from a high of just over 45€ to a low point of 20€ – the market cap at […]
iAdvize nabs €14 Million to bring its Customer Engagement solution to the US
Customer engagement startup iAdvize has secured €14 Million in new funding from Iris Capital & Bpifrance, with participation by their historic investor Alven Capital, in order to take their platform global. Founded in 2010 and based in Nantes, the 120-person team has seen an average 100% annual growth over the past 5 years, iAdvize offers […]
Clic and Walk raises €3.5 million to roll-out across Europe and reinforce its R&D
Click and Walk, rising star in the area of geo-location based offline marketing has just raised 3.5 million with CITA Investissement and Fonds Ambition Numérique (managed by Bpifrance). Their historic investor with whom they raised 750k last year also joined the round. Based near Lille in Roubaix and founded just 3 years ago by Frédérique Grigolato, […]