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Amaury partners with Paris Region Lab to launch France’s first press incubator
Amaury, known for their news publications such as L’Equipe and Le Parisien, just launched the first accelerator in France dedicated to the press industry. The accelerator, dubbed Amaury Lab was developed in conjunction with the Paris region and has a double objective: first to accelerate fast-growing startups and facilitate collaboration and opportunities for co-development between these start-ups […]
Menlook.com raises €23 Million from IDInvest to conquer Male fashion online
Men’s clothing & fashion store Menlook.com has raised €23 Million, led by IDInvest & BPIFrance with participation from previous investors. Founded in 2010 by Marc Menasé, Menlook.com has seen 17 Million visitors across its portfolio of male-fashion websites in 2014, including 400,000 clients looking more than 400 brands, including 3 Menlook-owned brands (Menlook Label, SaintSens and Estime). The total funding for […]
Qucit launches world’s first bikeshare predictive API
Bordeaux-based big data startup Qucit released this month the world’s first bikeshare predictive API. It is tightly integrated in iPhone and Android app La Bonne Station (the new iPhone version was released yesterday). The app uses the API to power a visualization of predicted bike availability over 12 hours in the future, at any given […]
The French government will fund expatriated French entrepreneurs (& the VCs that back them)
You may recall that back in June of this year, during the FrenchTech month, François Hollande spoke in front of 200 members of the FrenchTech community (and a few distinguished guests, like GigaOm founder & TrueVentures partner Om Malik as well as VentureBeat Editor in Chief Dylan Tweney). During his speech, which had its ups and […]
MyFeelBack raises €1 Million to build Smarter Survey Software
Toulouse-based MyFeelBack has raised €1 Million from BPIFrance, business angels including ExactTarget VP Jean-Philippe Baert, as well as the crowdfunding platform WiSeed, for their SaaS survey software. The startup, founded in 2011 by Julien Hourregue (CTO), Aurore Beugniez (COO) & Stéphane Contrepois (CEO), has already worked with SNCF, BMW & Airbus, counting over 35,000 users across its surveys. The product allows users to […]
“Uber for Marketing” DOZ raised $1 Million from Nexus, 500 Startups & Kima
You may have already heard of DOZ, after they wrote about their fight to keep their company brand last year, or more recently when they spoke about raising money abroad as a French startup; however, today’s news comes from myself and not from CEO Anji Ismail – DOZ has raised $1 Million from Nexus Ventures, Kima […]
1001Pharmacies’ prescription delivery service hits a court-ordered roadblock
It’s the kind of thing that breaks your heart, when regulation gets in the way of innovation so early. Last week, the French court ruled in favor of the CNOP (Conseil National de l’Ordes des Pharmaciens), an association representing the interests of pharmacies in France, in a case against 1001Pharmacies.com, claiming the company was illegally […]
Lucibel’s brilliant vision of the future of LED, Smart Lighting & Li-Fi
In the suburbs of Paris, a nondescript building in Rueil-Malmaison fails to paint the stereotype picture of a startup that I’ve come to expect. I have ventured outside of the comfort of the startup-packed Sentier district in Paris in order to meet Frédéric Granotier, the founder & CEO of Lucibel, a startup specialized in lighting. […]
99/1 is the new 80/20
The game industry’s largest convention, the E3 Expo just took place. Reportedly, one of the highlights of the show was a demo of a new game called Adrift on the Oculus Rift platform. Adrift simulates a reality in which the gamer finds himself floating above the Earth alone on a decaying space station seeking out […]
France to help US LPs back French VCs, will back US VCs investing in France
Earlier this week, François Hollande gave a speech to the French Tech community, in which he eluded to a plan to finance transatlantic US/French VC funds – the full speech available below in French. As we reported yesterday, not much was known about this at the time, only that BPIFrance, the VC arm of the […]