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Augure raises €15 million to launch in NYC, further expand in Europe

Marketing software startup Augure has announced that they’ve just closed a 15 million euros round with their previous investors, Serena Capital, Aumndi Private Equity Funds, Ventech, and OTC Agregator, with two new investors, Seventure and Bpifrance, joining the round.  This brings the total amount of funds they’ve raised to €23 million, having closed an €8 million round in 2008. […]

Happn launches in the Silicon Valley, announces 2.5 Million downloads

Facebook made a lot of news yesterday at their annual developer conference F8, but other startups present at the conference are making big news as well. Happn, an increasingly popular new dating app launched by former Daily Motion COO Didier Rappaport, have decided to announce their San Francisco launch at F8.  San Francisco would be the 6th major […]

Urbanlinker founder Jonathan Azoulay launches "TalentClub," an online tech talent auctionhouse

If there’s one thing the internet is good at doing, it’s disrupting traditional businesses. When Breaz.io launched last August with a model similar to hired.com in the US, providing a curated selection of 10 engineers each week that recruiters could ‘bid’ on, I began to wonder how this would affect the bottom line of France’s top tech recruiters: Mobiskill, Urbanlinker, […]

AXA launched €200 Million fund dedicated to customer experience

AXA is launching AXA Strategic Ventures, a €200 Million investment fund dedicated to customer experience, the company announced today. AXA has already made a slew of investments – some of which we reported, like Flyr – some of which we haven’t – Fundshop, Particeep, Widmee, & Climate Secure. Investments will be made in San Francisco, New York, London, […]

French hardware campaigns aren't waiting for Kickstarter to launch in France

Rumors circled this week that Kickstarter would be launching in France, meaning that crowdfunding projects based in France can now… well, come from France. Kickstarter has since denied these rumors. Previously, European companies were encouraged to use the British website, requiring the currency to be in pound sterlin(£) – alternatively, many French companies opted to open up a […]

SNCF launches its ambitious, transformative #DIGITALSNCF agenda

  SNCF embarking on an ambitious, multi-year agenda to drive the complete digital transformation of their business.  #DIGITALSNCF comprises several big initiatives focused on 4 principal areas including Open Data, Big Data, Design and Connected Objects. Some of the key initiatives include using tablets for maintenance of their train system, partnering with startups to develop and launch new […]

Kelbillet expands to the UK with launch of pan-European brand Gopili

In just under five years, Kelbillet has grown massively from a site to sell unwanted train tickets to become the leading travel search engine in France.  Unlike sites like Expedia, Travelzoo, Travelocity or even SNCF, Kelbillet’s biggest strength is that they help you figure out how to get from point A to point B domestically on […]

Lucky Cart raises €1.6 million to roll-out across Europe and launch SaaS solution

  Lucky Cart, the specialist in Promogaming, announced today on Frenchweb that they’ve closed a 1.6 million euro round with five funds, namely Partech Ventures, Kima Ventures, Pléiade Venture, Fa Diese and Edenred. With this new round, Cyril Marchal is looking first of all to build out his commercial team in order to solidify their position in France […]

And here are the 5 amazing products launched on stage during Paris Founders Event!

Last Monday, in front of 500+ attendees: investors, journalists, entrepreneurs ans startup lovers, 6 awesome startups launched on the stage of LePalais Brongniart. If you couldn’t make it out to this week’s Paris Founders Event, here’s the six rising stars that appeared: 3D Sound Labs debuted Neoh, the first smart 3D audio headphones. Neoh integrates […]

Dailymotion jumps into the game footage streaming world, launches "Games"

2014 was the year that online video found a new channel for growth in the form of video game footage streaming. Popularized by Twitch, which was acquired for nearly $1 Billion by Amazon last year, the new video model has got video hosting sites excited, and Dailymotion won’t be left out of this trend. The […]