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#FoodTech startup ZenChef (formerly 1001Menus) raises €6 Million to bring 25,000 restaurants online by 2018
Paris-based #FoodTech startup ZenChef has raised €6 Million from key investors, the company announced today. The news, which comes while ZenChef is in the middle of TechStar’s German-based Metro program, will see them add Metro AG, Germany’s largest retail chain, & Edenred, pioneers in the “restaurant check” space, both of which should provide ZenChef with […]
My two favorite perks in the Macron Law for French startups
Following much debate and anticipation, France’s Loi Macron was finally adopted into effect in early August, during a period when many people weren’t paying too much attention. The Macron Law (inheriting not coincidentally the namesake of the Economy Minister whose ideas inspired it) is technically called the law “for growth, activity and equality of economic […]
YC startup from France that does Netflix for Africa raises money from Orange
Orange Digital Ventures, Orange’s special fund with the aim of investing in early-stage tech startups, just announced its participation, alongside TheFamily, Cross Culture Ventures I L.P. and ACE & Company, in the funding of Afrostream, a subscription video on demand service (SVOD) of African, African-American and African-Caribbean films and tv series. Afrostream’s unlimited SVOD streaming […]
Another chance to Go East, Young Startup
For the third consecutive year, I’ve been granted some coveted spots to bring a delegation of five privileged French startups to the prestigious Dash Camp retreat in Japan. Dash Camp represents one of Asia’s exclusive tech conferences (they have a lot of exclusives there) whose objective is to foster cross-pollination between innovative entrepreneurs and leaders […]
NYC's 10 hottest French startups – 2015 edition
For the 3rd year running, I’ve been spending part of the summer in NYC, meeting with the budding French entrepreneur scene there – and putting together an updated list of my 10 favorite upcoming startups. The past 12 months have been eventful for the laureates of the past two editions: Sunrise was acquired by Microsoft […]
The 5 best IOT startups at Techcrunch Disrupt 2015
Last day of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, a whole section of the startup alley is dedicated to Hardware (note that there is a separate section for Virtual reality). Robots are snooping around, drones are flying above our heads: you can tell the future is happening here. Everything looks pretty cool from the outside, […]
Capital inefficiency in hardware startups is a myth, period
When I joined my partners at the Hardware Club to re-focus myself on investments in hardware startups, my former boss at my previous VC firm warned me, out of concerns about my career, that hardware startups were capital inefficient and would not be able to generate the investment returns as well as lean startups. At […]
With increasing recruitment startups, what will be the fate of headhunters?
The Internet has always taken a certain pleasure in removing the middleman – or at least, drastically changing how they think about their role in a sector. Travel advisors, ad agencies, taxi dispatchers – if your job was more or less an ‘operator’ or a go-between between two parties, there will be an Internet startup […]
"My Venereal Disease" (and other startup naming blunders)
{Note: This post is meant to provoke but is not intended to offend. Most of the startups I mention, and I’ve met a lot of them, have pretty good products. Moreover, I credit their founders for their creativity and daring in a language that is not their native tongue: important traits of successful entrepreneurs.} Over […]
The Golden Age of E-commerce in the US: How will EU startups take advantage of it?
The following is a guest post from Jason McDonald, Director of StringCan Interactive Paris, StringCan Interactive is an American based digital strategy, design and development agency that helps European startups gain access to the US market. You can follow StringCan on twitter at @StringCanEU. At StringCan, we believe that European companies have been presented with […]