{"id":22771,"date":"2014-01-13T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=22771"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T16:50:38","slug":"monday-9am-evaneos-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/01\/monday-9am-evaneos-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaneos raises $6M from Xange &#038; ISAI to take its tailored travel service international"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evaneos.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22792 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/Eveneos.jpg\" alt=\"Eveneos\" width=\"465\" height=\"236\" \/>Evaneos<\/a> announced today that they have raised $6M from Xange &amp; ISAI on the back of the growth of their online personalized travel website. The service, founded in 2009 by\u00a0Eric La Bonnardi\u00e8re &amp;\u00a0Yvan Wibaux, has seen sales double in the past year, totalling 30,000 users, having already established itself in France, Spain, Germany &amp; Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, led by\u00a0Rodolphe Menegaux from Xange &amp;\u00a0Christophe Raynaud for ISAI, also sees Kelkoo CEO\u00a0Jean-Fabrice Mathieu join the board along with The Phone House co-founder\u00a0Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux, who is also a co-founder of ISAI.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As demanding travelers, we fully understand the added value Evaneos brings to its clients, both in the pleasure of preparing the trip and the handling on site&#8221; and they add : &#8220;we&#8217;re delighted to welcome an investor such as XAnge who was recently recognized for its international successes.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Jean-Fabrice Mathieu &amp; Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company&#8217;s growth has been impressive so far: 1400 Travelers &amp; \u20ac2M in 2010, 6000 travelers &amp; \u20ac7M in 2011, and 10,000 travelers &amp; 14M\u20ac. The next step for the startup will be to put out an English-language version of its service, a move which will increase their visibility, but also their competition in those new markets.<\/p>\n<p>A second part of Evaneos&#8217; funding will help them to develop\u00a0new services for its community of active travelers to encourage exchange and sharing between members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evaneos announced today that they have raised $6M from Xange &amp; ISAI on the back of the growth of their online personalized travel website. The service, founded in 2009 by\u00a0Eric La Bonnardi\u00e8re &amp;\u00a0Yvan Wibaux, has seen sales double in the past year, totalling 30,000 users, having already established itself in France, Spain, Germany &amp; Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":22792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[2778,1909],"class_list":["post-22771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-isai","tag-xange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}