{"id":33177,"date":"2016-04-22T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=33177"},"modified":"2016-04-22T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:15:52","slug":"this-week-in-french-tech-venture-capital-yestudent-pixmap-youtransactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2016\/04\/this-week-in-french-tech-venture-capital-yestudent-pixmap-youtransactor\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in French Tech venture capital: Yestudent, Pixmap, YouTransactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/Investment2-e1460986222262.jpg\" alt=\"Investment2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"858\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The French Tech ecosystem this week continued to see a steady trickle of the kind of deals that increasingly seem to define it: small and early stage. The deals also were spread across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the most notable:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yestudent.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yestudent<\/a>: <\/strong>Based in Toulouse and born of a student project at a business school, this company is an AirBNB for university students. How do you say &#8220;beer bong&#8221; in French? In any case, <a href=\"http:\/\/objectifnews.latribune.fr\/innovation\/french-tech\/2016-04-15\/startup-yestudent-leve-450-000-euros-et-vise-l-international.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they raised\u00a0\u20ac450,000<\/a> in a round led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitole-angels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol Angels<\/a>, also based in Toulouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtransactor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTransactor<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>This Paris company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edubourse.com\/finance\/actualites.php?actu=92947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bagged \u20ac2 million<\/a> in a round led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfincp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlackFin Capital Partners.<\/a>\u00a0The company has been around since 2006, and it offers mobile payment and security solutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heliceo.com\/photogrammetry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\u00e9lic\u00e9o<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>This Nantes company makes drones for civil professionals who need to take photos of work sites and other large areas. Business must be looking up! (See what they did there?). The company raised \u20ac1.5 million from Sequoia D\u00e9veloppement and Siparex.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixmap3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixmap<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Located near Nice, this company makes software for robots and drones that let them visualize the world in 3-D. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incubateurpacaest.org\/Actualites\/Actualites-des-projets\/PIXMAP-realise-une-levee-de-fonds-d-amorcage-de-1-2-M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixmap raised \u20ac1.2 million<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">International Technology Solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apizee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apizee<\/a>: <\/strong>Tucked away in Lannion<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0Apizee makes real-time communications software. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/finance\/2016\/04\/21\/saas-apizee-1-million-deuros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team raised \u20ac1 million<\/a>\u00a0from Breizh Angels and Angel Source.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Got funding news? Let us know at <a href=\"http:\/\/disclose.to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disclose.to<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Tech ecosystem this week continued to see a steady trickle of the kind of deals that increasingly seem to define it: small and early stage. The deals also were spread across the country. Here are some of the most notable: Yestudent: Based in Toulouse and born of a student project at a business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":33067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33177","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=33177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}