{"id":5949,"date":"2012-10-11T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:20:13","slug":"iadvize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/10\/iadvize\/","title":{"rendered":"Client E-relation leader iAdvize raises \u20ac1M from Alven Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"iadvize logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/iadvize-logo-e1349947443862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"146\" \/>iAdvize announced yesterday that it has closed a round of funding of \u00a0\u20ac1 Million from Alven Capital in order to accelerate its international development. Previously funded by Xavier Niel&#8217;s Kima Ventures &amp; business angels to the tune of \u20ac100K, iAdvize was founded by Julien Hervouet and Jonathan Gueron in 2010. The company currently helps 800+ clients on 1,500+ websites to have &#8220;click to chat&#8221; capabilities between site visitors and client relations employees.<br \/>\nIn France iAdvize works with many eCommerce sites, like CDiscount, FNAC &amp; Pixmania, as well as with companies like Numericable, Monster &amp; SNCF-competitor iDTGV. iAdvize claims that the service increases the conversion rates of web site visitors to paying customers, much the same way an in-store employee might help you arrive at your decision to purchase their goods. iAdvize already had twitter accounts for the UK, Spain, and the US (as well as their main French account), suggesting that English &amp; Spanish markets will be the first on their list for international expansion.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/iadvize_es\/status\/255983800230752256<\/p>\n<h1>Nantes &#8211; A budding alternative to Paris for startups<\/h1>\n<p>Whie most <a title=\"Paris Capitale Startup is a Huge Mistake by Pellerin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/10\/11\/paris-capitale-startup\/\">startups can be found in Paris<\/a>, there are still plenty of startups who continue to grow, like <a title=\"Lengow awarded \u2018International\u2019 prize at E-Commerce Paris 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/28\/lengow-awarded-international-prize-at-e-commerce-paris-2012\/\">Lengow<\/a> &amp; <a title=\"France\u2019s Cloud Startups (series): Introducing Clever Cloud\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/06\/06\/frances-cloud-startups-series-introducing-clever-cloud\/\">Clevercloud<\/a>, who call Nantes home. Nantes also hosts one of the most interesting non-Paris web conferences, <a title=\"Web2Day Wrap-Up \u2013 Fleur Pellerin, Collaborative Consumption, &amp; $22 Billion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/06\/04\/punching-above-weight-class\/\">Web2Day<\/a>, which brings together international names as well as local ones.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Le saviez vous ? Les 2 stars des solutions ecommerce \u00e0 Nantes ont commenc\u00e9 dans les mes locaux avec le meme investisseur\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iAdvize?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#iAdvize<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lengow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Lengow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeremie Berrebi (@jberrebi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jberrebi\/status\/255955996227272704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 10, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>Alven Capital also recently invested in <a title=\"Paulin Dementhon on the future of P2P Car Sharing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/27\/voitureli\/\">VoitureLib<\/a>, and exited their investment from <a title=\"Joliebox acquisition brings Birchbox to Europe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/14\/joliebox-acquired-by-birchbox\/\">JolieBox, which was sold to US competitor Birchbox<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iAdvize announced yesterday that it has closed a round of funding of \u00a0\u20ac1 Million from Alven Capital in order to accelerate its international development. Previously funded by Xavier Niel&#8217;s Kima Ventures &amp; business angels to the tune of \u20ac100K, iAdvize was founded by Julien Hervouet and Jonathan Gueron in 2010. The company currently helps 800+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[8414],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-kima-ventures-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","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=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}