Archive for June 2014
How to fund a hardware startup? Crowdfunding vs VC explained
[LIVEBLOG] The Connected Conference, the first international conference dedicated to the Internet of Things, hosted this afternoon in Paris a panel dedicated to hardware funding. The panel included Barbara Belvisi, former VC who now accompanies hardware startups in their crowd funding strategies at Elephant&VEntures, Severin Marcombes, CEO of Lima, Fred Potter, CEO of Netatmo and Pierre-Eric Leibovici, co-founder […]
Luc Julia introduces SAMI, the architecture that lets you play with existing and future data.
[LIVEBLOG] The Connected Conference, the first international conference dedicated to the Internet of Things, welcomes Luc Julia – VP of Innovation at the Samsung Innovation Center – today in Paris to talk about the launch of SAMI – Samsug Architecture Multimodal Interactions. After his work on Siri, M. Julia has now been implementing Samsung […]
Ultimates Ears bring professional-grade audio to wireless speakers
One of the many ways connectivity has changed our daily life is how listening to music becomes easier and more mobile. Ultimate Ears wireless speakers make the most of the opportunities offered by connectivity with their product UE Boom and UE Mini-boom. Ultimate Ears make listening to music cooler in 3 ways: Long-lasting battery Battery […]
After 9 Years, Partner Marie Ekeland to depart from Elaia Partners
Elaia Partners Partner Marie Ekeland will be leaving the VC firm at the end of the summer, the Rude Baguette has learned. Ekeland joined the team in 2005 and subsequently became a partner in 2008, investing in some of Elaia’s best investments, including Criteo, Teads & Scoop.it. Ekeland will resign her board seat on all […]
Grenoble’s nanotechnology & M2M lab, 50 years in the making
In case you needed proof that the heart of IoT isn’t 100% located in Paris, take a look at CEA-Leti, an ecosystem of R&D infrastructures and startups dedicated to nano-tech based in Grenoble. Innovation supporting both industrial actors and startups A subsidiary of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) – France’s Nuclear and […]
Scalability hack: think concavity instead of convexity
Scalability may well represent one of the most overused words in startup financing discussions. VCs use the word (and I’m guilty of this) as shorthand to refer to a startup’s ability to grow dramatically enough to deliver outsize returns to the investor. I like to simplify it as a joke that there are three kinds […]
4 Great Reasons why New York Tech Startups should be looking east to Paris
Later this month, as part of the French Tech Festival, a group of French entrepreneurs (and one rude blogger) will fly out to New York City to show the Big Apple what France has to offer at the La FrenchTouch Conference. It’s no surprise that France would come to New York City – proximity, the […]
A Drone built just for aerial video? Kickstarter says “Shut up and take my money”
This week, a Kickstarter campaign by the name of HEXO+ launched, with what I thought was “yet another Aerial Drone” campaign; however, this aerial drone has one key difference which has helped it bring in $200K+ in the first 24 hours. The difference is that this drone is build for the sole purpose of creating […]
How Greenwich is building the future of urban connected life
The Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG), located in greater London, is one of a few smart cities pilots in the world that truly paves the way for the future of connected cities. The ambitious regeneration programme overseen by Greenwich Council, including the €6,25 billion development of the Greenwich Peninsula – a whole new district being […]
How connected objects are predicting your next move
Building a connected object is usually seen as a hardware challenge. But in order for the object to be useful in real conditions, the software also has to be extremely well designed. Quite often, the interface that lets the user interact with the object is very limited by the nature itself of the object. One […]