Liam Boogar
Azalead raises €2 Million & becomes Criteo's B2B-retargeting counterpart
B2B marketing automation firm Azalead Software has raised a €2 Million Series A led by Aurinvest, the startup announced today. Azalead’a platform allows enterprise websites to track site visitors and, using a combination of IP tracking and an existing database, identify immediately the company that visited your website. Previously, the productif provided real-time notifications to account managers […]
The secret Fast-track VISA program for French Startups hiring US Millennials
Hiring is a pain. Always. It’s even harder when the person you want to hire was born on the other side of an arbitrary line that some people we’ve never met set up in a time period before we were born. Yep – VISA’s. They suck, or so I’ve heard. My dual nationality (Irish/Californian) makes […]
The way French Tech determines success needs to change
This post originally appeared in the Rude Baguette Weekly Digest. You can sign up here to receive a nice packet of FrenchTech news every Monday morning. I’ve found myself in one too many conversations starting with “What is a startup, anyway?” or “Why do journalists write about fundraising rounds?” or, on the polar opposite “I wish I […]
EnerBee raises €2.5 Million for their motion-powered sensors
Power’s no joke – with the rise of the Internet-enabled hardware, nearly anything is only a sensor & a network connection away from becoming a connected object – a tire, a remote control, or door handle – and yet, for objects without their own power supply, optimizing battery life is critical. That’s where EnerBee comes in. […]
"Shazam for Magazines", Selectionnist raises €2 Million from Elaia Partners to go international
French duo Tatiana Jama and Lara Rouyres have raised €2 Million from Elaia Partners & the New York City fund Conegliano Venture for Selectionnist, a startup they launched just over a year ago after leaving Living Social, the couponing company which acquired their first venture, Dealissime. The product, which has been dubbed “Shazam for Magazines,” allows magazine readers […]
MOOCs go mainstream in France as OpenClassrooms partners with Polytechnique
Over the past 5 years, we’ve all grown accustomed to watching MIT, Stanford, Harvard & other top universities deliver entire classes online. As with much of the Internet, US Education has benefited largely from the Internet in solidifying its global brand – at least, the top engineering schools – however, France’s top engineering school, Polytechnique, […]
Free announces an Android-powered, 4K-compatible triple play box for 29,99€/month
Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad, parent company of France’s low-cost, innovative telecom company Free, announced today the imminent arrival of the latest over-the-top triple play box, the Free Mini 4K. The announcement, which came amongst much speculation, after Niel released cryptic invitations with an encoded message ‘Surprise,’ will see Free bring the first Android-powered Triple Play […]
Xotelia raises €1.3 Million to manage your rental home across Airbnb, Booking.com & more
Grenobile-based Xotelia, a startup focused on helping short-term apartment owners to manage listings across multiple platforms, has raised €1.3 Million from Newfund. The company currently allows owners to manage more than 50 platforms, including peer-to-peer sites (Airbnb, Housetrip, & Wimdu), as well as booking platforms (Expedia, Booking.com & Tripadvisor), syncrhonizing availabilities across different platforms. With the new funds, […]
Urbanlinker founder Jonathan Azoulay launches "TalentClub," an online tech talent auctionhouse
If there’s one thing the internet is good at doing, it’s disrupting traditional businesses. When Breaz.io launched last August with a model similar to hired.com in the US, providing a curated selection of 10 engineers each week that recruiters could ‘bid’ on, I began to wonder how this would affect the bottom line of France’s top tech recruiters: Mobiskill, Urbanlinker, […]
Your early adopters don’t have to be Digital Natives!
The following guest post has been contributed by Emmanuel Schalit, CEO of Dashlane, a leading password management tool. I’m fifty years old and I’ve always been an early adopter for new technologies. I’ve been shopping on Amazon since 1998 and I’ve owned every kind of new high tech device that has been marketed during the last three […]