Liam Boogar
Algolia launches its Distributed Search Network offer at Web Summit
Search as a service startup Algolia announced last week at the Web Summit in Dublin that they are opening up 8 new data centers around the world (raising the total to 12), and launching a new premium service for customers, called a Distributed Search Network (DSN), which will allow customers to distribute their search data across multiple […]
Paris Coders Night – coming to you November 28th at Deezer HQ
I’m very excited to announce that the Paris Coders Night will be taking place on November 28th at Deezer HQ. The event is open to Coders & friends, and is all about showing off just how awesome Coders are. The event will be centered around the Paris Coders competition (formerly organized under the name Code in the Dark), […]
Menlook.com raises €23 Million from IDInvest to conquer Male fashion online
Men’s clothing & fashion store Menlook.com has raised €23 Million, led by IDInvest & BPIFrance with participation from previous investors. Founded in 2010 by Marc Menasé, Menlook.com has seen 17 Million visitors across its portfolio of male-fashion websites in 2014, including 400,000 clients looking more than 400 brands, including 3 Menlook-owned brands (Menlook Label, SaintSens and Estime). The total funding for […]
P2P Airport Car Rental service Tripndrive raises €800K from ISAI
Former LeCamping Season 5 startup Tripndrive has raised €800K from ISAI, with participation by David Botvinik, Christophe Poupinel, and Antoine de Rochefort, the company announced this week. Launched in 2013, Tripndrive is fighting in a competitive car-sharing market; however, they’ve focused on Airport drop-off’s and pickup’s, grabbing departing traveller’s cars and renting them out to arriving tourists. The concept itself is […]
Rude Baguette turns 3 Years Old – Looking back, and looking forward
It seems like so long ago that the Rude Baguette was born, and this last year has been so crucial to us, in terms of finding our stride. Last year on our anniversary article we focused on some of the most important news headlines of the previous 12 months – this year, I want to talk a bit […]
Partech Ventures: Europe’s first French Tier-One VC
Venture Capitalists will often tell you that it’s very difficult to tell how good a VC is until their 7th year (when they begin to see if their earliest investments will make a significant ROI); accordingly, it can be very difficult to tell whether a VC firm is good or not. VC firms are separated by […]
One year after its IPO, the Criteo Mafia emerges
One year ago today, Criteo opened up trading and raised more than $200 Million in its Nasdaq IPO. Since then, the company has made several acquisitions – Tedemis, Ad-X (just before the IPO), AdQuantic – and has faced some Ups and Downs on Wall Street. There was a rumor of a Publicis acquisition which died down, and now […]
The shocking reality of Viadeo’s current market cap
After their disappointing IPO earlier this year – stock has dropped from 17€/share to roughly 7.20€/share at the opening bell this morning – Viadeo’s really been struggling on the Euronext stock market. Competition with LinkedIn has stiffened, and while private investors may be happy to offload Viadeo onto the public market, some simple math suggests that […]
French companies must now inform employees of potential acquisitions
A law passed in France, which takes effect November 1st, will require companies with less than 250 employees to inform employees of any intention to sell the company (or a majority stake in the company). This law will certainly have a ripple effect to startups, where deals are often made fast and furious, with the […]
What ever happened to the Rüde Pretzel?
One year ago, I hopped on a plane to Berlin for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe. At the time, Trista & I were all alone working on Rude Baguette, and had only just started to organize events, which had begun bringing it enough money to pay for plane rides. For the past 9 months, I had been looking at Germany and […]