Liam Boogar
With the Sprint merger dead in the water, Iliad almost home ‘Free’ to acquire T-Mobile
News broke today that Sprint’s parent company Softbank and T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom had ceased talks concerning a possible merger(NYT), citing growing concerns over the deal’s likelihood to get rejected by telecom regulatory authorities. This essentially leaves Free (Iliad) as the only potential acquirer, after Iliad CEO Xavier Niel announced an offer last week to purchase T-Mobile. […]
Iliad & Xavier Niel make $15 Billion bid to takeover T-Mobile in the US
French telecom Iliad confirmed reports this week that it has made a $15 Billion offer to take a 56.6% stake in T-Mobile US (full details here). The move comes as the Telecom industry has been shaken up in France and around the world. In the last 12 months, here are the following moves that have happened: Numericable […]
“I’ve been accepted into The Summit’s Alpha Program. Should I attend?”
In the past few weeks I’ve been receiving some emails from French startups accepted into The Summit’s Alpha Program – their program to help seed startups who are bootstrapped or have raised raised a seed round – and are curious as to whether it was worth the cost (the Alpha program is free, outside of Travel […]
When will Equity Crowdfunding take flight?
Earlier this year I laid out my vision of the Crowdfunding space – Lending-based crowdfunding (Lending Club, Pret d’Union) is getting the lion’s share of the market, while rewards-based crowdfunding (Kickstarter, Indiegogo, KKBB) are taking the lion’s share of the marketing. Meanwhile, equity crowdfunding platforms have been brewing in various countries – Seedrs in the UK (who expanded […]
Marketplace payments platform MangoPay teams up with Currency Cloud
Marketplace & Crowdfunding platform payment solution MangoPay has announced a partnership with cloud currency engine Currency Cloud that will the former to offer better rates to clients who wish to convert currency and accept clients from around the world. Mangopay, a product built by Leetchi, has enabled over 200 platforms – marketplaces & other crowdfunding platforms – to handle money […]
Lucibel’s brilliant vision of the future of LED, Smart Lighting & Li-Fi
In the suburbs of Paris, a nondescript building in Rueil-Malmaison fails to paint the stereotype picture of a startup that I’ve come to expect. I have ventured outside of the comfort of the startup-packed Sentier district in Paris in order to meet Frédéric Granotier, the founder & CEO of Lucibel, a startup specialized in lighting. […]
Sculpteo makes its 3D Printers available on Amazon’s new 3D Printing service
Earlier this week Amazon announced its latest foyer into the 3D Printing space – an on-demand store where users can design, order & deliver 3D Printed objects. Here in France, international 3D Printing service Sculpteo has already jumped on board the service (their services here) in order to power 3D printed objects and suggest some […]
On-Demand delivery service TokTokTok raising upwards of €20 Million
It seems like Paris fundraising rounds are getting bigger by the quarter – Algolia’s crushing $2.8M Seed Round, Blablacar’s monster $100 Million round, and now, Rude Baguette has learned, On-Demand marketplace TokTokTok is working on closing a round upwards of $20 Million. After hiring Carrefour’s former CFO to lead the company earlier this year, the startup […]
Dassault Systèmes acquires Supply Chain optimization Startup Quintiq for €250M
Dassault Systèmes is adding Quintiq to the family today – the company and its 800 employees have been acquired for a reported €250M Million. The acquired company will fall under Dassault Système’s 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, extending their offer to global business operations planning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1V_uteHGDY Based in The Netherlands, Quintiq counted already 250 customers using their product across more than 1,000 sites […]
Breach’s open source browser hopes to succeed where Firefox fell short
Modular, Open Source, Hackable – Breach is ticking all the boxes with the ambitious browser project they launched this month. The team, originally composed of TOTEMS (formerly Nitrogram) CTO Stanislas Polu, Socket.io (now Automattic)’s Guillermo Rauch, Alejandro Vizio & others, is now made up of around 80 developers collaborating on the project. Since its release last month, […]