Liam Boogar
What is the point of La FrenchTouch Conference?
This week 200-300 entrepreneurs, business angels, and other actors in the startup ecosystem will gather in New York City for a conference about startups, with a bit of a French twist. The twist is that the majority of the speakers, as well as many of the attendees, are French. La FrenchTouch Conference (LFTC – June 26th/27th) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Does Paris need NUMA?
Rue du Caire has never had so many startups passing through its passages and buildings. While historically there have always been small businesses occupying the Sentier district in Paris, it’s hard to call the boutique stores & seamstress shops ‘startups.’ Sentier was a logical fit for startups to call home – the neighborhood is home […]
Giroptic’s 360Cam passes $1 Million on Kickstarter, yet they almost didn’t exist
Lille-based Giroptic is on its way to break the record for largest French Kickstarter campaign, with just 24 days to go and $1 Million contributed for its 360° HD Camera. The campaign is inching ahead of Lima, which raised $1.2 Million last September, and it owes much of its success to its predescessors, who have […]
GE to speak at Connected Conference on “The Rise of the Industrial Internet”
Connected Conference, sponsored by SIGFOX, is just a week away, and we’re excited to announce our surprise speaker on June 18th is none other than GE’s CEO of Heathcare in Europe, Jean-Michel Malbrancq. Malbrancq got his start working at imaging company Thomson CGR, an imaging company which was subsequently acquired by GE in 1987. Since […]
France to help US LPs back French VCs, will back US VCs investing in France
Earlier this week, François Hollande gave a speech to the French Tech community, in which he eluded to a plan to finance transatlantic US/French VC funds – the full speech available below in French. As we reported yesterday, not much was known about this at the time, only that BPIFrance, the VC arm of the […]
François Hollande meets with US VCs & the French Tech community. What’s next?
This week, 150 members of the French Tech ecosystem, ranging from Iliad CEO and startup investor Xavier Niel to 1001 Menus co-founder Xavier Zeitoun met at the Elysée Palace following France Digitale Day, where President François Hollande spoke of France’s commitment to LaFrenchTech. The speech, as a whole, fell flat. Mid-speech, Partech Ventures GM Philippe […]
France Digitale’s French Tech Barometer quantifies startup growth in France
At their annual event this week in Paris, France Digitale released, alongside Ernst & Young, their annual report on the state of the startup ecosystem in France. The third edition of the report (here’s my analysis of the first & second editions) measures four categories: Growth, Employees, Public Aid, and Equity Distribution. In the Growth category, […]