Liam Boogar
Priceminister co-founders leave 4 years after acquisition by Rakuten
France’s #1 eCommerce player, Priceminister (acquired by Rakuten in June 2010) said farewell to cofounders Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (PKM) & Pierre Krings,who said au revoir to the company they co-founded in 2001 in a blog post published on the company’s blog yesterday. Speaking for his experience with the company, PKM stated that he was happy with the work he […]
Netflix is coming to France a little too late – in more ways than one
After months of back and forth with the French government, and delays internally, it seems all but sure that Netflix will arrive in September 2014 – then again, that’s what we heard over a year ago. Nonetheless, Netflix has said it will come to France, via its Luxembourgeoise subsidiary – which is not great news […]
Argus Labs raises $1.5 Million to bring Emotional Context to Mobile AdTech
Antwerp-based Argus Labs has raised $1.5 Million for their emotion- and context-aware precision technology, the company announced this week on their blog. The startup, which previously received a $380K grant from the University of Brussels, says it’s been hard at work building a “synthetic neocortex,” as CEO & co-founder Filip Maertens puts it, which they […]
The Connected Conference Program is available – Parrot, Withings & other speakers added!
Today we have posted the Program for the Connected Conference, sponsored by SIGFOX – France’s 1st International Connected Hardware Conference. In the past few months, we have announced some amazing speakers, like Siri co-creator and Samsung VP Luc Julia (listed among the Top 100 most influential French Engineers according to a recent report commissioned by […]
Crowdfunding for Equity platform SmartAngels raises €1 Million to expand across Europe
Crowdfunding for Equity platform SmartAngels has closed a €1 Million fundraising from 12 Business Angels & 3 VCs in what the company is calling an “symbolic fundraising.” The list of investors includes VCs (Elaia, IDInvest, & Xange) & Business Angels (Xavier Niel, Jean-David Blanc, Denis Payre, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Marc Simoncini, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Montagnon & more). I […]
LeCamping & Techstars Alumni DocTrackr acquired by IntraLinks for $10M
Secure file-sharing startup DocTrackr has been acquired by IntraLinks for $10M in cash, according to an SEC filing (originally picked up by GigaOm’s Barb Darrow). The Boston-based startup was founded in 2011 by Clement Cazalot & Alex Negrea, and was a participant in the 1st season of the LeCamping accelerator program. They subsequently raised $2 Million from Atlas […]
La Maison du Bitcoin set to open in Paris this May
Bitcoin may have squarely exited the Hype phase, but that hasn’t stopped Thomas France & Eric Larchevêque, founders of Prixing & Flink, from building La Maison du Bitcoin, a community center and coworking space dedicated to the Bitcoin ecosystem. The maison, located at 35 rue du Caire in Paris’ Sentier district, is set to open on May […]
Withings launches Pulse 02 & adds Blood-Oxygen tracking
Withings announced the launch of their new latest activity tracker, Pulse O2, an overhauled version of their first activity tracker, which they launched last year. Like the Withings Pulse, the Pulse O2 tracks your sleep, your movement, and your heart rate; however, the new Pulse O2 also tracks your blood-oxygen using oximetry, i.e: estimating the level by shinging […]
After sale to Fimalac, Overblog cofounders’ latest project is Secret Media
After finalizing the acquisition of Overblog (acquired by eBuzzing in 2010) to Webedia (acquired by Fimalac in 2013), co-founders Frederic Montagnon & Julien Romanetto are not waiting long to start on what will be their third startup built together, Secret Media (nothing more than a landing page today). After starting Nomao & Overblog, both of which […]
Fimalac’s Webedia acquires Overblog from Ebuzzing & Teads
AdTech startup Ebuzzing & Teads has sold off Overblog, a company it acquired in September 2010, to Fimilac’s digital subsidiary Webedia. The acquisition will give Webedia, which owns popular sites like Allocine, Purepeople & more, a combined traffic of more than 20 Million Unique Visitors in France, ranking it among the top 10 media sites in […]