Liam Boogar
France just put the guy who killed the Yahoo!-Dailymotion acquisition in charge of the Digital Economy
In France this week, President Hollande has announced a suite of changes to his staff of Ministers, in an attempt to improve his approval ratings and turn around the administration. Among those announcements came an announcement that Fleur Pellerin, the Junior Minister of the Economy and Startups, would have her post eliminated and rolled into […]
Creads raises €3 Million for their crowdsourced creative agency
Creative agency Creads announced a €3 Million round of funding from CM-CIC this week, which will help the company take their model international. Founded by Ronan Pelloux & Julien Mechin in 2008, the agency receives briefs from clients like SNCF, BNP Paribas & Bouygues Telecom, and then presents the brief to its community of 50,000 […]
Announcing 5 more speakers for the Connected Conference: Samsung, ARM, Kolibree & more!
The Connected Conference, sponsored by SIGFOX, is excited to announce 5 new speakers at Europe’s 1st connected hardware conference, taking place June 18th-19th in the heart of Paris: Luc Julia, co-founder of SRI and co-creator of Siri, currently working at Samsung on SAMI, the next evolution in Siri, will be opening up the conference as […]
Balderton Capital raises a $305 Million fund for Series A investments in Europe
Balderton Capital has raised a $305 Million fund dedicated to Series A investments in European tech startups, the London-based VC Firm announced this week. Founded in 2000, Balderton Capital has invested in many of Europe’s most successful tech startups in the past 14 years, including Betfair, Lovefilm (Amazon), and MYSQL – in France, Vestiaire Collective, Psykosoft […]
Twitter acquires LeCamping alumnus Mesagraph in a bid for Social TV in Europe
Twitter has acquired Mesagraph, a former LeCamping company, along with the UK-based SecondSync, in a bid to beef up their SocialTV offering, the company announced this week. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed; however, Mesagraph had already established itself as a dominant player in the Social TV space in France, working with […]
Leaked: Withings to release “Dandy Series” of new wearables
Rude Baguette has obtained leaked images from French hardware startup WiThings which suggests a new foyer into the world of Wearables. After their connected body scale, connected bed, connected baby monitor & connected blood pressure monitor, WiThings is getting ready to expand beyond fitness into a new space with the “Dandy Series” products. The first […]
TheFamily: 1 year later, 100 startups & counting
This week TheFamily held its one year anniversary in their brand new office space (photos of the event here courtesy of Eventpixr/François Tancré). The event brought together 500 members of the Paris tech scene – entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, government officials, incubators & accelerators, and, of course, journalists – for yet another unforgettable night. On the […]
SIGFOX raises €15 Million Series B to Connect the World
Toulouse-based startup SIGFOX has raised a €15 Million Series B from IDInvest, BPIFrance, and historical investors (Elaia Partners, Intel Capital, Partech International, etc.), who had previously invested a total of €12 Million; bringing the total funding to €27 Million: Founded by Ludovic Le Moan, formerly co-founder of Goojet (since defunct and re-branded as Scoop.it) in […]
Did 500 Startups announce their 1st French investment at YC Demo Day?
Yesterday afternoon, Y-Combinator held their Demo Day for their Silicon Valley accelerator, and while Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR may have overshadowed the demo day, the event was not without its merits. Most notably, I was watching Search as a Service Algolia, which I recently named among the top hottest startups in France – the company […]
WIRED asked me who I think are the 10 Hottest startups in France.
Every year, WIRED puts together a list of the fastest growing startups in Europe, reporting on the hottest startups in each of the European markets. As WIRED doesn’t cover the European tech scene in depth, it often reaches out to country experts to get recommendations and nominations. For the second year, I proposed my favorite […]