Liam Boogar
AdTech M&A: Ebuzzing to merge with Teads. Next stop, IPO.
AdTech has been pretty hot in Paris in the past few years, and with Criteo’s IPO paving the way for M&A, it would seem that the best is yet to come. Sources close to the two companies have confirmed that French AdTech startup eBuzzing will announce a merger with Video AdTech startup Teads this week, […]
Bonjour, Entrepreneurs – Only you can prevent French-Bashing
Over the weekend, I read Liz Alderman’s “Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs” in the International New York Times, and my reaction was quite typical, “Ugh, another French-bashing article. Confirmation bias, reiterated (untrue) stereotypes & affirmation of the audience’s pre-existing opinion.” But as I sat coming through the inversely proportionate well-written, poorly researched piece (statistics on French exodus show that […]
Countering Numericable, Bouygues offers €13.15 Billion to purchase SFR from Vivendi
It looks like Vivendi’s SFR is becoming the WhatsApp of the TelCo sector in France – Bouygues made a formal offer yesterday to Vivendi offering to pay nearly €2 Billion more for its subsidiary SFR. The exact deals of the term would be €13.15 Billion in cash, as well a %21.5 stake for Vivendi in […]
5 Reasons to get excited about Code in the Dark!
Tonight at Deezer HQ Rude Baguette will welcome 100+ coders and spectators to the second Paris edition of Code in the Dark. Born out of a frustration with how developer events attracted, for the most part, non-developers, Code in the Dark is a competition that pits developer against developer in a pure coding exercise – […]
European babysitter marketplace Yoopies acquires Yokoro to expand into homecare
Yoopies, the marketplace for parents to find babysitters for their children, has acquired Yokoro, a marketplace for homecare services including babysitting, cleaning, tutoring & personal assistance. Yoopies’ founder & CEO Benjamin Suchar says that Yokoro’s users will be gradually transferred over to Yoopies, and that, while the terms of the deal were not disclosed, he […]
After raising nearly $10M, Prestashop brings insights & analytics to eMerchants
Following a $9.3 Million fundraising earlier this month, open source eCommerce platform Prestashop released its version 1.6, including a new suite of analytics & insights for eMerchants. The 600,000 member community will receive business intelligence, predicative insights & analytics about users & purchases on their ste. “We are extremely proud of PrestaShop 1.6 and excited to introduce […]
Kontest raises €600,000 in a bid to dominate the world of online contests
Paris startup Kontest has raised a seed round of €600,000 from 3T Capital and Priceminister Co-founder Olivier Mathiot, the startup announced this week. Founded in 2010 by former Deezer employee Jacinthe Busson and former Googler Sylvain Weber, I had the pleasure of sharing an office with them in their very early days, and have watched them […]
Synthesio raises €14M to eavesdrop on you for Brands
French startup Synthesio has raised a €14 Million Series B led by IDInvest, the startup reported this week. The startup provides solutions to enterprises looking to listen in on what is being said about them on social media. Founded in 2006 by Loic Moisand & Thibault Hanin, the company has offices in Paris, London, New […]
During SXSW, Whyd announces integration with Deezer
During the SXSW festival in Austin last week, French startup Whyd was showing off their SXSW playlist, but they also announced that their music social network has integrated with Deezer, meaning that users can compile playlists, mixing songs from Deezer, Soundcloud, YouTube & more. In addition to spending a few great evenings with Whyd’s cofounders, Gilles […]
LaFrenchTech spreads its wings at SXSW, embodies a more attractive France
On a Tuesday night at SXSW, I strolled up to a building adorned with roosters – France’s national bird – walked past a line of 100 or so music fans waiting to get in, waved hello to the bouncer and walked into the French Tech Club. Located one block from the Austin Convention Center, one […]