Liam Boogar
Paris has its own Paypal Mafia: How Exalead spawned dozens of startups
It is often said that nearly every company in the Silicon Valley can be traced back to PayPal, either through investment, employment, or the founding team coming from the pre-eBay PayPal team. A bold statement, most recently quantified by Pandodaily in this interactive map, but we quickly see that many of the household startup brands […]
Partech raises 7th fund of €160 Million; French VCs now have €1 Billion+ to invest in startups
Partech International, a VC fund with roots in France, Germany & the Silicon Valley, has closed its seventh fund with €160 Million, Les Echos[fr] reported this week. €30 Million of that fund will go to “Partech Entrepreneur” an early stage fund that will break the mold of most of Partech’s investments, which usually sit in the […]
Global Innovators Report underlines French Government’s R&D investment, UK & Germany still lacking.
Thomson Reuters released this week their annual Top 100 Global Innovators report – the website & the downloadable PDF – which measures the top 100 companies in terms of their R&D investment. The report measures innovation based on patents, measuring volume, success, reach & influence of a company’s patent porfolio – to be considered for the award, […]
The USA & France are both going through revolutions, inspired by each other.
One of the key signs, I believe, of a revolution – that is, a spurt of change in the culture, whether achieved peacefully or through violence – is when the misalignment between the will of a people and the actions of its representatives in government increases towards an intangible point of critical mass.We’ve seen this […]
Facebook challenges Twitter as the Second Screen; partners with France’s largest TV Channels
This week during MIPCOM, an entertainment & content industry event organized by Reed Midem (which purchased LeWeb last year), Facebook announced a partnership with TF1 & Canal+, respectively the largest free & paid-access TV groups in the French market, which will provide the TV stations access to Facebook’s new Keyword Insights API. The tool, which […]
Scoop.it’s latest design updates bring discovery & recommendation through Interest Channels
Scoop.it has been quite busy since it raised a round of funding ($2.6M) earlier this year and subsequently moved most of the non-technical team to the Silicon Valley. With other curation players like Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), Flipboard, Paper.li & the fleet of curating RSS readers out there, Scoop.it needed to quickly differentiate itself if it […]
New figures around Twitter’s mobile adoption in Europe may raise eyebrows from IPO analysts
A recent report by mobile app analytics company Onavo has shed light into Twitter’s penetration (or lack thereof) into the European Market. The study, which benchmarks Social Media apps Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter & Vine based on their traffic in August, looks at gender & age breakdowns, but it also examined Twitter’s global reach by […]
Sculpteo’s latest partnership with Orange underlines 3D Printings growth as complimentary, not disruptive
Telecom giant Orange & enterprise 3D Printing solution Sculpteo announced today a partnership that will allow Orange customers to make use of Sculpteo’s 3D Printing Cloud Engine on a dedicated site. Concretely, this means that Orange customers will be able to customize their iPhone or Samsung Galaxy smartphone case. The announcement comes just months after Sculpteo announced […]
Algolia raises a $1.5 Million seed round from Index Ventures, Alven Capital & Point Nine Capital to make Search not Suck
Algolia has raised €1.2 Million from Alven Capital, Index Ventures & Point Nine Capital in an unprecedentedly large seed round of funding, in order to revolutionize database search for websites & apps. Founded by former Exalead veterans Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, the Paris-based startup already counts large apps like SocialCam amongst its clients, providing instant […]
Boticca buys Atelier de la Mode for homecoming launch in France, 4th Biggest market
This week, UK-based startup Boticca announced that it had acquired L’Atelier De La Mode, a French designer marketplace whose 100,000 customers represent a 25% market share increase for Boticca, who now counts 500,000 customers globally. The acquisition follows their $4 Million round of funding led by MMC Ventures, a fundraising round which was predicted to help […]