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Mixpanel CEO Suhail Doshi to give a fireside chat and open office hours in Paris on Sept. 21st
If you’re working in mobile or aspire to build mobile products (which should be just about everybody), then Mixpanel‘s mobile analytics platform is something that should be on your radar by now. With major players like Airbnb, Khan Academy, match.com, Jawbone, and thousands more using the platform, Mixpanel certainly ranks among the leaders in the […]
Orée Design expands its sustainable tech collection to include marble chargers & wooden touchpads
Orée has always strived to create a beautiful blend between nature & technology, and nothing demonstrated that desire more than their ever-popular wireless wooden keyboard. Today, however, Orée announced that they are expanding their suit of products. The first of their new products is a wooden touchpad (or “touch slab,” as they call it), which can […]
Startup Pitch Competitions have tricked Founders into sharing all their secrets.
Once every 2 ½ hours, a startup, somewhere in the world, is being asked on stage to give confidential information about their startup – that’s not a real statistic, but it certainly feels true today. Startup Competitions are bad. Judges in non-related sectors determine whether an early-stage gaming studio is ‘better’ than a boot-strapped big […]
iSketchnote launches KickStarter to turn your physical sketches digital
With Lima’s $1.2 Million KickStarter campaign successfully wrapped up, it’s time to turn our attention to the next great French KickStarter campaign. One candidate for such a title is the Grenoble-based iSketchnote, a “smart iPad cover” by iSKN, which launched its $35,000 campaign today. The product uses a special cover & magnet-tipped pens alongside any […]
In response to YouTube censorship, one of its largest stars turns to Dailymotion
One of YouTube’s largest International stars, Rémi Gaillard, has always been a crowd-favorite when it comes to YouTube. With over 3 Million subscribers, his videos regularly get more than 1 Million views. His most popular video features Gaillard in a high-powered Go-kart in full Mario gear chucking bananas at cars as he drives around town; […]
What do you get if you take the “Startup Hipster” out of Berlin?
Last week, a post entitled “Enough with the Berlin Startup Hipster stereotype. We’re here to do business” appeared on Berlin startup blog Venture Village, which underlined a sentiment that has been growing in Berlin since the beginning of the year, namely that being the “cheap place” or the “hipster startup scene” might not be the […]
SNCF hitches a ride into the ridesharing vertical with purchase of marketplace 123enVoiture
Via its subsidiary Ecolutis, French train company SNCF has purchased acquired a 100% stake in 123enVoiture, a ride-sharing marketplace that boasts 400,000 members, LesEchos reported this week. The acquisition comes after SNCF had already invested a 20% stake in the site via its Venture arm Ecomobilité Ventures; however, now that the company is squarely under SNCF’s arm, SNCF […]
Lima’s $1.2M KickStarter joins the Top 10 most funded campaigns. What’s next?
Yesterday evening at 7:00PM, French startup Forgetbox wrapped up their 60-day KickStarter campaign for their flagship product Lima, which was looking to crowdfund $69,000. They surpassed that goal – in fact, they did it in less than 24 hours. In the 59 days that followed, they managed to crowdfund an additional $1,160,074 from a total of 12,840 […]
Reading into Eventbrite’s first two acquisitions: a shift in focus towards attendees, globally
Eventbrite has made two acquisitions this week, the company announce on their blog – the Latin American event-ticketing platform Eventioz & the UK-based event-discovery site Lanyrd. The acquisitions come just months after Eventbrite raised $60 Million from Tiger Global Management, a move which many said was in order to put off a potentially premature IPO, despite […]
Backed with $4 Million by MMC Ventures, Boticca sets its sights on growth & international
This week, UK-Based Boticca announced a $4 Million round of fundraising from MMC Ventures, a fund whose portfolio includes Alexa & Alexa, Wool & the Gang & other budding e-commerce companies. The curated marketplace for jewelry also received follow-on investment from previous investor ISAI. As pointed out in TechCrunch, this round of funding will give founders […]