Liam Boogar
Announcing the Berlin Founders Event, September 26th – Founders, Investors & Country Managers welcome!
Since the beginning of the year, Rude Baguette has been organizing the Paris Founders Event in order to create a place for founders, both local and international, to meet and discuss problems that only founders have. In July, we began opening up tickets to Investors, and now we’re opening up tickets to Country Managers – most are […]
Reporting €35 Million in losses in 2013, Dixons to sell Pixmania one year after founders cash out
UK Retail store Dixons has received an offer to from German group Mutares to purchase the failing Pixmania, with Dixons providing an extra €60 Million in support to the company, the BBC has reported. Dixons originally purchased a 77% stake in Pixmana in 2006 for €266 Million, having purchased the remain 22% last August […]
15-minute law against smartphone chauffeurs will pass in favor of Taxis, or not.
UPDATE: We have heard that as of Thursday October 11th, the law was set to impact only users having signed up for smartphone apps 24 hours prior to ordering a chauffeur. On Friday, a last-minute push from the Taxi Commission pressured the government, who ultimately removed the exception. This means that all Chauffeur apps will […]
Melty Group, a news network aimed at Generation Y, sees soaring success through technology-driven digital media
Hard labor laws and the European economic crisis coupled with switch in advertising revenue towards digital have hit many traditional media companies hard, and France has been no different. While Le Figaro has risen to the top through its trial-and-error digital plan, including an iOS App that has fine-tuned the art of breaking news (though […]
How Paris can use technology to solve its €100 Million fraud problem
This week the CEO of the Paris region metro system (RATP), Pierre Mongin, announced[fr] that he will implore the Minister of Transportation to increase penalties for metro, tram & bus passengers caught riding without a ticket. Fines for not buying the €1.50 metro ticket range from €30-€60 today (the latter for urinating of defecating in […]
Former Etsy country manager Stephanie Tramicheck hired as MD France at Pinterest
After announcing their launch in France earlier this year, Pinterest has chosen its country manager, according to Frenchweb. Serial entrepreneur and former country manager of France for Etsy Stephanie Tramicheck is said to have recently taken the role of country manager for the company, heading up operations & market expansion in France. Sources close to […]
ISAI closes its €50 Million Expansion fund for acquisitions, buy-outs & growth
ISAI announced today that they have put a hard cap on their latest fund, “ISAI Expansion,” closing €50 Million, now including department store Galeries Lafayette (think French Macy’s), in addition to video media giant Groupe M6 & Groupe Amaury among their “corporate” investors. The new fund, which will include investments between 1M-7M€ (up to 15€ with […]
Condé Nast invests $20 Million in Vestiaire Collective’s Luxury Resale Site
Luxury Resale store Vestiaire Collective has a new monster round of funding of $20 Million from none other than Condé Nast, which owns notable fashion media properties like Vogue, GQ, Glamour & more. IdInvest also participated in the round alongside previous investors Balderton Capital & Ventech. As reported by the Financial Times, Vestiaire Collective focuses on filtering out […]
Calling it Quits: Post-Mortem of a Seedcamp company
When I first met Stan, co-founder of tl;dr.io, he pitched me the ‘summary layer’ that he wanted to build on top of the internet, and, frankly, I just didn’t buy it. As a content company, I knew how tough it is to maintain that level of content, a certain level of quality, and get the […]
Is there room left to innovate in Online Dating?
From Minitel Rose to Tinder, the $4.2B online dating market evolves more quickly than mobile apps, and new players are rising and falling every day. Like alcohol, cigarettes, porn & cat videos, it’s one of those markets that you know will always evolve, but will never go away. As long as there are humans, there will […]