Liam Boogar
Alven Capital close to closing their 120 million euro fourth fund
Alven Capital announced this week on their blog that they are “very close to reaching their hard cap of 120M€,” and thus closing their 4th fund, Alven Capital IV. The firm, which has made investments in iAdvize, Drivy, Mailjet, Textmaster, Qosmos, Commerce Guys & more, has been pretty quiet lately, despite a few good exits in […]
The curious case of Laure Fabre, the Google Ventures France “employee” on LinkedIn
For me, each Social Network has its own rules, in terms of who I accept/follow. I’ve always been quite particular about who I follow with my personal account, and we tend to follow people we engage with and people who we write about with @RudeBaguette.LinkedIn, unfortunately, due to its business nature and the advantages that […]
Orange launches San Francisco-based accelerator Orange Fab | Applications open today!
French ISP and Mobile operator Orange announced today the launch of Orange Fab, a startup accelerator based in San Francisco intended to help startups with existing products grow their businesses. The accelerator is meant for US-based startups (sorry French startups), lasts for 12 weeks, and will feature a demo day in both the Silicon Valley […]
Pearltrees prepares overhaul of its collaborative library app with new “Boticelli” release
Today, Pearltrees announced a new version of their collaborative library will be released soon. Available on iPad and iPhone for free, the app “transforms organized collections into beautiful illustrated libraries.” The self-proclaimed largest collaboratively library is currently home to 50 million web pages organized into 6 million pearltrees. Pearltrees also had a premium version for $4.99, […]
Rude Baguette hosts the Paris Pub Summit March 22nd
With one successful event behind us, we’re getting quite cocky, so we’ve teamed up with the Web Summit guys to bring you the Paris Pub Summit. We’ll bring in some people from out-of-town, you bring your awesome ideas (and a pitch deck, why not?) and meet us at DelaVille Café on March 22nd at 19:30. The […]
Introducing the new Rude Baguette website!
Last night, Trista & I, along with a few of our writers, hosted a (re)launch party at the wonderful 50 Partners space. We invited 120 of our closest friends – especially you readers who have supported us from day one – to share a few drinks, some great food, and talk about the future of the […]
Can Neelie Kroes & the European Commission really fight the developer crunch?
It’s hard times for a startup in 2013 – with the barrier to entry significantly lowered to actually starting your company (or at least, launching a website), it seems that barrier has been replaced by another – a barrier to hiring. As many startups begin to scale up all over the world, a ‘developer crunch’ […]
DrinkOnMe’s Groupon for drinks closes, with Lydia born from its ashes
While it may not be as big of news as Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s firing earlier this week, it comes as no surprise that DrinkOnMe, a “Groupon for Happy Hour,” has sent an email out to users annoucing that it will disctontinue its service, which alloewd users to buy 20€ worth of drinks at select […]
Is Twitter being too picky about who heads up Twitter France?
Spring is just around the corner, and all of us are patiently waiting for the end of snow, and the arrival, not just of sun, but of Twitter France. Word broke last year that the social network would be opening up a subsidiary, which may be a smart play, given all the government grief that […]
After DocTrackr, LeCamping’s qunb accepted into TechStars Boston
Techstars Boston announced last week the 14 companies who have been accepted into the Spring edition of Techstars Boston, among them French startup qunb. The data visualzation company recently won Best French startup at The Europas as well as the LeWeb Paris startup competition – they’ve really been on fire since they launched last year. […]