Liam Boogar
French startups €543M in funding in 2012, a 93% growth
French startups raised a total of €542 million in 2012, up 93% from 2011, according to a report by JDN’s Hugo Sedouramane. The report, while annoyingly split into 9 different pages (stupid ad business) touches on some great points about this year in France, such as the influence of a few large rounds of funding […]
Dailymotion to launch cross-platform premium channel. For Kids.
Last Friday, Les Echos reported that Orange-owned Dailymotion will be looking to differentiate it’s 100% ad-based revenue model by introducing a premium channel for €4.49/month – the catch? It’s a Kids channel. Having signed partnership deals with several major television producers, notably Cookie Jar, a Canaditan TV producer which owns licensing to many of the […]
Teleportd to sunset side products, 2013 is the year of Nitrogram
Fresh off of a round of funding, Teleportd, the startup behind Nitrogram, seems to be doubling down on its Instagram analytics solution. The startup sent out an email to its Capsules users last week announcing that its photo-embedding solution (which we’ve been using for months now) will no longer be available, but, instead, will become […]
Here's how French startups can prepare for the series A crunch
The following is a guest post by our Rude BA, Jerome Camblain. I mentioned in a recent post the need to prepare for the series A crunch. The recent rise in the number of seed-financed deals will create a massive arrival of companies to the first round that follows the ‘Friends & Family’ or Angel seed […]
All 19 of the French People's Choice nominees for The Europas
The Europas have announced their list of nominees for the people’s choice award. For those who don’t know about The Europas, it is the European equivalent of the Crunchies, a startup award show hosted by TechCrunch in San Francisco. Startups from all around Europe have already submitted their nominations for a shot at one of the […]
Algolia powers search so your mobile app doesn't suck anymore
Probably one of the most infuriating things on a mobile device is when an app has poor search functionality. Facebook has had notoriously ugly search on web and mobile, and its probably one of the reasons I’ve started using Google+ more recently. That’s why I was pretty excited when one of the Seedcamp Paris teams […]
USA, Japan and France make up 85 of 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators
Thomson Reuters released their annual list of the Top 100 Global Innovators of 2012, and once again the USA, Japan & France have dominated the list, making up 85 of the 100 companies selected. Representing 47% of th list, USA continues to dominate in the IP market, up from 40% in 2011. Japan slipped from […]
Seedcamp makes 3 new investments after final 2012 event in Paris
Seedcamp Paris has announced three new investments in startups who participated in Seedcamp Paris earlier this month. The startups invested in are Berlin-based knowable.org, a social network for ‘makers,’ Paris-based tldr.io, a service ‘summarizing the Web,’ and Cambridge-based Unifyo, which brings contact information “when you need it.” In their announcement, Seedcamp stated that they chose […]
Marissa must be doing well 'cause France wants Yahoo's tax money
Chapter 7 of the ongoing sage of “France Tax Authorities investigate Multinational Tech Companies,” with this week’s target being none other than Yahoo! France. Originally reported on BFMTV, Yahoo! France reportedly paid just €462K in taxes on €79 Million in revnue in 2011, or .58% of their revenue. Yahoo joins the likes of Ebay/Paypal, Facebook, […]
After the success of Space Dog, Adictiz releases Duck it!
Fresh off a round of funding, Adictiz has released its latest game “Duck It“, following up the success of Space Dog (Paf Le Chien in France). The new game follows the life of a rambunctious toddler and his ongoing dispute with his sister, which is apparently tested by their apparent ability to kill rubber duckies. […]