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With a new data center in North America, Clever Cloud continues its international expansion
Developing a ‘French cloud’ (or at least a European one) to conquer the mighty American tech giants like Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and others has been a top priority for France and the EU in general. France even allocated 150 million euros to help finance the creation of two companies, Numergy (led by SFR and Bull) […]
The 1st Fashion & Tech Week comes to NUMA next week
Paris’ Fashion week gets underway next week and for the first time, NUMA in conjunction with Parsons Paris, Fashion Technology Lab and Fashion Capital Partners, will host the 1st Fashion & Tech week 22 – 28 September to explore the impact of new technologies on the fashion industry. More than 70 hours of events have been organized to […]
TransferWise launches new UX, mobile app and more in bid to help consumers beat bank fees
After having raised $33 million from investors such as Richard Branson, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Xavier Niel, hitting the £1bn in transaction volume milestone, and saving customers a whopping £45 million in banking fees, TransferWise has announced today various new functionality and features to put them squarely on the path to challenging the big banks […]
Numericable launches VOD offer ‘LaBox Series’ to counter Netflix
The efforts to counter Netflix’s big push in France continues. Telco operator and soon-to-be SFR owner, Numericable, just launched their own VOD service to rival Netflix via their LaBox Fibre. The platform, LaBox Series, will be free for their 380k fiber subscribers, giving them access to up to 3k TV shows and will eventually extend to movies. […]
LVMH’s TAG Heuer planning smartwatch launch
Known as the undisputed leaders in watchmaking, Swiss watchmakers have, up until now, taken a ‘wait and see approach’ to the rise of the smartwatch. Although consumers have yet to take to smartwatches en masse, the advent of more luxury, design-focused smartwatches, such as the more high-end versions of Apple’s iWatch, HP and Gilt’s Michael Bastian […]
Festicket raises $2.7 million Series A round with pan-European VCs
After closing a seed round last year $680k and 2 years after their launch, live music travel platform Festicket has gone to raise $2.7 million with pan-europeam VCs, Wellington Partners and PROfounders Capital. Their seed investors Windcrest Partners, Playfair Capital, KIMA Ventures and Jacques-Antoine Granjon, also joined the round. Festicket’s growth has accelerated over last year, with […]
Autodesk to launch its first pop-up gallery in Paris – “The Future of How Things are Made”
For the first time ever, Autodesk will offer the public a glimpse of their thinking and work around the future of engineering and design. From 9 – 23 October, Autodesk will bring to Paris’ Marais district its first Autodesk Gallery pop-up offering innovative and interactive exhibits on the future of areas such as architecture, industrial design, […]
E-thread® technology pioneer Primo 1D closes €3 million round
Created just a year ago, Primo 1D, one of the E-thread® technology, pioneers have just closed a €3 million round, led by Sofimac Partners and Rhone Alpes Creation (R2V) with a consortium of Angels and other institutional funds participating. Primo 1D, who grew out of Grenoble-based digital innovation lab and hub LETI and were also an exhibitor at our […]
Wuaki.tv leapfrogs Netflix by launching this week in France
With Netflix launching in France on September 15 with a strategy to not only offer an extensive catalog and awarding winning content, but also produce customized, high quality content for the French market (a French House of Cards anyone?), others are also setting their ambitions on conquering the French VOD market. Rakuten’s Wuaki.tv got a jump on Netflix […]
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[Interview] How Jogg.in reinforces the collective power of individual sport
Throughout the July / August vacation period the Rude Baguette has run a series of interviews with some of France’s top and rising startups, where their founders give us more insight into their business, their future plans and what sets them apart from the rest. In this final installment, we talk with Thomas Didier, Cofounder of […]