City of Paris launches Moov’In in the City open data competition with info from Vélib’
Late last week JC Decaux and the City of Paris launched a french and english site to coincide with the announcement that the two would be opening up key Vélib’ data, which includes statistics on stations (ie location) as well as real-time data. Now comes the announcement that the two will be teaming up with SNCF […]
AngelHack back on May 11-12 and the prizes are better than ever
AngelHack is back in Paris following on its highly successful edition last December at which Lugga.me, Cubes and TheGoodsLife took first, second and third place respectively. The last AngelHack Paris saw 165 participants join who churned out 41 different projects. The organizing team, which includes Whyd’s Adrien Joly and dok.io’s Sebastien de Lavison and Vianney […]
ICT Spring Europe unites the startup and corporate worlds on June 19 – 20th
ICT Spring Europe, which will bring together 3500 attendees from over 60 countries, has set as its theme for this year ‘Pure Innovation’, putting the spotlight the latest ICT solutions from both startups and established companies. Great visibility for startups ICT Spring strives each year to bridge the gap between coporates and startups largely by […]
May 14th France Digitale Event at Google explores how evolving regulations affects startups
Google and France Digitale, one of France’s leading associations representing entrepreneurs, startups and investors, are teaming up to offer a workshop on May 14th which will explore in more depth the actual and potential regulatory changes affecting the digital space and the implications for France’s startup ecosystem. With things constantly influx given the government’s to […]
Euro-Centric: A review of The Next Web Conference
Walking out of the Hotel V in Frederiksplein last Thursday morning, I rode the line 10 tram to the end of the line, passing canals, the newly reopened Rijksmuseum, the Heineken Factory, and plenty of construction sites putting up stands for the upcoming Queen’s Day. When I arrived to TheNextWeb Conference last Thursday, I was […]
Kickstarter, MyMajorCompany and other big names headline Videogame Economics Forum on May 16-17th
There’s a solid line-up planned for this year’s Videogame Economics Forum (VEF). As financing in the gaming sector continues to be a major challenge, particularly in social gaming where Zynga’s problems seem to have complicated things for everyone, new financing models have now become all the rage. Crowdfunding has been at the center of this revolution, where […]
Lean Startup Machine Paris kicks-off on May 31st – June 2nd
With 110 workshops, in 40 cities, and 8250 participating entrepreneurs, Lean Startup Machine has been nothing short of a revolution in entrepreneurial training and education. Lean Startup Machine will again come to Paris this year on May 31st – June 2nd, with a list of formidable mentors, VCs, and judges, as well as, their trademark, powerful […]
5 French startups that fit the bill for LeWeb London’s “Sharing Economy” program.
This week Loic & Geraldine LeMeur announced the program for LeWeb London (June 5th & 6th), which includes marketplace giants Etsy, Airbnb, ZipCar & TaskRabbit. This will be the 2nd LeWeb London, and the first LeWeb event since Leweb was acquired by Reed MIDEM at the end of last year, so there are definitely concerns as […]
Eventbrite closes $60M round: “No IPO for you!”
In what can only be described as unnecessary financing that reminds us of Facebook’s later stage investments, Eventbrite has announced a series C, D, E, F, G H round of funding from existing investors Tiger Global Management and new investors T. Rowe Price. Eventbrite has been aggressively (read: with a high marketing budget) tackling the European market, after its […]
TNW’s Startup World global search for the next Zuckerberg comes to Paris April 30th
The Startup World global competition “to find the next Jobs or Zuckerberg” is coming to Paris April 30th at 7PM at LeCamping. Organized by TheNextWeb’s Hermione Way & Erick Davidson, regional winners from each of the 36 cities competing in the global competition will be flown to Silicon Valley and compete for a chance to be incubated […]