Following a 650K€ seed round, MyJobCompany launches in LatAm with roaring success
Earlier this month MyJobCompany announced a seed round fundraising from several business angel networks in order to bring its recruiting platform to Latin America. Founded in France in 2012, MyJobCompany is a recruitment platform that allows recruiters to post jobs, and ‘diffusers’ to share them with their network, allowing them to gain money as a result. […]
5 Ineffective approaches to VC funding in France
Although there are no guaranteed methods to successful VC funding in France, some approaches are doomed from the start. Here are five such missteps I’ve witnessed, all from just the past few months, and of course kept anonymous because I believe in second chances. Send me a blind teaser, aka Project X, containing such a […]
Investment in German tech surpassed France in Q1 2013 – Average deal size is bigger, too!
Clipperton Finance, a leading European corporate finance firm specializing in the technology sector, released a report this week in collaboration with Digimind, the company behind WhoGotFunded.com, which gives a look at the European Investment landscape in Q4 2012 & Q1 2013 for the technology and life sciences sectors. The publication, which Clipperton suggests will be published […]
Taxibeat raises €1.5 million to fuel its expansion to new markets
Greek taxi hailing mobile app startup Taxibeat announced that they raised €1.5 million from Greek fund Openfunds and a consortium of international investors. This recent round builds on the €1 million they’ve raised to date. Having launched in 2011 and in France at Le Web last December, Taxibeat has gone international at a break-neck pace […]
Hollande’s €150 Million Lottery for Disruptive Innovations
The Race to Innovate or A Hit Reality Show? When we think sponsored events and prizes, we think of the Tour de France, marathons, maybe even nationally televised shows like Nouvelle Star. Like a cosmetic surgeon promising instant reduction in wrinkles and long-lasting results, French President, François Hollande, has a “quick fix” strategy to unearth France’s […]
Ahead of the TNW Startup Rally, “IFTTT for Business” Sush.io raises 250K€ seed round from KIMA Ventures & angels
Last month, we spoke to you a bit about Sush.io, A Seedcamp-backed startup participating in TheNextWeb’s Startup Rally this week in Amsterdam. Well it seems TheNextWeb had good reason to accept the company, whose Mint.com-like dashboard for CFO’s has garnered quite a lot of attention despite not having launched yet – the company announced today […]
French Failure to Singaporean Success: Kevin Straszburger
Kevin Straszburger- Parisian entrepreneur turned Singaporean FrenchWeb correspondent and crowdsourcing evangelist- brings back news to the motherland. While he is most likely sunbathing in the infinity pool, he is officially Head of Marketing at Crowdonomic with founder, Leo Shimada, Head of Business Development, Nicola Castelnuovo, and CFO, Eric Tay. His journey began from announcing the […]
European Commission accuses Debit Card suppliers of price fixing
In an announcement made today, the European Commission stated that it will pursue suspicions of Debit Card suppliers of price-fixing in order to keep prices high. Reported by Challenges, the accusations may bear a penalty of up to 10% of the revenue of the suppliers if proven true. This lays just another brick in the wall that […]
Richard Branson, Peter Thiel, Nikolas Zennström and other big names back $100 million free money transfer campaign for startups
Taavet Hinrikus, part of the original team that built Skype, has launched a campaign to give 1000 EU startups $100k each of free international money transfers, using the technology he has developed for TransferWise, the only service that allows regular people to access the real, mid-market exchange rate. All startups participating in the campaign will receive […]
Caphorn Invest: Adding value to investment with its 130 backing investors
As hard as it is for a startup to raise a round of funding (especially early stage), it’s even harder for startups to assess which Venture Capital firms (or Angel Investors) to approach for investors. Key strategies often include looking for firms or individuals who have invested in the same sector or business model in […]