Buyouts by PE firms may be the best hope for the exits that the French ecosystem craves. LumApps CEO Sébastien Ricard and Bridgepoint partner David Nicault break down the metrics that made this deal work.
Also inside: Etienne Boutan breaks down the strategy behind Intuition, a €15 million early-stage fund focused on consumer and creator tech; and Hot Seed Deals.
On starting a €15m consumer tech fund: “If you're a consumer investor and you're backing early-stage deals, there's no competition."
The startup has raised $20 million to develop a tool that helps enterprises rapidly optimize their deployment of GenAI-powered services.
It's VivaTech time. We give you a rundown of the 21 French startups with unicorn potential; Plus a Q&A with one of the conference's founders.
VivaTech has anointed its Top 100 Next Unicorns for the latest edition of the conference. Here's the rundown of the French candidates who hope to be the Next Big Thing.
GenAI (of course), and MedTech get new checks.
Also inside: Masawa Managing Partner Sabine Flechet discusses the new mental health early-stage fund; and Seed Deals.
Munich-based Sabine Flechet is a prominent Business Angel who launched an early-stage fund that backs mental-health startups but also supports the mental health of founders through its approach dubbed, "Nurture Capital."
Also inside: How Qubit Pharmaceuticals will use quantum computing to reinvent drug discovery; AI startups continue to make VCs swoon.
AI continues to be a money magnet while B2B fintech gets a nod.
Piquemal on the future of drug discovery: "Quantum computing will be...capable of predicting quickly and with accuracy the chemical processes we are looking at. And if we can predict, we can go faster."
Also inside: Serena Partner Bertrand Diard breaks down the firm's new €100m Data and AI fund; and the latest Seed Deals.
Kolet raised €5m to develop an eSIM platform for international travelers. It's the first step of CEO Eduardo Ronzano's long-term vision of connecting billions of people to the internet by reinventing the telecom industry.
Thanks to an early bet on Data and AI, Serena was able to raise a new €100m early-stage fund to expand its investments in one of tech's hottest spaces.
