French Tech News: Turning AI Hype Into Business
Launchmetrics CEO shares lessons from building an AI success. France Digitale offers the optimistic case for French startups in 2024. And the courtship between startups and corporations gets a boost.
Launchmetrics: Lessons From A French AI Exit
In the wake of a $240m deal, CEO Michael Jaïs discussed how the company's focus on practical uses of AI helped it become indispensable to fashion, beauty, and luxury brands.
Seed Scout #10: Augment Wants To Build A Better MBA
Plus: Upscalers is building a new European angel investment club of experienced operators. And France's EV charging sector is zooming ahead.
Seed Of The Week: Augment
Augment raised a €6m Seed Round to develop its online business education platform. Co-founder Ariel Renous takes us inside the company that wants to reinvent business education and make it more accessible.
Investor Spotlight: Upscalers CEO Yoann Benhacoun
The early-stage angel investment club takes a community-led approach to backing startups by recruiting experienced operators to be angel investors.
French Tech News: Building A French VC Giant
If 2023 brought a harsh dose of reality for the French tech ecosystem, there were still some reasons for optimism heading into 2024.
Spotlight Interview: Diversidays CEO Anthony Babkine
The non-profit has become an influential player in the movement to bring greater inclusion to a French tech ecosystem lacking diversity.
Dude, We're Huge: Inside The Elaia-Lazard Plan To Build A Growth Equity Giant
The influential early-stage VC is embarking on a new partnership with global financial giant Lazard. The deal could transform both -- and be another step toward closing Europe's late-stage funding gap.
French Tech News: Lessons On Industrial Startups From Grenoble
France wants to rebuild its manufacturing sector by turning lab innovations into industrial giants.
Deep Dive: Lessons On Industrial Startups From Grenoble
France is pouring billions of euros into programs that take innovations out of the labs and turn them into innovations that spawn new manufacturing. Grenoble, in the foothills of the Alps, is ground zero for these initiatives.
Seed Scout #9: Tourism And Travel Tech Set Course For Destination Disruption
The government pushes for greater innovation in a critical economic sector. Plus: 50 Partners reinvents the accelerator model.
Seed Of The Week: alltheway
The Paris-based Travel Tech startup has created a logistics platform for checking-in bags outside of airports. That's the first step in a larger e-commerce vision for travel needs.
Investor Spotlight: 50 Partners Founder Jérome Masurel
"We think it's very important to be a long-term partner, because it takes time to create a good startup. You can't do it in three months or six months."
French Tech News: Xavier Niel's GenAI Gamble
Can the French billionaire turn France into a global leader in this emerging technology?
Xavier Niel's Plot To Win AI For France
The French startup godfather has assembled an unlikely crew of fellow billionaires to support his plan to make the nation a GenAI epicenter.
Spotlight Interview: Poolside Co-Founders Jason Warner And Eiso Kant
The GenAI startup made big news when it decided to move its HQ to Paris. While the company has been in stealth mode, the co-founders recently explained their vision for transforming the way software is created.