Selected Transactions

About Posos

Founded in 2017 by Emmanuel Bilbault, a pharmacist, and Benjamin Grelié, an information system engineer, Posos has developed after three years of R&D a clinical decision support platform based on a proprietary NLP technology and a cross-referencing search engine. Posos offers a tool that provides physicians with quick and precise answers on drug prescriptions for optimal clinical decision-making. The solution allows healthcare professionals to conduct simultaneous research on several drugs and to systematically contextualize answers based on patient data.

About the transaction

This growth financing will enable Posos to speed-up the commercial development of its solution with the global objective to simplify and secure medical prescriptions. Certified as a medical device and already used by 85,000 healthcare professionals in five countries, Posos is integrated into the most widely used hospital softwares, such as Hopital Manager, Mediboard, Direct-Consult, Orbis, DxCare and Diane.

About Invers

Invers transforms insects (tenebrio molitor or mealworm) into an alternative source of proteins for animal feed, thanks to an innovative circular model which develops local supply channels. This model relies on partner farmers for breeding, and on cooperatives for sourcing and commercialization (since inception: Limagrain, and from now on: Eurea and Oxyane).

Invers extensive range of pet food products is already sold in 500 specialized stores throughout France, members of country-wide networks such as Gamm Vert, Magasin Vert, Botanic…

About the transaction

As demand for high-quality insect protein is surging, and need for food independence appears as a strategic objective of the utmost importance for France, this growth financing will enable the company to scale up and structure a whole agricultural supply chain on a national scale, first by deploying in the AURA region (up to 50 farmers), then by duplicating the model across all French regions.

About Homepilot

Launched in 2017, Homepilot is the first rental management start-up in France. It combines a digital platform using automated data processing technologies with the expertise of real estate specialists who advise and support customers. The solution aims to enable landlords to improve the return on their investment, reduce vacancies, unpaid rent, and expenditure on works, while giving them access to all the information in real-time.

With a French rental management market estimated at around €6 billion, Homepilot manages more than €1 billion of property assets, i.e. several thousand lots in France, the vast majority in the residential sector. The company has a turnover of €3M and employs 40 people in Paris.

About the transaction

Created in 2008, iad owes its success to the combination of the digitalisation of the estate agency and network marketing, which puts digital at the service of the human. With a turnover exceeding 526 million euros in 2022 and annual growth of more than 30% vs 2021, iad raised €300m in 2021 with Insight Partners with the ambition to become number 1 worldwide.

Joining iad will enable Homepilot to strengthen its local presence by relying on iad's network of more than 15,000 affiliated real estate agents throughout France. In addition, iad's experience and resources will enable Homepilot to accelerate its ambitious strategy of organic and external growth with the integration of real estate agencies and rental management portfolios.

About Raizers

With more than €240m raised since its creation, Raizers is one of the European leaders in real estate crowdfunding. The company is joining forces with Groupe Empruntis to sustain its future growth and aims to raise over €1bn by 2025.

About the transaction

The Empruntis Group, which has recently been acquired by a new shareholding structure made up of Bridgepoint and Groupe Mentor (Michaux family), is positioning itself in the real estate crowdfunding market with Raizers. By joining forces with a sector expert such as the Empruntis Group, which includes the networks Empruntis, Partners Finances, ACE, Immopret and PRETUP, Raizers benefits from a large origination network and thus increases its development opportunities both locally and at a European scale.

About Habiteo

Habiteo is the French leader in 3D technologies dedicated to new properties. Its with shareholders include Serena Capital, Schneider Electric Ventures and Denis Fayolle.

About the transaction

With this acquisition, Bien'ici (backed by Nexity and Arche Group) confirms its leadership in the field of immersive experience for Internet users and gives a new dimension to property research. The 3rd largest real estate portal shows its dynamism in the sector. For 6 years, this ambition has been at the heart of the model of the two innovative companies: to go from technological R&D to the democratization of immersive tools, both for professionals in the sector and for future buyers and meet a dual ambition:

About Nexylan

With more than 350 clients in France, Nexylan is a leader in managed hosting services for critical business.

Since 2009, Nexylan designs and operates Web and Cloud hosting infrastructures in France. The team offers its expertise as a managed hosting company by providing managed services with a very high level of security, availability, and performance, to meet the requirements of critical Web projects.

About the transaction

After 13 years of sustained & profitable growth, Nexylan aims to become a global leader by entering an equity partnership with TWS.

Nexylan, supported by Avolta Partners, sold 100% of its shares to TWS. The acquisition of Nexylan sets a first landmark for the group: enter the French market. Their next objective is now to grow in France through Nexylan. Total Webhosting Solutions is a Dutch group that consolidated the expertise of more than 30 brands in web hosting and cloud services in the Netherlands and Spain.

TWS, supported by Avolta Partners, leveraged Nexylan’s profitability to raise €5.5m of senior debt and an additional uncommitted amount to fuel further acquisitions. BNP Paribas led the fundraising and was followed by Banque Populaire and Credit Agricole. This deal marks a new milestone for Avolta Partners as an advisor in Tech Leverage Buy Outs.

About Moneytrans

Moneytrans has already helped more than 10 million customers send or receive money instantly through its digital channels and a European retail network of over 3.000 branches, connected to 500,000+ payment points in 140 countries.

About the transaction

This capital raise will allow Moneytrans to deploy its newest product within the neobank segment, with the launch of a current account offering boosted by additional financial services tailored for the remittance sector and the working migrants.

About Opendatasoft

With more than 300 clients around the world, Opendatasoft is a global leader in data democratization platforms.

The company develops an all-in-one SaaS platform that allows all teams to quickly create compelling digital experiences with their data and share them across their internal and external ecosystems.

About the transaction

This new fund raising will enable Opendatasoft to scale its operations, accelerating international and vertical market expansion to meet growing demand for its solutions. This will include strengthening its presence in North America by expanding its existing Boston office, as well as boosting activities in Australia and across Europe, including entering new vertical markets, such as retail, services and healthcare.

About RTFKT Studio

RTFKT is the new brand "born in the metaverse" and for the metaverse. It offers a new vision of the future of fashion (especially sneakers) and identity in the metaverse.

RTFKT uses blockchain (NFT), augmented reality and generative AI to sell virtual fashion items that can be used in video games or virtual worlds. These same items can sometimes also be produced physically.

Some analysts compare RTFKT's runaway success to the one of the brand Supreme. Since its inception, RTFKT has developed an extensive and very active community of creators and young designers, as well as collectors. The company has reached $100M in sales for its second year of existence.

About the transaction

In May 2021, Avolta Partners organized RTFKT's first financing round. a16z was chosen and invested $8M alongside other investors. Only a few months later, the company is acquired by Nike.

About Outspot

Founded in 2008 by the brothers Stefan and Thomas Van Overbeke, Outspot specializes in online flash deals. Every day, it provides its 10 million members a limited selection of great offers on products, travel and experiences via email.

About the transaction

Already active in 10 European countries, Outspot further strengthens its market leadership in Italy with this acquisition of Groupalia. Like Outspot, Groupalia offers members the opportunity to purchase products and services at discounted prices. With the takeover of the Italian company, Outspot will gain 2 million members.

About Weenat

Weenat offers high-precision weather and agronomy solutions adapted to all type of crops: on the one hand, connected devices which provide real-time, reliable data on crops’ meteorological and agronomic conditions, on the other hand, a mobile application which assist farmers in their daily operations.

Weenat’s more than 12k active users can better anticipate frost periods, optimize irrigation, enhance crop protection efficiency, and thus save time and money.

About the transaction

This growth financing will enable the company to keep on developing new value-added solutions and export to Spain, Italy, Germany and other European countries.

About dejamobile

Dejamobile’s range of white label ReadyToTapTM Payment solutions enable banks, payment issuers and merchant service providers to offer their customers a secure and simplified mobile payment experience. As the European leader in software solutions for secure digital transactions, dejamobile (40 people) will bring its know-how to Market Pay while continuing to grow its business and develop its own products.

About the transaction

The Market Pay group is a major European player in the omnichannel payment sector. The group is backed by AnaCap Financial Partners since 2020 and has since adopted a strong build-up strategy, as highlighted by this new transaction. The acquisition will strengthen Market Pay's Tech team and accelerate the group's international expansion thanks to dejamobile’s expertise and extensive network.

About EEMI

UI Investissement, a leading private equity firm, announced the acquisition and combination of ISTEC and EEMI, two higher education institutions, specializing in business and marketing for the former and technology for the latter. Founded by Jacques-Antoine Granjon (Veepee), Xavier Niel (Free) and Marc Simoncini (Meetic, Jaïna, Angell), EEMI is a pure player in digital training that has become a reference on the web in less than 10 years. Ranked in the top decile of French business schools, ISTEC is a member of the prestigious Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners has acted as M&A advisor to EEMI on this transaction. Backed by UI, ISTEC and EEMI are pooling their expertise to offer a new range of management, business and digital training courses. Alongside the management teams, UI will be involved in structuring the project and developing synergies that will improve the training of graduates.

About RTFKT Studio

RTFKT Studio is a creator-led organization that uses the latest in NFT, game engines and augmented reality, combined with manufacturing expertise to create one-of-a-kind sneakers and digital artifacts. The company’s latest collaboration with designer Fewocious just sold 600+ pairs of NFT sneakers in 6 minutes, bringing in over $3m.

About the transaction

This $8m growth financing will enable the company to invest in the development of new NFT utilities and boost its physical goods craftsmanship and partnerships for unique experiences.

About Bloom at Work

Since its inception five years ago, Bloom at Work operates in the QWL market by enabling companies to measure employee engagement via online surveys. With this data, HR and managers improve well-being at work and defuse psychosocial risks. The health crisis has acted as a growth catalyst for Bloom at Work, which has seen a 200% increase in users over the last 12 months. The solution is now used by 100,000 employees in more than 200 companies (SeLoger, Thalys, AB Tasty, etc.) and 30+ countries.

About the transaction

Since 2002, Lucca has been publishing SaaS software to simplify the administrative and HR management of companies. Thanks to its solutions, 800,000 users (Deezer, Meilleurs Agents, Frichti, Michel et Augustin) have been freed from tedious administrative tasks. In 2020, Lucca's turnover increased by 30% and in order to expand its range of solutions, the company had been considering expanding into the QWL sector for several years, as illustrated by this acquisition.

About Clearnox

Clearnox is a Fintech editing a next generation cloud platform for cash collection. The company caters 600+ SMEs, acquired through direct or indirect channels via partnerships with Sage (white label distribution) and Cegid.

About the transaction

With this acquisition, Isabel Group extends its order-to-cash offering for both its accounting and business market segments. As one of the most important providers of multi-bank services for professional users in Belgium, Isabel Group, a regulated actor, executes its first international acquisition to further enhance its solutions portfolio and penetration of the French SME market.

About Unseenlabs

Unseenlabs is the European leader in satellite borne electromagnetic monitoring and intelligence. Through its space-proven proprietary technology, the company is able to track from space all maritime traffic - especially ships - that have switched off their identification system and that are unseen to maritime authorities or private companies. The main focus is therefore to detect dark vessels usually operating illegal activities such as illegal fishing, trafficking or piracy. Since 2019, the company has launched 3 satellites and can offer global coverage to its public and private clients.

About the transaction

This €20m Series B is the largest European spacetech fundraise in 2021 to date, and will enable the company to accelerate its commercial deployment through the hiring of new sales staff and the opening of new geographic hubs. It will also allow the company to further deploy its satellite constellation in order to increase data availability and offer new use cases to its clients.

About MyFeelBack

MyFeelBack's mission is to enable companies to internalize their collection of customer experience feedback throughout the purchasing journey, at all points of contact. Among its keys to success, MyFeelBack is integrated into all existing CRM solutions, starting with Salesforce, and is now one of the main players in the “voice of the customer” market.

About the transaction

Skeepers (formerly NetReviews) is a leader in customer experience and engagement that recently joined the Next 40, the label of the most promising French Tech companies. The group is backed by Providence Strategic Growth since 2019 and has since adopted a strong build-up strategy, as highlighted by this new acquisition.

About Instant System

Instant System is an expert in the implementation of intelligent transport solutions and MaaS platforms. The company edits and commercialises on a white label basis a suite of innovative digital solutions dedicated to mobility and meeting the growing needs of users, public transport authorities, transport operators and corporate clients.

About the transaction

With more than 2.5 million users, more than 100 transport networks operated in Europe and more than 100 million kilometers traveled via its applications, Instant System is already a reference partner of public transport authority and transport operators in Europe. This fundraising will allow the company to extend and strengthen its reach while improving its proprietary underlying technology.

About Golem.ai

Golem.ai wants to free business from massive document reading without using deep learning, thanks to a new approach in AI. Deployed after 4 initial years of R&D, Golem.ai's technology is based on universal linguistics and logic with an approach to understanding similar to humans. This approach characterizes the uniqueness of the AI it has co-developed, and collects no personal data while being 100% explainable and sovereign.

About the transaction

This transaction will allow Golem.ai to develop its position in France and soon internationally. This ambition is supported by the multilingual nature of its technology, which already runs in more than 30 languages, enabling large companies to deploy it on an international scale.

Golem.ai also intends to accelerate the development of new functionalities and connectors to link its technology to any information system, allowing it to be naturally integrated into any suite of tools. To achieve this, the company is starting a recruitment plan in 2021 and intends to double its workforce from 30 to 60 employees.

About Jungle

Jungle specializes in vertical agriculture, a technique that allows to produce ten to thirty times more than in greenhouses or in open ground. The agritech aims to offer the most innovative and highest-performing technological processes on the market to grow 100 per cent local produce on an industrial scale.

About the transaction

Thanks to the fundraising, Jungle's vertical farm based in Chateau-Thierry will stretch over more than 5,000 sqm, enabling a substantial increase in fruit and vegetable production. The business already has growing partnerships with food distributers including Monoprix and Intermarché, among others.

About Anytime

Anytime is one of the top three neobanks in this market in France and has been profitable since 2018. It has grown by offering business accounts, payment solutions and expense management tools that make life easier for small businesses.

About the transaction

With this acquisition and after three years of existence, Orange Bank now expands into the professionals and small business market. After its initial success offering pioneering mobile banking services to the general public, Orange Bank is now aiming to make financial management easier for SMEs and SOHOs. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orange Bank, Anytime will benefit from the strength of the Orange brand among SMEs and SOHOs to scale-up its commercial reach and enhance its range of solutions for professionals.

About Flatchr

Flatchr is a SaaS solution for recruiters (HR, managers, company directors, etc.) that simplifies the acquisition and management of applications. It offers an easy-to-use tool that saves time by centralising recruitment in one place and optimising recruitment campaigns.

About the transaction

This fundraiser will allow Flatchr to improve every facet of its all-in-one solution, which already offers the tools needed for easier recruitment processes: multicast, CV management and tracking platform, hunting tool, pools, statistics, career site, cooptation...

About Lumi THD

Through proprietary algorithms and data processing, Lumi THD automates and streamlines both the design and management of fiber-optic networks. Thanks to its solution, Lumi THD’s clients can drastically increase their teams’ productivity on FTTH (Fiber To The Home) studies and ensure more reliable and robust networks on the long run. Lumi THD also carries out turnkey studies (engineering plans, preliminary design, tender design, etc.) that rely on its own technology. This transaction will enable Lumi THD to pursue its international growth and tackle FTTH operational challenges with the support of Axione.

About the transaction

For Axione, this strategic acquisition will allow the company to optimize its processes and design tools in order to stay at the forefront of the FTTH market. Axione’s ambition is also to leverage Lumi THD specific software expertise in order to develop new products and services to serve value to the whole fiber-optic value chain and beyond.

About Zest HACCP

Created in 2015, Zest HACCP is an application that digitalizes the entire Sanitary Control Plan for all traditional and self-service shelves, mainly in supermarkets, food industries, and catering groups. It manages the complete traceability of products and ensures exemplary hygiene rigor, while saving time and money by simplifying and supervising the daily tasks of professionals.

About the transaction

This operation will enable Zest HACCP to further accelerate its growth and to open up new prospects for development and partnerships. For Phytocontrol Group, this acquisition aims to consolidate its position as a key player in the field of water and food safety in France and Europe.

About Kiute

The beauty sector now has its Doctolib, as Flexy & LeCiseau merge to become Kiute: the French BeautyTech champion. Kiute is an online booking platform for beauty and hair salons that meets all the needs of professionals and consumers in their daily lives. With 10,000 partner salons (5,500 beauty / 4,500 hairdressing), 250,000 online bookings per month and €120 million market growth a year, Kiute is already the French leader in the beauty sector.

LeCiseau (#1 online booking platform for hair salons) and Flexy (leader in beauty salon management SaaS) were already strongly established players in their respective fields and have developed complementary expertise. The two startups then made the strategic choice to merge to create an all-in-one BeautyTech solution, with a software dedicated to professionals and an online booking platform to connect them with customers.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners has acted as the sole financial advisor to LeCiseau.fr. This transaction adds to the team's recent Tech M&A track record, following this year's sales of ConerJob to Eurofirms Group, Fundimmo to Foncière Atland, or buy-side advisory for Voodoo.

Kiute's ambition is to revitalise and digitalise the sector by becoming the leading beauty platform in France within 3 years, with 30,000+ partner salons. This ambition is not bounded to France, as the service aims to be deployed as soon as 2021 on the European market, which represents more than 1.3 million salons in Europe, and 7+ million internationally.

About Voodoo x Fabrika Games

Avolta Partners acted as Voodoo's buy-side adviser on its strategic investment in Fabrika Games.

Fabrika Games was founded in 2019 and has grown to 11 team members, releasing hit titles such as Draw Car in 2019, which has gained over 50 million downloads. Fabrika Games seeks to reinvent the hyper-casual design model by working with fresh and unexpected concepts, and aims to continue its reputation as a key trendsetter in Turkey’s game development market.

This new move comes as part of a series of new office openings and acquisitions that saw Voodoo expand its reach. Headquartered in Paris since its launch in 2013, Voodoo’s extensive stable of games now includes over 100 mobile titles, retaining 300 million monthly active users and 3.7 billion total downloads, making the French company #1 in terms of downloads in the worldwide gaming industry.

About the transaction

Fabrika Games and Voodoo’s agreement to proceed with this strategic investment shows the latter’s continued drive to reach global talent and to build a worldwide network of supported studios and developers delivering chart topping titles on mobile. It also adds to Avolta Partners' proven M&A track record and underlines the team's consolidated expertise in the European gaming industry.

About Qarnot Computing – Series B

Qarnot develops hardware and software solutions for smart buildings and distributed green computing. The company's turnover has doubled every year for the last two years, thanks to numerous commercial successes, both in the real estate and IT sectors. More than 1,200 Qarnot radiators-computers have been installed today and many new partnerships have already been signed with public and private players.

About the transaction

This capital raise will enable Qarnot to become the European leader in high-performance computing, thanks to accelerated growth and diversification of its customers. Qarnot's offer will be based on its distributed, economical, ecological and sovereign infrastructure, with the continued installation of QH-1 computer heaters (buildings), QB-1 digital boilers (water networks) and QS-1 computing racks (warehouses).

In the meantime, in-house R&D will be consolidated to maintain the company's technological lead. These objectives will be achieved with an ambitious recruitment plan, especially in the IT and sales fields.

About FundsDLT

FundsDLT develops a decentralized platform to facilitate fund distribution using the distributed ledger technology (DLT). FundsDLT is built upon a blockchain technology based on Ethereum, that ensure data privacy and high execution performance.

The platform enables the reengineering of the whole fund distribution value chain, from front to back, covering the entire fund lifecycle. It allows asset managers, distributors, asset servicers, and the entire supply chain to reduce costs by removing redundant activities, while providing the opportunity to achieve necessary transparency on end investors and creating the foundation for digital fund distribution.

About the transaction

The Series A funding will strengthen the FundsDLT platform and accelerate its commercial development. Other fund management players are invited to join the initiative.

About Cityscoot – Series C

Established in 2014, Cityscoot has developed the #1 European urban network to share scooters in free-floating. Thanks to its unique fleet technology, users can park instantly on any location within the authorised area, requiring no park stations and no keys, and only paying for the minutes they use (starting at €0.20/min). Dedicated to daily rides, Cityscoot reinvents the urban mobility by offering a sustainable, smart and efficient alternative to public transport.

About the transaction

Allianz France, Cityscoot's long-standing strategic partner and insurer, has joined forces with Demeter to conclude this round alongside the company's historical shareholders, including the RATP Group and Caisse des Dépôts. This new capital raise aims to finance the opening of two new European cities in 2020 and to bring the fleet up to 8,000 electric scooters.

Since its launch in June 2016, 7,000 electric scooters have been gradually deployed in Paris and fifteen neighboring cities, in addition to Nice, Milan and Rome. In Paris, the service already attracted 180,000 users completing 15,000 to 25,000 trips daily. Barcelona will be the next European city to host the service, starting in May 2020.

About Orange Marine

Orange Marine is a leading European online retailer of products, technologies and gears for boating and water sports. Orange Marine is focused on its customers’ satisfaction by delivering the best equipment for both yacht, boat (less than 25 meters) and professional and occasional boaters through a large catalog. Items are sourced from top tier vendors (Furuno, Garmin, Helly Hansen, Harken, Humminbird, etc) and also designed by the company to offer the best price quality.

About the transaction

Tis merger will enable Nocika to establish itself on the market for the sale of equipment products for boats and yachtsmen. The new entity will have a turnover of 20 million euros, a critical size to become the European reference player in its market.

About Isahit

Isahit is a socially responsible platform for outsourcing digital tasks. The company brings together an international community of over 1000 workers spread across 32 countries in Asia, Africa and South America. Isahit allows young talent, mainly women from emerging and developing countries, to work part-time online to earn an additional income to finance their career goals. The hiters can work for a maximum of 100 hours per month for a duration of 2 and half years for isahit customers. Computer vision, NLP and data and content services are the 3 kinds of digital tasks that can be assigned to hiters.

About the transaction

Sodexo is already working with isahit, which has proved to be a valuable partner in developing their expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Isahit helps the experts at Sodexo's Data Lab to label data, whether image, sound, video or text, to create quality databases and speed up the delivery of solutions that use the data in a meaningful way.

About CornerJob

CornerJob is the leading European on-demand staffing mobile application for blue collars. This transaction follows CornerJob levering on a mobile-first marketplace shaped to become the most integrated on-demand staffing platform. Among numerous prizes, CornerJob won the Spain Tech5 scale up award granted by Adyen and The Next Web in 2017 and 2019.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners acted as the financial advisor to CornerJob on its sale to Eurofirms group. Eurofirms is a global group with existing activities in a wide range of countries including Spain, Portugal and Chile, and a network of 100+ agencies generating a €380m turnover.

About Fundimmo

Fundimmo, a leading French Real Estate Crowdfunding platform, has just three years with loans and funding in excess of 45 million Euros and delivered defaultless loan offering to investors, making it one of the few successful platforms offering attractive returns with a default free portfolio.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners acted as the sole advisor to Fundimmo and its shareholders on its successful majority stake sale to Foncière Atland (EuronextParis listed company). The transaction further demonstrates Avolta Partners’ expertise in Real Estate Crowdfunding P2P lending, advisory functions in Fintech Transactions, and also in Proptech advisory.

About Diplomeo

Diplomeo is an online search platform for education which provides a step by step accompaniment to students from their first school to their first job. Thanks to an unparalleled matching engine and the extensive coverage of a 46,000 courses database, Diplomeo is used each year by 30% of French high school graduates.

About the transaction

This transaction is part of HelloWork's external growth development strategy, which already led to the acquisition of various edTech players in recent years . The two companies now reach a wide audience of students, workers, training centers and companies, and will continue to innovate in the service of lifelong learning and employment. This synergy will enable them to provide the most complete response to the key challenges of apprenticeship and work-study training in France.

About Arttic

Arttic is a leading European consulting firm that assists clients from all business and research sectors to ensure the success of their collaborative research & innovation ventures. Thanks to its team of 100+ collaborators, Arttic developed and demonstrated expertise in the set-up and management of more than 400 large-scale EU-funded projects to date.

Based on its long-standing experience in a range of funding programmes across various scientific and technological domains, Arttic helps clients to move from strategic plans to effective competitive research & development of innovative solutions, resulting in successful applications and businesses.

About the transaction

Arttic is acquired by PNO Consultants, a seasoned consultancy organization with a wide spectrum of services in the field of grants, innovation and compliance with a strong position in the sectors of life sciences & health and energy, climate & environment.

Based in the Netherlands with offices in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, PNO has a solid base to offer its services to clients from all over Europe and beyond.

The synergistic benefits of combined expertise, geographical coverage and broad spectrum of services will enable ARTTIC and PNO to better meet the increasing market demand for an extensive range of grants and consulting services.

About ReachFive

ReachFive provides a Customer Identity and Access Management platform (CIAM) that allows companies to simplify their consumer authentication process and significantly improve their user experience with a secure & unified 360° customer identity.

Thanks to its Identity As A Service (“IDaaS”) solution, ReachFive can manage all types of client information directly from customer touchpoints, instead of passing through complex legacy systems unable to distribute unique profiles across an organisation.

Providing a unified customer identity is a key enabler for companies seeking digital transformation. Having spent years in research and development phase to deliver its modern CIAM solution, ReachFive now manages over 40 million customer connections from its platform. ReachFive is integrated at the core of the customer relationship system, generating higher customer lifetime value and boosting the performance of marketing, sales and customer service initiatives.

About the transaction

This capital injection confirms ReachFive’s momentum and follows a stellar year of growth, in which the company saw its recurring revenue more than triple. It will significantly accelerate ReachFive's business in France and Europe, where ReachFive already connects companies to their customers in 55 countries.

About Otherwise

Otherwise is a full-digital collaborative B2C insurance provider offering an innovative cashback model to policyholders. Otherwise manages the whole insurance value chain:
• Insurance products designing with a cashback model
• Full-digital distribution (direct and via APIs) and customer relationship management
• Claims management
• Constant product adjustments through data science
Otherwise has already designed 3 in-house products based on this full-digital collaborative model: health, pets and car insurance.

About the transaction

By reinvesting in this round alongside new strategic investor Mutualia, historical investors including 360 Capital renew their confidence in the company. Otherwise will keep up the rapid growth of its customers basis and gross written premium.

About Student Pop

Two years after its inception, Student Pop has consolidated its pioneering position in a student job market worth €3 billion a year in France. Halfway between an agency and a networking platform, Student Pop aims to combine the best of both models.

Student Pop offers integrated services, guaranteeing clear understanding and communication between students and companies while relieving each of the most tedious tasks (automatic quotation, staffing of selected profiles and replacements, training, company invoicing, student remuneration, insurance, quality monitoring). In addition, the Student Pop digital model makes it possible to remunerate students advantageously (+30% of the minimum wage) while maintaining a competitive rate for companies.

About the transaction

With this A series round, Student Pop will strengthen its student network to meet all companies' needs in France. They will also provide their application with new matching algorithms to be as close as possible to the students' evolution within the community.

About Fred de la compta

Fred de la compta is a SaaS-enabled marketplace designed to connect entrepreneurs with accounting firms through a comprehensive AI-powered platform. Thanks to its patented AI, the platform automates the entire data entry process based on uploaded documents. The solution thus saves between 40 and 70% of the time usually devoted to this activity. With Fred, accountants can free up time to be more proactive in their legal, social or administrative consulting activities and entrepreneurs can focus on what really matters to their business.

About the transaction

With this fundraising, Fred aims to acquire 10 times more users within the next year. The company also plans to diversify its services with accounting firms and strengthen its Product, Tech, Sales and Marketing teams.

About Blockchain.io

Built on Paymium’s proven security and technological record, Blockchain.io is the European Crypto-exchange.. Blockchain.io offers Crypto and Altcoin listing facilities as well as ICO services. The platform offer all the feature needed to a comprehensive trading experience including basic and advance orders and will provide advisory and technology services to execute third-party ICO’s, new listing and market making services, with a high level of digital asset protection and a safe record of transactions.

About the transaction

Blockchain.io listed its token and delivered on its technical roadmap in July 2019, making it one of the few successful projects financed during the Crypto Winter of 2018 & early 2019. Avolta Partners acted as the financial advisor to Blockchain.io and its shareholders on this ICO (Reg A).

About ECL Direct

ECL Direct provides accounting on demand and is the editor of Fizen, a SaaS financial application. Pioneer of the on-demand accounting for small businesses, they became the national leader in just a few years. Fizen enables easy and user-friendly accounting and financial management for small businesses. Thanks to its vision of "accounting without accounting knowledge", and the automatic processing of banking flows, Fizen redefines the small businesses accounting.

About the transaction

Created in 1999 by Claude Robin (also co-founder of ECL Direct), Amarris has expertise in accounting, legal and HR, which it offers through five subsidiaries. The group has bought back 70% of ECL Direct's shares not yet in its possession through a capital increase.

About Temelio

Temelio allows company to implement a people-based marketing strategy by converging on/offline data to build a single, cross-device and enriched view of each customers. Its services allow to personalize marketing campaigns through audience targeting and provides On2Off analytics to measure in-store impact of any digital investments.

About the transaction

This transaction will allow Temelio to strengthen its data pool, the ID graph, on which it relies to "find back" the physical consumers of its clients on the Web. The platform, which already has the capacity to match 30 million emails and 70 million active cookies, wants to increase its reach. To do so, it will enrich its offer with mobile data in a cross-device perspective.

About Serious Factory

Serious Factory developed the leading authoring software for immersive & adaptive training program dedicated to create, monitor and deploy empowering simulation that transform the professional job training process through serious games.

About the transaction

The company has closed a Series A round with its historical shareholders and Odyssee venture. The objective is to accelerate its growth and international expansion.

About Cityscoot – Series B

Established in 2014, Cityscoot has developed the #1 European urban network to share scooters in free-floating. Thanks to its unique fleet technology, users can park instantly on any location within the authorised area, requiring no park stations and no keys, and only paying for the minutes they use (starting at €0.20/min). Dedicated to daily rides, Cityscoot reinvents the urban mobility by offering a sustainable, smart and efficient alternative to public transport.

About the transaction

18 months after its official launch, Cityscoot registers +200k rides per month in Paris and reached its 4-5 rides /scoot /day breakeven metric. This €40m Series B, led by RATP, via its branch RATP Capital Innovation, InVenture Partners and LeasePlan, along with historical shareholders, will fund the rollout of the service in new European cities. Cityscoot ambition by the end of the year is to open at least three new cities in 2018 and extend the fleet to 5,000 vehicles.

About Intuilab

IntuiLab is the creator of IntuiFace, the leading cross-platform software empowering anyone - of any skill set and in any business - to create, connect, deploy and measure touch-first digital signage without writing a line of code. Used by 1500 organizations in more than 85 countries and in fields as varied as retail, events, education, sales, government, and cultural institutions, IntuiFace accelerates the execution of interactive digitalization strategies for the physical place. IntuiLab is based in Toulouse and Chicago.

About the transaction

IntuiLab has announced the closing of $3.7m in Series A funding from IRDI SORIDEC Gestion, M Capital Partners (historical investor) and two business angels with the support of Bpifrance. With the assistance of this Series A funding orchestrated by the investment bank Avolta Partners, IntuiLab's objective is to become the world leader in the segment of interactive digital signage. The company will expand its inbound marketing efforts and Web presence, the primary driver for IntuiFace sales-to-date, and will grow its business relationships with major customers (such as Microsoft, SAP, Colliers, Capgemini) and its partner agencies and integrators (such as FirstImpression, Zivelo, Popcomms, Accenture), particularly in the United Staes which already accounts for 50% of its business.

About Gojob

Founded in 2015 by Pascal Lorne and headquartered in Aix-of-Provence, GoJob is a European leader on the temp working market. The company has built the first 100%-digital agency connecting recruiters to workers and has proved its leadership in France with already 25,000 temporary employees recruited by more than 500 companies. Through its integrated marketplace model, GoJob business has been thriving since its inception back in April 2015 and has recorded a 300% growth in Q4 2017.

About the transaction

GoJob announced the closing of a €17m financing round led by Breega Capital (France), Kois Invest (Belgium) and a pool of renowned business angels and banking partners. This round will help the company improve further its platform around new key functionalities for time sheets and electronic contracts. The investment will also allow the recruitment of 20 additional people in the team, notably to focus on the optimization of GoJob matching algorithms.

About Opencell

Opencell is an end-to-end platform for monetizing subscription and usage-based revenue businesses. The solution enable recurring revenue businesses to quickly launch new services, to monetize new revenue streams and deliver improved customer experiences.

The core platform is built around a powerful billing engine that can be upgraded by dozens of modules providing services from reporting management to customer care portal.

About the transaction

This fundraising round will enable Opencell to strengthen its R&D division and increase its commercial reach in a fast-growing market to meet the increasing demand for its products.

About Recast.AI

Recast.AI is the leading artificial intelligence bot platform. With more than 30,000 developers building more than 50,000 bots, Recast.AI offers a world class technology, an end-to-end bot platform as well as off-the-shelf customer support bots to lead the revolution of customer relations around the world. Recast.AI’s technology matches the requirements of conversational chatbots and allows high performance natural language processing that supports more than 20 languages.

About the transaction

This acquisition will enable SAP to accelerate the development of its machine learning capabilities, further strengthening its growing portfolio of intelligent software solutions aimed at using natural language to simplify complex business interactions.

About Patatam

Established in Biarritz in August 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart, Patatam promotes circular economy for children's wear. The company buys from parents, clothes that no longer fit children and sell them back on its platform.

With 2,500 new products listed every day, the company is currently gaining momentum in the French market. Their products now range from premature babies' clothes to size 14 and also include shoes, costumes and sport outfits.

About the transaction

Four years after its inception, Patatam announced the closing of a new financing round with the objective to become the leading European e-commerce actor in the second-hand children's wear.

New investors, in this third financing round, include Groupe Duval, West Web Valley and Swen along with historical investors such as Aquiti Gestion, PG Développement, Kernel Investissements, Herrikoa and Adour Business Angels network. Long-standing business angels, Price Minister cofounders, Pierre Kosciuscko-Morizet and Pierre Krings, alongside BlaBlaCar cofounders Frédéric Mazzella and Francis Nappez, have reiterated their support for the Biarritz based venture and its aggressive European growth plan.

About Credit.fr

With more than €20m raised, the French specialist in crowdlending for SMEs, Credit.fr has provided lendors with 299 rigorously-selected smaller businesses and small and mid-sized companies (SMEs) under advantageous conditions for the borrowing companies and paying attractive yield to lenders.

Being incubated since its inception in 2014 by Truffle Capital and building partnerships with financial players such as HelloBank!, Bankin'or Linxo, Credit.fr has revolutionised corporate access to credit by offering an extremely rapid response based on a simplified administrative process and a safe credit scoring system.

About the transaction

The buyer, Tikehau Capital forecasts to consolidate its leading position in the corporate lending market in France. Thanks to Credit.fr, Tikehau Capital has acquired its technology solution (rigorous credit scoring) along with a deep network of partners and investors focused on the SMEs alternative financing market.

About C-radar

Recognised "Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2016", winner of the World Innovation Competition (2014, 2015) and winner of the European Data Forum in Luxembourg, C-Radar has manufactured predictive algorithms and Machine Learning technologies to structure Open Data repositories.

More than 80 clients, including BNP Paribas, Allianz, BPI, BPCE Group, La Banque Postale, SoLocal Group, SNCF and DHL use C-Radar's intelligent software, crawling terabytes of data on more than 15 million corporate websites in Europe and in the USA, to improve their B2B predictive marketing (understanding and conversion rate).

About the transaction

Sidetrade, an Artificial Intelligence Software Company has chosen C-Radar to bolster its platform and solutions for Business Intelligence and predictive Marketing.

About Minuit une

Founded in 2013, Minuit has developed a groundbreaking patented laser technology called IVL™ lighting (stand for Immersive & Versatile Laser lighting) which grabbed rapidly the attention of all related sectors (concert, event, TV production, clubbing).

With a unique range of colour effects, soft light quality and various using modes, Minuit Une allows to create over 1000 mesmeric, geometric, graphic and lighting effects, with a 360 lighting system aperture and an interchangeable upper shape (Pyramide and Carre to date).

About the transaction

Minuit Une has raised €3m in equity and €2m in debt with both Fonds Ambition Numérique (Bpifrance) and Entrepreneur Venture to achieve its international objective of 90% sales abroad and its ambitious R&D program aiming visual signature and usability as a lighting equipment reference.

About Julie Desk

Julie is a new type of AI employee who automatically manages the user's professional agenda: Julie plans, organises, cancels, creates professional events, sends invitations... Julie adapts itself to the user's preferences and habits thanks to a learning algorithm. Simply cc "Julie" to delegate tasks, then she cares of the rest. According to the user's calendar, Julie, via email exchange, will offer potential meeting times and places before sending invites with the details agreed for the meeting. The user is always in cc, to remain informed of the possible changes. Julie automatically fills his calendar.

About the transaction

The AI-based personal assistant, Julie Desk, raised with SIDE Capital, Entrepreneur Ventures and SaaS Partners. Thanks to this fundraising, the start-up founded by 3 engineers from Polytechnic, Julien Hobeika (CEO), Guillaume Michiels and Nicolas Marlier, will pursue their investments in Artificial Intelligence with the aim of doubling their algorithm's performance and quality within the next 12 months. Julie Desk intends to become one of the driver for company transformation and innovative workplaces development.

About EP

Launched back in 2007 in the aftermath of French Grenelle Environnement Forum, EP developed izigloo, a digital platform gathering data about housing so as to provide services related to its use or maintenance. With a simple address as an input, the platform can extract a wide range of information from wall total surface or sunlight intensity to building materials. Izigloo can notably assess the energy efficiency of any dwelling.

Izigloo bets on a Free SaaS Enabled Marketplace model. It consists in providing the largest possible community with free tools to guarantee an easy and efficient match between players. The revenue model is based on management fees.

EP has now collected more than 100 billion of data, mainly from IGN, Insee and MeteoFrance. Within a few months, izigloo has generated €4m in business volume for artisans and has federated more than 20,000 housing professionals.

About the transaction

With this new fundraising round led by the MGEN groupe, the company ambitions to convince one million users for its platform before 2020 and to reach €100m in business volume by 2018. EP plans to hire +20 new collaborators in the coming years mainly to boost sales and R&D.

About Kimple

Since its establishment in 2010, Cassiop has developed a unique savoir-faire in France with its solution Kimple, turning the company into a top-tier player in promotional marketing through gaming.
Within only two years, Kimple has managed to seduced 150 key client accounts, has developed 300 games and has experienced a 200% year-over-year growth.

About the transaction

Sogec, a subsidiary of French group La Poste, specialized in relationship and promotional marketing, annouced it acquires a majority stake in Kimple.
With this operation with Cassiop, which also edits about fifty dedicated applications, Sogec strengthens its digitalization and audience engagement strategy through gaming media and will unveil a new offer in the coming weeks.

About Educlever

Founded in 2000, Educlever is a major actor of the digital education thanks to its 5 educational platforms for public (Maxicours) and institutional B2B (Civiscol for town halls, Seriniscol for companies, Enseigno for teachers and Efecto for scholar helping companies).

After 8 years of research on adaptive learning, Educlever is now in possession of a fully-functional adaptive learning software, named La Cartographie Des Savoirs based on 3 technologies. First, the content consists on thousands of course sheets, videos and exercises as well as a graph of knowledge showing the interactions between notions. Secondly, an adaptive learning engine processes pupils' profiles to come up with a personal learning pathway. Finally, a learning management system manages the interface and makes it user-friendly.

About the transaction

The funding round has been done by Entrepreneur Venture.

About Cityscoot – Series A

Established in 2014, Cityscoot has developed the #1 European urban network to share scooters in free-floating. Thanks to its unique fleet technology, users can park instantly on any location within the authorised area, requiring no park stations and no keys, and only paying for the minutes they use (starting at €0.20/min). Dedicated to daily rides, Cityscoot reinvents the urban mobility by offering a sustainable, smart and efficient alternative to public transport.

About the transaction

After 2 years of technical development, Cityscoot launched a beta test in Paris. With this €15m funding round, the company will officially launch its service in June 2016 by gradually deploying 1,600 scooters in Paris streets. This series A is a mix of equity and leasing: the equity round is led by Caisse des Dépôts and SD2P family office, along with 123 Investment Management and historical business angels, while the leasing round is led by LeasePlan, which sees in Cityscoot a long-term strategic partner for its activities.

About Hesus

Founded in 2008, Hesus is the pioneer in the circular economy in the building sector. Hesus facilitates inter-channel excavated soil exchanges while allowing its traceability and safety. Hesus also developed a soil management technology platform called Soldating which links in real-time the yard in need of soil and the overflow soil yard. Hesus integrates all the additional services allowing to manage the moving excavated soil value chain, from the search for treatment centers or receiver sites to the delivery logistics of the soil from a place to an other. Hesus is also taking care of all the administrative tasks and the traceability of the soil movements.

About the transaction

This new funding round, led by Audacia and BPI France, aims at accelerating Hesus development. Consecutively to Paris, a new platform has been launched last June in Bordeaux and a dozen more will follow during the next three years to cover the main French and international cities.

Hesus also wants to diversify the company’s core business and support its customers on construction sites one step further. From excavation, to value-creation or logistics optimisation, Hesus is investing in the 2.0 construction site.

About SmartAngels

Established in 2012 as the French pioneer of equity crowdfunding, Smart Angels is now one of flexible and transparent SME capital marketplace in Europe. Registered by the AMF as a CIP (French legal crowdfunding status), Smart Angels enables startups, early stage and growth companies to issue equity and bonds within the legal framework of public offering exemption.

In 2016, its significant partnership with the BNP Paribas Securities Services has allowed some blockchain technological developments within Smart Angels platform.

About the transaction

This funding round has been led by Elaia Partners, Idinvest Partners and XAnge.

About Orange Marine

Founded in 2011 by Olivier Kauffmann, former CEO of Decathlon France, Orangemarine is one of the biggest online retailer of products, technologies and gears for boating in Europe. Orangemarine is developing its own brand which already represents 20% of its global turnover. The company targets professionals as well as occasional boaters delivering the best equipment in the best delay at the best price.

Being the sole digital pure player, Orangemarine is disrupting a still very “brick and mortar” market mainly composed of franchised stores (such as Accastillage Diffusion, BigShip or Uship in France).Based at La Ciotat, the team is composed of 25 experienced people spread between France and Italy.

About the transaction

This €7m funding round, has been led by Somocom and Alcodev, two Belgian family offices related to the industrial group Alcopa, structuring the company both financially and strategically. The company aims at becoming the #1 online retailer for boat equipment in Europe within 3 years thanks to 4 key developments: expand the product catalogue, accelerate its presence in other European countries (Germany, Spain and UK in 2017), and finally increase the sales of its own brand products. Orangemarine is also developing a marketplace around shipchandlers services based on Allopneus’s model.

About La The Box

Launched in 2012, La Thé Box offers consumers a unique way to discover the best teas, brands and delicacies available on the market, in a state of the art packaging and high-end branding. Sourcing teas from both well-known brands and emerging gems, La Thé Box members have genuine experiences with new products each month and access enhanced content to help them get the most out of their products.

La Thé Box operates through 3 cores of activities: monthly subscription box delivery, e-shop for premium teas and delicacies and also a range of wholesome and fun teas. La Thé Box portfolio contains products from over 90 international brands (Mariage Frères, Dammann, Angelina, Harney & Sons, etc.).

About the transaction

The funding round with Weber Investissement (Financière de l'Echiquier) aimed at cross border expansion (notably Germany).

About C-Way

Founded in 2013, C-way is born from the needs of its creator, Jeanne Chaumais, young mother of three children, who imagined a connected device answering the new uses of children from 3 to 11 years old and their parents. Thanks to its first product, Memoo, a connected station to listen to music, C-way aroused public and media’s interest in 2016 during the CES of Las Vegas. Among key functionalities, Memoo can among other functionnalities play bedtime stories and lullabies, offers a voice messaging system and displays information about the weather forecast.

About the transaction

Through this funding round, C-way intends to establish itself sustainably on the market of kid’s intelligent entertainment and plans to diversify its product range in the coming years.

About Antvoice

AntVoice offers artificial intelligence predictive recommendation since 2014. More than 18 months of R&D have been required to develop an innovative technology based on a multi-object graph such as Facebook's social graph. This technology can create comprehensive profiles of individual users (vs. the segmentation approach) for any type of activity, whether for brands, merchants or e-media.

AntVoice offers every month to more than 40 million Internet users, in 25 countries, fine recommendations of any kind (contents, products, brands, ads, etc.) on all channels (websites, sites and mobile apps, emails).

With a unique multi-object approach in Europe, combined based on a powerful machine learning system AntVoice has convinced many partners to use its solution to enhance the user experience as can Amazon, Netflix or Facebook, and boost their KPIs.

Thus, in just 2 years, AntVoice collaborates with both media companies (Figaro Group, Prisma Digital, Mondadori, Télérama, etc.) and major e-merchants (La Redoute, Delamaison, Mister-Auto, etc.) or classified players (explorimmo, Le Figaro Realty, etc.).

This technology and company have been repeatedly rewarded: in the most promising startups according EBG in 2015; winner of the E-commerce CRM Award last September at the show E-Commerce Paris; finalist in the "Global Innovation" of the IE Club last few weeks.

About the transaction

AntVoice has convinced its historical investors (Alven Capital and Nestadio) and two new partners, the fund CapHorn Invest and the retail company Adeo, to invest in the company.

AntVoice's ambition is to become the European leader in predictive multi-object recommendations within 3 years. These new funds will allow AntVoice accelerate the launch of its new advertising recommendation and international development, which plans to recruit a dozen senior profiles as data scientists in the next 12 months.

About ECL Direct

ECL Direct and Fizen was founded in 2008 by Claude Robin and Xavier de Labarriere, experienced accountants and entrepreneurs. They have been supported by Strego since 2012.

Pioneer of the on-demand accounting for small businesses, ECL Direct became the national leader in just a few years. Fizen is a SaaS application that enables easy and user-friendly accounting and financial management for small businesses.Thanks to its vision of "accounting without accounting knowledge", and the automatic processing of banking flows, Fizen redefines the way accounting is done by small businesses.

ECL Direct has now nearly 120 employees mainly based in Nantes and has experienced a strong development of its business with an annual growth rate of its turnover exceeding 40%.

About the transaction

ECL Direct completed a round with Ouest Ventures III managed by GO Capital completed by IDEE fund. ECL Direct has the support of BPI France.

According to ECL Group management team:
"This new partnership will allow us to accelerate our growth and continue to heavily invest in innovation. It will help us strengthen our leading position, as the accountancy business knows a double mutation: automation of accounting process and the emergence of new value added digital services"

About Wedrive

Wedrive is specialized in car-sharing and car-pooling for home-work commutes. Its free mobile application is based on the principle of a local transport network, i.e. micro-communities of people making identical journeys every day. Using a virtual wallet of "credits", the reservation is made in thirty seconds. Afterwards, the driver automatically receives 10 euro cents per km travelled per passenger. Unlike BlaBlaCar, the application does not charge commission and the sponsorship of new users also generates "credits".

About the transaction

This partnership with PSA Peugeot Citroën will enable Wedrive's service to be industrialized and launched in France before considering international deployment. It will make it possible to integrate Wedrive into other PSA Peugeot Citroën mobility offers, and eventually reach 50 million potential users in Europe.

About Qarnot Computing

Founded in 2010, Qarnot computing develops the Q.rad, the first computing heater using embedded high-performance computers as a heat source in order to offer performant and secured cloud computing services on a totally disruptive and distributed infrastructure. Providing free and efficient green heating for buildings, present in every room and integrating more than 20 sensors, Q.rads also makes buildings smart.

Winner of the Popular Mechanics Editors' price at the last Consumer Electronics Show, Qarnot computing settled more than 400 Q.rads units in France. The company has prestigious cloud computing clients such as BNP Paribas, Disney, Air Liquide and the CNRS. Over the past months, the team has built strong partnerships with HP, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and Orange to strengthen its technologies.

About the transaction

The funding round has been led by Colony Capital through Data4, a group specialized in data centers. Joining Colony Capital through Data4, Qarnot Computing will be part of one of the largest funds worldwide. This will help Qarnot Computing extend its activity to the US market. Qarnot Computing is expected to deploy first on Data4 historical market such as Northern Europe and Italy.

About Avis de Maman

Founded in 2011, Avisdemamans.com is revolutionizing the publishing industry by forging a new kind of model that seamlessly integrates users, editors and content creators onto a single platform designed to empower all digital mums to discover, share and create.

Its mission is to provide parents with a trusted, yet simple and efficient, way to access all the services they will need through the course of parenthood.

Whether it's parenting or pop culture, fashion or food, DIY or décor, its award-winning editorial team, experts, bloggers, and social media influencers produce authentic and on-trend content every day reaching more than 370k monthly u.v. and 30k social media fans. Consolidating a catalogue of over 12k products and 170k advices, its robust, end-to-end suite of premium branded content, e-commerce platform and monthly box.

About the transaction

Mayane Group, publisher of the magazines Parole de Mamans, the Guide des Nouvelles Mamans, Parole de Pediatres, Parole de Sages-femmes and the website paroledemamans. com, has just acquired the Avis de Mamans platform. Thus, Mayane Group completes its offer by enriching its market research division and the acquisition of a new eCommerce activity.

About Smiile

Smile is an aggregating platform for all collaborative local services such as group purchasing, collaborative consumption services, access to information on local life, mutual aid between neighbours, gather of objects and services, etc. The platform allows its users to group themselves through virtual neighborhoods, but also real ones. All the services offered on the platform allow a saving of up to 500€/month for a couple with 2 children.

Smile's ambition is to become an European leader in sharing economy by developing an innovative system of collaborative APIs.

About the transaction

Smile made its fundraising with the MAIF. By supporting the start-up, the "militant insurer" is counting on "the aggregation of collaborative services from different platforms". With this fundraising, the network intends to develop "a more ambitious collaborative ecosystem", notably with new services planned for "early December", including the launch of a mobile application.

About Horsecom

Horsecom designs and develops Bluetooth technologies for horses and riders in order to enhance the abilities, well-being and performance of the horses. HorseCom's technology represents a new era for enhancing the performance of horses and riders.

The horseCom kit has been tested by instructors and competition riders, and is intended to complement existing approaches to deliver a step-change in the horse-rider relationship. By playing music, tailored to the horse sensibilities, to various exercises and contexts, it creates greater harmony between horse and rider. The rider communicates with the horse within a specific sound environment, helping to relax the horse by insulating it partly from external noises.

About the transaction

Horsecom has completed a fundraising with Quadrivium 1, a seed fund managed by Seventure Partners. It will enable HorseCom to start marketing its first connected audio kit for horses and riders.

About Paymium

Paymium is the Europe's first bitcoin exchange, serving the community since 2011 as a software house designing, developping and marketing payment solutions using Bitcoin open source technology. The platform has a mobile wallet app and a dual balance EUR/BTC account management for payments.

About the transaction

Paymium has raised fund with Newfund, Kima Ventures, Galitt and Business Angels.

About Mediabong

Founded in 2011, Mediabong is an advertising technology company that developed a proprietary online video delivery technology termed Syncroll. With its contextualisation technology, Mediabong provides multiple and continuous opportunities for advertisers with show video ads to online audiences by synchronizing two video players so that the second can start where the first stopped.

About the transaction

Entrepreneur Venture has invested in Mediabong alongside existing shareholders Jaïna Capital, Conegliano Venture and Network Finances.

About Red Luxury

Created in 2012, Red Luxury is a watch and jewelry company with a strong digital approach. It aims to disrupt the traditional watch and jewelry business by promoting differentiating products through alternative distribution networks. Red Luxury uses social media and Web Marketing tools to design and distribute its collection worldwide. The company has received great traction so far, and they have now operations in 12 countries while 87% of their revenue is made online.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners has advised Red Luxury in their fund raising led by Newfund. The fund raised will be used to sign new clients while expanding their product range. According to Romain Benichou, Red Luxury's co-founder: " This fundraising is the opportunity to develop our business on the connected watch segment, a market in great expansion. Our first smart watch will be launched late 2014 with our collaborator Vuarnet. " And Red Luxury's co-founder David-Emmanuel Cohen to add " We are very excited to welcome a prestigious partner such as Newfund. Their expertise will help to consolidate our innovative business model while improving our clients' profitability. "

Avolta Partners has also advised Red Luxury in the acquisiton of Timefy, the leading marketplace for design and urban watches lovers. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.

About 24h00

The agency 24h00 accompanies brands in their Social Media Marketing strategy - strategic planning, fan page creation, F-stores, applications, Facebook-ads campaign management, site socialization, etc. The 24h00 agency also supports the brands in their strategy of recruiting qualified prospects - emails and fans - and clients. Design of lead generation mechanisms (Studio creates, game development, applications, etc.) that we then distribute via our emailing network and our network of partners representing more than 50 million email addresses.

About the transaction

About Toktoktok

Tok Tok Tok has been founded by Serge Alleyne, serial entrepreneur since 1999 who has successfully sold his former company Nomao to Ebuzzing. The founding team is rich from 10 years of experience in building and growing companies with specific expertise in mobile development, logistics, marketing and legal. Tok Tok Tok is food delivery app that incorporates modern and urban brand values. The startup differentiates itself from its competitor because its service goes beyond traditional delivery: it disrupts the shopping experience and how people consume locally. By using independent and geolocated Runners, the service is cost efficient and scalable.

About the transaction

Tok Tok Tok announced the closing of a financing round led by a Family Office. The funding will reinforce the technical team to bring additionnal features and imporved efficiency to the food delivery app. On the other hand, the funding will help to increase the brand awareness and the management team hopes to onbaord hundreds of new restaurants in the coming months while expanding the service to new cities in France. So far, the Tok Tok Tok users have access to a large selection of 25 000 delicious items that can be delivered within the next minutes by geolocated Runners tracked in real-time.

About 909C

With clients such as Eurosport, Orange and Carrefour, 909c supports brands in their community management strategies. The new solution that it has just announced, wants to meet all the needs of its customers from publishing, to listening to social networks. The Overgraph offers a multi-account and multi-network approach to centralize the data needed by community managers such as Hootsuite or the late Seesmic. The tool is available free of charge in self-service and comes with a premium paid format. 909c currently employs 25 people and has just been certified by Facebook as a Preferred Marketing Developper agency. The first tool of the platform would have already conquered nearly 4000 users.

About the transaction

The 909c agency launched in 2010 by Xavier Blouet has announced a fundraising with Newfund, which comes with the launch of a new solution: the Overgraph.

About Each X Other

Each x Other was born of an encounter between fashion designer Ilan Delouis and artistic director Jenny Mannerheim. Inspired by a poem by Robert Montgomery "Safe and warm here / In the fire of each other", the duo decided to create a masculine wardrobe for women, a unisex and collaborative brand which invites artists, designers and craftmens to design model for their collections. This common and identical wardrobe for him and for her plays with myths of androgyny and the ideo of the twin flame. Its natural fabrics, timeless colour code an essential fit join to create the signature Each x Other aesthetic, while european manufactures limit the distance between the fabricant and the wearer.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners has advised the Each x Other team in their first funding round led by CDC Entreprises.

About Youmiam

Youmiam was born from the passion of three foodies who truly believe cooking is about sharing. They grew tired of not having easy ways of sharing recipes with friends. They soon realized recipes are much more than bullet-point text and started crafting a disruptive recipe sharing experience. Youmian was born as a social network where users can share their secret recipes and follow other users having the same tastes and food philosophy. Youmian wants to grow as the Pinterest of gastronomy.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners has advised Youmian in their funding led by a pool of business angels. The fund will be used to recruit new talents and develop a new version of their social media platform. The three founders want as well to grow their foodie community and increase their brand awareness.

About TalkSpirit

TalkSpirit has been founded in 2008 by the two serial entrepreneur Philippe Pinault and Olivier Ricard as a " web solution multi-task platform " where corporates can better manage their influence on social networks. Talkspirit develops a global solution to " manage the development and the optimisation of companies' interaction with their internal and external audience ". The startup has developed an internal platform where a company's employees can exchange tips and questions on diverse problematics. Some major clients have been seduced by the solution such as Société Générale, Auchan, RATP or McDonald to name few.

About the transaction

Avolta Partners has advised the TalkSpirit team in their funding round led by Le Public System. The financing will be used to reinforce their R&D team in order to bring new features to their " communautary platform ". The manging team wants to increase the openess of their platform via the develoment of an dedicated API that will enable third parties to connect to the existing platfrom and bring up their own features and updates.

About Commanders Act

Commanders Act was founded in 2008 by a trio of Internet marketing experts who experienced firsthand the nightmare that tag management was becoming and set out to develop the necessary tools to increase marketing agility. In addition to its flagship Tag Management solution, Commanders Act offers a suite of complementary products intended to help marketers use the data collected from their third-party tags responsibly and maximize their advertising investments. These products include Privacy Management, Attribution Management, and Data Management.

Commanders Act is profitable and works with hundreds of clients that are located across the globe and from all industries. Its robust library of vendor tags enables marketers to deploy and manage their solutions with point-and-click functionality.

About the transaction

Commanders Act, a start-up company specialising in tag management, has just completed its fundraising campaign with XAnge Private Equity, the venture capital subsidiary of La Poste Group.
The funds raised will be mainly used for R&D investments.

The capital increase should also make it possible to accelerate the development of Tag Commender, already present in Europe and abroad.

About Mix Commerce

Created in 2007, the start-up operates the e-commerce of some fifteen brands, including Eres, Aigle, De Fursac and Kookaï. Its services range from site creation to logistics management, marketing and after-sales service. Mixcommerce does not report its results but reports a 50% increase in turnover for its customers over the first quarter. "Mixcommerce is close to achieving financial equilibrium," explains its founder, Philippe Rodriguez.

About the transaction

The La Poste group buys Mixcommerce and its trading platform to offer brands the opportunity to delegate their e-commerce activities. With Mixcommerce's e-commerce platform, La Postecom completes its service offer to e-merchants, packaged so far in its "Box e-commerce", aimed mainly at SMEs. In addition to its logistical know-how, La Poste also relies on its on and offline marketing activities via Mediapost, which, in addition to paper-based routing, relies on a base of 20 million emails. For La Poste,"the aim is to become a reference partner for e-commerce players by offering each type of e-commerce retailer solutions to develop their online and offline sales".