vendredi 1 janvier 2016

IoT: Netatmo up 30 million euros and hosts the industrial group Legrand in its capital

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Specialist connected objects, the French company Netatmo up 30 million euros from its historical shareholders and hosts the industrial group Legrand to its capital. 

This is the most important of the year raising funds in the area of objects connected in France. Netatmo, founded in 2011, today announced a fundraising of € 30 million. Any transaction with the Legrand industrial, specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, which enters the capital alongside existing investors that put the pot: Iris Capital, the Digital Ambition Fund, managed by Bpifrance and Pascal Cagni, President and founder of C4 Ventures. Established in 2011 with initial funding of 2 million euros, the young company had in fact already raised € 4.5 million in 2013 with three investors.
Netatmo thermostat-
Advised by Lazard during the competitive process of raising funds, the leaders of Netatmo turned to Legrand including the potential that the group represents for the development of joint projects. "We are proud to bring to Netatmo, leading French actor of objects connected to the house, the resources to continue its strong growth. This rapprochement will facilitate possible collaborations between the two marks in order to develop interoperable products and connected electrical and digital infrastructure for professionals and the general-public building, "said his side Schnepp, Chairman and CEO of Legrand .

Netatmo the onslaught of 200 million European homes

"We  sized duplicates each year while maintaining a neutral or slightly profitable operation, 30 million raised thus not serve to plug a hole but operating fund this investment objective,says Frederic Potter, CEO and founder of the company .   This money will allow us to expand our product offering and to conduct marketing activities to publicize our products. It is estimated that we have a potential of 15 milion to equip homes in France and 200 million in Europe " 
An advertising campaign is thus currently airing on French screens with undisguised educational objective. "Our  main competitors are the ordinary objects that are not connected to the Internet,confirms Frederic Potter.  The temptation for the client that changes its heating system is to take a thermostat stupid. We need someone to explain to consumers all the benefits they can derive a product connected to the internet. Besides, we do not see the other specialized companies connected objects as obstacles because they are involved in educating the market. "

With products like the thermostat or weather station for smartphone, sold in 175 countries and distributed in stores in 50 countries, Netatmo intends to deploy more internationally. Today, 20% of sales are generated in France, "but it is not enough", said the leader. England, for example, countries in which the brand is sold, and resists the offensive Netatmo whose products are already sold at John Lewis for example.
With 100 people on board, the company plans to double its turnover and recruit 50-80 people by the end of 2016. Essentially profiles R & D, sales and marketing.

Exclu: Domoscio, expert of Big Data for learning, announces lifting of EUR 250 000

Domoscio

Domoscio is a French startup that uses big data to offer students a machine needs attention. Two years after its creation, the young shoot today announced a levy of 250,000 euros.

Finalist  Global EdTech Startups Awards 2015, which recognizes the most promising startups EdTech, Domoscio is a young French pushes offering scalable learning solutions. Founded in 2013 by Benoit Praly and Ivan Ostrowicz, Domoscio has raised 250,000 euros to the Belgian Inventures investment funds.
The startup specializes in solutions "adaptive learning" SaaS: algorithms that combine cognitive science and the power of Big Data to offer learning paths adapted to each person. It offers innovative solutions based on:
  • adaptive learning to define intelligent learning path, tailored to the needs of the learner,
  • anchoring in the adaptive memory to consolidate knowledge, promote skills development and maximize training time,
  • the learning analytics to individually track the progress of each learner.
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With Domoscio technology, lightning ended learning, just cramming before an exam, the faster you learn, and for longer. This technology is aimed at content providers (such as Didier Hatier editions or editions that have already adopted), which can make their digital content adapted to the learner; but also the training centers; the e-learning platforms, or to companies that can track the ROI of the training.
Domoscio also set the machine to revise: by analyzing the progression of the learner, the machine revise organizes, optimizes and saves time in the revisions. More students revise, the better the tool fits their pace and it will be effective.
This round will allow the seedling to continue to innovate and accelerate its international expansion, notably in Spain and the UK.

MaddyMoney: The ecosystem French startup has raised 45.8 million euros this week

Zenchef

Every Friday Maddyness offers a summary of fundraisers that have shaken the French startup ecosystem during the week. This week at the MaddyMoney A, € 45 million raised in 10 operations, of which the largest is 30 million euros led by specialist domestic IoT Netatmo, followed by Zenchef, who raises 6 million euros.

This week, two fundraisers have caught our attention: that of Zenchef (eg 1001menus) and the Netatmo.
1001menus announced earlier this week that it has raised 6,000,000 euros. The French startup that helps restaurants to orchestrate their online presence also rebaptiée Zenchef for to conquer new countries with the ambition to become the global leader in SaaS software for restaurants.
Netatmo, domestic IoT specialist with products like the thermostat smartphone, raised a record amount for the sector of 30 million euros, with its historic shareholders but also the industrial group Legrand. A new shareholder may soon become an industrial partner since the two companies do not exclude the possibility of developing joint products.
Not to mention  the acquisition by the American specialist Quotient couponing  its French equivalent on mobile, Shopmium. The transaction amount was not disclosed.

Side crowdfunding:

Other financial news of the week:


Company

Amount (in millions of €)

City - Creation date 

Sector

Beedeez
0.15
Paris - 2015
EdTech
Domoscio
0.25
Paris - 2013
EdTech
ImXPAD
 0.1
La Ciotat - 2010
Technology
Irlynx
2
Grenoble - 2012
Technology
Kinaxia
1.5
Cannes - 2009
SSII
Like a bird
NC
Lyon - 2012
AdTech
Netatmo30
Paris - 2011
IoT
OneHeart Communication
0.8
Paris - 2008
Media
Traxens
 1.5
Marseille - 2012
Technology
Vaivai
3.5
Paris - 2010
FoodTech
Zenchef
6
Paris - 2011
FoodTech
TOTAL
45.8

AdTech: Like A Bird Pentalabbs welcomes its capital and benefits from its equity for service system

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The contest management tool on Twitter Like a Bird joined Pentalabbs, an accelerator that works for equity on a service mode. This partnership intends Like a Bird chirp louder outside French borders and innovate by proposing a major new feature every two months.

Like A Bird  is a real right arm to community manager. This animation SaaS platform Twitter accounts used to manage marketing campaigns on Twitter contests Follow & RT the type or strip-tweet, disseminate real-time content and enrich a CRM database. Whatever the goal, Like A Bird has developed an automated solution. Fancy a maximum interaction on Twitter? Just configure the smart bot that can answer those who tweet with specific hashtags. Like A Bird replaces the community manager on grunt work and allows him to focus on what makes its added value.
Created three years ago Like A Bird has more than 200 customers, mainly in France but also in Switzerland, England, Thailand, Canada and USA. They are either directly or Alloresto brands such as Darty, or agencies like Publicis. Like A Bird unveil a new visual identity at the end of the month of which here is an overview.
Like A Bird

An investment in the form of equity for services

To support its development, Like A Bird hosted in its capital  Pentalabbs early October as equity for services. Investment in  Technology for Equity in  CTO for Equity  and  Digital Marketing for Equity will allow the startup to ramp up before tackling the Anglo-Saxon markets it in sight.
"The  willingness of the partners to move quickly on an Anglo-Saxon market has demonstrated the product's overall vision that we appreciate and finally convinced us, said Eric Gouin, CEO of Pentalabbs in a ticket.  It was necessary to go further : investing in technology to bring new features, increase digital marketing, organizing this new phase, open new countries. So we analyzed what we could bring our investment and is therefore based on several expert opinions. " 
On the part Techno for equity, Pentalabbs mounted a team of developers who will become the Software Delivery Machine Like Bird, both to maintain the existing version of qu'avancer platform on future versions.
Like A Bird also access a CTO for Equity (issued by Soluti), since interim CTO assists to take over the technical teams, establish good practices, arrange delivery of new production functions. "Through  our partnership, we plan to release a major new feature every two months starting in November and this always with the same goal: making life easier for community managers for their marketing campaigns on Twitter" says Pierrick Filippi, co-founder of Like A Bird.
Marketing for equity can rework the pricing model and target audience of the offer; to have sufficient clout to redefine ergonomics e-commerce site presentation and online sales of the product, to create content and relay in social networks; Pentalabbs to benefit from the ecosystem to meet key accounts and arrange a visit to open the US market.