Criteo has just announced a 7M€ fund raising, with historical investors  (AGF & Elaia) and INDEX Ventures.

Believe me or not, but this is good for Criteo, good for Microsoft, good for all the .net evangelists out there, and good for me.

I LOVE when software entrepreneurs like the Criteo guys, who bet on the Microsoft platform since day one, get trust  (and Money) from VCs like that. It’s actually a testimonial. Criteo joined the IDEES program back in 2006, right after their first VC round. With Winwise, they developed one of the very first Silverlight application: The Criteo/winwise blogosphere explorer. (feels like you’re visiting the blogosphere in the Falcon Millenium).

By the way, did you notice than successful she-entrepreneurs from the french  e-commerce/internet world were almost all choosing the Microsoft platform : Aufeminin.com, 1000mercis, Cashstore,etc..

How do you explain that ?

PS: Congrats to Pascal Mercier, from Aelios, who achieved this fund raising in a very short period of time.  VERY short.