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07:51 AM Thursday, April 03, 2008
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Ouch. After Seemage, AS Infor, Polyspace, Kynogon & Pertinence, yet another IDEES company to be acquired. Xcalia was backed by Innovacom, Iris Capital & I-Source. It was also the very first investment from the seed fund Cap Decisif, in 2002. Xcalia Read More...
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09:45 AM Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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We are proud to announce that Lokad is now officially listed (in French) as part of the IDEES program . The IDEES program is rewarding the 25 (most) innovative French startups every year. Lokad is a SaaS solution providing statistical time-series forecasts Read More...
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10:50 AM Monday, February 25, 2008
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The ISV Ecovadis is the first french ISV to join the recently created IDEES program for Eco-Activites (10 ISVs to be recruited this year). This was announced last month by Bill Gates and Bertrand Delanoé, at the Paris City Hall. This young company received Read More...
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10:49 AM Monday, February 25, 2008
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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 Read More...
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10:46 AM Monday, February 25, 2008
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Last week, we officialised an 8 months partnership with Talend, a french Open Source ISV, editing an ETL called Talend Open Studio. (Backed by AGF Private Equity & Galileo Partners). Talend is both a competitor and a partner for Microsoft: more than Read More...
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10:43 AM Monday, February 25, 2008
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Yet another Startup from our IDEES program to be acquired. Kynogon, an ISV specialized in “serious gaming” applications, backed by Innovacom (Fred Humbert), and Cap Decisif, has been acquired this week by Autodesk. A nice exit for two excellent VCs. Kynapse Read More...
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04:47 AM Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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Last week, General Electric and Microsoft jointly organized the first edition of the Software Academy in Paris. The Software Academy was a One-Day MBA aimed at ISV entrepreneurs (ISV = independent software vendor; or software publisher, be software be Read More...
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03:51 PM Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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About one week ago, I had the outrageous opportunity to meet Chris Liddell , Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Chris happened to be in Paris for a day so it was absolutely compulsory to do something about it. As a result, Julien brought Read More...
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05:38 AM Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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Tomorrow, we’ll launch the first edition of the software academy. Let’s say it’s a one day MBA for French Software Entrepreneurs. We have asked some of the best experts from the french Software Ecosystem to come and speak about Software marketing, fund Read More...
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11:26 AM Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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Yesterday, Dassault systemes announced the acquisition of Seemage, a young French ISV, incepted in 2002 by Eric Piccuezzu (on the left), in Sophia. The company operates in the PLM/3D interactive product documentation space. Eric, a talented software developer, Read More...
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04:58 PM Thursday, September 13, 2007
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Large corporations have been investing hundreds of millions of dollars in data warehouses that size up to hundreds of terabytes. However, very few companies really exploit such massive sets of data to ease their decision making process. Roger Haddad, Read More...
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09:30 AM Monday, September 10, 2007
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My day-to-day work involves enhancing the most promising software startups innovating on the Microsoft stack to realize their potential. Our most precious resource to ensure we achieve this vision is the interaction with the people and infrastructure Read More...
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