Hottest tech startups in France • Hacker News Board

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by icebraining » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #13

On Leetchi: If you've ever organised a gift for someone in the office, you know how tricky it is to get everyone to pay up. I can think of a very easy solution - don't force anyone to pay. Buy a gift to the value of the money that people volunteer to put in. If you work in an business of 30 people, and everyone has to chip in $5 every time there's a birthday, that's effectively garnishing everyone's wages to the tune…

Why are you assuming it's a top-down thing from the organization? It certainly isn't with us.

And the problem isn't forcing everyone to pay, it's getting everyone who agreed to pay to follow up with it after the thing has actually been bought.

That said, I'm not sure we need an app either.

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by S4M » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 1:32 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #12

What?? Quantic Dreams, Gameloft, Deezer are not startups anymore, and have not been for a LONG time. And I would not qualify Quantic Dream as "tech startup" in the first place, it's a video game company, which falls in a very different category. And if you start including Quantic Dreams, why not include Nadeo, Arkane Studios, etc... most of which are not startups either anymore.

Same for Vente Privee (founded in 2001).

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by S4M » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC

> If you've ever organised a gift for someone in the office, you know how tricky it is to get everyone to pay up. Leetchi solves that problem by allowing users to create a money pot. Friends and coworkers can use Leetchi to contribute to the pot through an app on their smartphones.

Wow, and they raised $7.9 millions for that! WTF?

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by zak_mc_kracken » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

A lot of these companies are old, some were founded in 2007, 1999 and one is even from 1994.

Start ups, really?

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 2:28 PM UTC

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Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by corford » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

fijal wrote: post #2

Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding? EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene

http://www.capitainetrain.com is a French startup (IIRC?) that does something more substantial than organising URLs

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by ripberge » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

I am surprised http://www.bimeanalytics.com/ is not on there. After doing a lot of research and seeing a lot of demos in self serve BI it seems like one of the best products out there. Their pricing is also a game changer.

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by jedisct1 » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

hpenedones wrote: post #6

I would have included algolia. They do site search and query auto-completion algorithms, with a very clean API.

+1 for Algolia

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by fijal » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:41 PM UTC

lloeki wrote: post #19

fijal wrote: post #2

Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding? EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene

Most of those aren't startups anymore by anyone's metrics. France has both a culture and systemic problem towards startups. It's been made abundantly clear to me when having a chat with UK and US people at conferences such as dot[0] that the environment here is quite hostile and successfully launching requires either solid government backing or a great amount of courage. Probably why everytime some news outlet here w…

Well, dropbox, uber etc. are called startups too. Maybe there is a massive word abuse, but it's not only about france :-)

Re: Hottest tech startups in France

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Post by vmarsy » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:49 PM UTC

fijal wrote: post #2

Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding? EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene

I think that French startup is worth mentioning: http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/sigfox-raises-115m-to-take-...

It's a low power high range network for IoT, when in place it could help a lot of people