Hottest tech startups in France
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Hottest tech startups in France
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Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#2Other 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
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#3Yeah, include bookmarking website (lol) and other junk, and don't include real businesses like AT Internet and Viadeo.
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#4Other 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 agree, the only that deserves to be there is probably blablacar. It's a startup, it's innovative, it's getting real traction.
Other than that, it's a mix between established companies that are no longer a startup: Dailymotion (older than Youtube), Gameloft (built on the Guillemot/Ubisoft empire) Vente Privée (15 years old) and unoriginal companies that probably won't be there in a couple years.
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#5I would have included Drivy, which has recently raise $8.6m and acquired Buzzcar (a concurrent). [Peer to peer car sharing]
Other than that I would be curious to know how that list compare to other country/state.
Edit : and also capitainetrain, which have raise $6.3m. [Buy train ticket]
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#6I would have included algolia. They do site search and query auto-completion algorithms, with a very clean API.
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#7I would have included algolia. They do site search and query auto-completion algorithms, with a very clean API.
Interestingly the search on HN is powered by algolia :)
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#8Yeah, include bookmarking website (lol) and other junk, and don't include real businesses like AT Internet and Viadeo.
Wouldn't really consider Viadeo as a startup anymore.
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#9I would have included Drivy, which has recently raise $8.6m and acquired Buzzcar (a concurrent). [Peer to peer car sharing] Other than that I would be curious to know how that list compare to other country/state. Edit : and also capitainetrain, which have raise $6.3m. [Buy train ticket]
I guess that capitainetrain is too much "France-centric" to be listed on businessinsider, despite it being a really clean product.
I used to work at Sketchfab, which is another really interesting french startup which raised a few millions in the last past year (plus, they work with pretty cool technologies). Incidentally, I think that they are currently hiring.
Re: Hottest tech startups in France
#10Yeah, include bookmarking website (lol) and other junk, and don't include real businesses like AT Internet and Viadeo.
Wouldn't really consider Viadeo as a startup anymore.
Well, then neither are most of the companies included. Parrot was founded in '94. Even their drone division is 8 years old.