Charles-Edouard Bouée

Crunch Lab, a startup from our portfolio, has just raised $3.5M in a seed round led by Multicoin Capital ! Big big congrats to Jean & Arnaud and the whole team for the amazing work. I witnessed impressive dedication from the whole team to close this round and reach new heights. What does Crunch Lab la do? Crunch Lab makes it easier for big companies to unlock the value in their data by running machine learning competitions through their community, CrunchDAO, which has over 6,000 data scientists, quants, and ML engineers. These experts compete to build AI models that give companies actionable insights, mainly to the finance industry. With this funding, Crunch Lab will ramp up their operations and dive into new data-rich markets. Bravo! Link in the comments for the full article.

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Very grateful to Investors in Healthcare for the opportunity Laurent van Lerberghe and I had to discuss our mission to bridge the post-Series A funding gap for digital health startups across Europe. Special thanks to Nick Herbert for the interview. In our conversation, we covered several key topics: Funding Challenges: We explored the difficulties digital health startups face in securing investments beyond Series A, highlighting the need for sustained financial support to drive innovation. Strategic Partnerships: We discussed the importance of collaborations between startups and investors in fostering growth and advancing healthcare solutions. Future Outlook: We shared insights into the evolving landscape of digital health and the critical role of targeted funding in bringing transformative technologies to market. https://lnkd.in/ew6q6XrN #venturecapital #digitalhealth #startups #growthstage

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I simply can't wait for this ! You are Invited to Meet The Entrepreneur Who Turned Startups into Exits -Not Once, but 12 TIMES! ✨ This Monday - a Virtual Session with *International Expert Gregory shepard. 🌎* The Webinar Will Provide Insights On: -EXACT Pitfalls That Kill 90% of Startups -The 7-Phase Methodology That Works -Insider Secrets to Attracting Investors -Proven Strategies for Fundraising Arieli Capital *Register Now:

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How is AI changing the way founders solve problems? Next Monday I will be chatting with superstar guests Gabriel Hubert, co-founder of Dust, Victoire Mine (Goebel), Startup/VC head at Meta, and Yoach Lacombe, ML Research Engineer at Hugging Face, at the HEC Alumni House at an AI Conference on the topic "Building startups in the AI Era". I'm super excited to be moderating such a high-quality panel :) Co-organized by HEC Alumni , Hook, and 42Entrepreneurs, this event is a must for AI enthusiasts and founders looking to harness the power of AI to supercharge their startup growth. 👉Link in the comments to register.

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The French government is spearheading a renewed push to integrate the European Union's fragmented capital markets to revive the bloc's flourishing startup ecosystem and reduce their dependence on U.S. venture capital funds. Complicated local regulations and oversight have prevented the EU from developing deep, unified capital markets on par with the U.S. This forces promising European startups to inevitably turn to U.S. VCs and IPO markets as they scale, representing a missed wealth creation opportunity for the bloc. French officials argue that reviving the long-stalled EU capital markets union must be a top priority. This would harmonize financial rules and oversight across the 27-nation bloc, providing startups access to larger pools of integrated risk capital. While the majority of the nations are on board, at least in principle, several governments remain reluctant to cede regulatory control of their financial markets. Another proposed solution involves getting public sector investors, such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), more involved in riskier startup bets.

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The Venture market is very weird right now and it sometimes feels like we are in the hottest and coldest fundraising market ever at the same time. Time to invest or time to wait? I’ve tried to summarize my understanding of what’s happening in a blogpost. 

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Interesting view ! "To identify investments that create sustainable competitive advantage, not just short-term accounting profits, business leaders must relentlessly focus on innovation and keep bolstering intangible capital. Our key message? Don’t be afraid of reporting short-term accounting losses in the pursuit of long-term value."

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Seraphim Space Ventures II (SSV II): Meet the companies 🛰 🌌 Following the same strategy as its original SpaceTech-focused venture fund, a top-performing fund for its vintage, SSV II aims to build a portfolio of c.30 companies. The Fund has already made nine investments aligned with some of our key themes via a warehouse portfolio. Hubble Network – Internet of Things satellite constellation for connecting directly to billions of Bluetooth-enabled devices Delos Insurance Solutions – Space data-powered wildfire home insurance provider ATMOS Space Cargo – Space cargo return service for life sciences Auriga Space – Novel electromagnetic launch system Array Labs - 3D satellite imagery on a global scale Privateer Space - constellation of small SATs for in-Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Ubotica Technologies - Live Earth Intelligence (Space: AI) Renoster - Deep Transparency for nature-based carbon projects constellr - Space data-powered high-precision smart farming services Take a look at our new page to find out more - https://lnkd.in/dau2tw2d

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Double header at Deutsche Beteiligungs AG: we're on a roll! Our second disposal although the challeging market conditions. These moves underscore our ability to conclude investments even under tough macroeconomics conditions.

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AGRICOLTURE : PILLAR OF THE ECONOMY AND GUARDIAN OF THE PLANET In the context of global finance, agriculture represents a key sector for market stability, influencing investment dynamics, international trade, and economic policies...

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It is always good to see when a European start-up is making disruptive progress and Paris-based Mistral AI is certainly remarkable, raising $600 million at a $6 billion #valuation for their Series B led by US fund manager General Catalyst, after raising a $112 million Seed Round a year ago to set up a European rival to OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI giants. Co-founded by alumni from Meta and Google’s Google DeepMind, the company is working on foundational models with the aim to rival the best performing models today, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3 and Meta’s Llama 3. Even more interesting from a capital markets standpoint is the broad and global list of investors which includes Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Salesforce Ventures, Belgian financial institution Belfius, Bertelsmann Investments, BNP Paribas, Bpifrance (through its Digital Venture fund), Cisco, Eurazeo, Headline, Hanwha Asset Management Co., Ltd.'s venture fund, IBM, Korelya Capital, Millennium New Horizons, Sanabil Investments, ServiceNow and SV Angel. Several of these groups do not invest in VC/early-stage or in Europe so its good to see European companies attracting different sources of capital. Lets see how this progresses. #europe #paris #france #ai #startups #fundraising #startups #venturecapital #fundmanagers #capitalmarkets https://lnkd.in/gg4FThvv

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🚀 New Initiative born from Vectors Capital. Pavina Adunratanasee is leading the work from Vectors side. https://lnkd.in/gG2KSaXS We're honored to introduce #CatalyzeClimate, a first-of-a-kind Climate Finance Lab that aims to accelerate global #decarbonization and strengthen #climate resilience. 1️⃣ Our mission is to #mobilize innovative financing mechanisms, accelerate technology hashtag #deployment, and scale #climateinfrastructure via fostering cross-sector collaboration across hashtag #finance, #policy, and #industries. 2️⃣ We believe that #catalyticfinance can play a unique role through a combination of grants and blended capital in unlocking capital for bringing tech to market and scaling climate infrastructure.​ 3️⃣ Taking a differentiated approach, we are focused on: 1. Demonstrating Technological & Commercial Viability 2. Addressing Investment Gaps 3. Creating Market Platforms 4. Advocating for Supportive Policies 💸 Our goal is to mobilize funding commitment for $4 trillion a year that is required for the climate transition from the global financial system. ⚡To kick off the initiative, we’re happy to announce the Catalyze Climate Launch event in the #AsiaPacific region taking place in #Singapore in September followed by launch events in hashtag #SF and #LA. #SG roundtable will be “Bridging the Sustainable Financing Gap: Fostering US - APAC Partnerships for Emerging Climate Infrastructure Advancement.” ✌🏼If you’re a climate investor, lender, or asset allocator and would like to get involved please DM me. 💡 Backed by a team of financing, scientific, and technical experts; and most importantly taking an industrial lens to solving climate challenges: Naman Lahoti Wanwipa Siriwatwechakul Kreshna Y. Rahmat Sasilada Sirirungruang Meghan Oesterle, M.S. Daniel Paley Keyi (Nancy) Kang

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Dear cross border community, Plased to share a few insights from the last parisian edition of the Private Equity Exchange which is enyoing a long and deep legacy alongside the entire value chain of the private equity and VC industry spanning from investors to experts Inspired by the topics shared by Tom Laufenburger , I felt priviledged to contribue as speaker to the AI dedicated session : “🕹️Harnessing AI: impact on pricing and business models” 🕹️ with prominent experts Mounir Mahjoubi Jozefowicz and Alix Nepveux Who shared their perspectives as longstanding players in the space 🕹️Here a few take aways from the session : ✅SCALABILTY & INNOVATION OF BUSINESS MODELS IN BOTH TECH AND TRADITIONAL INDUSTRY AI Will play a trasformational role in strategies for expansion, executions plans due to innovative styles of leadership : - the entire value chain will be transformed opening the door to new business models: from Software as a Service to Service as a Software. - while Software itself runs the risk of becoming a commodity, it will allows to regain leadership and innovate, and can become a growth driver if it is properly leveraged. ✅INCREASING INTERNATIONAL SCALABILITY - Tech companies will be able to identify unseen mkts segments in both domestic and international markets . The main peculiarities of tech is cross border trasversality as client today is becoming similar despite geographies - The AI dedicated to immediate translation is including both language and cultural key aspects to structure offer and approach to each geographies without boundaries. 🤓This means that AI will provide the guidelines to structure services and products to a specific market accordingly to the local requirements and purchaising power. ✅WHICH CONSEQUENCES FOR GP’s - Due to the transversality of AI, Funds and portfolio’s companies are no longer looking for geographical areas, but rather for the best technologies - Different models will emerge including the investment models of the GP’s community as the LP’s base will have an easy access to opportunities in different 🌏 geographies making comparisons to find the right alignements among 🥇returns, 🍀domestic + international impacts, ☀️market perspectives ✅RISKS due to INTL competition and break through innovations in SEGMENTATION STRATEGIES - Competition is more intense and can come from anywhere as markets are more and more visible, sizable and globalized in terms of clients expectations and purchaising power; - Small structures could be challenged as the AI driven technologies requires increasing capex to stay ahead of competition . ✌️Thank you to the team of Leaders League GROUPE FICADE Alexandra Leonhart for organizing such insightful event and for the invite . #AI #IA #eutech #indiatech #frenchtech #eic #europe #india #france #francedigitale #privatequityinvestments #vcinvestments #innovation #crossborder4crossfertilization

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Looking forward to the upcoming panel on AI, GenAI, and Quantum Technologies. As these transformative technologies continue to evolve, it's crucial to explore their real-world applications and the trends we can expect in the near future. Diving into key questions with leading experts, such as: - How are these disruptive innovations being applied effectively today? - What opportunities lie ahead for industrial integration? - How can we unlock the potential for global scaling? I look forward to an engaging discussion on the possibilities these technologies hold! Stay tuned for insights from the panel. Dieter Kraft TRUMPF Venture Nicolas Leterrier Schneider Electric Hind Beaujon Pfeiffer Vacuum T.M. Ravi The Hive, LLC Olivier Tonneau Quantonation See you in Bordeaux! 🇫🇷 Inpho Venture Summit BLUMORPHO #INPHO2024

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Fine insights ! Routines is an interesting addition, well called out and adds rigor to the frame. "In our experience, the companies that successfully build these kinds of distinctive capabilities tap six elements: vision, employees, culture, technology, organizational structure, and routines."

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If you have been observing, founding companies or investing in Deep Tech, hopefully you know Hello Tomorrow. Hello Tomorrow came on the scene almost a decade ago now and has been studying, incubating, accelerating deep tech. They are based in Europe and their annual summit is held in Paris, in March. At any rate, they have new investment information to share with the deep tech world - many of us struggle to articulate the value because, juxtaposed against software startups, we are told we are capital intensive, take longer to find product market fit - all true - but also that returns are sub par - NOT TRUE. Hello Tomorrow/BCG has analyzed the financial performance of thousands of startups across diverse sectors, geographies, stages of maturity, and product types. They initially did this analysis when building our fund Deepbright Ventures, and the results are interesting — sometimes counterintuitive — register (and get the replay if you cannot attend) here: bit.ly/3DFAZ9H. #deeptech #hardware #venture Hello Tomorrow Arnaud de la Tour BMNT

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📣 Bloomberg's latest piece sheds light on "The Race to Map the World and Protect $110 Billion of Trade" with our portfolio company Meridia taking the spotlight 🌍. The article delves into the challenges posed by the EU Deforestation Regulation for smallholder farmers, highlighting Meridia's efforts in ensuring their access to regulated supply chains while combatting deforestation. Exciting collaborations with giants like Unilever, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company, and ICE showcase Meridia's proactive approach in navigating the complexities of the commodities affected by EUDR. The article offers invaluable insights into the meticulous verification processes, right down to the 'polygon,' ensuring the authenticity and quality of data along the supply chain. It's crucial that we act swiftly and efficiently to safeguard smallholder farmers from the impact of these stringent regulations. Meridia's technology not only paves the way for sustainable livelihoods for farmers but also aligns with global trade objectives, all while preserving our invaluable forests 🌳. https://lnkd.in/esWEd9vt

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