Walk past a Sweetgreen during lunchtime, and you're bound to find a line of famished office workers snaking out the front door for a shredded-kale caesar salad or quinoa bowl. But when the Los Angeles-based farm-to-table salad chain launched a new app in January, it curiously referred to itself as a business that had developers--not produce or salad dressing--at it
As Europe’s tech startup ecosystem continues to grow up, so does the venture capital that underpins it. London’s Balderton Capital has promoted long-standing General Partner Bernard Liautaud, who joined the firm in mid-2008, to the newly created role of Managing Partner.
Until now the VC had operated an entirely flat partner structure — although in terms of deal flow and investment decisions, this will remain, with each full Partner carrying an equal vote — but in his new role Liautaud tells me he’ll lead Balderton’s overall strategy. Specifically this will mean overseeing its own fundraising and things like the operational support the firm has in place to help out portfolio companies.
The VC currently has a number of dedicated staff in the areas of finance and legal, hiring, and PR, in addition to the operational expertise each partner brings. In fact, Balderton now counts eight investment partners, five of which have been added in the last couple of years.
Most recently, Rob Moffat and James Wise were promoted from Principal to Partner, and at the end of last year the firm hired Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen away from Uber to become a General Partner.
Two years prior it made Suranga Chandratillake, founder of internet media company blinkx, a General Partner, after he spent 10 years largely based in Silicon Valley. And in late 2013, long-time partner Daniel Waterhouse left Wellington Partners to join Balderton Capital also as a General Partner.
Meanwhile, Liautaud’s resume is impressive. Prior to joining Balderton Capital, he founded Business Objects in 1990 where he remained CEO for fifteen years, and was then Chairman until SAP’s $6.8 billion acquisition of the company in 2008. He’s also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, which, to his amusement, I suggested was quite a coup for a European VC, even if Liautaud is an alumnus.
Big breaks across industries don’t usually happen without VCs backing them. Success stories in most cases have co-authors and in 2016, VCs are the ones to provide a financial fuel to bright entrepreneurs and ideas with a high disruptive potential.
While some VCs are operating across regions, some have a particular geographical focus. Since Europe is one of the world’s hubs of innovation, the UK and other countries in Europe and in the Nordic region have their dedicated investors. The US is also rich on FinTech-focused VCs that have a keen interest in discovering the next big thing in FinTech.
Aside from VCs, there are also FinTech accelerators accountable for success stories, both in the US and in Europe.
This time, let’s look at some of the hottest FinTech investors in Europe that also invest in other regions along with European venture allocations.
Description: BBVA Ventures provides funding and expertise to promising technology companies disrupting financial services. The firm works with the entrepreneurs and co-investors in the US and EU, thereby becoming a long-term partner in their success.
Stage/size of investments:Early-stage venture to later-stage venture investments
Segments: FinTech, financial services
Portfolio of payments companies: Prosper, DocuSign, Simple, Radius, Coinbase, SumUp, Personal Capital, Ribbit Capital
Description: The company launched its $100-million fund in July 2014 to get closer to the wave of disruptive innovation in the FinTech space. Santander InnoVentures aims to support the digital revolution to make sure its customers around the world benefit from the latest know-how and innovations across the banking group’s geographies.
European startup Drivy has raised €31 million ($35 million) to grow its car rental marketplace in new markets. The latest funding round, which was led by Cathay Innovation and Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), takes Drivy’s total outside investment past the $50 million mark, having raised $8 million back in 2014 and a further $9 million a year later.
Founded out of Paris in 2010, Drivy now claims 850,000 users across France, Germany, and Spain, and the fresh cash influx will be used to grow into other European markets, including the U.K., by the end of 2016. Though the U.S. isn’t on Drivy’s immediate roadmap, we’re told that it will likely factor in its plans in the future.
Unlike other peer-to-peer (P2P) startups in the automotive realm, such as Uber, Lyft, and French compatriot BlaBlaCar, Drivy isn’t an e-taxi or ride-sharing service — rather, it encourages people to rent out their car if they’re not planning on using it. It’s basically looking to cut out traditional car-rental services while letting car owners make money from the vehicles. At the time of writing, Drivy claims to have 36,000 cars listed on its platform across Europe.
“Drivy has what we look for in a company; a great product, a proven business model, and exceptional management team that has the potential to disrupt the market it operates in,” said Bo Ilsoe, partner at NGP.
Other similar companies operating in the space include Getaround and
Financial technology, better known as "fintech," is exploding in the UK right now, with startups popping up all over the place, doing everything from crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending to bringing blockchain technology to the banks.
British fintech startups raised $962 million (£676.9 million) in investment funding last year, according to KPMG. London alone accounting for $743.7 million (£523.3 million) of that.
Business Insider has been covering the sector closely and has rounded up the 40 most exciting people in the scene right now.
We looked at who's done cool and interesting things in the past year, including companies that have raised money or grown rapidly. We've also tried to include some of the less obvious names — the people doing great things behind the scenes — as well the faces out front.
The list spans entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, regulators, hackers, and investors. Did we miss anyone? Let us know in the comments. Now check out who made the cut below.
Le 16 juin prochain, la Nuit du Directeur Digital récompensera les meilleurs CDO de l'année. En amont de l'événement, le JDN présente les 20 projets dont sont le plus fiers une sélection de CDO qui n'ont qu'un objectif : mener la transformation numérique de leur entreprise.
Présentation générale du projet
AXA a lancé en 2014 le projet "Start-in", une plateforme d'innovation participative destinée à ses 161 000 salariés dans les 59 pays où il est installé. Une initiative lancée par les équipes Innovation de l'assureur français en collaboration avec l'entreprise américaine Bright Idea et pilotée par Frédéric Tardy, Chief Marketing and Distribution Officer en charge de la stratégie digitale chez l'assureur français. Pour son édition 2015, elle se concentre sur les thèmes "expérience client" et "PME et auto-entrepreneurs". 815 idées novatrices (620 pour le premier thème et 195 pour le second) ont été soumises et 22 000 salariés ont voté, soit plus du double de l'année précédente.
Enjeu pour l'entreprise
"Notre ambition est qu'il n'y ait plus de processus hiérarchique dans l'innovation. Tout type d'employé, à n'importe quel niveau de l'organisation, est concerné. C'est un processus très démocratique qui crée une culture forte de l'innovation dans tous les services. Ces projets internationaux, avec des idées qui viennent des 45 pays où nous sommes présents, valorisent la transversalité et la diversité dans le groupe."
Le projet, étape par étape
Le processus est lancé en janvier et les salariés ont jusqu'à fin février pour soumettre leurs idées. Cette première phase de sélection a réuni 26 000 votes en 2015, les salariés pouvant sélectionner plusieurs projets qui leur plaisent.
"Nous récupérons alors les classements selon le nombre de votes et une équipe de 150 personnes identifie les quatre meilleurs projets, pour lesquels nous attribuons un budget de prototypage. trois jurys successifs se réunissent ensuite en avril, en mai et en juin pour élire les grands vainqueurs", explique Frédéric Tardy. Un premier jury est composé d'employés AXA de différents pays, un second d'experts extérieurs à l'entreprise et vient enfin le comité exécutif "pour qu'il y ait un vrai impact sur le groupe", précise-t-il.
Tout au long de leur parcours, les participants sont accompagnés pour formaliser au mieux leurs idées et préparer leur présentation.
Cette année, un projet venu de Suisse a particulièrement retenu l'attention : une application qui, à partir d'une simple photo prise d'un objet permet d'indiquer à l'utilisateur s'il a une assurance qui le couvre et qui lui proposera bientôt une estimation d'assurance s'il n'est pas couvert.
Pourquoi il en est le plus fier
"Quand on a lancé le projet en 2014, je n'aurais jamais cru qu'autant de salariés participeraient. Souvent, la transformation digitale est focalisée sur quelques individus mais je crois que pour réussir elle doit être humble et impliquer tout le monde. Dans les années 2000, les entreprises créaient des services séparés et bien délimités pour l'innovation. Il y a aujourd'hui un changement de business model et nous embarquons toutes les strates de l'organisation dans cette aventure."
Entreprise : AXA
Nombre de salariés : programme ouvert à 161 000 salariés
Seuls 5% des entreprises de la santé parviennent à réellement tirer profit du digital dans le cadre de leurs activités, selon le rapport «State of Digital Health Innovation», réalisé par Enspektos, un cabinet de conseil en innovation américain et publié le 21 avril dernier. Le cabinet a interrogé 150 acteurs basés majoritairement aux États-Unis (60%), les autres pays ne sont pas définis.
L’objectif de l’étude était de déterminer à quel stade de maturité se situent les acteurs du secteur de santé en matière d'innovation digitale. Les auteurs de l'étude en ont défini trois:
– la «phase 1», qui est celle de la prise de conscience et de la formation (la société comprend l’enjeu du digital, et chercher à se documenter sur le sujet)
– la «phase 2», qui est celle de l’engagement (la société met au point des initiatives pilotes, et se dote de ressources adaptées en interne)
– la «phase 3», qui est celle de la profitabilité et du changement d’échelle (la société utilise le digital de manière optimal dans sa manière de travailler).
60% des organismes de santé sont en «phase 2»
Sans surprise, les entreprises les plus en avance sur la problématique digitale sont celles capables d’exécuter correctement leurs projets innovants. C’est d’ailleurs leur principal sujet de préoccupation actuellement: la grande majorité des discussions en lien avec la e-santé recensées sur les réseaux sociaux concernent des sujets pratiques: les pilotes, les essais, les tests et les recherches.
Les investissements en matière de e-santé sont en pleine croissance depuis 2010. A titre d’exemple, les auteurs de l’étude montrent l’évolution des investissement de StartupHealth et Rock Health, deux fonds d’investissement américains spécialisés dans la e-santé: entre 2013 et 2014, les investissements des deux fonds ont augmenté de 126%, atteignant les 11,3 milliards de dollars. En 2015, ils ont diminué de 9% (10,3 milliards de dollars investis par les deux fonds).
Nous nous situons au début de l’âge de l’implémentation en matière de e-santé: seules les solutions permettant de générer plus de revenus, de diminuer les coûts, d’améliorer l’expérience des patients ainsi que la satisfaction des cliniciens passeront à l’étape d’après.
60% des répondants à l’étude se situent en phase 2 du processus d’innovation, leur principale problématique réside donc dans la mise au point d’un pilote pour réaliser des premiers tests expérimentaux. 35% des répondants se situent quant à eux en phase 1 du processus: elles sont donc centrées sur la formation aux outils digitaux. Enfin, 5% des sociétés sont en phase 3.
Les principales difficultés rencontrées par les organ
AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV) adds today a new company in its Early Stage portfolio in Europe: BioBeats, a machine learning platform that delivers insights about the wellbeing of individuals in real-time.
The funding round (£1.6m) led by White Cloud Capital with the participation of IQ Capital, will be used to implement full product delivery and commercialisation of its biometrics based, stress-relieving app, Hear and Now, for both the consumer and corporate wellness market, as well as the company’s expansion into the US market.
The application is currently running advanced pilot programmes in major UK healthcare companies and corporates, including AXA PPP.
AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV), a global €230 million ($260 million) venture capital fund, adds today a new investment to its portfolio in Europe. BioBeats was founded in 2013 with the premise that prevention is the best approach to wellness. Using existing wearable devices and smartphones, this cloud-based programme gathers biometric information about wellbeing, learning what makes an individual tick and building a unique profile on a personal dashboard regarding sleep, activity, and stress. The software uses these insights to design a personalised coaching programme around individual wellbeing goals – helping to develop healthy responses and build mindful awareness into daily lives.
For organisations the platform can integrate with HR systems and productivity suites, delivering insights on workforce wellbeing and productivity.
“A deep understanding of employee wellness is critical to building a great global business, and BioBeats allows companies to keep a finger on the pulse of their organisations and encourage individuals to own their wellness. We are excited to receive this investment and further our geographic and product reach, commented David Plans, CEO and Co-founder at BioBeats. “It will come as no surprise but our competitive advantage is our people, coupled with the fact we have been doing this longer than anyone else, and have cracked the algorithms and understanding of the patterns of stress with the onset of disease.”
"The solutions developed by BioBeats are both innovative and improve the customer experience, with a unique focus on technology and the user. We are convinced that prevention is the best cure and that BioBeats’ approach will allow our business customers to understand employee wellness and build greater, global businesses,” said @Minh_Q_Tran, General Partner, AXA Strategic Ventures.
BioBeats is an adaptive media company, which builds technologies that respond to physiologic data and learn from user interaction, helping people to live more engaging, healthier lives. The company develops programmes for entertainment, consumer health and wellness, and clinical medicine. The company’s adaptive health technologies are built on a cloud-based responsive platform designed to support the management of chronic conditions and general wellness. Its latest app, Hear and Now, is available to download from the Apple App Store.
The BioBeats team is based in San Francisco, London and Pisa, which allows the company to understand the nuances of healthcare in the both the US and Europe.
Amsterdam's Anterra Capital raises $125m to invest in agricultural technology startups.
Image: Rudmer Zwerver
New technology in computing, hardware, and bioscience is giving a fresh impetus to the food and agriculture industries' attempts to devise sustainable ways of feeding the world's growing population.
In the past five years, venture capital investment in such technologies, known otherwise as agtech, has grown exponentially, from $300m in 2011 to $4.6bn in 2015.
Now, one European venture-capital fund wants to make sure European innovation isn't excluded from the growing pace of activity in the agtech industry, which tends to focus on the North American market.
Amsterdam-based Anterra Capital closed the fund's second round of backing with Rabobank and Fidelity International's Eight Roads last month, raising its value to $125m and making it Eur
Identifying African entrepreneurs below the age of 35 who are building thriving million-dollar businesses is not as difficult as it used to be. There is an incredible wave of entrepreneurship transforming economies on the continent and young Africans are increasingly catching the entrepreneurial bug, creating remarkable businesses that are solving critical socio-economic problems, while creating job opportunities and building considerable wealth. And you should take notice.
Every year since 2011, I have assembled a group of accomplished African entrepreneurs, Business Journalists, thinkers and thought leaders to randomly name 30 of the continent’s most exceptional young entrepreneurs below the age of 35. The people featured on this list are building remarkable companies in food manufacturing, engineering, technology, hospitality, and other industries. They are incredibly motivated, pan-African in their thinking and ultimately nurse global ambitions.
Meet 30 of Africa’s most promising and inspiring young entrepreneurs- the continent’s brightest stars and the harbingers of tomorrow’s prosperity.
Eugene Mbugua, Founder, Young Rich Television Kenya
31-year-old Simbarashe Mhuriro founded Oxygen Africa in 2009 as an investment advisory company to help facilitate foreign investors in Zimbabwe. In 2013, Oxygen Africa partnered with Swiss-based Meeco Group, a renewable energy company, to establish Oursun Energy Zimbabwe – a joint venture Independent Power Producer that specializes in the development, building, owning, and operating of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy projects in Zimbabwe. OurSun Energy has raised $7 million and is currently developing two 5MW grid-connected solar plants in Zimbabwe.
CoinTelegraph spoke with Marco Montes Neri, founder of Saldo, about the company’s blockchain-powered microinsurance initiative.
CoinTelegraph: What prompted Saldo to start dealing in microinsurance?
Marco Montes Neri:Insurance in general has been always a very important thing for me and has the potential to reallocate the risk and create a better world. Insurance is broken and we have been thinking about a new model, something like non-adjustable insurance rather than micro insurance that may sound like cheap.
Microinsurance is more similar to what we think in the future with smart contracts will cover people from risks. What is interesting about this form of insurance is the removal of the middle man, the claim adjuster, and the society has evolved in such a way that has created authorities that with a very good level of certainty act as oracle that determine if something has happened or not. So combining those oracles and a blockchain that guarantees integrity of data of those who decided to cover themselves from some risks creates for the very first time powerful, non-adjustable coverage that we are now including as part of the Saldo offering.
Common timeline is crucial
CT: How does using a blockchain simplify this process?
MMN: The blockchain acts as verifiable data history. It’s the very first time financial world has something like that in a mutualized way. It’s a common timeline that in this industry will be crucial.
CT: Does the average intended user understand anything about blockchain technology?
MMN: Not at all, this is used only to make efficient the chain: Insurance company- broker - dealer. Users will only perceive simpler products, which is good for adoption.
La revue du MIT a sélectionné des innovateurs français de moins de 35 ans.
Dans la galaxie tech, le MIT est un sanctuaire, une icône. Alors, quand la revue du Massachussetts Institute of Technology décerne ses bons points, l'écosystème est attentif. Hier soir, à l'Atelier BNP Paribas à Paris, il a révélé le nom des dix startuppers français de moins de 35 ans qui incarnent l'innovation tricolore. Parmi eux, la jeune femme qui a cofondé Glowee, une start-up qui rend possible l'éclairage sans consommer d'électricité ni émettre une quelconque pollution lumineuse ou le moindre dégagement de CO2.
A vingt-six ans, Sandra Rey démocratise le phénomène de bioluminescence sur les plateaux télé et truste les concours : lauréate du 5e concours Genopole, mais aussi du concours Domolandes et des grands prix de l'innovation de Paris. Mais elle n'est pas seule parmi les entrepreneurs sélectionnés par le MIT. On retrouve également Jeremy Stoss d'Afrimarket (lire « Les Echos » du 8 mars 2016), qui donne la possibilité d'acheter des biens en Afrique en y envoyant du cash. C'est la quatrième édition de ce prix, qui a rassemblé 200 candidatures selon ses organisateurs.
les dix lauréats
Jeremy Stoss (Afrimarket), Stanislas Niox-Château (Doctolib), Franz Borzak (Instent), Sandra Rey (Glowee), Clémentine Chambon (Oorja), Matthieu Claybrough (Donecle), Laurent Boitard (Millidrop), Marjolaine Grondin (Jam) et Vincent Bryant (Deepki).
The 500+ insurance thought leaders that attended DIA Barcelona during 20-21 April awarded 6 companies the prestigious DIAmond Award for the insurtechs with most strategic impact.
DIA Barcelona is the first and largest global conference and community connecting insurance executives with fintech leaders.
Over 500 attendees of 200 companies from 36 countries came together in the amazing DIA Barcelona venue to spark ideas and move innovation in insurance forward.
The 6 innovative winners of the 2016 DIAmond Awards are:
BigML, democratising machine learning solutions that enable insurance companies to build analytics capabilities faster than ever before.
BIMA, offering mobile insurance to the bottom of the pyramid; to 20 million customers in 15 countries on 3 continents.
Qiy Foundation, providing a groundbreaking structure to identity and personal data protection.
Traity, creating a network that allows people to owe their reputation, while increasing trust and transparency in doing business online
Trov, enabling consumers to insure just the things they want—exactly when they want—entirely from their mobile phone.
TrueMotion, creating solutions that enable insurance carriers to implement usage based insurance concepts at much faster speed to market.
BioBeats takes the data from wearables that monitor the health of employees and patients and puts it into a biometric machine-learning platform that delivers insights to healthcare providers or employers. It’s now raised $2.28 million led by White Cloud Capital, with participation from AXA Strategic Ventures and IQ Capital.
BioBeats’s stress-relieving app, Hear and Now, will be rolled out for both the consumer and “corporate wellness” market.
BioBeats was founded in 2013 by Dr. David Plans, Nadeem Kassam and David Morelli.
Using existing wearable devices and smartphones, the BioBeats platform gathers biometric information then designs a coaching programme around that person’s health goals.
For organisations, the platform can integrate with HR systems and productivity suites, delivering insights into workforce wellbeing and productivity. The application is currently running pilot programmes in major U.K. and U.S. companies.
They say existing services focus on either using questionnaire results or, like Ginger.io, gather data from smartphone movement sensors. Instead, BioBeats use AI to understand behaviour from smartphone and wearable sensors, concentrating primarily around heart rate and skin conductance (from which they can build an emotional picture of that stress), as well as looking at movement and behaviour.
Essentially speaking it takes all this data and replaces human therapists to tell someone if they are stressed, fatigued and near burnout. That gives them self-help mechanisms to cope.
Hear and Now (currently on iTunes store), produces visuals and music that adapt in real-time to data from wrist-worn wearables in order to coach the user in managing stress.
Apps like Calm, Pacifica, Happify and Serenita focus on the techniques, but BioBeats claims to take that data and do more with it.
Meet Andre de Haes; a 28-year-old with what must have one of the most impressive CVs on the planet.
Oxford, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Goldman, J.P. Morgan, The Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Andreessen Horowitz, and Index Ventures can all be found littered across de Haes' CV. The newest company on de Haes' CV, however, is not a household name.
"Backed VC" is a €30 million (£23.6 million) startup fund that de Haes launched on Thursday with school friend and fellow Oxford graduate Alex Brunicki.
The fund, which has been quietly run out of London's Clerkenwell neighbourhood over the last six months, is making investments of between €500,000 (£394,000) and €1 million (£788,000) on average, although there is scope to invest from as little as €200,000 (£157,000) right up to €2 million (£1.6 million). Around one investment is being made each month through the Backed VC fund.
Backed VC is investing in early-stage companies in the same way that Saul and Robin Klein's LocalGlobe fund does. But while LocalGlobe is primarily going after London startups, Backed VC is trying to spread its investments fairly evenly across Europe.
"Europe needs on a pan-European level seed fund that can provide a more scalable offering," de Haes told Business Insider ahead of the announcement, adding that he wants Backed VC to do for Europe what Andreessen did for the US.
The fund is only interested in companies that have global ambitions, according to de Haes. "We don’t want to back regional winners and definitely not national winners," he said.
De Haes and Brunicki believe that their relative youth will set them apart from other venture capital funds. They claim that unlike some other VCs, they're "culturally connected" to the entrepreneurs in their "clan" and "ingrained in the networks through which they build their teams."
Interestingly, the duo claim they will share Backed VC's profits with anyone who refers them to a company that they end up investing in (and profiting from).
Europe's first $100 billion business
It's no secret that the UK and Europe are yet to produce a tech company worth $100 billion (£70 billion). The US, on the other hand, has several in the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. De Haes thinks it won't be too long before this changes.
"Within the next five years, I think there will be a business founded in Europe that will become a $100 billion business," said de Haes. "In the next decade we’ll have a $100 billion business built out of Europe."
De Haes said startups are starting to grow rapidly across Europe because there’s a management layer of talent coming out of businesses that have already been built. "There is seed-level expertise available now," he said, pointing to TransferWise, Criteo, and Supercell.
Backed VC has been operating quietly over the last six months, investing in 10 companies across four cities: London, Paris, Stockholm, and Helsinki. Those companies include music video streaming service Boiler Room, 3D printing startup Unmade, and AI music composing startup Jukedeck.
De Haes, who travelled to five countries in seven days last week (mostly "in economy with Ryanair or EasyJet") said he and Brunicki are only investing in founders that they can picture leading huge public companies.
"We're also only investing in industries that are fundamentally better in Europe than Silicon Valley," added De Haes, going on to say Backed VC is particularly interested in AI and predictive analytics companies.
The tide has gone out pretty quickly when it comes to venture capital rounds for promising tech companies.
And as so-called unicorns--private companies worth more than $1 billion--struggle with lower valuations, less potential investor cash, and more demanding investors in follow-on rounds, it should be a word of warning for startups of all kinds.
So says Bill Gurley, partner at VC firm Benchmark of Menlo Park, California, who on Thursday posted a lengthy blog post on the new world of venture capital investing for startups as he sees it.
He painted a picture that's not very pretty. The environment has changed radically for highly valued uni
AXA Strategic Ventures va dépenser 200 millions d'euros dans les cinq prochaines années.Il privilégie des participations dans des pépites qui opèrent dans ses secteurs stratégiques.
Après dix-huit mois d'existence sous le radar, le fonds corporate de capital-risque d'AXA a décidé de sérieusement accélérer son développement : deux recrutements pour les bureaux de San Francisco et de Londres, ainsi qu'un nouveau responsable des opérations, et encore plus de 200 millions d'euros à investir dans les trois à cinq ans à venir. La ligne est claire, il s'agit ici de soutenir des start-up dont l'activité est proche de celles de l'assureur. AXA ne se contente pas d'agir comme un simple fonds d'investissement, mais veut peser sur les décisions et aider les jeunes pousses dans leur développement, qu'elles complètent ou menacent de déstabiliser le deuxième acteur européen de l'assurance. « Nous souhaitons accompagner des entreprises qui veulent changer leur industrie, explique Imran Akram, directeur du bureau de Londres. Nous recherchons des jeunes pousses dont l'activité est stratégique pour AXA, à court ou long terme. »
Un modèle de profitabilité
Pour l'instant, une vingtaine de start-up sont accompagnées par AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV) qui se répartissent à égalité entre les Etats-Unis et l'Europe. L'investissement s'élève en moyenne à 1 million d'euros, mais peut aller jusqu'à une quinzaine pour les plus matures. Pour celles en phase d'amorçage, ASV reste minoritaire et vise 20 % de l'entreprise ainsi qu'un siège au conseil d'administration : « C'est important pour nous, estime Sébastien Loubry, directeur du développement. Nous voulons les aider
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