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Gasolead permet aux entreprises B2B, aux agents d’assurances notamment, d’identifier des prospects et de communiquer avec eux au bon moment avec un discours approprié, à travers le canal d’emailing. Gasolead repère en ligne – sans effort – les adresses e-mails des cibles dans les entreprises pertinentes puis construit un discours cohérent, gère les campagnes e-mailing et interagit avec le prospect pour augmenter le taux de conversion (lead nurturing). À l’aide de technologies avancées et d’apprentissage automatique, Gasolead analyse les performances et l’efficacité de la campagne pour apprendre à mieux cerner les prospects et trouver le bon moment, le bon message et la meilleure façon de communiquer. Gasolead offre ainsi un pipeline des ventes 100 % automatisé, qui alimente en prospects les départements marketing et permet aux entreprises d’accroitre leur chiffre d’affaires.
« Nous travaillons actuellement au développement d’outils permettant ainsi d’identifier, de convertir les leads de façon durable et pérenne, à large échelle, que ce soit pour les besoins de nos clients ou pour nos propres besoins” commente Nicolas Abib, PDG et co-fondateur. « Nous sommes fiers d’avoir AXA Strategic Ventures à nos côtés dans cette aventure et espérons que la connaissance des marchés à forte valeur ajoutée développée par AXA nous permettra d’accélérer sur nos marchés cibles ».
« Nous sommes à la recherche d’opportunités dans le domaine de l’e-mail intelligence. Plus généralement, nous nous intéressons aux différentes solutions qui permettent de générer des leads pour nos agents d’assurance. En s’appuyant sur la technologie développée par Gasolead, nous complétons ainsi notre gamme de solutions, ce qui devrait améliorer la performance et l’efficacité de nos ventes», indique Minh Q. Tran, General Partner d’AXA Strategic Ventures.
Gasolead compte une panoplie d’outils de prospection puissants parmi lesquels « Arnaud », assistant virtuel de développement des ventes, qui ouvre des perspectives totalement inédites aux entreprises dans leur façon d’envisager la vente ou la création de valeur.
Pour en connaitre davantage sur Gasolead: www.gasolead.com
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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.
BBVA Ventures
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
Santander InnoVentures
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.
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Posted on April 28, 2016 at 07:39 AM in AXA Strategic Ventures | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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. |
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AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV), ein weltweiter Venture Capital Fonds mit 230 Mio. € (250 Mio. $) Volumen, gibt heute eine neue Investition bekannt und fügt seinem Portfolio in Europa eine Minderheitsbeteiligung an Medlanes hinzu. Im Jahr 2014 von Dr. Emil Kendziorra und Erik Stoffregen gegründet und durch Rheingau Founders finanziert, ist Medlanes eines der führenden digitalen Gesundheitsunternehmen in Europa, das die Vorteile der mobilen Welt und des Webs mit der Qualität und Zuverlässigkeit eines Arztbesuchs kombiniert.
"Wir revolutionieren das Gesundheitssystem, in dem wir Patienten einen einfachen ersten Kontakt zu qualitativer Versorgung durch proprietäre Technologie und ein weitreichendes Ärztenetzwerk ermöglichen", teilt Dr. Emil Kendziorra, Mitgründer und CEO von Medlanes mit.“Weitere Pläne des Unternehmens sind die intensive Zusammenarbeit mit Versicherungen sowie neue Leistungen, u.a. digital vorbereitete Hausbesuche und andere Möglichkeiten des Arztkontaktes. „Wir werden das Kapital nutzen, um unser Angebot in Deutschland zu erweitern und in diesem Jahr in Märkten wie Frankreich und Großbritannien zu starten. Zur gleichen Zeit vorfolgen wir die Entwicklung unseres Produktes weiter und bieten neue Leistungen an. "
"Unternehmen wie Medlanes haben ein einzigartiges digitales Werkzeug entwickelt, das dem besseren Verständnis und der optimaleren Versorgung von Anwendern und Patienten dient. Die Behandlung und Versorgung wird bequemer und koordinierter sowie genauer auf die Bedürfnisse der Patienten abgestimmt. Mit einem innovativen Ansatz bringt Medlanes die Medizin online“, führt Minh Q.Tran, General Partner von AXA Strategic Ventures, aus.
Das "Medlanes-System" vereint eine einzigartige skalierbare Machine-Learning-Technologie mit einem weitreichenden Ärztenetzwerk. Das System wurde mit mehreren hunderttausend Datenpunkten trainiert und umfasst eine große Anzahl an Erkrankungen. Das Startup will wiederkehrende Probleme der Gesundheitsversorgung lösen (Kosten, Wartezeiten, usw...), indem es medizinische Konsultation über seine Webseite oder App anbietet. Die Patienten können ihre Symptome beschreiben, ein Bild hinzufügen oder eine spezifische Frage stellen. Im Anschluss wertet Medlanes die Informationen aus und leitet die Informationen an den richtigen Arzt weiter, der in Kürze antwortet. Mit der App und dem Webservice von Medlanes hat der Nutzer jederzeit und überall Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung, im Grunde den Arzt auf dem Smartphone.
Erfahren Sie mehr unter www.medlanes.com.
Posted on February 29, 2016 at 01:51 PM in AXA Strategic Ventures, Medlanes | Permalink | Comments (0)
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AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV), a global €230 million ($250 million) venture capital fund, announces today that it adds a new investment to its portfolio in Europe, a minority stake in a capital round in Medlanes. Founded in 2014 in Berlin by Dr. Emil Kendziorra and Erik Stoffregen and funded by Rheingau Founders, Medlanes is one of the leading digital health companies in Europe combining the convenience of the web and mobile world with the quality and reliability of a doctor’s visit.
“We are creating the digital health revolution by enabling patients to easily make their first contact to healthcare and get high quality care through our proprietary technology and doctor network“, said Dr. Emil Kendziorra, Co-founder and CEO at Medlanes. “Further plans for the company include intensive cooperation with insurance providers and new offerings such as digitally-prepared home visits and other contact points. We will use the capital to expand our offering in Germany and to launch in markets such as France and Great Britain during this year. At the same time we will continue developing our product and offer new services.”
”Companies like Medlanes have developed a unique digital tool to better understand and serve their users and patients. That makes treatment and care more convenient, more coordinated, and more responsive to consumer needs. Medlanes is bringing medicine online with an innovative approach”, said Minh Q.Tran, General Partner
"Medlanes System" combines a unique scalable machine learning technology with a wide-spanning doctor network. It was trained with hundreds of thousands of case data points and spans a large number of medical conditions. The start-up wants to solve some recurrent issues faced by patients (cost, waiting list to see a doctor, etc…) by providing people with medical consultations through its website and app. Patients can describe their symptoms, take a picture or post a question, and Medlanes will first make an online assessment and then connect them to the right medical professional to answer their question. With the Medlanes’ app and web service users get access to healthcare anytime, anywhere, basically a doctor on a smartphone.
Find out more at www.medlanes.com.
Posted on February 29, 2016 at 01:49 PM in AXA Strategic Ventures, Medlanes | Permalink | Comments (0)
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AXA Strategic Ventures (AXA SV), fonds de capital-risque doté de 230 millions d'euros ($250 million), a annoncé aujourd'hui l'ajout à son portefeuille européen d'un nouvel investissement, une participation minoritaire dans Medlanes. Fondée en 2014 à Berlin par le Dr Emil Kendziorra et Erik Stoffregen et financée par Rheingau Founders, la société Medlanes est devenue un des leaders de la santé digitale en Europe en associant la facilité d'utilisation du web et du mobile à la qualité et la fiabilité d'un rendez-vous médical.
« La révolution de la santé digitale est en marche : nous facilitons le premier contact avec les patients et leur offrons des soins de qualité grâce à notre technologie et à notre réseau de médecins », explique Dr Emil Kendziorra, co-fondateur et PDG de Medlanes. « Nous projetons de renforcer notre coopération avec les assureurs et de développer de nouvelles offres comme l'organisation en ligne de visites à domicile, entre autres points de contact. Nous allons utiliser ces fonds pour développer notre offre en Allemagne et nous lancer cette année sur d'autres marchés, comme la France ou la Grande-Bretagne. Nous allons également poursuivre le développement de notre produit et étoffer notre offre de services. »
« Les sociétés comme Medlanes ont mis au point un outil digital unique qui permet de mieux comprendre les utilisateurs et patients pour leur offrir un service adapté, qui passe par des traitements et des soins plus pratiques, mieux organisés et mieux adaptés aux besoins des consommateurs. Medlanes a développé une approche innovante de la médecine », conclut Minh Q.Tran, General Partner, AXA Strategic Ventures.
Le « système Medlanes » associe une technologie unique d’intelligence artificielle connectée à un vaste réseau de médecins. Le système a été testé avec des centaines de milliers de points de données précis et recouvre un vaste éventail de pathologies. La start-up veut apporter une solution aux problèmes fréquemment rencontrés par les patients (coûts, listes d’attente) en donnant accès à des consultations médicales via son site et son application. Les patients décrivent leurs symptômes, postent une photo ou posent une question et Medlanes établit un premier diagnostic en ligne avant de les mettre en contact avec le professionnel de santé le plus à même de répondre à leurs interrogations. Avec l'application Medlanes et son service web, les utilisateurs ont en permanence accès au système de santé et à un médecin quel que soit l’endroit où ils se trouvent et en toutes circonstances via leur Smartphone.
Plus d'informations sur www.medlanes.com.
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L’an dernier Girls In Tech innovait en annonçant la toute première édition de son baromètre. Une nouvelle source, simple et claire, répondant enfin aux questions que nous nous posons toutes : «Femmes et hommes entreprennent-ils différemment?» «Quel poids les entrepreneuses tech représentent-elles dans l’écosystème ?» «Qui finance les fondatrices de start-up?».
Et quand la team de Girls In Tech s’engage, elle agit ! Voici donc venue l’heure de faire le bilan sur l’année 2015…
Une année de rattrapage pour les femmes entrepreneuses
Si les femmes qui entreprennent dans la tech et lèvent des fonds pour financer leur projet restent très minoritaires (15% des levées de fonds et 10% des montants levés), elles pèsent pourtant de plus en plus dans l’écosystème : ces fondatrices ont levé 90 millions d'euros en 2015, soit 3,5 fois plus que l’an dernier ! Ce net rattrapage se retrouve également dans la progression du montant moyen levé par ces entrepreneuses, puisqu’il a plus que doublé, atteignant 2,3 millions d'euros… contre 3,6 millions d'euros pour les hommes.
Mais pourquoi un tel décalage sur la taille de tour de financement persiste-t-il? Les femmes seraient-elles alors plus prudentes, voire moins ambitieuses que les hommes en levant moins d’argent? Certainement pas. Selon moi, l’explication est ailleurs : le mouvement de rattrapage est en marche mais ne peut se faire qu’en douceur : soyons réalistes, une société donnée ne peut lever un 3ème tour de financement de 10 illions d'euros sans passer par un tour d’amorçage de 500 000 euros ! On constate en effet une sur-pondération des levées en amorçage chez les femmes: 50% d’entre elles contre 32% chez les hommes ! Halte aux mauvaises interprétations ! Inutile d’en déduire que les femmes entrepreneuses sont incapables de faire croître leur entreprise et d’atteindre des niveaux de maturité plus importants : les tours records de VestiaireCollective (33 millions d'euros), de Connecthings (9,5 millions d'euros) ou encore de 1001Pharmacies (6,5 millions d'euros) peuvent en témoigner.
Qui sont ces femmes entrepreneuses?
Fanny Moizant, Sophie Hersan, Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, Sabine Safi… elles sont à la tête de ces entreprises qui lèvent des montants record, mais qui sont-elles?
Tout d’abord, STOP aux idées reçues, ces femmes sont majoritairement très expérimentées puisque 40% d’entre elles cumulent plus de 10 ans d’expériences professionnelles en entreprise (à l’instar d’Isabelle Bordry, fondatrice de Rentency après 5 ans chez Hachette puis 9 ans chez Yahoo) alors que seulement 10% d’entre elles se lancent après ou pendant leurs études (comme la désormais très médiatisée Marjolaine Grondin, co-fondatrice de Jam). L’étude nous apprend également que cinq de ces fondatrices peuvent se targuer du titre de «serial entrepreneuse» : Tatiana Jama et Lara Rouyres de Selectionnist, Isabelle Bordry de Retency, Dominique Brogi de Meetphone et Hélène Fromen de Thank you Motion. Bravo à elles !
Le baromètre nous confirme cependant quelques autres préjugés : 82% de ces entrepreneuses tech se lancent en Île-de -France (contre 63% pour les hommes) ; elles sont également sous-représentées dans l’électronique (5% contre 11% chez les hommes) ou le logiciel (16% contre 32% chez les hommes) au profit de l’Internet et du e-commerce (63% contre 45% chez les hommes).
Enfin, donnée intéressante pour vous Mesdames qui êtes en pleine réflexion de création, plus de la moitié de ces fondatrices s’associent
via www.frenchweb.fr
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AXA Strategic Ventures (AXA SV), a global €230 million ($250 million) venture capital fund, announces today it is co-leading a $55 million Series A funding round for Blockstream. As part of the round, AXA Strategic Ventures joins Blockstream’s Advisory Board.
Blockstream is pioneering advancements in cryptocurrencies and blockchains to support a broad range of applications and industries. Blockstream provides companies with the most mature, well tested, and secure blockchain technology in production – the blockchain original protocol extended via interoperable sidechains – along with one of the most experienced teams in the industry.
The round was led by Horizons Ventures, with significant participation from AXA Strategic Ventures and Digital Garage, as well as participation from existing investors including AME Cloud Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Future\Perfect Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, and Seven Seas Venture Partners. This funding round, adding to its $21 million seed round from 2014, will help Blockstream further expand its sidechain technology platform and operations.
Blockstream has created sidechains, a novel blockchain protocol and platform that enable development of an ecosystem of public and private blockchain networks capable of interoperating with each other, as well as with the Bitcoin network. This approach leverages the most mature and well tested technology, as well as the nearly $1B invested in companies working with this code today, thereby drastically cutting the cost of trust, improving security standards and reducing network fragmentation.
"We are convinced that blockchain technology has the ability to transform not only financial services but also other industries,” said François Robinet, Managing Partner, AXA Strategic Ventures. “Blockstream has one of the best technical team in the industry and we strongly believe in their approach of developing foundational infrastructure for various blockchain applications. Blockstream’s open source approach and sidechains will enable critical long-term success of this technology. We are excited about the close partnership that we will have with them in driving deeper engagement, thought leadership and technological transformation in the world of insurance and asset management as we believe that in this industry, blockchain technology will be a conduit for systematic changes.”
Blockchain technology has the potential to transform existing industry standards across sectors including insurance and asset-management. Distributed ledger technology has the capacity to simplify and bring transparency to the transactional model of insurance while lowering operational costs. Potential applications for insurance and asset-management are increasing in scope and include: smart contracts (new digital asset, secure record), micro transactions (payments/assets, mobility, new markets) and settlements (banks). The rapid pace of innovation in cryptocurrencies, distributed ledgers and smart contract technology is driving organizations to transform their operations.
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AXA Strategic Ventures (AXA SV), a global €230 million venture capital fund, announces today it is leading a $11 million Series A funding round for Neura.
Neura’s technology can be utilized to enable smarter healthcare, cars, music services, homes and much more. The service lets people get to an unprecedented level of technology personalization, by computing a constantly updated portrait of user behavior patterns. Simply put, Neura enriches apps and devices with insights about users’ past and present actions, as well as calculated predictions about the next thing they’re going to do.
This Series A round, co-led by AXA Strategic Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital and with participation from Liberty Israel Venture Fund and Lenovo Group, will enable Neura to further realize its technological and business potential. Coinciding with the first open release of Neura development framework, designed to let developers personalize and contextualize their products, the new capital will be used to expand Neura’s business reach and make the service ubiquitous.
"Neura is poised to deliver on the promise of IoT – improving our quality of life through smart technology. They do this with a singular and unique focus on the user. The result will allow various industries, including insurance, to better serve users at the time of need in the most convenient and transparent method possible,” said Manish Agarwal, General Partner at AXA Strategic Ventures in New York. “We believe Neura's approach is disruptive and is going to change the way we use and interact with data and devices on a daily basis in the future."
“Currently users’ data are not fully exploited in their interest”, stated Neura’s CEO Gilad Meiri. “The actual generators of data, the users, have no say in what impact this data has on their life. Customer data is bought and sold on the common market and the lack of transparency in the current system is troubling. We have built our platform on a foundation of transparency and a commitment to making personal data work for the sake of users. We are building the engine that can make smart technology smarter without sacrificing the trust of our users”.
This Investment in Neura completes the recent four investments done over the second half of 2015 in the U.S.:
"AXA is now accelerating its investment in innovative and disruptive start-ups. I believe it is critical in order for us to utilize the technology and data revolution as an opportunity to grow faster and to continue to improve the interactions with our clients”, said Francois Robinet, Managing Partner, AXA Strategic Ventures. “The start-ups on which we have invested over 2015 are all relevant for us not only as investment but because of what we can develop together with them”.
These five companies join AXA SV’s portfolio, which also includes investments in PolicyGenius, Limelight Health, VolunteerSpot in the U.S. and Climate Secure, Easy Proprietaires, Evercontact, Flyr, Fundshop, Widmee, Netheos, Particeep and Art2M in Europe.
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Bee Raises $4.6M to Deliver Banking Services for Anyone
By Lora Kolodny
November 30, 2015
Banking startup Bee, incorporated as One Financial Holdings Inc., has raised $4.6 million in two rounds of seed funding.
New York-based Bee provides bank accounts, debit cards and financial services that are aimed at people who live in low- and middle-income neighborhoods.
Its two rounds of seed funding include its most recent $2.65 million led by AXA Strategic Ventures , which comes after its first, led by Blumberg Capital in 2014.
Bee offers account holders no minimum balance requirements, no overdraft fees, availability of funds within a half-hour from deposits made via check photo through its mobile app and cash withdrawals at any ATM, twice a month free.
"Typical fees can add up for people who live on a tight budget and have a regular savings or checking account. Fees and minimums can even prevent people from opening a bank account," said Chief Executive and co-founder Vinay Patel.
Features like unlimited ATM withdrawals from bank ATMs or free withdrawals at a bank branch can end up costing people if they have to take a subway ride to reach a bank ATM, the CEO said.
"If you walk around downtown Brooklyn, Bed-Stuy, or Grand Concourse in the Bronx, you don't see bank ATMs or branches. Those are 25 blocks away."
To win new customers, Bee has been setting up pop-up banks, or kiosks with customer service staff, in neighborhoods around New York that lack other bank branches and ATMs.
The startup has 10 full-time employees and between 10 and 20 field staff at its pop-up branches on most days, the CEO said.
The company plans to use its seed money to expand to San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, while continuing to grow its customer base in New York City.
AXA Strategic Ventures' Drew Aldrich, a Bee investor, said longer-term, investors expect the company to expand into different financial services.
The company could easily make small loans, the kind that traditional banks don't offer, to customers who need $300 for a car repair or $500 to outfit children with everything at the start of the school year, the investor said.
"Too many people are reliant on payday loans today," Mr. Aldrich said, "And some banks just don't want to deal with evaluating risk in this market. But Bee will have knowledge of deposits and transaction data firsthand and will know which customers are a good risk."
Bee competes with many banks that have a mobile offering, including Simple, now owned by BBVA , Eastman Credit Union , VyStar Credit Union , CapitalOne and WellsFargo.
Other investors in Bee's seed round included T5 Capital, Fenway Summer Ventures, Funders Guild and Blue Seed Capital.
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