Sorted on the pane, they range from ten-week immersion in San Francisco, thanks to the acceleration program created by Business France in partnership with Bpifrance. Objective : to launch on the american market.
The bar is high : “It is the most intensive and the highest quality that we organize to help French start-ups to conquer the us market” announces from the outset, Muriel Pénicaud, who has been leading since last June, Business France, a new agency born from the merger of Ubifrance (export) and the AFII (foreign investment). Same vision to the director of innovation at Bpifrance, Paul-François Fournier: “to support these startups with Ubi i/o, it is trigger a virtuous circle and strengthen the effect of French Tech”.
What about ubi i/o ?
Ubi i/o, successor to the French Tech Tour, which at the end of seven editions has assisted close to 100 startups in the Silicon Valley. With the ambition to prepare quickly and effectively for the future Criteo or Business Objects, with a focus on immersion in the ecosystem californian ICT, “A kind of military service condensed to 10 weeks,” summarizes Jean-Marc Perricone, one of the alumni of the 2014 edition, co-founder of Sublime Skinz, which has since created a us subsidiary. Ten weeks of intense learning where every startuper must be accompanied personally by an advisor, Business France. The eight selected companies also receive financial support from Bpifrance, the public investment bank, to support their american ambition. The program, coaching, bespoke workshops, networking events as well as with pitching -every two days : a training of commando !- and appointments with potential clients and partners.
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What about the eight startups?
The happy selected are nuggets promising. Their creators had to convince a jury made up of 16 personalities “ruthless”, investors and entrepreneurs, americans. Forty candidates at the outset, twenty-five in the short list, and eight at the finish. The selection process, which lasted three and a half months, has been highly controlled by Bpifrance Business France anxious to find candidates with a very strong commitment to the boss or co-founder must be undertaken from 10 weeks, and “let go” of its French teams all this time and being in a good timing for their development. If the promotion Ubi i/o 2014 was exclusively made up of startups specialized in solutions BtoB, this year the jury has decided to integrate two startups from the consumer electronics.
And the winners are…
Adways, created in 2010 by Fabrice Jaeger and Como Fouques. This startup offers a unique platform to create interactive videos. The media (Arte …) and companies (Decathlon …) who use it to record a click-through rate average of 25% regardless of the medium. The goal of the startup is already present in the US for 4 months : install the marketing and sales in San Francisco … and keep the R&D in Lyon, france. Evercontact flagship product of the startup Kwaga, launched in 2009 by Philippe Laval, a serial entrepreneur (Sinequa, semantic search engine). Evercontact is a SaaS solution to update the address books (Outlook, Gmail,…) and CRM (Salesforce, Dynamics …). The company is based in Paris has multiplied its turnover by ten in three years and made 80% to the export. Go on-site will enable us to establish or enhance commercial partnerships and/or technology with the major players in the us. Giroptic , the startup created by Richard Ollier, is specialized in the technology of capture audio-visual 360°. It has card stock with the 360cam first camera HD 360°, a project that had become the biggest French success done on the platform Kickstarter with more than $ 1.4 million generated by the 4000 preorders. Goal : to go to the meeting of the american market, consumers and professionals. Jarvis Lawyers : a SaaS solution for managing web and mobile lawyers, already distributed by Dalloz in 12 countries. The startup, founded in 2011 by Alexander Yérémian – another serial entrepreneur (Integral Microphone) – and Anthony Yérémian, target the law firms of independent americans : a potential of a million of licenses to revenue of $ 660 million. Not counting the corporate customers of lawyers … The american market is a dream ! Pradeo is in the mainstream “Appsberg syndrom”. The startup is a publisher of security solutions for smartphones, tablets and connected objects created after 6 years of R&D. It is Stéphane Saad, co-founder with Clément Saad and director of business development to the international one, which will go to San Francisco. The platform launched by Pradeo, AuditMyApps, allows companies to check that their mobile fleet is secure (data theft, phone tapping …), like the Post with the smartphones of factors ! American target : meet with technology partners, size. SensioLabs founded in 1998 by serial entrepreneur Fabien Potencier, the original developer of the project of the project Symphony, framework Web the most used by the companies. This time, Fabien Potencier will be a new product to help developers improve the performance of Web applications : Blackfire. Launched 3 months ago, the platform already has 10 000 active users ! With an ambition to be the world and the project to open a first office in Silicon Valley in 2015 to reachlérer development. Hexo+ In the family drone, Hexo+ is a flying camera stand-alone, designed by the start-up grenobloise Squadrone System. This startup was created in 2006 by six people including Antoine Level, Matthew Giraud, Medhi Mugnier and Xavier De The Rue, multiple world champion of snowboard, and video producer. The flying camera has received the prize for the best drone video at ces in Las Vegas and, just like Giroptic, has been approved on Kickstarter and raised $ 1.3 million in 30 days from 2336 support. Declared aim : to conquer the american market, while keeping R&D in Grenoble. Tellmeplus The inventor of Business Objects (holder of the original patent acquired by SAP in 2007) is a serial creator. This time Jean-Michel Cambot aims to implement a big data predictive analytics (artificial intelligence and active machine learning to predict fraud, breakdowns etc, and predictive analysis with the “Next best actions”. Market referred to by the Predictive Objects : the operators of telecoms, banks, insurance …
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Next step
Visit you for 8 startups to San Francisco on the 27th of April next for the big jump ! Last tip for the road, from Jean-Marc Perricone participant of the first edition : “It is necessary to make fire of any wood, discover, share, exchange, enjoy. And don’t forget to contact the team remained in France : because Ubi i/o, it is the experience to 360°. In return you may spend for a fool !”
