Nicolas Guyon

🌟Venture capital ⎜Reimagining the Commerce🌟 📣 Special VCs San Francisco New-york : What are for them the four themes defining the #Commerce in the next decade? It is not so often leading VCs define so well their thesis and the topics they are spending time around! (often keep it a secret:) Vincent Diallo and Erik de Stefanis (Interlace Ventures) reveal to us the 4 key themes they spend the most of the time working on and best of all mention some founders that are currently having success on these topics. That’s fascinating. I encourage you to read this interview. A good way to start your week in good company! Catherine Barba Chiaramonti, Odile Roujol, Joël Palix, our mutual friend Vincent makes himself scarce in interviews -- a must-read! :) #retail #commerce #technology #venturecapital #investments #commercetechnology #familyoffice #techsolution #retailtech #commercetech #peertopeernetworking #entrepreneurs #founders #startups

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Let's go. Following up on the #ridiculous cost to start as self-employed in Belgium (🥉 in the cost to register, woop woop), we got to discuss what should happen to enable more citizens to #start as self-employed with Robin Gille at La Libre 🎙️. The article here (in French) ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eVvZjcsp #Keytakeaways - The cost to register is indeed only the 1st barrier: next up are social contributions (min. nearly 900€ in 2024, before you earned your first €) - Private companies and local communities can help but, in the end, it's up to policymakers to set the frame & lower those costs. - It's up to us to push those regulators to up their game. This question isn’t just a business issue, it’s a societal one: by imposing high set-up costs, we discourage our brightest minds from pursuing their passion & entrepreneurial dreams 💭. We all lose out on potential advancements, job creation, and economic dynamism. Being self-employed already comes with many hurdles, and extra financial stress simply makes it harder. Let’s continue this conversation and build a future where everyone has the opportunity to succeed without unnecessary financial barriers ✨. Thank you Robin Gille for the nice conversation 💜

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The Startup Tech Stack 2024 by Ollie Forsyth Huge startup tech map packed with ressources to build ventures from the ground up👇 Row 1 👀 Product: Support in making products better Security / KYC: Customer onboarding and compliance Marketing: Website builders, data collecting and more Fintech / Insurance: Payment providers, expense management and insurance Row 2 🎯 Collaboration and project management tools HR: Employee onboarding and payroll Fundraising: Cap table management and investor reporting Analytics: Product analytics Row 3 🚀 Customer Service: Customer support Cloud: Cloud providers Sales: Closing deals faster Employee Benefits: Giving your team great benefits Brand: Design platforms Row 4 🏁 Productivity: Tools to save you time Data: Data & analytics CRM: Customer relationship management tools Automations: Automations for your startup Legal: Sign docs quickly 🛎 What to do next 1. Tag a founder who might find this useful 2. Tag a company that you are missing #letsbuild #venturebuilding #startup #techstack #prototyping #mvp

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Which steps do you think our institutions should take in order to simplify citizen procedures and make them more accessible?

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🔎 Beyond the Hype : how Web3 redefine #data #ownership for corporates ? I'm pleased to be speaker at Web3 Leaders Forum organized by Adan during the renowned EthCC conference in Brussels next week. This event will focus on Web3 in the real world, payment, digital identity, circular economy, video games, regulatory... Innovative use cases for industries to demonstrate that the Web 3.0 ecosystem is a fundamental movement for the economy, far beyond finance. I will give you a vision and concrete examples on how Web3 redefine data ownership for corporates in several dimensions, and how much this global movement is crucial when defining the new era of the web, especially with the increase of AI and data. We will explore how and with what results this (r)evolution is setting in motion the future to change the relationship between corporates and data for customers, employees and products : - rethink the #customer #experience using first party data and digital identity to engage and create powerful loyalty programs  - redefine #employee #engagement with digital passport, digital identity, credentials and digital assets ownership for their achievements  - guarantee #traceability and #authentification for products with tokenized digital product passport to be compliant and give transparency to the customers   I will give concrete examples that lead the change and that we accompany at Doors3 | Web3.0 Consulting in several industries in France and the Middle East. 👉 See you there : Web 3 In Real Life Track 🏛 Room: Lunch Pad On Wed 10/07/2024 | 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM If you are in Brussels and want to catch up, DM me ! Guillaume Moret-Bailly Julien Furlanetto Ludovic Dietrich Bilal EL ALAMY Clarisse Hagège Faustine Fleuret Jules Dubourg Laszlo S. BORGET Sebastien Mark Kepeneghian Florence Mouillard Adrien P. Donald Brouwer

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French AI startup H raises $220M seed round Paris-based startup H, formerly known as Holistic AI, secures an extraordinary $220 million #seed round shortly after its inception, a rarity in the #startup world. Led by a stellar founding team, including former researchers and employees of Google DeepMind, H focuses on developing #AI agents to automate tasks traditionally performed by humans. Co-founder and CEO Charles A. Kantor, a former #Stanford researcher, leads the team, which includes veterans of DeepMind such as Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, @Daan Wierstra, and Julien Perolat. H aims to revolutionize productivity with its "frontier action models," targeting sectors where #automation can significantly enhance efficiency. Investors comprise a diverse group, including billionaires like Eric Schmidt and Bernard Arnault, VC funds like Accel and FirstMark Capital, and strategic backers like Amazon, Samsung Electronics, and UiPath. For more information: https://lnkd.in/dfMxMvJZ #AI #Startup #SeedRound #Innovation

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Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras Four years aft acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers slope accounts to freelancers and precise tiny companies, Société Générale has announced plans to merchantability Shine to Ageras. In 2020, TechCrunch reported that Société Générale spent astir €100 cardinal to get Shine. It wasn’t a immense acquisition but it attracted rather a spot of sum astatine the clip arsenic it was much than conscionable a technological oregon endowment deal. Société Générale isn’t a sanction that comes up precise often successful tech startup acquisition news. In short, the fiscal instauration wanted to replicate BoursoBank’s occurrence successful online banking — but this clip with freelancer and concern banking. With today’s news, the French banking elephantine admits that it ne'er truly figured retired what to bash with Shine. As for Ageras, you mightiness not beryllium acquainted with the institution but it has been a consolidator successful the fintech and accounting abstraction for the past fewer years. The Danish institution was founded successful 2012 arsenic an online marketplace that matches tiny businesses with accountants and bookkeepers. More recently, the startup repositioned its offering. It present wants to supply an all-in-one fintech level for tiny businesses that covers banking, accounting, taxation filing, etc. The institution besides raised $73 cardinal successful 2021 and different $88 cardinal successful April 2024 (€82 million), meaning that it has a ton of currency for acquisitions. Ageras acquired Billy and Salary successful Denmark, Tellow successful the Netherlands, Zervant, a pan-European invoicing merchandise and Kontist, a German challenger slope for freelancers. It has besides developed Meneto, an accounting merchandise for freelancers that reminds maine of Indy successful France. As you tin see, Ageras is gathering a portfolio of companies that connection adjacent products. In immoderate ways, Kontist, Tellow and present Shine much oregon little connection the aforesaid product. When you make an account, you get an IBAN and a card. You tin make invoices, person wealth from your clients, get reminders erstwhile it’s clip to wage your taxes and make accounting exports. This M&A strategy is simply a mode to diversify the company’s footprint successful Europe arsenic fintech inactive remains a fragmented marketplace — determination are immoderate outliers that negociate to successfully pull customers successful aggregate countries but those are exceptions. Shine presently has much than 100,000 customers portion Ageras serves 300,000 customers successful Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2023, Ageras reported €31.7 cardinal successful gross ($34 cardinal astatine today’s speech rate). Ageras...

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Jean de la Fontaine theorized the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) industry in 1668! Anachronistic, you say? And yet ... ... Jean de la Fontaine's fable "The Miser Who Lost His Treasure" begins with: "Only use makes possession." An absolute mantra for the software-as-a-Service industry. But that's not all. In this fable, a miser buries his treasure and visits it daily, without ever using it. One day, he discovers that his treasure has been stolen and laments his loss. The moral of the story is clear: an unused treasure is as useless as if it did not exist. This lesson strongly resonates in the SaaS sector. Many companies invest heavily in cutting-edge software but do not fully leverage its potential. Here are some parallels to consider: ⚙️ Maximizing resource utilization: Investing in SaaS without fully integrating it into business processes is akin to burying a treasure. To maximize return on investment, it is crucial to use all the features offered by the software. 🧑‍💻 Training and adoption: Just as the miser did not benefit from his treasure, teams need to be trained and encouraged to use SaaS tools optimally. Continuous training and user adoption are essential to prevent the tool from becoming merely a cost rather than an asset. 🎚 Monitoring and adjustment: Just as the miser should have monitored his treasure more closely, companies need to monitor the use of SaaS solutions and adjust their strategy based on feedback and changing needs. 🔝 Innovation and evolution: Unlike the static treasure in the fable, SaaS solutions are constantly evolving. Companies must stay informed about updates and new features to continue getting the most out of them. Don't let your SaaS investments turn into unused treasures. Fully exploit them to transform your operations and drive innovation. #SaaS #DigitalTransformation #JeanDeLaFontaine #ROI #Innovation #ChangeManagement

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⚽️ Today I learned from Nathan K. that Real Madrid and French national team player Aurélien Tchouaméni has created a new interview series called "The Bridge." It's clearly inspired by LeBron James' "The Shop," where LeBron and Maverick Carter host debates and frank group discussions with celebrities while sitting in barbershop chairs. That series started on HBO in 2018 and now continues on YouTube. "The Bridge" is essentially Tchouaméni's own interview show, a group discussion with leading public figures. Episode 1 came out four months ago and features a one and a half hour group discussion on life with Thierry Henry, Francis Ngannou, Khatia Buniatishvili & Steven Bartlett. The show is produced by Excellence Sports Nation (ESN), who represent Tchouaméni and other athletes. I can't tell whether this is meant to be just content marketing for the agency but there's huge potential to turn this show into IP the same way that "The Shop" has grown and commercialized. Seeing Tchouaméni take on an ambitious media content project is fantastic. As a professional athlete, you're in constant need of diversifying your career and Tchouaméni doesn't have the luxury of endless brand deal offers like a Ronaldo or Messi. This unique content helps Tchouaméni build his own personal brand and a lot of positive comments on the first video indicate that he's winning over new fans, myself included! Tchouaméni is a fantastic player but you wouldn't really categorize him as one of the best or most famous athletes in the world. What I've seen from this show is that Tchouaméni has more humour, charisma, and boldness than many other players more famous than him. If Tchouaméni and ESN want to take this further, they could build and commercialize "The Bridge" into a real big content format. This content would be attractive for brands looking to connect with football fans, young audiences, and diaspora groups around the world. This kind of long form strategic content is a much more powerful way for influencers and athletes to connect with audiences rather than one-off endorsements or blithely putting their names on products. Tchouaméni isn't just being paid to read off lines but he's essentially a co-creator and co-producer that guides the content with his own personal touch. This content opportunity exists for all types of athletes and influencers who have deep connections to culture. I expect to see many many more examples of talent building their own strategic long form content that authentically captures the attention of young audiences. #media #content #entertainment #sports #interviews #football #soccer #marketing https://lnkd.in/e6pUH2wR

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French AI startup H raises $220M seed round „H is going to work on AI agents: automated systems that can perform tasks that are traditionally performed by human workers. The company’s minimalistic site states that H is working on “frontier action models to boost the productivity of workers.” Why so much money as seed capital? It‘s the founders heritage and, of course, the topic #ai itself. So, everyone who invest in this madness seems to be a „fool“. Probably, everyone who does not invest in this madness may comes out as an even bigger „fool“. Crazy thoughts…. https://lnkd.in/ejtFnjvc

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Which are ETH'CC top 3 must-attend side-events in Web3 infrastructure ? 🏅🏅🏅 Are you may still be wondering which event to attend? I’ve sifted through the extensive list of events at EthCC7, they are toooo maaanny ! 😵 But if I have to make a selection → as a Web3 Executive / C-level / VC → interested in Web3 infrastructure → want a positive balance for time spent / opportunities created my criteria : 1️⃣Good networking / high quality people such as VCs & corporates 2️⃣Good learnings / field experts in Web3 Infrastructure 3️⃣Good location, central and upscale in Brussels downtown. Here are my 3 top picks to spend 3 amazing days, full of opportunities. Let’s dive in! 🔍 🗓Sunday 07 July → EthCC & NFTFEST Let’s move a little out from Brussels, to a Hotel in the countryside. You will spend a full day packed with conferences, panels, and networking, focusing on Web3. Topics include AI, public goods, data interoperability, and Web3 social networks. You will meet companies such as SendingNetwork, SocialScan , Aethir , Network3 , and GM Network . *What’s for me ? Scout for tech innovations and meet promising startups ! **Opinion: Although this event is a bit far from downtown, the venue looks great! NFTfest is a great local community and I'm sure the day will be beautiful and the members welcoming! Link : https://lu.ma/f3v2tlyz 🗓Monday 08 July → Restaking & Infra Day Focused on the burgeoning technologies and solutions in restaking, this event is tailored for Web3 developers, tech founders, and enthusiasts. *What’s for me ? Deep dive into interoperability and security enhancements, learn about cutting-edge restaking advancements and assess startups like Everclear and ZettaBlock. **Opinion: Even thought It may feel too specialized for a broader audience, this is a niche but crucial area. The depth of focus here is impressive, making it a must-attend for those deeply involved in staking technologies. Link : https://lnkd.in/e88vrwmp 🗓Tuesday 09 July → VIP Dinner for Web3 Executives, Founders and VCs An exclusive dinner of pure networking for tech leaders, VCs, experts and entrepreneurs. Dinner topics include Web3 infrastructure, with cloud storage, DePin, staking, nodes, data security and mining. ​*What’s for me ? A high class dinner within Brussels downtown to connect with leaders in the Web3 infrastructure, such as OVHcloud (Europe's #1 cloud storage company) or Nodes International (3rd biggest validator) and CEO Club Global. **Opinion : This format is really for people that want to network in an intimate ambiance to foster relationships. Unlike larger events, this dinner provides a unique opportunity to connect with key industry players on a personal level. Link : https://lu.ma/jhlbskpi For VCs, entrepreneurs or Executives, those events are unparalleled opportunities for deep engagement and networking with the who's who of the Web3 world. 👉 What’s your top pick? Let’s discuss in the comments! #EthCC7 #Blockchain #web3

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This is it. In 1 week, the best talents from Europe will come and attend #adoptAI. This will be a unique event, gathering 2000 people on Tech, Business , Society. We have been working one year to make this happen in station F, the 5th of June. You can find the full program here: https://lnkd.in/e7MwJHTd Why AdoptAI? Because after 18 months of insane speed of evolution, its all about adoption now. The technology is impressive, but the real challenge is to make it live within the organizations. We will have the opportunity to discuss with those people who have successfully face those challenges: successful industrialisation at scale, control & monitoring to increase trust, change and acculturation in the teams will the topics addressed during this full day of deep conferences and demos! Among many very special leaders we have the great honor to host this year: - Christel Heydemann, CEO Orange - Christophe Périllat, CEO Valeo - Enrique Martinez, CEO Fnac Darty - Christophe Fanichet, PDG SNCF Voyageurs - Jerome Bruhat, CEO Robertet - Hervé Montjotin CEO Socotec - Virginie Dominguez EVP Digital, Data, IT Servier - Biljana Kaitovic Group CIO-CDO Engie - Alix Boulnois CDO Accor - Bernard GAVGANI Group CIO BNP - Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI

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#fundingalert 💼Company: Presti 💰Funding: $3.5 Million ⚡Round: Seed 👥Investors: Partech, Thibaud Elziere, Maxime Brousse, Abou Laraki, Rémi Lemonnier, and Julien Hirth. Presti is the #1 solution for high-quality product photos. Their mission is to transform the way companies create and utilize their product imagery. They bring a new way to stage your products at scale using AI. If you are a furniture company, it is time to use Presti. Presti is renowned as the leading AI platform for generating high-quality product photos. Boris Golden, Nabil Toumi, Damir Babacic, Hamza Bennis, Abdellah Lamrani Alaoui, Saad Bencherif   Read more - https://lnkd.in/gepbEKDi To share your startup story write us on - contact@startuprise.co.uk #Presti #AI #Highqualityproducts #fundraising #funding #startup #news

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With Google and Perplexity changing the search landscape with Generative AI, the big question is : How can I incorporate that into my own business' search experience? Today, we are happy to announce the launch of CustomGPT.ai SGE - a custom Search Generative Experience for your website. This no-code deployment option is available right now, at no additional cost, in your subscription plan. Read the announcement: Introducing CustomGPT.ai SGE - Custom Search Generative Experience For Your Website. https://lnkd.in/ghizNFr8 This new deployment option vastly improves your website search experience, giving searchers quick context-aware AI answers beyond traditional blue links. Early testers who have deployed SGE are seeing excellent metrics on search pages -- especially in cases where traditional search fails (e.g. "No results found"). SGE also brings the power of conversational natural language queries (like ChatGPT) into your search experience, and supports 92 languages. The best part: You get this new state-of-the-art in Search using no-code, no developers and no technical expertise required.

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What is the current situation of AI development in France compared to the rest of the world? What are its ambitions for the next five years? The French Artificial Intelligence Commission published a report that includes 25 recommendations, representing an overall commitment of 27 billion euros over the next five years in five main categories: collective appropriation, training and research; deployment of AI at the service of citizens; technological and industrial investment; dissemination of AI in the economy; and French, European, and global governance. Very interesting report, worth reading!

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