Appointment Every Sunday at the end of the afternoon For our new column Low Frequency where the editorial staff of Frenchweb.fr shares the weak signals it noted during the week.
Europe, dead angle of French VCs?
A Parisian investor wondered a few days ago about the almost total absence of hexagonal funds in European champions like Revolut ($ 75 billion), Spotify (€ 120 billion) or Adyen (€ 53 billion).
Not only did he see, but we made the same observation with the latest SCALE-UPS wave: Legora ($ 116 million), N8N ($ 79.3 million), Elevenlabs, Vitio ($ 116 million) or Fyxer ($ 10 million) were financed without French capital. Only exceptions: Lovable ($ 222.5 million) with Emblem,, Thomas Cuvelier and Olivier Pomel, and Synthesia ($ 336 million) where we also find Olivier PomelCo -founder of Datadog.
SUPERCALLECE Europe
France inaugurated in Mont Valérien the classified defense, the most powerful supercaluler in Europe and the third world. Completely isolated from the Internet and maintained by secret-defense authorized personnel, it will be used for intelligence, underwater acoustic war and combat robotization.
For its part, Germany launched Jupiter, First European Exascale SuperCalculator designed by Atos. With 24,000 NVIDIA chips and funded up to 500 million euros per Berlin and the European Union, it aims for civil research, with applications in artificial, climate and health intelligence.
Information war: an unexpected alliance between Dassier and Thieulin
Right, Arnaud Dassierformer digital strategist of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. Left, Benoît Thieulinex-digital director of Ségolène Royal and former president of the CNNUM. Two opposite obediences but the same alert: France remains spectator in front of the information war waged by Russia.
They call to break with the defensive posture to adopt an offensive doctrine and invest massively in the detection of hostile campaigns, mobilize civil and private relays, and build positive and emotional stories. Their observation is clear, without means or unified strategy, France will not be able to catch up in the face of a Russian propaganda machine financed up to $ 2 billion per year.
Revolut: the appointment of Frédéric Oudéa eclipses his new management team in Europe
Revolut has formalized this week the composition of its bodies for Western Europe. If the arrival of Frédéric Oudéa To the chairmanship of the board of directors monopolized attention, she relegated to the background the presentation of an extended team
Thus the crew consists of Brigitte Cantaloube (independent administrator), Pierre Decote (Chief Risk Officer), Siddhartha Jajodia (Group Treasury and Credit Director) and Pascal Pincemin (Independent administrator). The executive committee revolves around Jean Lecomte (Director General France), Kawtar Adlani (Chief Compliance Officer), Jean-Sébastien Goetschy (Chief Risk Officer Emea), Marion Goyenetche (Head of Legal), Bastien Moreno (Chief Financial Officer) and Aurélie Ranouil (Chief Operations Officer). This new team must obtain the request for bank approval and support the European expansion of the neobank.
Makipeople settles in New York
His CEO, Maxime Legardez Naughty, settles with his family in New York to make Makipeople a world HR leader. Already 30 % of turnover is achieved in the United States, where contracts are three times greater and sales cycles twice as fast in Europe.
From hacker of the pink minitel to billionaire of telecoms, behind the scenes of the ascent of Xavier Niel, the French tech loses its voice
The podcast Revelationvery well documented by Radio France’s investigation unitand devoted to the backstage of the ascent of Xavier Niel, had not aroused any echo in the French -speaking tech ecosystem.
Despite good listening results, no comments, no public reaction on social networks, ultimately the real revelation, is that may be that on the side of the FrenchTech, no one wants to bite the hand that finances it today … or tomorrow.
At the other end of the spectrum, if the French tech press ignites again to The Sandbox, The American scene no longer even considers it useful to mention the crash of the “French metavers”, enough to put the place given to the unicorns of the FrenchTech.
Conversely Smart Recruiters Created by French Jérome Ternynck And bought by the German SAP, is the big forgotten. If the amount of the transaction has not been revealed, remember that the valuation of the last round was $ 1.5 billion. A new CP and it should start again.
EBSP: Washington pushes for direct access to European biometric data
At the end of August, the debate was tense around the project Enhanced Border Security Partnership (Ebsp), which would give the United States almost immediate access to the European Union police and migration databases. Washington conditions the maintenance of the Waiver program visa on this agreement, presented as a tool to combat organized crime and terrorism. If several MEPs denounce an attack on the GDPR and digital sovereignty, Brussels tries to obtain a reciprocity on data sharing …
Concretely, this amounts to providing the United States with the keys to our biometric files, in exchange for the right to continue to shop in New York without a visa.
Naarea, the nuclear window in bankruptcy of liquidity
Placed in receivership on September 3, NaareaFrench nugget of micro -reacchers with melted salts supported by France 2030, seeks buyer by September 24. Despite 10 million euros of public money and letters of intention of investors for several hundred millions, the startup did not obtain any European funding, unlike its competitors Nuward, Newcleo (which also suffers from a need for funding) or Thorizon. A scathing setback for the French nuclear “new sector”.
End clap for The Next Web
The great Dutch tech mass had started in 2006 in a chapel of Amsterdam to reach 20,000 visitors to its peak, acquired in 2019 by the Financial Times The event will not have risen from the COVVID crisis and strong competition with the Websummit, Slush or even Vivatech. The end of a generation of European tech evangelists.
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