May 15, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
Formerly known as Novapost, French startup PeopleDoc raised a $17.5 million round led by Accel Partners. Existing investors Alven Capital and Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet’s Kernel Investissements also participated. PeopleDoc lets you paperlessly manage all your HR...
Apr 12, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
Reuters Germany’s Symrise (SY1G.DE), the world’s fourth largest scents and flavours company, has made a binding offer to acquire French food ingredient maker Diana Group in a deal that would expand its activities into the pet food market. Symrise did not...
Apr 3, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
(Reuters) – April 3, 2014 French private equity firm Ardian, recently spun off from insurer AXA, has raised 500 million euros ($688 million) for small-cap investments. The buyout group closed its Expansion Fund III after raising 450 million from investors and...
Mar 28, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 28, 2014 French startup Sigfox raised a Series B round of $20.6 million (€15 million) from IDInvest and BPIFrance. Existing investors (Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures, Ixo and Intel Capital) also participated. As a reminder, Sigfox wants to create an...
Mar 20, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
TechCrunch March 21, 2014 The Paris-based European childcare platform Yoopies has acquired local competitor (and neighbour) Yokoro to expand the range of homecare services offered via its marketplace. As it stands, Yoopies matches parents with sitters in a bid to take...
Feb 20, 2014 | France, News, Western Europe
PARIS, Feb 20 (Reuters) – French property group Gecina has reached a preliminary deal to sell the Beaugrenelle shopping mall in Paris for 700 million euros ($960 million) to a group of private investors, the company said on Thursday. Gecina has been selling off...
