Tagged: france

November 7, 2013 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

The leader on the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending market in France, PRÊT D’UNION has raised €10 Million in a new financing round led by Schibsted, owner of Leboncoin.fr and a shareholder in 20 Minutes France. This brings PRET D’UNION’s total funding to over €18 Million since… Read More

October 16, 2013 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Paris based bank BNP Paribas and French crowdfunding platform Ulule are working together to sponsor an outreach tour in France.  The roadshow will visit 30 French communities and will aid in growing public awareness about the power of crowdfunding.  The tour runs from October 9th… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 3:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perfect Match for Apple iPad. As soon as we watched the Kickstarter pitch video provided by the ISKN team you could see the product was going to be a crowdfunding hit.  This smart iPad cover does everything you want it to do.  Their goal was… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 11:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Simplon.co is “an accelerated factory for web developers and digital entrepreneurs” based in France that aims to empower youth through web development apprenticeships. The outfit has now raised over $21,000, meeting their goal in a crowdfunding campaign on Ulule. Paying those who have been trained or… Read More

September 8, 2013 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima – which was previously called “Plug”-  closed today on Kickstarter having crowdfunded an amazing $1,229,074 with the support of almost thirteen thousand backers.  The device had an original goal of $69,000 which seems paltry in retrospect. The Kickstarter project had to alter the name… Read More

June 3, 2013 @ 8:29 am By LeMonde  |  

As everyone knows, the current recession is more tolerable than the one in 2008 and France will soon be better, the unemployment curve is going to reverse and confidence will return . But beyond the “wishful thinking” and hype, there is no urgency to continue and expand the structural reforms in favor of growth? Naturally. Among… Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 2:05 pm By Rude Baguette  |  

KissKissBankBank has long been a success story of the French startup world – its crowdfunding platform for creative projects is doing well, and their business model is working well for them – revenue from the projects themselves (they keep a percentage), plus sponsorship. When we spoke… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

French Crowdfunding Guide Released. The government of France has released a guide to crowdfunding.  Pierre Moscovici, Minister of Economy and Finance; Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Productive Recovery, and Fleur Pellerin, Minister for Small and Medium Enterprise, have jointly announced the publication  of the Guide du… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding is trendy. This new means of finding funds to see a project trough is developing fast thanks to the internet. In the beginning the movement benefited artists and writers who saw their music or literary compositions rejected by advisors and publishing houses. From this… Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 6:23 am By RFI  |  

French museums and monuments are some of the most visited in the world. None of them is getting any younger, and many need restoration and renovations. With budget cuts across all parts of the government, French cultural institutions are turning to new ways of raising… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 9:14 am By NYTimes  |  

PARIS — In the early rush to turn crowd-funding online into a new source of public revenue to buy everything from medieval ivory statues in France to a gallery for dinosaur bones in Canada there’s a cautionary tale: It doesn’t always work. The Louvre is… Read More

December 24, 2012 @ 8:15 am By New York Times  |  

PARIS — The crass term for it is begging, but the French prefer a loftier description: “participatory financing.” For as little as a single euro even the most ordinary art connoisseur can join the fund-raising fraternité that is working to restore the dome of the… Read More

December 19, 2012 @ 1:01 am By JD Alois  |  

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QzvamO6i8A] (Staff Translation) Numerous project founders are turning to Crowdfunding platforms. Adapted to independent or associated projects, this financing method is also open to start-ups from various sectors, however the concept is still not widely adopted in France. Thanks to Crowdfunding, Anatbio, a French… Read More

December 8, 2012 @ 4:47 pm By Forbes  |  

I first saw them in a newspaper ad: two figures, carved from ivory. Elongated. Delicate. Their hair, wavy. The folds of their gowns carved in refined detail. One, cradling a book. The other, blindfolded, head down. Both stunningly beautiful. The ad invites any reader to… Read More

December 5, 2012 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

World’s Largest Crowdfunding Platform Launches New Currencies, Languages & Localized Experiences SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Indiegogo, the largest global crowdfunding platform, announces new offerings in key global markets — including local currencies, languages and localized search and discovery experiences. Some of… Read More

December 4, 2012 @ 5:58 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The eco-friendly cosmetics enterprise “Jeanne M”, barely one year after its inception and the launch of its line “Hélixir” for mature skins, is requesting capital via crowdfunding, still a rare or even unheard of concept in this region.  Individuals interested in participating in the campaign published on the “Finance utile” platform have until December… Read More

December 1, 2012 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Crowdfunding, tuns out to be a surprisingly powerful tool to finance all of your projects. Here is how it works : Present your project to the public on a specific website and be convincing enough so that the cumulative power of many small or large… Read More

November 29, 2012 @ 1:02 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The Belgian Crowdfunding Service AppsFunder has a French version. It allows individuals to invest in mobile app development projects. Hence, the Belgian Crowdfunding Site dedicated to mobile apps is now available in France. Founded by Pascal de Keyser, AppsFunder targets mobile apps developers (iOS… Read More

November 25, 2012 @ 3:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The crowd, in financing projects close to its heart, becomes the decision maker, the financier and a partial benefactor when the project is a success. Gustave Le Bon wrote: ” the real democratic success is not lowering the elite to the level of… Read More

November 15, 2012 @ 3:11 am By FrenchWeb  |  

(Staff Translation) Crowd Funding, a new source of financing is gaining momentum and increasing available means for entrepreneurs to create and develop their activities.  Frenchweb is hence proposing to investigate these various tools to better understand the new concepts and how they work in action. Marc Thouvenin, CEO de of… Read More