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Agenda
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France : a tremendous ecosystem
for startups
La French Tech :
a governement initiative to boost startups
La French Tech Thailand : a Franco-Thai
business community for tech and startups

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France :
a tremendous ecosystem
for startups

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#2 IN THE WORLD
FOR IPTV
€3.7B REVENUE
IN 2013
INVENTOR AND
WORLDWIDE LEADER
OF SMART CARDS
€2.4B REVENUE IN 2013
ACQUIRED BY IBM FOR
$340M IN 2009
ACQUIRED BY RAKUTEN
FOR €180M IN 2010
ACQUIRED BY SAP FOR €4.8B
BIGGEST SOFTWARE
ACQUISITION IN EUROPE
>20% OF SAP REVENUE
INVENTOR OF PRIVATE SALES
>€1.B SALES (2013)
>$4B VALUATION
INVENTOR OF AD RETARGETING
$2B VALUATION UPON IPO
WORLDWIDE REACH
$160B ACQUISITION
BY ORANGE GROUP
LEADING MUSIC PLATFORM
>$150M RAISED
OVER $300M SALES
$50M INVESTMENT FROM
ACCEL PARTNERS
LEADER IN OPEN SOURCE
$40M RAISED IN 2014
WORLDWIDE LEADER IN
HUMANOID ROBOTICS
$100M ACQ. BY SOFTBANK
DEVELOPER OF AORTIC VALVE
REPLACEMENT
>$700M ACQ. BY MEDTRONIC
ONE OF THE BIGGEST
ACQUISITION BY ADOBE IN
EUROPE ($600M)
CONNECTED HEALTH INNOVATOR
$30M RAISED IN 2013
>500 PEOPLE
JUST ANNOUNCED THE ACQ. OF
JEUXVIDEOS.COM FOR >$120M
BIG DATA STORAGE LEADER
STRONG DEVELOPMENT IN THE US
TALENT MANAGEMENT SUITE
$20M RAISED IN 2013
INNOVATOR IN CONNECTED
OBJECTS NETWORK
$20M RAISED IN 2014 (INC. INTEL)
WEB SECURITY INNOVATOR
$22M RAISED IN 2014
(INC. BESSEMER)
EUROPEAN LEADER IN SOCIAL
COMMERCE
INVESTMENT FROM CONDE NAST
INNOVATING IN CLOUD ENTERPRISE
SOLUTIONS
$18M RAISED IN 2014 WITH ACCEL
INNOVATING IN CLOUD ENTERPRISE
SOLUTIONS
$18M RAISED IN 2014 WITH ACCEL
DEVELOPER OF THE FIRST
ARTIFICIAL HEART
LISTED IN PARIS
GLOBAL EXPERT IN LASER SYSTEMS
$37M TRANSACTION
Source: Go4Venture / Clipperton France
Success driving success

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OCTOBER 2013: Criteo has a market valuation
of 1.69B at th IPO price in NASDAQ

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France is the #2 destination for
private equity in Europe
Source: Go4Venture / Clipperton France

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Increasingly dynamic fundraising
Source: Go4Venture / Clipperton France
• 5 companies raised
$100M+ since 2012:
• 6 companies raised $30M+ since 2014:
• Recent $100M + IPO: Cellectis $212M (Nasdaq 2015)
DBV Technologies $100M (2014 Nasdaq)
Criteo $251M (2013 Nasdaq)
Viadeo $ 112M (Euronext)
Sigfox $112 M - Feb 2015
Blablacar $100 M - Jul 2014
Sarenza $100 M - Jan 2014
OVH $450 M - Mar & Nov 2013
Deezer $112 M - Oct 2012
BlaBlaCar $117 M
Teads (adtech) $27 M
Menvinvest (e-commerce) $30 M
Neon (cleantech): $53 M
Finsecur (hardware): $33 M
Erytech (biotech) $32 M
Pixium Vision (biotech) : $37 M
2014
2015

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World leading tech firms
Sigfox – Global cellular connectivity for the IoT
Withings – Personal weather station
Netatmo – Digital performance advertising
Parrot – Voice recognition for drones
Drivy – Peer 2 peer car rental service
Blablacar – Linking up drivers & passengers
La Ruche qui dit oui – Sourcing & selling
local food through social networks
Cellectis – Gene-editing company
DBV Technologies – Allergies healing
Carmat – Designing artificial hearts
Pixium – Bionic vision for the blind
Big Data Bio Tech
IoT
Sharing
Economy
Criteo – Digital performance advertising
Teads – Reinventing video advertising
Talend – Connecting data-driven firms

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Successful entrepreneurs turned investors
and mentors, like Xavier Niel
In 2016 La Halle Freyssinet will be the largest business
incubator in the world welcoming more than 1000 startups

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Numerous accelerators and incubators
130.000 SQM incubators
including established incubators such as NUMA , The Family, etc.
+4000 public incubators
More than 100 private accelerator programs

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French Tech growth
French
Startups
+43 % of revenue
39 % generated abroad
+100 % of WoW revenue
+22 % of employees
* Barometer 2014, France Digitale/EY

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La French Tech :
A governement initiative to
boost startups

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Public money to finance startups
and innovation
€5bn
The most business friendly tax treatment of R&D in the world
Credit Impôt Recherche:
€ 5.2bn of corporate tax savings for R&D and innovation
17,000 business recipients each year including
2,000+ foreign companies
to boost strategic sectors : big data,
cloud computing, nano-electronics, digital health care,
medical bio-technology, green materials…
€3.5bn
injected into VC firms and innovation financing via
Bpifrance
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French governement is actively
supporting innovation
In 2013 the French Government launched
La French Tech, an initiative to support
& promote globally the French Startup Ecosystem

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NOVEMBER 2013: Fleur Pellerin, French Minister for Digital Economy
presents La French Tech initiative
JUNE 2014: the French President gives full
support to the French Tech initiative

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A new generation of public policies
The “French Tech” initiative: a shared effort by French Tech
entrepreneurs and the French government which supports them
A new crowdfunding law, therefore to get the initial
capital to kick-start their venture.
Startups can now raise up to 1M€ in crowdfunding
200 M€
15 M€
investment for startup accelerators
to promote « French tech » ecosystem
and startups internationally
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9 French Tech cities in a network with Paris

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Support to Global Entrepreneurship
Paris French Tech Ticket
An international startup contest offering 150 Non-French
Entrepreneurs (on a yearly-basis) a “Welcome Pack” to launch
their startups in Paris :
French Tech Hubs in San Francisco, Boston, New York,
Tel Aviv and soon in many other Metropoles.
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At Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show
in January 2015, 25 % of all start-ups attending were French

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La French Tech Thailand:
a Franco-Thai business
community for tech & startups

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Since 2015
 We started building a Franco-Thai community of
business and of interest for tech & startups in Thailand
 Our goal is to gather Thai, French and all people working
or interested in the tech environment

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La French Tech’s Spirit
 We focus on people with strong appetence
for technology & entrepreneurship
 We want to develop business but also
mutual assistance & partnership spirit
 All persons are welcome :
entrepreneurs engineers investors web designers
students associationsmedia
developerspublic entities etc.

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Opening Event Last Feb. 17th
Over 120 guests

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Social Networks…
Over 200 members

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… And Press Coverage
A growing reputation in
French & Western media

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Our Monthly Event:
Le Mercredi de la French Tech
A casual networking night starting
by a 15 min presentation on a business topic

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Our Bi-Anual Event
Famous speakers
& web experts
Our 1st bi-anual event took place last Feb. 17th
We are now preparing our 2nd major event for the end of the year
Join us now! We hope to see you soon!

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La French Tech: an open door to the
French ecosystem

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La French Tech: an open door to the
French ecosystem

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We want to go further…
Strengthening our links with Thai businesses1
Linking-up our members2
Integrating investors in order to fund projects3
Launching a Franco-Thai incubator4

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Join us now!
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Merci !
Axel BARATTE
axel.baratte@businessfrance.fr
Eric de GHELLINCK
proactiveasean@gmail.com
Stephane LAMBERT
sl@bagamail.com