eFounders
eFounders is a startup studio[1] founded in France and Belgium[2] in 2011.[3][4][5]
History[edit]
In 2015, the startup studio raised 6 million euros.[6][7] A second round of fundraising followed in 2016, with 5 million euros raised from investors.[6][8] eFounders had created 9 startups by the end of 2016.[6]
In 2018, six of eFounders' startups had raised 100 million euros:[9] Spendesk, Aircall, Forest, Front, Slite, and Station;[1][3][4] other startups had joined the Y Combinator program.[10] In April 2018, the startup TextMaster became eFounders' first release when it sold to Technicis.[2][4][11] eFounders later sold Hivy to Managed by Q and Mention to NewsDesk.[12][2]
In 2019, eFounders' startups had post-money valuation of $541 million and generated a combined $67 million in annual recurring revenue.[13] By July 2020, eFounders had launched 25 companies.[14][15] Those startups raised $148 million in 2020 and had a total valuation of $1.5 billion.[1][14]
Startups[edit]
eFounders has launched the following companies:
- Aircall: business phone system[1][16]
- Bonjour: commercial management platform[1][16]
- Briq: employee engagement platform[1][16]
- Canyon: document management for legal teams[17]
- Collective: product for freelancers[17]
- Crew: workflows and management for new hires and job applications[17]
- Cycle: SaaS for product teams[3]
- Equify: equity management platform[3]
- Folk: contact management platform[3][16]
- Forest: universal back-office for developers[3][16]
- Foxintelligence: market intelligence platform[3][16]
- Front: collaborative platform for corporate email management[3][16]
- Hivy: office management platform[3][16]
- Illustrio: customizable image bank[3][16]
- Kairn: task-management platform[18][17]
- Mailjet: marketing and transactional email platform[3][16]
- Mention: social media monitoring tool[3][16]
- Multis: B2B crypto-bank[3]
- Once: story creation platform for business communication[3]
- Slite: note taking application for companies[3][16]
- Spendesk: SaaS enterprise expense management[3][16]
- Station: browser for professional use[3][16]
- Swan: Banking-as-a-Service platform[3]
- TextMaster: online translation service[3][16]
- Upflow: management platform for unpaid invoices[3][16]
- Yousign: electronic signature management[3]
- Zenvest: club deal management platform[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Augusto, Hadrien (2020-07-02). "Le " Startup studio " eFounders s'envole au premier semestre". Presse-citron (in français). Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Dans les coulisses d'eFounders, la fabrique à pépites". Maddyness - Le Magazine sur l’actualité des Startups Françaises (in français). 2019-07-23. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 "8 ans après sa création, quel bilan pour eFounders ?". FrenchWeb.fr (in français). 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chabal, Audrey (2018-07-16). "EFounders : " La Boîte Qui Crée Des Boîtes " Construit Sa Galaxie". Forbes France (in français). Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ "eFounders' portfolio exceeds $100 million ARR, with over $1 billion valuation". Tech.eu. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "eFounders lève 5 millions d'euros pour créer 8 nouveaux champions des logiciels BtoB". Maddyness - Le Magazine sur l’actualité des Startups Françaises (in français). 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ Guerrier, Philippe (2015-06-23). "La "startup studio" eFounders lève six millions auprès Oleg Tscheltzoff (Fotolia)". ITespresso.fr (in français). Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ "Startup studio eFounders raises $5.3 million because it can't get enough of SaaS". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ "Les entreprises d'Efounders ont levé 100 millions d'euros depuis janvier". Le Soir Plus (in français). 2018-05-31. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ↑ Boogar, Liam (2018-09-04). "The hottest startups in Paris in 2018". Wired UK. Retrieved 2020-11-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bregeras, Guillaume (2018-05-30). "Efounders franchit les 100 millions d'euros levés en 2018". Les Echos Executives (in français). Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ↑ Charlot, C. (2019-10-08). "Où va eFounders, le start-up studio belge devenu "milliardaire"?". Site-Trends-FR. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ "Meet eFounders' next batch of startups that want to redefine the future of work". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Portfolio companies of startup studio eFounders have raised $148M this year". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ Bregeras, Guillaume (2020-07-01). "Start-up studio : EFounders dopé par l'accélération de la digitalisation du travail". Les Echos Executives (in français). Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 16.11 16.12 16.13 16.14 16.15 "Startup studio eFounders is gaining some serious traction". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 "eFounders unveils its next batch of enterprise SaaS startups". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- ↑ "Kairn is a new task manager focused on speed". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
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