Snapshot of the Axeleo 2019 year and best wishes for 2020!
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5 min readDec 30, 2019
As the holiday season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and those who have helped to shape our business. It’s been quite a year for us all!
We have been pleased to starting working with Hyperlex, Joko, Datahawk, Bliink and InUse, while supporting our portfolio companies reaching Series A, like Alsid, Jenji and Trustpair.
We hope that 2019 has been just as memorable for you, your colleagues and your loved ones. We look forward to working with you in 2020. Wishing you a prosperous and happy New Year!
- Eric Burdier, General Partner & CEO at Axeleo
January
- Ségolène Finet, CMO at Talentsoft, gave was a Club speaker about scaling marketing and team. 👉 Click here
- Guillaume Maron, Co-founder & VP Engineering at Dashlane, was a Club speaker about scaling a tech team. 👉 Click here
February
- Axeleo Capital has a new team member with Shana Hudes joining the team as VC Analyst. 👉 Click here
- Yogosha (#cybersecurity) hired Fanny Fogreau as COO. 👉 Click here
- 365Talents (#HRtech) became “Co-sell Ready” with our partner Microsoft. 👉 Click here
- Jenji (#FinTech), partners with OUI.sncf allowing you to automatically process your travel expenses using Jenji’s solution. 👉 Click here
- Selma Chauvin, VP Marketing at PeopleDoc, was a Club speaker about B2B marketing best practices and tips. 👉 Click here
March
- Axeleo Capital reaches €45M under management and announced the closing of its first fund Axeleo Capital I. The aim is to fund 8 to 10 new seed-stage Enterprise Technology startups every year. 👉 Click here
- Adagio (#adtech) published a great market statement about “advertising attention” as the main KPI the advertising industry should be focused on👉 Click here
April
- Alsid (#cybersecurity) raised a €13M Series A, to secure the active directory of large companies. It’s the biggest European Series A in cybersecurity. This round will allow Alsid to expand in APAC and in the U.S. 👉 Click here
- Alsid has also been helped by Axeleo in order to hire amazing senior managers to structure the company, including Jérôme Robert as CMO, and Johann Demangeot as VP Sales.
May
- Citalid (#cybersecurity) raised a €1.2M Seed round with Axeleo Capital, for its new approach to cyber risks that financially evaluate cyber risks for each client. 👉 Click here
- H7, the biggest incubator in Lyon, opens its doors, with Axeleo as one of the four founding members. 👉 Click here
- Axeleo team is growing with Anne-Clémence Barbier joining on Corporate innovation program. 👉 Click here
June
- Hyperlex (#legaltech) raised a €4M series A with Axeleo Capital, for its contract management solution using artificial intelligence. 👉 Click here
- Deepki (#proptech), Axeleo alumni, raised €8M Series A to accelerate
the environmental transition in the real estate sector. 👉 Click here - Berenice Mey, ex-Chief People Officer at Contentsquare, was a speaker for Club dedicated to HR best practices. 👉 Click here
- 365Talents became Gartner Cool Vendor. 👉 Click here
July
- Joko (#retailtech) raised a €1.6M Seed round with Axeleo Capital, to transform credit cards into loyalty cards with its PSD2 integration. 👉 Click here
- Apicil launched a startup acceleration program for healthcare startup at H7, thanks to Axeleo. 👉 Click here
- iFollow (#robotics) unveiled iLogistics, a robot able to move autonomously roll cages and pallets in warehouses. 👉 Click here. Discover the amazing video showcasing the robot’s tremendous capabilities 👉 Watch here
August
- Datahawk (#retailtech) raised a €1.2M Seed round with Axeleo Capital, for its SaaS platform to help e-merchants grow on Amazon. 👉 Click here
- Axeleo Capital signed the United Nations charter on Principles For Responsible Investment (PRI). 👉 Click here
- Clustaar (#chatbot), published a great market statement about “Why are chatbots and live chats going to merge” 👉 Click here
September
- Jenji raised a €6M Series A with Axeleo Capital, for its expense management software. 👉 Click here
- Trustpair (fintech) raised a €4M Series A with Axeleo Capital, to fight IBAN fraud. 👉 Click here
- Bliink (adtech) raised a €2.5M Seed round with Axeleo Capital, for its visual intelligence solution dedicated to in-image advertising. 👉 Click here
- InUse (smartindustry), an industrial maintenance solution for factories, also joins Axeleo 👉 Click here
- B2B Rocks, the international conference organized by Axeleo, gathered 60 European speakers from scale-up and 650 B2B & SaaS startups for an amazing day of knowledge sharing and networking at Station F. 👉 Click here
- B2B Rocks, in partnership with Les Echos, published an article about inspiring women impacting the B2B ecosystem. 👉 Click here
- Hyperlex became the AI solution for the APRIL group. 👉 Click here
- Yogosha designated Christophe Marnat VP Strategy and Partnership. 👉 Click here
October
- Axeleo Capital signed the SISTA charter to promote females in the tech ecosystem. 👉 Click here
- Eric Burdier, Axeleo’s co-founder & CEO, published in Les Echos an opinion page about “Start-up accelerators: towards an inevitable consolidation?” 👉 Click here
- Sylvain Utard, VP Engineering and first employee at Algolia was a Club speaker about scaling a tech department organization. 👉 Click here
- Tilkee (#EnterpriseSoftware) hired, with the support of Axeleo, Sebastien Cochard as VP Sales and Operations. 👉 Click here
November
- Hyperlex has been chosen by Geodis, to ensure the overall monitoring of its contractual commitments. 👉 Click here
- Veronique Riccobene Mira, Head of CSM at Algolia, was a Club speaker about building and scaling a Customer Success team and culture. 👉 Click here
December
- Citalid won the Jury’s price at the FIC (International Cybersecurity Forum). 👉 Click here
- Eric Burdier, shared the story behind the creation of Axeleo and Axeleo Capital while invited by the podcast “Dans la tête d’un VC”. 👉 Click here
- Axeleo is elected “Best Accelerator Program” in France by Global Startups Awards. Vote for us to become the n°1 in Europe 👉 Vote here
