Moonletter Summer Edition 2020
SPOTLIGHT
Find here all the updates about Moonshot-Internet
IT'S OFFICIAL !
MOONSHOT-INTERNET JOINS THE 7th PROMOTION 2020 OF THE WELCOME CITY LAB
Click to discover more [FRANÇAIS]
Check out how our CSO, Cedric introduced Moonshot-Internet efficiently in only 3 minutes.
Back to the full virtual launch here [FRANÇAIS]
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TOUR MAG - Le Welcome city Lab dévoile sa nouvelle promotion
L'ECHO TOURISTIQUE - Welcome City Lab : ses nouvelles startups sont...
TOUR HEBDO - Top départ pour les 21 startups de la 7ème promotion
🎊 WE WELCOMED NEW MEMBERS ! 🎊
The Moonshot-Internet team keep growing with the arrival of Tidiane & the appointment of Jérémy
We are proud to announce the appointment of Jeremy Saltiel as Chief Operating Officier !
Jeremy will maintain and enrich our quality of service to our partners and their customers. He will also ensure that we continue to push back our performance internally... until we reach the moon !
We are also happy to welcome Tidiane Cissé as Chief Analytics & Finance Officer !
Tidiane joins us as lead of the Actuariat and Finance department and above all to ensure that we keep making amazing prices on our more amazing products !
LATEST NEWS
Find here selected updates about the Tech sector worldwide
Societe Generale launches the 1st french digital bank card usable in case of theft or loss
In the event of loss or theft, receiving a new card usually takes up to 15 days and that is just as much time without means of payment for customers. No more stress after stopping its card thanks to this new service.[FRANÇAIS]
Lydia is launching the “small express loan” on its app thanks to Younited Business Solutions
On the one hand, Lydia, a French fintech specializing in mobile payments between individuals who recently raised 40 million euros from Tencent and which has 3.5 million users. On the other, Younited Credit, a personal loan platform. Together, the two companies are launching the “Petit Prêt Express”, a consumer loan allowing Lydia users to subscribe to a loan from their application. [ENGLISH]
Societe Generale announces the acquisition of Shine, the neobank for entrepreneurs
Shine is a neobank which provides banking and administration services to its clients and is available online seven days a week. The company serves more than 70 thousand clients and provides a business account that is completely online. Societe Generale has created more than one hundred dedicated business centers, as well as extended its range of services for business clients, in line with the strategic focus of the Group’s development plans. [ENGLISH]
Alipay allows pet owners to buy insurance by using facial recognition on their cats and dogs
To create a profile, a user will be asked to take several close-up photos of their pet and their pet’s nose, which will allow the AI platform to create a biometric template for the animal based on its nose print. In that regard, animal experts believe that the skin patterns of a dog’s nose are as unique to dogs as fingerprints and faces are to humans. As a result, AI technology can be used to match a dog to its insurance profile in a veterinary setting, with Alipay claiming that its solution has an accuracy rate above 99 percent. [ENGLISH]
‘Insurtech’ Lemonade Stock More Than Doubles on First Day of Trading
The surge of the Lemonade shares by 139% in the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday made it the most successful IPO of an American company this year. But like other recent IPOs, Lemonade's has its share of reservations, even from specialists in these kinds of deals. Venture capitalist Bill Gurley, one of Silicon Valley's most famous VCs, is skeptical of the financial deal, considering Lemonade to be poorly valued previously and even believes that "the system is broken." From one of Uber's investors, the sentence is harsh ... [ENGLISH]
Travel In France: Discover The New French Actor In Online Booking
For the founders of Travel in France, a place is to be taken after the end of Bedycasa, which was a French Airbnb. The young site hopes to seduce some of the many French people who plan to go on vacation in France this summer. The four start-ups behind the project have a total of 400,000 travellers welcomed and a sales volume of over 50 million euros in 2019. [FRANÇAIS]
IT'S VACATION TIME !
The Moonshot-Internet team wishes you all a wonderful summer and see you in September for lots of surprises !!
