Olivier Mathiot

💥 Linkup annonces a 3M€ funding round to plug LLMs to high-quality content.    Much like the music industry before Spotify, AI applications today face hurdles in accessing quality content. In the early 2000s, people often turned to platforms like Pirate Bay to download music, but that came with legal risks, poor sound quality, and artists missing out on fair compensation. Similarly, today many AI tools depend on existing web frameworks like search engines and web scraping to collect information.   However, as the AI landscape evolves, these methods are proving less efficient and raising new concerns around legal compliance and fair use of copyrighted content.   Linkup aims to solve this problem by taking a new approach with premium content providers with both a legal and ethical consideration.   Delighted to support this top-notch team Philippe Mizrahi, Denis Charrier, Boris Toledano alongside Seedcamp, Motier Ventures, Kima Ventures OPRTRS CLUB and amazing BAs ! cc Sia Houchangnia, Nicolas Essayan, Christophe Raynaud, Noé Gersanois, Chloe Timsit, Alix François-Poncet, Axeleo Capital (AXC)

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I simply can't wait for this ! You are Invited to Meet The Entrepreneur Who Turned Startups into Exits -Not Once, but 12 TIMES! ✨ This Monday - a Virtual Session with *International Expert Gregory shepard. 🌎* The Webinar Will Provide Insights On: -EXACT Pitfalls That Kill 90% of Startups -The 7-Phase Methodology That Works -Insider Secrets to Attracting Investors -Proven Strategies for Fundraising Arieli Capital *Register Now:

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There a fewer and fewer public companies.  They were +8000 in the US in 1996 and are now only 4642.  That’s down 43%. How did this happened? You can explain this in many ways :  The regulation makes it increasingly difficult for a company to IPO VC & PE have be on the rise for the last decade Acquisitions are also on the rise. To give you a snapshot : 870 publics companies were acquired by one of the magnificient seven (google, apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia) And what’s the consequence? More and more companies, facing difficulties by IPO are drawn to VC & PE were there are more and more investors. Even though the private market lack transparency and available data, VC and PE firms have been working on tools to obtain data in ordre to make better investment décision. It’s the case for Earlybird or EQT Ventures. And also a lot of start-ups that are now working to create tools to help VC in their decision making process. So now the question is : will private markets one day have a sufficient data level for investors to make as informed decision as they would in public markets ? On my side I truly believe that in the upcoming years, we'll see the first quants VC. If you want to read some more : https://lnkd.in/eKFZuyeE

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"How can we position startups and innovation at the heart of Europe." 🔜 Looking fwd to a cool discussion around how we can speed up the launch, growth, and funding of amazing ideas and entrepreneurs. See you there! Maybe we can explore topics such as: 1. What are the current and upcoming challenges facing startups in Europe? 2. How can we strengthen the support (eco)system across countries? 3. What role do government policies play in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe/Belgium ? 4. How can we attract more talent & investment ? 5. What are the key components of a successful startup ecosystem, and how can they be replicated across Europe? 🙋🏽 Maybe more ? Thanks to the La French Tech Brussels / La French Tech team for the invitation. 🔥 #Startups #Innovation #Europe #Success

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Focus on the impact of Generative AI on the automotive industry: Transforming operations and driving innovation 👀 Latest XYZ Paris blog article available available in the comments

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Very inspiring female CEOs, @lidianejones and @sarahfranklin, talking at #websummit24 :‘Whether it’s engineering, leadership, or technology, there is not enough representation of women. To solve that: female mentors, the power of women supporting other women, is a crucial part of the journey’ Interviewer: What are the challenges you faced that men didn’t have to face? Sarah: How much time do we have…? Interviewer: 17 minutes Sarah: Not sure that’s enough to answer your question 😁 as there are many systemic and unconscious biases everywhere! ‘You will need to sacrifice many things in your life to become a female CEO, but you should never sacrifice what’s really important to you.’ ‘Many people will try to put you in a box, but there is no box—you can be whatever you want to be in your life.’ Don’t miss the full recording at the Web Summit App if you have access to it! #womenintech #careerdevelopment #femaleceo

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How do you build a strong positioning as a venture fund? How do you build credibility around your name? Today, we bring insights from two of the most well-known European VC funds. We invited Natasha Lytton, Director at Seedcamp, and Vincent Touati-Tomas, Head of Marketing at Northzone, to answer these questions below. Check out the full discussion on EUVC. Link in comments. 🔽 #venturecapital #angelinvesting #startupfunding #marketing #europe

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🚀 New Initiative born from Vectors Capital. Pavina Adunratanasee is leading the work from Vectors side. https://lnkd.in/gG2KSaXS We're honored to introduce #CatalyzeClimate, a first-of-a-kind Climate Finance Lab that aims to accelerate global #decarbonization and strengthen #climate resilience. 1️⃣ Our mission is to #mobilize innovative financing mechanisms, accelerate technology hashtag #deployment, and scale #climateinfrastructure via fostering cross-sector collaboration across hashtag #finance, #policy, and #industries. 2️⃣ We believe that #catalyticfinance can play a unique role through a combination of grants and blended capital in unlocking capital for bringing tech to market and scaling climate infrastructure.​ 3️⃣ Taking a differentiated approach, we are focused on: 1. Demonstrating Technological & Commercial Viability 2. Addressing Investment Gaps 3. Creating Market Platforms 4. Advocating for Supportive Policies 💸 Our goal is to mobilize funding commitment for $4 trillion a year that is required for the climate transition from the global financial system. ⚡To kick off the initiative, we’re happy to announce the Catalyze Climate Launch event in the #AsiaPacific region taking place in #Singapore in September followed by launch events in hashtag #SF and #LA. #SG roundtable will be “Bridging the Sustainable Financing Gap: Fostering US - APAC Partnerships for Emerging Climate Infrastructure Advancement.” ✌🏼If you’re a climate investor, lender, or asset allocator and would like to get involved please DM me. 💡 Backed by a team of financing, scientific, and technical experts; and most importantly taking an industrial lens to solving climate challenges: Naman Lahoti Wanwipa Siriwatwechakul Kreshna Y. Rahmat Sasilada Sirirungruang Meghan Oesterle, M.S. Daniel Paley Keyi (Nancy) Kang

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A must read for every founder (and investor) in B2B marketplaces. ⤵️ All credits to Fabrice Grinda + FJ Labs 👏🏽 https://lnkd.in/eB7uGzyH #firstdegree #founders #investors #whyrelationshipsmatter
#alwaysbelearning #sharingknowledge

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Tomorrow I’m lucky to be hosting a panel with three exceptional founders: - Gilles Gaillard - Co-founder of Animaj, raised 100m EUR (in equity and debt) in 2023 to build an AI-powered animation studio that counts 𝗮 stunning 15 billion (!) YouTube views per year. Animaj acquires animation and cartoon franchises to turn them into digital-first content and amplifies their distribution using AI. - Baptiste Jamin - Co-founder of Crisp IM, 42 alumni, also can be called the “King of Bootstrap”. He started building chatbots in 2015, 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗹. Crisp centralises all customer interactions through live chat, chatbots, and a shared inbox. Today Crisp serves over 600,000 companies without raising any funds. - Vincent SIMON - Co-founder of Relationchips and founder of Simundia. Vincent is a serial entrepreneur & investor who founded a coaching platform that raised over 15m EUR & is currently working on a no-code sales workflow platform. What do they have in common? They started their career as freelancers and worked their way up to become highly successful entrepreneurs. 👉 Join us at Le Wagon tomorrow at 7pm to hear their story. We’ll also host a networking session for you to meet people from our community who are working on projects that might interest you. 🔗Link to register in the comments.

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Time to step up Germany 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 Corporations have pledged to invest €15bn in France at the “Choose France” summit — an annual event held since 2018 to facilitate foreign investments in the country. A large chunk of the money will be dedicated to AI. Microsoft stole the show after announcing its largest investment in France to date, a €4bn cash envelope to build more data centres — and expand existing ones — across the country by the end of 2025. The focus is on increasing the capacity of GPUs, which are needed to run large AI models. Amazon also announced that it’ll invest €1.2bn to further develop its French cloud and AI infrastructure. Quantum computing was also on the agenda. IBM pledged to invest €45m to expand the company’s research efforts in France. Up to 50 quantum researchers and engineers will be recruited in the country in the next year.

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The "Trusted Investors Network", one European Commission’s new initiative just announced yesterday, reflect a sincere willingness to advancing deep tech innovations, crucial for enhancing the EU's competitiveness, especially against global tech leaders like the U.S. and China. The support for sectors such as artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, renewable energy and other emerging technologies aligns with efforts to boost environmental and social sustainability. By fostering innovation, the EU aims to build resilience in its industries while addressing environmental an social inequalities concerns. I believe that while this, as other European Commission’s initiatives are a positive step, there are some concerns about its approach, first and foremost the proof that it has worked in the past with likewiseinitiatives. We must accept nonetheless that there is nor political nor societal willingness in the EU to adopt more unregulated, fast-paced methods seen in the U.S., nor the state-controlled, top-down approach of China. These more measured, collaborative strategy may slow progress compared to its rivals, but it remains a more sustainable and socially aligned vision for Europe and will go anyway in the direction of a more homogeneous and unified innovation ecosystem. It's a matter of ensuring agility without compromising core values. And, hopefully, without losing the game. https://lnkd.in/dTBCN2C8

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Most recently, we wrote on the French #elections, EU #realestate and economic #growth. Read ⬇️ 📢 Exciting news! Our latest quarterly report highlights positive changes in the global economic landscape. We have upgraded 15 countries and downgraded two, indicating a potential recovery in global economic growth to +2.8% for 2024-25. In terms of sectors, we have upgraded 15 and downgraded eight, reflecting a slight cyclical improvement. Notably, #transportation and #energy sectors show improved outlooks, while the household equipment sector faces challenges. 🏢 The risk of stranded #assets in European commercial real estate is a growing concern. The revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive has increased scrutiny on Europe's buildings sector. While progress has been made towards emission-reduction goals, further efforts are required to decarbonize energy supply and increase energy efficiency through renovation. Our estimates indicate that approximately EUR165bn is needed for the renovation of non-residential real estate in EZ-4 countries to achieve the 1.5°C compliance target set for 2024. Failure to renovate could expose European banks' portfolios to EUR400bn worth of commercial real estate assets at risk of becoming stranded in the next decade. 🗳️ The upcoming French elections have investors on high alert. The potential outcomes could have a significant impact on the #markets. In the event of a hung parliament, we anticipate investors seeking buying opportunities, leading to a decrease in the risk premium on French assets. However, the possibility of a far-right or far-left government coming to power introduces two alternative market outcomes. https://lnkd.in/eNz6dw35 #Ludonomics #allianztrade #allianz

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I’m pleased to have contributed to Arianee’s position paper, "From A Production-Based to A Service-Based Economy: The Role of Tokenization in Decoupling Growth." This insightful paper tackles a topic close to my heart. This paper outlines numerous practical strategies for companies to progress on tackling overproduction while creating new economic opportunities. Thank you Arianee, Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel and of course my friend Francois Souchet for the opportunity to collaborate. #circulareconomy #technology #circularbusinessmodels #sustainability

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💡 Watch this video, in which the importance of shareholder voting in tackling the climate crisis is perfectly articulated by Mark van Baal from Follow This | Shareholders change the world.

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🚀 For the last 6 months, we've been working on a new programme to accelerate VCs raising their next fund... 🎙️ I am delighted to announce we are now live! Applications are now open to participate in the first programme for emerging VC managers based in Europe, providing fundraising workshops from fundraising experts, LP connections and world-class mentoring. We kick off the first cohort of 15 - 20 VCs in Q1 2025. 🧐 Fundraising is hard. Hard for founders. Even harder for VCs. There is a vacuum of fundraising support for funds, and there's never been a more difficult time to get one off the ground... So what do participating funds receive? 1️⃣ Warm introductions to Limited Partners and Family Offices 2️⃣ Fundraising templates 3️⃣ 10+ hours of world-class mentoring 4️⃣ Content delivered through workshops with a focus on fundraising 5️⃣ Strong peer community 6️⃣ Opportunity of an LP commit from our network Who are the mentors? 👥 VC mentors include founding partners from some of the most successful VCs in Europe such as LocalGlobe, Dawn Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Partech, Heartcore, Speedinvest, and many more. Collectively, they have raised over $11bn across 80 funds 🤯 👥 LP mentors include investors from some of the most active Limited Partners such as the BBB, KfW, Isomer and many more. Who is the programme for? 🚀 Emerging VCs (broadly those raising Funds I - III) based in Europe 💰 We expect applicants to already be exceptional investors, we will focus on making them exceptional fundraisers. How much does it cost? 💰 👉 It's completely free! With no hidden costs. We want to avoid selection bias and level the playing field for under-represented managers What is the time commitment? ⏲️ 👉 Designed to fit a General Partner's busy schedule, participants will attend at least 3 LP networking events, 6 days of high-impact workshops over a 3-month period and receive 10 hours of mentoring. How to apply? 🎯 👉 You can learn more & apply directly from our website 👉 All those applying will receive access to LP investor lists, fundraising templates and exclusive benefits from our partners. How will we select the funds? ⚖️ With the help of Blue Future Partners, our fund selection partner, we will select VCs with a differentiated strategy, a partner team with deep domain experience, and those that we believe will most likely become the next generation of top-tier funds. 🎗️ I researched and dilligenced all the VC service providers I was recommended, to select partners with a track record of supporting the Emerging Manager community. This programme would not have been possible without the support of: HFL as our fund admin partner 📕 Osborne Clarke as our legal partner 📃 Sage as our technology partner 🧑‍💻 Ballou as our PR partner 🎤 Leela Capital Regulatory Solutions as our regulatory partner 𝍍 Johnston Carmichael Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers as our accounting partner 🧾

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To all my network members who are running a #sustainability #startup or know someone with a mission, you folks are the true heroes, and I want to ensure your hard work is recognised not just on #EarthDay, but far beyond. That's why, at ETA Technologies, we're dedicated to contributing to your efforts by assisting those who are actively doing so in securing more funding. As a former VC, I understand the landscape inside and out. Amidst all the complexities, one truth consistently emerges: investors invest in people. This is where ETA comes in. We produce sophisticated and quantitative reports for investors, helping them identify the teams with the greatest potential. Let's change the game for now! Over the next week, all sustainability start-ups can receive a free report from us. This will provide insights into how investors perceive your team and what areas can be improved before you begin #fundraising. And if you've already opened your round, feel free to incorporate it into your outreach.

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