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Building Europe's Next Billion Dollar Businesses: Icera's Story

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on December 7, 2010

British fabless chip company Icera's story  contains important lessons for companies wishing to become global giants. Europe has deep strengths in hard core technology. And now it has a new generation of managers that have already been through the experience once of building companies in Europe and have no need to cash out early. It has investors ready to step up and fund great entrepreneurs with great technologies. But it is a long haul for Europe's billion dollar babies and all the more so for capital-intensive semiconductor businesses.Read more

France's Rising Tech Stars

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on July 8, 2009

The European Tech Tour Association served up France’s best start-ups to 60 venture capitalists from the U.S. and Europe during a hectic 48 hour road trip. Click “read more” to see the video and read the story.Read more

French open source vendor raises $12 million

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on January 27, 2009

 French open source data integration vendor Talend announced on January 26 the closure of $12 million of Series C funding from investors AGF Private Equity and Balderton Capital. The amount raised is significant enough but is all the more remarkable given the current economic climate and tightening restrictions within the credit market. For Talend, the new investment together with the company's impressive 2008 growth record provide strong indicators that data integration is an area ripe for OS development and investment, according to technology consultancy Ovum.

 

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