Our Programs
VentureOut Explore One-Week Market Exploration Programs
Meet decision makers in NYC
Meet 20 thought leaders, decision makers and investors in NYC in 3 days. Whether innovation officers at top corporates, the most active venture investors or CEOs of the most innovative startups, this program will super charge your network in NYC.
Meet influential investors
Meet over a dozen tier-1 venture capitalists and angel investors.Through VC office visits, one-to-one meetings and our pitch events, you will have the opportunity to learn from and pitch some of the world's leading tech investors.
Develop your advisor and mentor network
Through one-to-one mentoring and advisory sessions with serial entrepreneurs, investors and industry thought leaders, you will have an opportunity to gain insights and feedback to enable a transformation in your strategy, pitch and message. Build an actionable network of mentors and advisors that you can leverage for years to come.
Accelerate your sales and marketing machine
For those of us that have not been a VP of Sales or Marketing, we are currently running the largest company we have ever run. The knowledge required to build scalable and replicable sales and marketing operations is something we need to learn: what are the right roles to hire for, processes that allow scalable repetition, tools to support these efforts? Come join us and learn!
France Partners
Effective Capital
Effective capital is offering innovative financial solutions to Entrepreneurs, ranging from all kinds of corporate finance issues, international real estate structuring and financing to tax optimization and asset management all dedicated to a unique focus: the development, the funding and the preservation of your professional & personal assets.
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http://www.effective-capital.comEuratechnologies
EuraTechnologies supports the development of all digital entrepreneurs through a unique methodology and know-how in supporting businesses, from their start to their international deployment. Created in 2009, EuraTechnologies was ranked in the top 10 accelerators in Europe by Fundacity , and the 1st in France! In six years of existence, EuraTechnologies has indeed managed to establish itself as the spearhead of the French digital economy through the French Tech: with 300 companies, 3700 employees, 100 projects in incubation each year, 500 annual events and a dense network internationally.
www.euratechnologies.com/a-propos-euratechnologiesRubicon Venture Capital
Rubicon Venture Capital is a bi-coastal San Francisco – New York fund focused on backing software and internet technology companies at the Late Seed, Series A and B stages. We are backed by a diverse set of value added LP investors including high-net worth individuals, family offices, corporates and institutional LPs located worldwide. We enable our LPs to co-invest with our fund all the way to exit via our sidecar vehicles. This provides our LPs with access to select late stage investment opportunities and continued financial support for our portfolio companies.
http://rubicon.vcBreizh Amerika
BREIZH AMERIKA is a non-profit organization established to create, facilitate, promote, and sponsor wide-ranging innovative and collaborative cultural and economic projects that strengthen and foster relations and cooperation between the United States of America and the region of Brittany, France.
www.breizh-amerika.comBusiness France
Business France is the French government agency responsible for fostering export growth by French businesses, and facilitating international investment in France. It promotes France’s companies, business image and nationwide attractiveness as an investment location.
www.businessfrance.frCultural Services of the French Embassy in the US
The Cultural Services are a division of the French Embassy in the United States. It was founded with the objective of providing Americans (individuals and organizations) with access and resources to engage with French culture and promote it in their own communities.
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promotes the best of French arts, literature, cinema, language, and higher education across the US.
http://frenchculture.orgTestimonials
Alain Mevellec
Sellsy
“VentureOut’s knowledge of the city and startup scene is incredible, so is the energy their team puts on the program. To sum it up, a perfect balance between motivation and concrete data you’re looking for when planning for the creation of your US office.”
Pierre-Yves Aubert
Euratechnologies
“Five of our startups came here to feel the beat of this great city, and understand the market opportunities here. The results were pretty good; we made potential partners and potential clients. And also, potential investors. It has been a great week for us and thank you VentureOut for that!”
Sophie Halliot
Bobler
“VentureOut is a fantastic accelerator program. In just a few days, you get a good understanding of the NY tech scene : how it works, good connections and the events to attend.”
Bastien Sannac
Meludia
"It is the easiest way to prepare your coming to NYC or to the US. After this week, everything will be more clear about what you need to do. It is also a great human experience with talented entrepreneurs, and an opportunity to upgrade your VC presentations."
Francois-Alexandre Glaudet
Teemeo
"An intense and deep immersion in an amazing environment. Everything in the program was made for convincing us to move - and they reached their goal."
France Alumni
Howtank
Howtank is the inventor and leader of an innovative concept: the Click to Community®, the first community chat. Howtank was created in 2012 by Steven Harel, Emeric Teil and Sébastien Foret with the objective to create the highest interactivity possible between brands, communities and clients. Howtank provides a totally new generation of C-to-C communication solution, going far beyond any traditional live chat system. Customers who have questions can ask customers who know directly through a widget integrated on the web pages. A genuine real-time conversation is initiated between them and new clients are reassured by other clients who have been in the same situation in the past. These experienced members of the brand join a real-time social network, where they can meet, share their experience and interact with the brand’s team but also with the visitors through the chat.
http://www.howtank.comMadhat
Madhat is a fun creative app allowing you to create & share videos of your animated doodles wherever you want. With Madhat, you can turn your photos into videos by animating and playing back your doodles on photos. Then, you can save and share your “Madhats” through the social network or messaging app of your choice.
http://madhat.ioSequencity
Sequencity is the most friendly bookstore of digital comics than connect you to passionate people. We put human curation at the heart of our digital bookstore to help you find your next comic readings, beyond algorithms: you can trust the advices of 100+ true and skilled booksellers, read their notes about the comics they love, tchat with them, and so on. Sequencity creates the comic bookshop experience online, and is to be the next generation of digital bookstore gathering a very strong community of comics readers worldwide.
www.sequencity.comTech4Team
Tech’4’Team is the first European startup that develops a Yield Management software, Arenametrix, especially designed for cultural and sport organizations. Arenametrix is a software solution made of two add-on modules:-Arenapublics: an intelligent CRM Arenapricing: Yield management and sales monitoring tools Connected in real time with all the ticketing softwares of the market, Arenametrix offers to event organizers the tools to centralize, format and enrich their own sales and publics data. Arenametrix also permits to forecast sales trends, from historical and exogenous data such as the weather, and gives recommandation about the comercialization strategy to adopt.
http://tech4team.fr/enAdwanted
AdWanted is the first online marketplace to disrupt distribution of ad spaces on traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, outdoor, non media). The distribution and match between advertisers, their advertising agencies (buyers) and media representatives (sellers) have so far ben managed by various advertising sales and media buying agencies and departments, through intermediated, lengthy, and costly sales processes. AdWanted makes it easier, cheaper and faster for advertising agencies and media to match their needs through an independent, automated and accurate online marketplace. Whereas millions of VC money has been invested in the crowded advertising space for digital media, AdWanted is an unique investment opportunity in the distribution and sale of ad spaces for traditional media, representing more than 70% of all advertising spending.
www.adwanted.comCREZEO
We offer everything needed to build you the ideal community platform — with hand-selected features and a gorgeous design that will distinguish your brand as one of a kind.Still, our technical product is merely one slice of the offer.We understand that good technology is not the only aspect of building an online community, and that having a flawless but empty platform isn’t going to do you any good. That’s why we’ve put together a team of diverse specialists, all of whom have their own unique perspective of what goes into making an online community successful.We include all this in our service offer in order to be a true one-stop solution for everything needed to build a real, thriving community behind your brand.That’s just who we areWe make everything happen for online communities: from strategy and management to platform and people. Our job’s not done until there’s a dedicated community behind your brand.
http://crezeo.comFITIZZY
Fitizzy helps customers find the right size when shopping for clothes.With its innovative technologies, Fitizzy helps brands and retailers solve the problem of size and improve the shopping experience of their customers.Our widget placed on our partners brands websites and our mobile application used in their stores, give the customers the right size along with some fitting recommendations. Our solution is based on an algorithm that compares the products dimensions to the body measurements of the users. It is a really reliable and accurate solution, which makes us the leader on the French market.
www.fitizzy.comKICKLE
Kickle transforms any screen into a video conference system.
http://www.neitiv.frMAZEBERRY
"Mazeberry has been founded by Thibaut Lemay in 2011 a former web analytics consultant for online retailers.Mazeberry provides operational solution throw retrospective studies using a unique algorithm. Our goal is to help large e-commerce websites to get a complete picture of their online marketing ROI (Return On Advertising Spent)The Mazeberry app is platform who helps the c-level marketing management to make decision about online acquisition spends based on the real cost and performance on online campaigns. We are 7 people, we work with 50 clients and our current ARR $ 500 000. Our growth rate is greater than 100% year on year."
www.mazeberry.comVEKIA
Vekia is an early stage company creating machine learning-based software solutions that optimize control and management of retailers’ supply chains. Initially focused on retail clothing, DIY and furniture in the French market, the Company’s products have allowed management to reduce inventories up to 20%, reduce stock-outs by 50%, and reduce end-of-season overstock in warehouses by 10% for clothing retailers. This has created significant financial and customer relationship advantages for Vekia’s customers along with rapid payback (up to 3 months) of initial software system acquisition costs. Vekia’s revenue is already $2,300,000 is now developing its sales in France, UK and will be soon addressing the US market.
http://www.vekia.frnoxidoxi
NOXIDOXI is the very first 100% Pollution Detox Skin Care. It spent 18 months on R&D to better understand how pollution and daily aggressions lead to premature ageing signs, and to develop patents + our expert product range to fight against environmental effects: It restores the cutaneous barrier, rebalance and protect cells to guarantee a healthy and younger skin all along the year. Its key differences are : 1/ to treat causes as well as consequences, 2/ to develop unique formulas, clinically proven, and 3/ to address this brand to anyone conscious of pollution impact on a very simple and fresh way.
http://www.noxidoxi.com/enPeerform
Peerform is a peer to peer lending platform (or marketplace lending platform) connecting borrowers with institutional lenders. Peerform is the marketplace of choice for near prime borrowers with lower FICO scores starting at 600. Peerform offers loans of up to $25,000 for 3 years and APR range from 7.12% to 29.99%. But keep in mind that if your credit isn’t great, you’ll most likely get rates on the upper end of that range.
www.peerform.comJooxter
Jooxter develops an AI driven occupancy solution for workplaces. Its application, interacting with Smart Devices (IoT), enables innovative services for occupants and drives workplace efficiency.. It makes workplaces fully informed of occupant’s movements to create a peaceful and productive work environment. Jooxter was founded by Thomas Thelliez and Fabien Girerd in 2014; and is headquartered in Lille, France.
http://www.jooxter.comMagush / datarespect
Magush has developed DataRespect, a set of B2B tools to improve the personal data privacy: - Deep privacy diagnostic for Apps - Consents manager system based on Blockchain - Data anonymization proxy and GDPR flow data dashboard To improve the awareness of the users, we’ve also developed a smartphone tool to show the data took by every App, and where user can rate all his Apps. DataRespect is made to insure users of the goodwill of service providers and to help companies to respect GDPR.
http://www.magush.ioIVS
VS develops image analysis solutions and extraction of intelligent information. They are specialized in machine learning, neural programming, artificial intelligence and data mining.
Their product, focused on the retail sector, IVStore, is tthe equivalent of google analytics for physical stores: a plug and play solution using video analysis to detect, recognize and analyze customer’s behaviors in-store.
http://www.ivsoftware.frIneat
At the heart of the digital and technological innovation transformation, INEAT Conseil assists clients with the setup and creation of their digital solutions.
Our approach focuses on 4 main aspects:
– Consulting
– Multi-channel strategy: Web, CMS, RSE, E-Commerce & Mobility
– Content Intelligence: GED, ECM, dematerialisation, archiving, content publication and decision-making
– Architecture: SOA, applied architecture, industrialisation
Our added value lies in our ability to provide two complementary areas of expertise: our technological knowledge paired with our marketing services for large accounts.
Novabricks
Novabricks technology frees you from technical limitations. Graphically, they allow to customized applications, without code, just by assembling functional blocks.
NovaBricks is an online platform that allows anybody to create his own SaaS application without code. Nowadays, to manage Data and/or Process, using and sharing a spreadsheet is a first reflex. But when you need a more powerful and collaborating IT tool, the customized application needed is often very costly and long to wait for. With NovaBricks, you have the solution: do it yourself, easily and quickly. Assemble the bricks to create your screen layouts, computing and give right to other users. NovaBricks brings you IT agility, autonomy and facilitates your business.
http://www.novabricks.comMeludia
Meludia is an online game that allows anyone to learn music without theory or instruments, regardless of age or level.
www.meludia.comContent Square
Content Square has developed a range of connected solutions for testing and optimization that improve user experience, optimize a course's ergonomy and increase conversion rate.
www.contentsquare.comSELLSY
Who says sales management platforms have to be boring? Sellsy is an intuitive CRM solution that businesses can use for online invoicing, time tracking, purchases, inventory management, collaboration, help desk management and a complete POS system.
bienvenue.sellsy.comBabbler
Babbler is an innovative PR agency that has created the first social network between brands and the media. In few clicks reporters can do advanced research of targeted brand contents (HR pics, video, press kits..)
http://babbler.frApila
Apila is the 1st geolocated real time app for Smartphones, GPS, and connected cars that integrates functionalities that allows drivers to primarily easily find parking spots - on and off streets - as well as related solutions such as navigation and mobile payment.
http://apila.frSend Me Love
Send Me Love allows people to donate to their favorite artists with the click of a (love) button. Similar to passing a musician on the street dropping some love in their basket, but virtually.
http://sendmelove.comBobler
Bobler reinvents the way you address people. We make vocal messages relevant and easy-to-use in all daily situations, either when you're multitasking or on the go.
http://bobler.comSomhome
Somhome is a real estate website meets dating website. The innovation is to introduce matching in the flat/apartment searches. We concentrate on renting, subletting, and roommates only. Thanks to our system we save time and money for everyone looking for housing solutions... Its totally free (no broker fees).
somhome.comTeemeo
TEEMEO gives this time back through a unique and intuitive web tool. It allows managers to see instantly what needs to be done and what's happening in the environment.
http://teemeo.comThe Art place
The Art Place is the first community to have a universal, digital, and social vocation in the art market. Its mission is to open up the art world by creating a direct link between the different people involved.
http://theartplace.comMatabase
After a year spending on sourcing sustainable materials in Europe and developing new generation tools for Architecture and Industry applications (BtoB), Matabase built two open-database: MATABASE for eco-friendly materials and REUSE for reuse materials (sales and purchase).
matabase.frNDMAC
NDMAC are acting on a 500 b$ market -> the draft-drinks (beers, wine, cider…) for 8 million on-premise outlets in the world, which has not known a real innovation since 50 years. We want to create a new way of connected consumption, through a connected self-service draft dispenser, with ecological one-way kegs. We are in the IoT, the Foodtech and Fintech area.
http://ndmac-systems.com/?page_id=22E.Sensory
E.Sensory connects digital contents and wearable devices to enhance the emotions felt while enjoying ebooks, video, music... With our IoT platform, content publishers will be able to imagine new personalized and immersive reading experiences and manufacturers could add an emotional value to their devices.
http://www.e-sensory.comFoneclay
With the upcoming proliferation of the Internet of Things, the Foneclay platform will let you create fully integrated IoT Mobile Apps and control the information provided by any Smart Sensors and IoT clouds, on any communication protocol or any operating system and device.
http://corporate.foneclay.comFacetts
"We are tackling the problem of advanced user behavioural tracking online. This sophisticated technology is outing many, revealing specific/sensitive ideas/hobbies in context that one cannot control.
We make it possible to create communities that harvest no personal data, protect users from activity tracking done by major platforms to ensure that people have the protection they need to speak freely without outing them.
The 'silo tech' ensures true privacy, and beats any other options in the market."
Woleet
"Woleet leverage the immutability of the Bitcoin blockchain to secure your data in a simple way.Our goal is to build frictionless tools giving the opportunity to fully leverage Bitcoin technology breakthroughts. To achieve this, we're making an intensive watch on protocol development in order to assimilate its evolutions to transform them in concrete use cases for our clients.
Data anchoring on bitcoin consists in using the properties of immutability, resilience and resistance to censorship of Bitcoin to link any kind of digital data to a bitcoin transaction, in a secure and persistent way. This process generates a digital proof that a given piece of data existed at a specific time, verifiable without any third party."
Claripharm
What could be done to offer women more intimate comfort after giving birth? How could their well-being be improved? Clarisse Le Court was determined to find innovative and effective answers to all these questions. Having been a Key Account Manager at a large laboratory specialising in medical devices, she created the Claripharm™ brand with the aim of developing a product line for the relief of post-delivery intimate discomfort but also suitable for all intimate gynaecological, urological, proctological or aesthetic surgery. First of all, alongside a group of surgeons, she designed a flexible shell for intimate protection conforming to the vaginal morphology of women: Claricare™.
http://www.claripharm.com/en
Apizee
Apizee SaaS platform enables easy roll-out of real-time customer engagement, visual assistance, enterprise collaboration as well as video conferencing services. Based on WebRTC, a disrupting telecom technology that provides a friction-less web-based conferencing experience, Apizee solutions and APIs are leveraged by major industry and software players such as Crédit Agricole, Bouygues Telecom, Enedis, Safran, ExxonMobil, AMA and Digitaleo.
Apizee brings a simplification shock in the interoperability of communication between different terminals and application environments. Real-time communications become universal, immediate, and effortless. This simplicity will finally make it possible to generalize on a large scale all unified communication solutions whose success was until now slowed by numerous technical barriers.
Klaxoon
Klaxoon is a digital solution that boosts participation and memorization in training sessions, meetings, and conferences - in any learning environment. Klaxoon transforms smartphones, tablets and computers into powerful interactive tools. Participants connect in to Klaxoon using their own device; instantly, a new dialogue begins!
klaxoon.comWi6Labs
Wi6Labs is a company specializing in new technologies of the IOT. Founded in 2014, it currently has 16 people. A member of the LoRA alliance since 2015, Wi6Labs specializes in the deployment, operation and maintenance of IOT networks and services. Wi6labs is involved in Agriculture, Industry and Smartcity business, the company help its customers to improve their processes, create new services and change their job.
http://www.wi6labs.comDazzl
Dazzl is a Collaborative Live Streaming Platform with a Cloud-based video production platform. Dazzl.tv enables live video acquisition of both, user-generated and premium content contributed from smartphones, mobile pro cameras, encoders, Moderate & Monitor incoming live feeds, communicate with contributors (Intercom), route and then streams to broadcast, social or OTT. Dazzl Producer, allows users to acquire, produce and distribute video content on the go from anyone, anywhere, designed to be an editing, compositing and master control tool for live broadcasts - a television van in your mobile browser! Target users: Sports Organisations, Media, Broadcasters
www.dazzl.tvPledg Pay
Booking tickets for others is always a headache for the person who advances cash. Pledg offers an easy group payment plugin: book 5 tickets, pay only your share and send payment links to your friends. They have 48h to pay. Pledg funds their tickets and the merchant is paid immediately. Merchants can now see information for all the buyers (GDPR compliant). Pledg’s users spend on average 43% more per head. Checkout conversion rate is currently 75% via Pledg. Our Year 3 target is to process USD 590 millions of sales in the Retail, Travel and Ticketing sectors.
http://www.pledg.coHotel-Skipper
The hotel tech is a messy world where softwares don't communicate, and most hotels rely on paper processes and Excel Spreadsheets to manage their expenses. Hotel-Skipper is the first business intelligence solution designed especially for the hotel industry. By connecting the hotels Property Management System with the accounting department, we allow leaders to have a real-time overview of their business KPI. Through advanced data-analysis techniques, we are able to provide hotel owners with incredible features such as budgeting automation, or EBITDA forecasting. With Hotel-Skipper, hotel managers can forget about manual data integration, and focus on what matters the most: being there for their clients and their team.
http://www.hotel-skipper.frTX3
TFORTHREE is a contemporary fashion brand and creative lab developing exclusive products with excellent Italian manufacturing. Constant collaborations with outstanding designers and innovative partners from all over the world enable us to read new design languages and translate them into high-quality products. It is no longer operating.
http://tx3.it/en/homeokYobs Technologies
Yobs is an HR software that identifies soft skills and job-culture fit in candidates and employees to power a top-performing and more diverse organization. Talent acquisition and HR teams use Yobs' AI-powered video assessments to engage 100% of their talent, understand their potential and create a report of soft skills and culture fit for each individual directly in the ATS/ HRIS.
yobs.io