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Fund Investor Profile Series: Nicolas Biet, Partner, The Faktory Fund

The Seraf Compass

Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

With today’s funding round, the company wants to develop its activities in the U.K. and Germany in particular — they are Europe’s two biggest markets for home improvement and gardening. ManoMano sells products to hobbyists and also targets the B2B market with ManoManoPro.

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How to Build an Online Presence for Your Small Business

American Entrepreneurship

LinkedIn Ads Effective for B2B marketing. Build an Email List Email marketing allows you to directly reach potential and existing customers. High Budget (Scaling Business): $3,000 – $10,000+/month For businesses that want premium services, aggressive marketing, and full outsourcing.

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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

TechCrunch

” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes. Testimonial: “As a startup CTO, I was looking to work with a team that can be sustained for multiple years of development and product launch. Which is an advantage.” Consultant: Aloa.

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Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later

TechCrunch

One of the areas where Murata says Slope is differentiating itself from other financial providers is its focus on a developer-centric approach, where others are taking a finance-centric approach, and “integration and underwriting have been so bad as a result,” he added. trillion, there is plentiful data to analyze,” Jain added.

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VertoFX picks up $10M for cross-border payments play in emerging markets

TechCrunch

The case is particularly problematic in emerging markets like Africa, where local currencies are less liquid than those in developed markets. . Meanwhile, the B2B market, accounting for 30% of the world’s global imports and 45% of total employment in emerging markets — is largely untouched.

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YC-backed Amenli raises $2.3M to provide insurance to Egyptian consumers

TechCrunch

South Africa makes up a large bulk of it; without it, the continent is on a 1% to 2% rate even with other developed technology and financial markets like Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent.