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Stories of French startups for China Didier Tranchier
Tuesday, August 27th La Défense
Introduc>on
• Professor – Innova>on Management – Execu>ve MBA « Leading Innova>on in A Digital World »
• Business Angel Investor – More than 40 IT startup companies
• Rela>ons with China – Studied Chinese during 5 years – Lived 1 year in Hong Kong
• 5 Stories of French Startup companies – Specific to our culture and our history
Didier Tranchier [email protected]
Entrepreneur • Time of Cathedrals
– Word « Entrepreneur » is French
• Xavier Niel – Born in 1967 – Founder of Iliad in 1987
• #2 Fixed telecom operator Free
• Invented Triple Play service (Internet, Telephone, TV) in 2003
• Free Mobile was launched in January 2012 – 10% Market share in 1 year
• Revenues 2012 : 3,1 B€ – Billionaire – 2012 : Investment in more than
130 startup companies • Square, Deezer • Most ac>ve Business Angel in the world
– Founder of 2 internet schools
Europe
• Charlemagne (742-‐814), 1st French Emperor Created schools
• France is #5 in terms of GDP ($2,775,518 Millions)
• Gemalto – Founded in 1988 (Gemplus)
– Smart card technology invented by Roland Moreno in 1975
– Smart card Global leader • GSM, credit cards
– Revenues 2012 : 2.2 B€
• La Fourcheje – Founded in 2007 by 3 entrepreneurs
– European leader for Online reserva>ons for restaurants and restaurant management systems
– Revenues 2012 : 12 M€ (+50%)
French Touch / Savoir Vivre
• Renaissance : – François 1er (1494-‐1547) – Leonardo Da Vinci : Mona Lisa
• Vente-‐privée – Founded in 2001 – By Jacques-‐Antoine Granjon
• European leader for online flash sales
• Revenues 2012 – €1.3 B
• Top 10 global digital startups – www.businessinsider.com/2012-‐
digital-‐100
Strategy / Science
• Napoleon (1769-‐1821) – Strategy – Science
• Roseja stone • Ecole Polytechnique
• Criteo – Founded in 2005
• First product launched in April 2008
– Retarge>ng • Disrup>ng adver>sing and transforming into personalized content
• Global company
• Revenues 2011 – $200+ Millions (80% outside
France)
Finance
• Bernard Arnault, LVMH, created global Luxury market – Born in 1949 – More than 60 luxury global
brands – Fashion, perfumes, wines and
spirits, watches, retail
• #4 richest man on earth
• One of the best Startup ecosystem in the world – Public Startup financing : JEI, CIR,
European funds – Up to several Millions € of financing
• Investors: tax reduc>ons – Up to 50% tax reduc>on
• High IRR – I invested in 40 startup companies
– With only 2 exits, I have a 30% Return
Let’s build Success Together !