Date post: | 14-Jul-2015 |
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Venture firms have their investment thesis, we have
our building thesis. At eFounders we are not investing
in companies, we are building them. As a startup
studio, we’ve chosen to develop our own thesis — a
series of rules that are truly part of our company
creation process.
Here is our “building thesis”, the one we think helps
us create unicorns.
We like the network effect of consumer
businesses, and we like the general behavior
of business customers. It naturally comes with
a business model, it’s more predictable and
less risky.
Mention has more than 300 000 users, a big
part of them are SMEs, big companies,
agencies and a lot of institutions.
We like to create services that are powered by amazing
software more than building software as such.
TextMaster is a translation service that relies on a
very powerful software, as are Mention — a media
monitoring service powered by a very strong web
crawler — and Mailjet - an email delivery service
with a reliable deliverability technology.
We are not selling big software to large accounts.
Instead, our products are offering recurring
services that can help increase revenues, reduce
cost or improve productivity for a few tens or
hundreds dollars a month.
Aircall is based on a subscription model. For $24
a month you can get one or more business phone
lines that can be shared across your teammates
to manage support call and increase
productivity.
Our ambition is to disrupt entire sectors. There are
still lots of opportunities in the enterprise world.
Disrupting industries is a great way to create large-
scale businesses.
TravelX (project still under cover) is going to be our
way to reinvent the corporate travel agency. This
sector is fossilised and thus offers a huge
opportunity for disruption. TravelX project will
definitely change the way agencies are currently
working.
We like marketplaces because disintermediation
empowers the multitude, changes the established order,
creates market transparency and often improves service
quality while reducing cost.
illustrio disintermediates design agencies by
providing a customisable illustrations generator.
Therefore, it provides a better and cheaper services to
startups, SMEs, medias or other kinds of agencies and
lets them build their own illustrations and visuals in a
few clicks.
We like leveraging new technologies and getting
inspired by the new perspective they offer.
Solved uses a brand new technology that enables
communication from browser to browser (Web RTC)
which makes it possible to put collaborators in touch
with software experts live very easily.
We’re using our infrastructure to make at least 30%
of our client acquisition completely automatic — and
we are very also happy to contact or call the other
70%!
Mention’s 300,000 users have been acquired
without spending a dollar in paid marketing.
We like to avoid local constraints (HR, Accounting etc)
to focus on issues common to any companies
worldwide, and not limited to startups.
Front provides a tool to manage customers’ incoming
queries as a team. Front can be used by any type of
companies worldwide, it is just sufficient that the
companies have customers. Every company that has
customers needs Front.
eFounders’ building thesis
We like targeting millions of businesses, offering a service
rather than a software, at a minimum and recurring cost.
We are eager to disrupt outdated industries by cutting out the
middlemen or using new technologies in order to create
scalable and global business models.