Hivy's founding team include Pauline Tordeur and Pierre-Alain Loiseau. Launched in 2015, they led the team to participate in Y Combinator's W17 batch of startups.

Hivy was launched as part of our EF16 batch of startups. Founded by Pauline Tordeur, Pierre-Alain Loiseau, and Simon-Pierre Behr, Hivy's ambition is to pioneer task management for well run workplaces.

Software has made work easier for all employees. Except office operations teams. From this simple observation, we laid the vision to build software to easily run an office, codename: OfficeX. Hivy, as the project later came to be known, focused squarely on empowering office operations teams.

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Hivy brings productivity to Office Management with its desktop and mobile apps that **collect, organize and anticipate requests** made in the office.

Nicolas Benady, Nicolas Saison, and Matthieu Breton joined the team in 2019. Together, they launched Swan, the simple banking API.

Swan (EF19) was launched by Nicolas Benady, Nicolas Saison, and Mathieu Breton to let developers build banking services with just a few lines of code.

When you add a banking layer to an app: you stop being a middle man, you offer your users an end-to-end experience, and you expand your business model. We wanted to make it possible for businesses to provide banking services to their users and for companies to build custom tools for their finance teams, with just a few lines of code. So we created Swan.

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Swan **raises a whopping 5M€ seed round** led by Creandum

Pressking

**PressKing** – Witnessing the trouble companies face from press relations, Pressking was built to make pressrooms and press releases way easier, for both companies and journalists.

Co-founded by Thibault Lougnon, Alexandre Ponsin, and Benoit Laurent in 2011, TextMaster was part of eFounders' 1st batch of startups. Their diverse and skilled team are trusted by 5,000 clients to optimize their translation workflow.

TextMaster (EF11) was founded by Thibaud Lougnon and Alexandre Ponsin. TextMaster is the new standard in professional translation services.

TextMaster was designed to make going global easy. Companies opening new markets already have a lot on their plates: TextMaster is a platform designed to easily put them in touch with trusted translators in their niche.

TextMaster

On the same day as the creation of eFounders, Textmaster is born: a marketplace coupled with an API where companies find **quality translators and copywriters**.

Textmaster **raises a new round of €1M**.

Textmaster **raises €5M** to go global.

Rodolphe Ardant, founder and CEO of Spendesk, along with Jordane Giuly and Guilhem Bellion joined eFounders in 2016 to launch the first version of the product. They're building a top-performing team to sustain their incredible growth and leading the way towards easier company spending.

Spendesk (EF16) was founded by Rodolphe Ardant, Jordane Giuly, and Guilhem Bellion. Spendesk powers smart expense cards for agile teams.

Spendesk's vision: to make company payments as simple as personal transactions. From purchase requests to payments to receipt processing, Spendesk makes keeping track of one-off expenses and subscriptions easy and efficient.

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Spendesk **rethinks company credit cards** for CFOs and employees to eliminate administrative burden.

Spendesk **raises $2.2M** with investors Kima Ventures and FundersClub.

Spendesk **raises $10M Series A** with Index Ventures.

Spendesk **raises $38M Series B** with Index Ventures

eFounders

Thibaud Elzière and Quentin Nickmans develop a drastically new approach to building startups: they want to prevent failures by testing ideas and markets, finding the perfect co-founders and providing the needed resources. Here comes the **"startup studio"**.

eFounders **raises $6M** with Oleg Tscheltzoff to scale up the startup studio model.

eFounders announces **4 new startups** in its EF18 batch

eFounders announces the first **3 startups from its EF19 batch**

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Launched as part of eFounders' 2014 batch of startups, the founding team of 4 displays a diverse and complementary set of skills that led to Aircall's continued success.

Aircall (EF14) was founded by Olivier Pailhes, Pierre-Baptiste Béchu, Xavier Durand, and Jonathan Anguelov. Aircall lets you make every conversation count.

Aircall's mission: to empower every team to ace their calls with a phone system specifically built for their favorite business tools. With most every day working tools migrating to the cloud, the telephone service remained a black box for companies. Not anymore.

Aircall

Aircall is building **the future of phone communications** for businesses. It enables companies to buy numbers instantly in 40 countries, invite teammates, and make/receive calls immediately on any device.

Aircall **raises $800k** with Business Angels.

Aircall **attends 500 startups** accelerator program in San Francisco.

Aircall **raises $2.75M** with Balderton Capital, FundersClub and business angels.

Aircall **raises another $8M** with Balderton Capital, FundersClub et FJLabs.

Aircall **raises $29M** Series B with Draper Esprit

Aircall raises **$65M Series C** led by DTCP & Adam Street Partners

Briq started as an internal token system for eFounders and our startups. But with an increasing desire to capitalize on company culture to drive engagement and performance, Briq was launched as an independent project in 2018.

Briq (EF18) was founded by Laurent Van Basselaere, Charlène Thouard and Jérémie Sicsic. Briq's vision is to deliver employee engagement powered by virtual credits.

Thanks: small word, big impact. Briq injects small doses of recognition in employees' daily lives to make them feel - and act - like a team. Briq helps companies to develop a recognition & feedback-rich culture and turn it into their competitive advantage.

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Founded in 2016 By Edouard Nattée and Nicolas Remia, FoxIntelligence joined our Start program's first ever batch (EFS16). Their team is dedicated to offering a secure B2C service and powerful insights for businesses.

FoxIntelligence (EF16) was founded by Edouard Nattée and Nicolas Remia. FoxIntelligence seeks to generate the best market intelligence.

Foxintelligence's vision : generate the best market intelligence and protect data privacy. Foxintelligence measures e-commerce's activity. Nothing is guessed, everything is based on actual and 100% anonymized data.

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Simon Arvaux and Cyril Bertier joined forces to build Zenvest in 2018. Their goal: turning an internal tool into the first solution for club deal management.

Zenvest (EF18) started as an internal project. Led by Simon Arvaux and Cyril Bertier, Zenvest is the first club deal management software.

Zenvest started as an internal project to manage our community of investors. The difficulty of managing investment preferences, deal flow, and legal documentation at scale led us to attempt to address the issue the only way we know: through software. As the product grew into a full fledged club deal management software, we decided to open it to external use.

Zenvest

Founded in 2011 with Wilfried Durant and Julien Tartarin, Mailjet was part of eFounders' 1st batch of startups. Their team of jet-setters is committed to building simple email experiences with a powerful impact.

Mailjet (EF11) was founded by Alexis Renard and Pierre Puchois. Mailjet's ambition is to build the one solution to power your email.

With Mailjet, eFounders wanted to tackle the pressing issue of transactional emails. Designed to give SMBs the same tools as their larger enterprises at an affordable cost, the platform then grew into a natural hub for all things email marketing and transactional SMS services.

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Mailjet is a **cloud-emailing platform** launched in February 2011. Thibaud Elzière and Quentin Nickmans participate in its foundation and start building the idea of a startup studio focused on SaaS business.

Mailjet **raises another $11M** to scale its unified marketing and transactional email service.

Co-founded by Arnaud in 2013, the Mention team has grown to over 50 with offices in Paris and London.

Mention (EF13) was founded by Matthieu Vaxelaire, Mention's vision is to streamline media monitoring.

The idea behind Mention came from the need for advanced monitoring of brand mentions on the web and social media. Built for conversational brands, Mention empowers them to find relevant conversations and step into the discussion in real-time.

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Mention is **Google Alerts on steroids**: it is a set of apps that monitors, in real time, anything on the web and social networks and provides organized, prioritized results.

Mention **raises $800k** in flash seed round.

Sandro Munda, founder and CEO, teamed up with eFounders to build the product and the team from scratch as part of eFounders 2016 batch of startups.

Forest (EF16) was founded by Sandro Munda. Forest's vision is to become the new standard in back office solutions.

For teams to achieve operational excellence, they need a rock-solid back office. For lack of a better option, most companies would reluctantly allocate time and effort to building their own home-made solution. Forest is changing that.

Forest

Forest helps developers save a tremendous amount of time with an **instant and customizable back office**.

Forest **publicly launches** its universal back office.

Forest **raises a $3 million seed round** from Connect Ventures and Xavier Niel.

Alexandre Lachèze and Julien Berthomier are the founders of Station. Launched in 2016, the team is changing the way millions get work done every day. And are set to aim even higher in the coming years!

Station (EF17) was founded by Julien Berthomier and Alexandre Lachèze. Station's vision is to become the one app to rule them all.

As experts in SaaS, eFounders is in a unique position to understand - and tackle - the issues that the proliferation of software has brought to knowledge workers' workflows. The key insight that led to building Station: the need for a unifying interface to tie all our information together.

Station

Station **launches publicly** its single interface for all your work applications.

Station joins **Y Combinator**'s W18 batch

Station **raises $3.25M** Seed Round with Accel

Christophe Pasquier is the founder of Slite. He launched the project in 2016 and has built a highly talented team dedicated to reinventing the way organizations collaborate and handle their internal documents.

Slite (EF17) was founded by Christophe Pasquier. Slite's vision is to become the note app for teams.

The idea behind Slite is simple: modern teams rely on chat to get things done, they need notes to consolidate their learnings. Slite is the first note app designed specifically for collaboration in modern teams. Find out more about why we built Slite below.

Slite

Slite **joins Y Combinator**'s W18 batch.

Slite **raises $4.4M** with Index Ventures.

Slite **raises $11M Series A** with Spark Capital.

Alexandre Louisy partnered up with eFounders in 2017 to launch Upflow. Gathering a talented team, he set our first project of our EF18 batch on track towards hyper growth.

Upflow (EF18) was founded by Alexandre Louisy. Upflow enables companies to manage their outstanding invoices better and get paid faster.

With Upflow, our ambition is bold. We want to remove the burden of getting paid for traditional businesses. By creating an innovative payment platform, we are giving companies the means to improve their cash-flows, view their finances in real-time and build a comprehensive strategy to meet their financial goals.

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Founded in 2017 by Alexandre Leger, Equify came out of the second batch of our Start program (EFS18). They turned to eFounders to turbo-charge the launch of their unified equity management platform.

Equify (EF18) was founded by Alexandre Léger. Equify simplifies equity management from stock issuance to ownership records.

Equify simplifies equity management: from stock issuance to ownership records, Equify assists entrepreneurs in implementing compliant, accurate, and effective equity plans. The platform is the single source of truth for all stakeholders: employees, investors, legal teams, and entrepreneurs.

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Theophile Villard and Thibaut Sahagian joined eFounders in 2018 to launch Multis. Leveraging the potential of blockchain technology, they built the first product of its kind in the crypto space.

Founded by Theophile Villard and Thibaut Sahaghian, Multis (EF18) marks our entry in the blockchain arena with an ambitious project: the first cryptobank for companies.

Multis marks our entry into the blockchain arena. Our vision with Multis is simple, we want to build a cryptobank for companies.  We are convinced that building an intuitive simple interface can enable companies to manage, send, and receive payments in cryptocurrency. The goal: replicate the neobanking experience, with cryptocurrency.

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Thibaud Elzière and Cyril Hagege launched Folk in 2019 to help teams and individuals organize their network and leverage their contacts.

With Folk, we're going beyond the simple address book: we are reinventing contact management by turning it into a productivity tool. Folk is introducing a better way to organize contacts and map your network, share it with other members of your organization, and turn contact groups into actionable views. As contacts are highly valuable for businesses, we are building a product which is secure and collaborative by design.

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Arthur Bonnecarrere launched Once in 2019 to bring the simplicity of stories and the power of a productivity tool to people at work.

Once combines the simplicity of stories with the power of a productivity tool. The project started out to build a better way for teams and individuals to tell their story and engage their community. Once is pioneering a new category of software designed to help people at work share ideas and gather feedback.

Once

Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset founded Yousign in 2013. They partnered up with eFounders in 2019 to turn Yousign into the European eSignature leader.

Yousign (EF19) was founded by Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset in 2013. They partnered up with eFounders in 2019 to turn Yousign into the European eSignature leader.

Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset founded Yousign in 2013. We had met them at the start of the adventure and kept in touch over the years, until we decided to join forces. They brought the infrastructure and the team. We brought product and marketing expertise. Our shared ambition to turn Yousign into a European eSignature leader cemented our partnership.

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The Front co-founding team launched in 2014 and have successfully built a robust, collaborative email client from scratch as well as assembling an amazing team dedicated to making Front's clients happy.

Front (EF14) was founded by Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin. Front's vision is to become the shared inbox for teams.

Co-founders Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin launched Front at eFounders in 2014. Back then the vision was simple: allowing teams to collaborate on all incoming messages from customers by creating a shared inbox. And it works.

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Front takes the pain out of **shared inboxes** and creates smart fluxes for all "contact@…" email adresses thanks to assignements, notifications, and all collaboration tools. Also works with SMS and Twitter.

Front **raises $3.1M** after being part of Y Combinator's Summer batch.

Front **raises $10M** with Social Capital.

Front **raises $66M Series B** with Sequoia and DFJ.

Front **raises $59M Series C** with Sequoia and key SaaS players

Mehdi Boudoukhane and Benoit Epopi launched Cycle in 2019 to help product-centric teams ship stuff people need.

Founded by Mehdi Boudoukhane and Benoit Epopi, Cycle (EF19) is the first all-in-one framework for product-centric teams. With Cycle, your team can work together and focus on shipping stuff people need.

Product teams are building the future, but still rely on tools from the past. With Cycle, we're revisiting product management from the ground up: creating a new way to explore, prioritize, plan, write specs, deliver as a team, and communicate with stakeholders and clients. Product teams can finally manage their entire product workflow in one place.

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Adrien van den Branden and Thomas Vanderstraeten joined eFounders in 2020 to build Canyon and help legal teams around the world on their quest to both protect and grow the business.

Canyon (EF20) helps legal teams control and fast-track their operations and data.

Legal teams around the world rely on outdated tools to deliver business-critical work. At Canyon, we are creating a new way for people to work on legal by centralizing all matters and legal data into one place and enabling seamless collaboration with lawyers and colleagues. Our LegalOps platform gives legal teams superpowers on their journey to both protect and grow the business.

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Jonathan Beurel and Etienne Dargnies joined eFounders in 2019 to build Bonjour. The first sales engagement platform was born.

Founded by Jonathan Beurel and Etienne Dargnies, Bonjour (EF19) is the sales engagement platform to help teams perform better demos and close more deals.

We want to build a better sales experience. Inside sales is taking off, with more and more sales calls being performed online rather than in person. But the experience is a far cry from where it should be. By creating a sales engagement platform, our goal is to empower sales teams to perform better demos and close more deals.

Bonjour

Patricia Bernasconi and Augustin Vignet joined eFounders in 2020 to launch Kairn and help people get things done.

The task manager your days have been waiting for.

With Kairn, we're going beyond the task manager. We're rethinking how people get things done. Too often, to-do apps require time and effort to maintain when they should focus on one key element: freeing-up time for their users. We want to create better routines for individuals and teams so that at the end of the day, they can feel like their best productive selves.

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