🏡Julien Besnard

Feldhoff & Cie invests in Europe’s most promising female founders Yesterday, Auxxo announced the first closing of Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund II, raising €26 million to invest in early-stage European startups with female founding teams. We are proud to be part of this commitment to expanding access to capital and driving lasting change in the venture landscape. Congratulations to Bettine Schmitz, Dr. Gesa Miczaika, the whole Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund team and all fellow investors who share this vision. Excited to see what we can build together! 

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The 🇪🇺📲 EUDI Wallet is one of the most ambitious projects Europe has ever started. We’ve made great progress — but still need to improve the user experience ⬇️ In my latest blog, I cover: ✅ Why UX will decide adoption ✅ How citizens should experience the wallet ✅ What organizations need for seamless integration ✅ Why ecosystem alignment is key The goal: a wallet that is simple, secure, trusted and used every day by everyone. But here’s the real question: 👉 What do YOU think we need to focus on to make the EUDI Wallet a success for millions of people? Read my comprehensive User experience guide here: https://lnkd.in/gkBGYCGG #eIDAS, EU Digital Identity Wallet #EUDIWallet

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🇪🇺 2 new Large-Scale Pilots are starting this fall: APTITUDE for citizens on the move, WE BUILD Consortium for business trust. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 • 𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗘 = 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 & 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹: Coordinated by France, 110+ partners across 11 countries. Tests Digital Travel Credentials (DTC), a secure, app-based travel document, plus hotel check-ins and wallet payments. • 𝗪𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 = 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 & 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲: Led by the Netherlands & Sweden, ~200 organisations in 27 countries. Focus on Organizational Identity, Know Your Business (KYB), and digital Power of Attorney. • 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: Final 24-month phase → 2026 wallets → 2027 obligations. Longer-term target: 80% citizen adoption by 2030. Which path do you expect to scale faster first: citizen mobility or B2B identity? 👇 #EUDIWallet #eIDAS2 #DigitalTravelCredentials #OrganizationalIdentity

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I was delighted to participate in two panels at IPEM this year—one on “How AI is rewriting the PE playbooks” alongside Gaël Gibert from Advent and Guillaume Princen from Anthropic, and another on “Investing in the AI revolution” with Lauriane Requena from KKR and Astrid Moullé-Berteaux from Headline. At Seven2, we see AI not as a buzzword, but as a true industrial revolution—akin to electricity in its transformative potential. The real opportunity for private equity isn’t in chasing the next unicorn, but mostly in helping established companies harness AI to drive operational excellence and margin expansion. Our focus is on the “boring” but powerful applications of AI: automating repetitive tasks, optimizing processes, and leveraging proprietary data to revisit business models and create defensible advantages. The question for investors is not whether AI will change the landscape, but whether you want to own the companies before or after that transformation. We’re building the next generation of AI-enabled market leaders and keep an eye on AI-native companies that combine robust AI applications with high-value services. These businesses are particularly attractive for LBO: they already generate EBITDA, have a clear and growing role in supporting traditional companies to adopt AI, and are resilient against being displaced by hyperscalers. Stay tuned for more on how we’re putting this vision into action. #IPEM #PrivateEquity #AI #ValueCreation #Seven2

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Thrilled to see Meta — Thomas Scialom, PhD, Grégoire Mialon, and the brilliant Meta Agents team — launch 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗮𝟮, built within their new 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗟 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 platform! Gaia2 sets a new bar for agent evaluation by testing models in dynamic, real-world conditions, where APIs timeout, priorities shift, and unexpected friction derails even the smartest systems. The ARE RL Environment framework is designed to 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 in environments that look and feel like the real world. (After all, in this day and age, winning IMO medals is a challenge of the past. It’s deploying models into the rich, long tail messiness of the real world that’s the golden frontier.) Two years ago, Meta pioneered this vision with 𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗔, a benchmark we were proud to help build. Since then, we’ve had the privilege of collaborating again on 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗮𝟮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗥𝗘, creating the diverse scenarios and data that helped bring these ideas to life — with a team at Meta that recognized the importance of RL environments long before they became the hot new kid on the block. We’ve always believed that training models is only half the story. Measuring them — with the right objectives, in the right environments — is just as critical. Who cares if a model gets better at the wrong thing? 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗮𝟮 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆. We’re excited to keep collaborating toward powerful, reliable AI that works even in the chaos of the real world. Congrats to the Meta team! https://lnkd.in/eF5NRVuF

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French SaaS platform Qovery, which automates DevOps and simplifies application deployment across any cloud, has raised €11.3 million in a Series A round to expand regionally, scale its team and advance AI-driven product innovation. The round was led by IRIS and included Speedinvest, Crane Venture Partners, Techstars, Irregular Expressions, and notable angel investors such as Datadog Co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis L., Docker Co-founder Sebastian Pahl, and Checkout.com CTO Ott Kaukver (former Twilio CTO), who also joins the board. All previous Seed investors participated in the Series A. Romaric Philogène | Pierre Mavro | Morgan Perry 🔗 Read full article link in comment #Qovery #SaaS #DevOps #CloudDeployment #MultiCloud #AIInnovation #StartupFunding #TechGrowth #EngineeringProductivity #SeriesAFunding #eustartups #news

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🎙️ Special IBC 2025 Episode – Retention Zone One of the most interesting conversations I had at IBC this year was with Gilles Domartini, CEO of Cleeng, right after the second edition of Retention Zone Live. We talked about how innovation in subscriptions is shifting — becoming more accessible and more intelligent. 👉 The big headline: Cleeng Pro. ➡️ A simplified way for any mid-sized publisher to launch a subscription service in under 60 minutes. ➡️ With just a few clicks you can create offers, set up a subscription page, consolidate app store data, and enable customer care. ➡️ And the real game changer? The first 10,000 monthly subscribers are free. ➡️ No contracts, no upfront cost — just the freedom to experiment, learn, and grow. For Vimeo users and smaller publishers frustrated by limited analytics, this could open entirely new doors. 👉 The second big announcement: ChurnIQ AI-ssistant. ➡️ Imagine a retention super-expert on demand. You ask: who’s at risk of churning, on which platform, and what’s the revenue impact? You get the answer instantly. ➡️ But more importantly, it doesn’t stop at insights. It suggests proven remedies, integrates with tools like Braze or Mailchimp, and can trigger campaigns automatically. It’s agentic AI in action — analytics flowing directly into decisions and execution. 📲 Finally, Gilles reminded me why we started Retention Zone in the first place: to create a space where the industry can share real challenges and shape better solutions together. That dialogue has already influenced Cleeng’s roadmap, and it shows the power of community in innovation. A guy with a scarf Benedicte Guichard Alexis Gaï Kirstin White Hjalmar Koedijker Joachim Bergman Kamila Palka Enzo Bermond Kübra Güven Chris Welsh #IBC2025 #RetentionZone #Subscriptions #AI #Streaming

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