Benjamin Bitton

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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During my last trip to SF, I had the opportunity to speak with Romain Serman who opened Bpifrance’s San Francisco office 11 years ago to help build bridges between US funds and French startups. We discussed : ✅ The turning point in 2016, when leading US funds first invested in France ✅ The challenges Europe still faces, from fragmented markets to weaker storytelling ✅ What makes a good VC: saying no with respect, staying curious, and avoiding cynicism ✅ How he overcame his early impostor syndrome and developed a hands-on curiosity for tech 👉 For LPs, VCs, and founders interested in French Tech’s evolution from Silicon Valley perspective, this one’s worth a listen. 🎧 Link in the comments

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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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ArcaScience, a French AI Healthtech startup innovating benefit-risk evaluation to make better, safer drugs, has announced a €6 million Seed funding round to accelerate the clinical impact of its AI 🇫🇷 🏥 The round was led by The Moon Venture, with participation from Pleiade Venture, Plug and Play Tech Center, Bpifrance, and AKKA Technologies. “It takes 10+ years to bring a drug to market. There is a 90% fail rate and the average cost per drug that makes it to the market is $2.3 billion! Benefit-risk prediction is no longer a nice-to-have, but a prerequisite for building better drugs. This funding round will help us scale our product, and bring real benefit-risk clarity to both the pharma industry and patients,” said Romain CLEMENT, Founder and CEO at ArcaScience. Read here: https://lnkd.in/dW4cwvPa

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