Nicolas Appert

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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🇪🇺 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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We are proud to be featured in an exclusive article by L'AGEFI, which highlights Mains’ growing presence in France and our strategy of building integrated European software leaders 🚀 The article showcases our strong start since opening the Paris office and covers the two French cross-border acquisitions announced this week: the acquisition of Lyon-based Blueway Software by our German portfolio company SoftProject, and Lyon-based Activinnov by our Dutch portfolio company Zig. These strategic moves mark our portfolio companies’ entry into the French market and demonstrate Main’s ability to build strong cross-border groups. Our Managing Partner & CEO, Charly Zwemstra, explains: “In a B2B software market that remains fragmented, there is real potential to build solid, differentiated groups. We are helping entrepreneurs transform their business models by creating strong recurring revenues—driven in particular by the SaaS wave, which is far from over in markets such as France and the German-speaking countries.” Jonas Kruip, Co-Head France and Senior Investment Manager, adds: “Thanks to thorough preparation and deep sector expertise, we were able to immediately execute transactions in the French market. Combining a strong local presence with our international approach is what enables us to deliver value from day one.” Read the full article here (in French) 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqFRUURJ

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Today we reached a massive milestone at Zama : bootstrapping in less than 1 milliseconds. Bootstrapping in FHE allows “cleaning” the noise in encrypted data, and is responsible for the vast majority of the computation time. Thus, the faster bootstrapping gets, the more confidential transactions per second the Zama Protocol can process. We achieved this after years of research on efficiently using GPUs for FHE. The results are MINDBLOWING: Boostrapping latency: - 2021: 53 ms - today: 0.9 ms - speedup: 56x When applied to integers arithmetics, the results are even more insane: 64 bit encrypted addition latency: - 2022: 2,000 ms - today: 8.7 ms - speedup: 230x 64 bit encrypted multiplication latency: - 2022: 13,000 ms - today: 32 ms - speedup: 400x To understand what this means in practice, lets look at confidential stablecoin transfers: - 2022: 0.1 tps - today: 230 tps - speedup: 2,300x And it’s so cheap also: about $0.0001 / transaction for a confidential stablecoin. Tldr; FHE is now FASTER than Ethereum and most L2s! And it’s only a matter of months before we can reach 1000 tps. Next steps: build an FHE ASIC to reach 100k tps by 2029. Enough to cover Visa, Mastercard and SWIFT volume combined. 🚀🚀🚀 Full post 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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