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Industry
  
Technology

Founder
  
Thibaud Elziere

Headquarters
  
Paris, Brussels

Website
  
efounders.co

Founded
  
2011

Type
  
Privately held company

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eFounders is a startup studio located in Paris and Brussels, focusing on enterprise software startups. It was founded in 2011 by Thibaud Elziere and Quentin Nickmans.

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Model

eFounders is a company that aims at repeatedly building several companies in parallel. The team develops ideas internally and provides the first financial and human resources to help their startups grow and become independent within 18 months.

Market

eFounders focuses on building Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startups addressing a global enterprise function or issue. The software applications are licensed on a regular basis to other startups and small businesses. Their primary targets are companies between 5 and 5000 employees worldwide.

Achievements

Since its creation, eFounders has built 6 independent startups.

As an early and hands-on investor:

  • Mailjet: a Paris-based, Email Service Provider (ESP) created in 2010.

    • Created internally:

  • Textmaster: a Belgium startup that offers on-demand content translation, copywriting and proofreading.
  • Pressking: a virtual pressroom acquired in February 2015 by ePressPack.
  • Mention: a media monitoring tool competing against Google Alerts.
  • Front: a San Francisco-based startup that provides a shared email box to businesses.
  • Aircall: a cloud-based virtual phone system.
  • Spendesk: a smart spending solution for company.

    • In June 2015, eFounders raised $6 million from private investor Oleg Tscheltzoff. In December 2016, eFounders raised an additional $5.3 million (€5 million) from entrepreneurs and family offices.

    References

    EFounders Wikipedia
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