From its base in the heart of Paris, Nevibes had been first to market with a completely customizable personal home page. When Freddy Mini took over the CEO role at Netvibes from its founder Tariq Krim in 2008, he was painfully aware of the fact that while over a million people still relied on Netvibes’ Read more

Solution: have the lead investor perform like a lead investor.
Conventional wisdom and good sense would argue that it is good news for an early stage biotech company to announce the backing by a large investors syndicate (4 or more). Indeed, the fact that many smart people are independently deciding to invest into a company, contributing Read more

We’ve been looking for the elephant in the room for some time. We knew he was there, but we just couldn’t find him. It’s clear that he is now here and his name is Hortonworks. As such, we are very excited to announce today that Index Ventures has made an investment in Hortonworks.
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The ubiquity of Facebook, Twitter (soon possibly Google+) is having a dramatic impact on how businesses engage with customers.
Today businesses must not only continue to be on top of customer interactions across traditional channels (phone, email, chat, forums, etc) but must now also carefully monitor and react to developments about their products and services across Read more