Georges raises €35M in Series B and becomes Indy to position itself as a true partner to independents : insights from Indy’s CEO and its investor
Ahead of Indy’s announcement of its $35m Series B round, we sat down with Indy’s CEO Côme Fouques, and Alven Partner Bartosz Jakubowski, to get their thoughts on Indy, its exciting developments for the future, and its journey since joining the Alven portfolio during its Series A.
In this exchange, Côme & Bartosz discussed:
00:08 – Who is Côme
00:18 – What is Indy
01:06 – Key figures about Indy
01:35 – What makes Indy different
04:13 – Indy’s ambitions
05:52 – Lyon vs. Paris: why? How is it different?
06:59 – Why Alven
08:08 – Investing in Indy: insights from Bartosz
10:22 – The big challenge to come
14:09 – Founders Corner: Advice from Côme to his founder peers
When investigating an AI startup for a funding round, it is often difficult to distinguish impactful AI solutions from ideas that only use AI as a buzzword or marketing catalyst. We had the chance to work on the review of more than 100 academic references on AI startups, in the context of Maxime Lhoustau’s Master Thesis for HEC Paris and TU Munich. In this article, you will find the key takeaways.
The funding will enable Kaiko to further consolidate its position as the global industry reference for centralized and decentralized digital assets data services.
The company is announcing its Series A from prestigious investors to support its growth and expansion plans. Andreessen Horowitz, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, is one of the world’s largest and pre-eminent venture capital funds. Known for investments in companies such as Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Airbnb, and more recently Pinterest and Slack, a16z is joining the Stoïk journey alongside existing investors Alven and Anthemis Group.