mention raises US$ 800K to reinvent Google Alerts A little less than a year on from launch, mention announces the closing of a "flash" seed round of US$ 800K (600K€) from Alven Capital (Paris, France) and Point Nine Capital (Berlin, Germany).

Founded in April 2012 by Edouard de La Jonquière, Arnaud Le Blanc, Didier Forest, Thibaud Elzière (founder of fotolia.com, US$ 100M revenue) and Quentin Nickmans (cofounder of e-founders), mention makes it possible not to miss anything said about a name, a product or a company on the web and social web.

Available on every device, mention allows you to create an alert on your name, brand, company and competitors and be notified, in real-time of any new mention on the web and social networks. With mention, users are also able to share and react to these mentions, and make the Community Management work collaborative.

"We've decided to quickly raise a seed round on a "flash mode" to take advantage of the momentum we are in", says Edouard de La Jonquière, CEO of mention. "We've contacted 5 investors whom we knew were thrilled by the project with a single HTML 5 presentation page and a pre-drafted terms sheet. The whole idea was not to lose any time on the round and keep focusing on product development and traction". mention has currently 50,000 users, paying customers from 46 countries and revenue growing double-digit every month. "What's terrific with this project is the broad variety of users. 50,000 users is almost equivalent to 50,000 businesses" says Elzière. "We have law firms, universities, city councils, start-ups, PR firm, private detectives, communities, Fortune 500 enterprises as well as students, NGO, political parties, hotels and restaurants. And all those from San Francisco to Tokyo".

The company will use the capital in order to structure a marketing and sales team, as well as develop the product to make it even more collaborative for multiple-users organizations. A US relocation of the core team is in the pipe.

"This is a game-changer company that puts Google Alerts on steroids and combines it with social media monitoring, and on top adds straight forward Community Management features. Their competitive positioning on the Fortune 5,000,000 market is a right match with our SMBs SaaS strategy that we will pursue with our new fund Alven IV, of which mention is the 1st deal", says Nicolas Celier from Alven Capital. "We're very impressed with mention's easy-to-use product and the immense traction which the company developed within a short period of time. On a side note we're also very happy to welcome the first startup from France to our growing SaaS portfolio!" says Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital.

About mention

mention is a french startup founded in 2012 by Edouard de La Jonquière (Capgemini), Thibaud Elzière (fotolia.com), Quentin Nickmans (cofounder of efounders), Arnaud Le Blanc and Didier Forest. mention is a media-monitoring app combining web and social networks. With more than 50,000 users in 46 countries, mention targets the growing population of community managers in Fortune 500 to Fortune 5,000,000 companies.

More information can be found at mention.net

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About Point Nine Capital

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on earlystage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), eCommerce, marketplace and mobile. The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz, have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Westwing and Zendesk from their earliest stages. In early 2013, Point Nine announced the closing of a new €40 million fund, Point Nine Capital Fund II.

More information can be found at www.pointninecap.com