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PRESS RELEASE
Partech Ventures inaugurates the Partech Shaker,
the 1st campus dedicated to open innovation in the
digital field
Partech Ventures inaugurated the Partech Shaker in Paris yesterday, in the presence of
Emmanuel Macron, the French Minister for the Economy, Industry and Digital Technology, Axelle
Lemaire, the Secretary of State responsible for Digital Technology, and Jean-Louis Missika, the
Deputy Mayor of Paris.
The Partech Shaker, which is housed in the former premises of the Le Figaro newspaper, is the
1 campus in the world dedicated to open innovation launched by a venture capital firm. It will
ultimately assemble around 40 start-ups that have received seed capital financing from Partech
Ventures and from large international companies that invest in open innovation.
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BNP Paribas, Dentsu Aegis Network, Econocom, France Télévisions, Haworth, Lagardère Active
and Saint-Gobain will be the first “Innovation Partners” on site. Accordingly, they will benefit from
permanent access to work spaces for a year, where their teams can review and test new innovative
models by interacting with the Partech Shaker start-ups.
The Partech Entrepreneur I Seed Capital Fund is the most active fund in Europe, and has made
26 investments in 18 months. For the fund’s start-ups, the Partech Shaker is “a flexible workplace
that is suited to their growth, a pleasant environment for attracting top world talent, a place for
exchanging the most cutting-edge practices, and lastly, an area for welcoming clients. It enables them
to focus on their business and to become world leaders”, Romain Lavault, Partech Ventures’ General
Partner explains.
“Previously, start-ups saw working with large companies as a privilege. Today, in a digital
economy where flexibility matters as much as size, both players understand that they need one
another”, Philippe Collombel, a Managing Partner of Partech Ventures, explains. In fact, open
innovation has actually become a necessary addition to the traditional R&D efforts made by large
companies, while start-ups are asking to be in contact with large companies in order to drive their
business activities.
This place, which is the only one of its kind in the world, “will also be a weighty argument in
favour of the start-ups in our portfolio choosing Paris to grow their business” adds Jean-Marc
Patouillaud, a Managing Partner of Partech Ventures.
Thanks to the Partech Shaker, Partech Ventures is consolidating its position as the leading
European venture capital fund, as reflected in the Preqin 2014 ranking. Furthermore, Partech
Ventures is set to launch the Partech Growth and Partech Entrepreneur II Funds in 2015, which will
enable the company to support start-ups from the seed capital stage to the IPO.
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About Partech Ventures
Partech Ventures is an investment company that specialises in fast-growing companies in the digital
and information technology sectors. The team, which has offices in Silicon Valley, Paris, and Berlin,
has extensive experience in international corporate development. Over the course of its history,
Partech Ventures has completed 21 initial public offerings, and more than 50 industrial disposals
amounting to over US$100 million for large international companies. The “Les Echos” daily business
newspaper has awarded the company its prize for the best venture capital team, while Preqin, the
independent research organisation, has just recognised Partech Ventures as one of the top ten global
venture-capital funds on a world-wide scale, and the only European fund among the top 30 based on
its performance.
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The table below shows a few initial public offerings or transactions with listed companies
performed by Partech Ventures for illustration purposes:
Akimbi Systems (VMW)
Allot (ALLT)
Alvarion (ALVR)
Apsylog (PRGN)
Ascend Communications
(ASND)
Business Objects (SAP)
Brands4Friends (EBAY)
Cadence Design (CDNS)
Cartesis (SAP)
DailyMotion (ORANGE)
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DCT (SYMC)
Digital Island (ISLD)
Digitick (VIVENDI)
Fluxus (BT)
Five9 (FIVN)
Informatica (INFA)
Inquira (ORCL)
ISDnet (CW)
Invensense (INVN)
Jaspersoft (TIBCO)
Jobpartners (ORCL)
Jungo (NNDS)
La Fourchette
(TRIPADVISOR)
Meiosys (IBM)
Pentasafe (NTIQ)
Q-layer (ORCL)
Quinstreet (QNST)
Qype (YELP)
Teknovus (BRCM)
Verifone (PAY)
Vignette (VIGN)
Visicu(EICU)
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