Leetchi « hottest startup #1 in Paris » selon WIRED !
Cette semaine le magazine WIRED met à l’honneur les startups en europe, en proposant un tour d’horizon des « Hottest startups » dans les capitales européennes.
Ainsi, pour la France et Paris, c’est Leetchi.com et sa fondatrice Céline Lazorthes, diplômée IIM 2007, qui sont mises à l’honneur en tant que « Hottest Startup #1 in Paris »
« Céline Lazorthes got the idea for her startup when she was trying to collect contributions for a university party. « It was a nightmare. People were lazy, they had no cash. I had to pay out of my own pocket, » says Lazorthes, 30. In 2009, she founded Leetchi, a social-payments platform that allows people to collect money online and make group purchases. With 600,000 users, it collected over ¤40 million in 2012. Since its inclusion on last year’s wired startup list, it’s become an official electronic-money institution and released its API, MangoPay, as a separate app, allowing third parties to make bank transfers and offer e-wallets and one-click payments. « The next step is internationalisation, » says Lazorthes, who raised $8 million (£5 million) from VC fund 360 Capital Partners, Oleg Tscheltzoff and Jeremie Berrebi of Kima Ventures. « Already 20 per cent of our revenue comes from abroad. »
Le classement complet :
- Leetchi
- Blablacar
- Melty
- AppsFire
- Viadeo
- Captain Dash
- Capitainetrain
- Withings
- Deezer
- Devialet
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/11/european-startups/paris
Informations mises à jour le 28 Nov 2016
