Alive Ideas
27 Rue de Charonne, Paris, Île-de-France, 75011, France
Overview
Alive Ideas is a team of french entrepreneurs trying to help ideas to go (a)live. We are passionnate about developing ideas changing habits or eco-systems: news, shopping, leisure, content, mobile... We have worked together for more than 15 years when we started Cyrealis, a French online media company based on the success of Clubic.com (leading tech-related online magazine) and Achetezfacile.com (compararison shopping), and the acquisition and growth of 4 other portals: Jeuxvideo.fr (videogame), Neteco (ebusiness), Mobinaute (mobile) and OZAP (entertainment). After merging Cyrealis with the digital division of the M6 Group (#2 French private TV channel / subsidiary of RTL Group), we also launched Deco.fr (home-related portal) and Turbo.fr (automotive portal). After these successful launchs, M6 websites hit 15 million Unique Users (Nielsen//Netratings 10/2010). While working for such a diversified group, we helped on our spare time several other business to grow, from a local brick-and-mortar restaurant to a global music-industry player. In 2011, we decided to leave M6 Group to start a new adventure: alive ideas. The mission of Alive Ideas is right there in our name: we bring ideas to life. To achieve this mission, we seek passionate teams with fun or revolutionnary ideas, and try to help them with some of the ingredients of success: business tips and smart money. We also develop our own ideas (such as Mapado.com), gathering code-gurus and marketing genius together.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Content
- Information Services
- Information Technology
Investment portfolio
- Infinit
Led · Equity · Jul 2013
Infinit builds a peer-to-peer file-sharing app designed to transfer very large files without size limits. Its technology enables direct fast transfers between users, automatically switching to local-network transfers and supporting pause/resume for large uploads. For recipients who do not use Infinit, the service can generate a browser download link and upload the file to Infinit’s servers. The company highlights real-world performance — an Australian post-production studio sent a 500GB file in 32 minutes using Infinit. Infinit has launched a Windows beta after an initial OS X release and says it plans to expand to more platforms while keeping the majority of its team in Paris. The startup recently raised $1.8 million from Alven Capital and 360 Capital Partners and will use the funding to hire a few people. Infinit offers a macOS-only peer-to-peer file transfer app that integrates directly into the Finder, allowing drag-and-drop sharing to contacts shown as avatars. The company uses its own P2P file-sharing technology developed from co-founder Julien Quintard’s PhD research on decentralized file systems at the University of Cambridge and deliberately shuns BitTorrent. Transfers are encrypted directly between sender and recipient, which Infinit says prevents any third party — including Infinit — from accessing exchanged data. Infinit launched in private beta and places an Infinit item in Finder favorites with a simple interface for the seven most-shared contacts plus search by email. Pricing includes a free tier with a 2GB file-size limit and paid plans with unlimited file size; anyone who downloads during private beta receives an unlimited version “for life.” The company is a graduate of the Le Camping accelerator and is backed by external investors.
Team
No current team members are available.