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March 13, 2006
Musiwave founder starts up Eyeka with VC funding
French entrepreneur Gilles Babinet, who sold his last venture to Openwave for $121M in September, has started up Eyeka with €4.2M from Ventech, the same VC that led investment in his previous company, and DN Capital in the UK.
BusinessWeek has a video interview with Babinet, made about a year ago, when he was promoting Musiwave's US expansion
The funds are to be used to recruit a team and develop its product that is only being sketchily described as a platform for consumers to manage, optimize and value the photos and video they generate from their cameraphones. And Eyeka is going to do it in a way that mobile network operators can make money on it.
If we learn more about how a startup can both help consumers to optimize multimedia and earn mobile network operators more money from the same consumers, two seemingly opposing promises, it’ll be in a new post.
Babinet co-founded the company with Franck Perrier, who was CEO of Roger-Viollet, a photographic archive company and prior to that with Corbis France, a stock photography agency. Prior to joining Corbis, he was with BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi for more than a decade.
The firm’s founding CTO is Yves Languepin who held the same position at the online wineshop, ChateauOnline, for the past six years. And prior to that he founded IVAO, a company that developed photo and video services, which was acquired by France Telecom in 1994.
Read - Gilles Babinet Announces (Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz blog)
Read - Eyeka lève 4,2 millions d’euros (EETimes)
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