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June 19, 2007
Ex-Photoways CEO's New Venture Gets eCommerce Stars As Angels
Michel de Guilhermier, the French founder of VC-backed Photoways who parted ways with his startup's board about a year ago, has pulled together an impressive group of ecommerce business angels for his new stealth-mode venture called Inspirational Stores [via Altaide].
He says in his blog that his venture is seed funded for an undisclosed amount and the founder team retains the majority of shares.
Regular readers will not only recognize his name, but also most of his advisors and angels, we've profiled some of them over the past year or so. In our recent interview with de Gulhermier he revealed a little about ISG. Three or four of his angels have US market chops.
Robert Keane - Vistaprint founder an online business card printing biz whose mkt cap is $1.5B on Nasdaq
Fabrice Grinda - founder of Zingy (ringtones) and now working on Craigslist clone OLX
Loic Lemeur - whose blogging company was acquired by Six Apart a few years ago, he started LeWeb confabs, and is one of the top 2 bloggers in France. He is leaving Europe for Silicon Valley now, according to his blog.
Graham Hobson : co-founder of PhotoBox whose firm Photoways acquired in 2006
Jérémy Berrebi : who is on his second venture, the popular Zlio online shop building company
Patrick Robin : Imaginet founder which was acquired by Colt telecom and now runs a members only ecommerce site called 24h00.fr
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet : founder of fast growing Price Minister, a top e-commerce site in France
Michael Copsidas : founder of Guide, a price comparison engine tradiing with a valuation of €60M.
Patrick Hannedouche, founder justeatemps.com, an ecommerce biz that delivers drinks on demand
Posted on June 19, 2007 05:46 AM | Posted to eCommerce | Permalink
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