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00:01Welcome back, we're live here at Vivitech in Paris, I'm Pascal Davies and I'm delighted to be your host today
00:08for the fourth edition of the next Unicorn Awards here at Vivitech, which is in partnership with GP Bullhound, Capgemini
00:15Ventures, European Innovation Council and White & Case.
00:19Not forgetting, of course, our media partners, Euronews Next and Lizzy Corp, and of course, a big thank you to
00:25Acel, Balderton, Euroseo, Northzone and Partech for their contributions.
00:30Now, to kick things off, I want to welcome to the stage Julie Renty, who is the managing director of
00:36Vivitech and with her, Manish Matavani, who is the managing partner at GP Bullhound.
00:57Julie and Manish, welcome to the stage. Julie, I want to start by asking you, what makes this fourth edition
01:02of the next Unicorn Awards so special?
01:05Hi and good afternoon, everyone. First of all, I'm very happy to see you all here, to be back in
01:13the in-person, full-speed mode.
01:16That's very nice to see all these European startups in the different alleys of Vivitech.
01:22What makes it special is that we are post-COVID, so I think in two years, it's one of the
01:28first times that we managed to all gather together and hearing in the alleys people talking in English, in Spanish,
01:34in German.
01:36I mean, that's so nice to feel this energy and to see each other again.
01:40Also, I think it comes in a very specific context for tech.
01:45There is some interrogation of the perspectives that are coming in, but we want to reinforce the dynamism of the
01:53urban tech ecosystem.
01:55In France, we have had yesterday our 27th Unicorn, and actually it was one of the choice of the jury
02:04last year,
02:05because EcoVadis, who became our 27th Unicorn and raised $5,000 million, became yesterday Unicorn and won the prize last
02:16year.
02:16So I'm hoping that the winners of today will have the same path and the same speed of growth that
02:24the one that EcoVadis had.
02:27But also, I want to emphasize with this prize that we've created with GP Billhound, the dynamism that we see
02:36across all sectors of activities, across all countries of Europe, and which is really important for us.
02:44So thanks a lot, Manish, for your support since the creation of this prize, and I leave the floor to
02:49you.
02:49Thank you.
02:50Manish, I want to start with you.
02:52Can you say a few words about why you decided to partner with Vivitech on this award?
02:56So I think Europe was historically very bad at celebrating its success, and we would constantly go to America and
03:04see some of our companies and some of the investors there.
03:07They were really good at drawing attention to the best companies, and they become household names and worth hundreds of
03:13billions of dollars.
03:14I think it's really important now that we do two things in Europe.
03:18One is raise our ambition levels.
03:20I mean, we've been so good at building these billion-dollar companies, $10 billion companies.
03:25is we now have the capital and the experience and the tech talent to raise the ambition levels again.
03:31I mean, we need to create these Amazon-type companies now.
03:34That's possible.
03:35And I think this really showcases the best companies and gets the attention that it deserves.
03:42Sure.
03:42I wanted to ask you as well, also, you're studying the Tech Titans.
03:45What's that about, and what does it have to do with the awards?
03:47So I think Tech Titans is trying to share some of the lessons from the best companies that have hit
03:52some of those lofty heights, the $50 billion valuations.
03:57And then what are the ingredients, how much capital they've had to raise, who to raise the money from, what
04:02are the smart things to do with acquisitions and hiring?
04:04And we interview a lot of the founders that have created the billion-dollar companies, and they share some of
04:09the mistakes and some of the things that worked well.
04:12Super great.
04:13Well, thank you so much, Julian Manish, for that.
04:15So let's get back to our awards then.
04:18So we'll be awarding those prizes shortly.
04:21But first, I want to provide you with a little bit of background as to why we're here today.
04:26So about two months ago, Vivotech and its partners, GP Bullhand, and those five top VC companies, that's Assel, Golderton,
04:34Eurozone, Northzone, and Partec, they released a map of the top 100 scale-ups in Europe.
04:40They're the rising stars that could be the future unicorns.
04:44When you see these.
04:44Now, on behalf of the Capgemini Ventures, the European Invention Council, and White & Case, and our sponsors, those that's
04:51Liz Aikor and Euronews Next, we're going to be awarding seven prizes in total.
04:56Five of those are sector-specific prizes.
04:59We have, first up, AI, deep tech, and big data.
05:02Following up, marketplace, and then enterprise SaaS, digital media, fintech and insurtech, and the jury's Coup de Curve impact prize.
05:11And, of course, we will end with our next Unicorn Award grand prize.
05:15So we're very pleased to have us, with a number of us, with the jury, with us.
05:21We have five top European investment funds.
05:24We have Philippe Botteri from Assel.
05:26We have Philippe Colombelle from Partec.
05:29Benoît Scrossman from Eurozeo.
05:31We have Mikael Coting from Northzone.
05:34Andrea Roder from Bolderton Capital.
05:36And then we have our four platinum partners.
05:39We have Jérôme Berger from Orange Ventures.
05:42François Braque from Google.
05:44Vanessa Chateau from Docker Post.
05:46And we have Franck Lemoyle from LVMH Group.
05:49The other members who will present the award on stage, they'll be coming up, so we'll be able to see
05:54them.
05:55And, of course, we're in for a treat at the end when we have John Chambers, the former executive chairman
06:00and CEO of Cisco,
06:01and current founder and CEO of JSU2 Ventures, who will announce the winner.
06:07Now, let's welcome on stage the director of the European Innovation Council, who is one of the sponsors of this
06:13award.
06:14He's going to talk about the initiatives of the EIC and also Europe's tech ecosystem to give us a bit
06:20more background.
06:20He'll also announce the winner of that first prize, which is for AI, deep tech, and big data.
06:25So, I'd like to welcome to the stage, Jean-David Mallow.
06:38Jean-Div.
06:44Welcome to the stage.
06:45It's lovely to have you on board.
06:47So, firstly, I would like to ask you, you're leading the EIC, what initiatives do you have in place at
06:53the moment,
06:54especially in this difficult financial climate?
06:56Thank you very much.
06:58And, first of all, it's a real pleasure for me to be here for the second year and to sponsor,
07:04in fact, this very important event.
07:06I mean, the European Innovation Council is now in its fully-fledged implementation.
07:12We have the objective to invest in more than 800, 1,000 startup and deep tech SMEs in the next
07:25six years.
07:26We have already identified more than 150 in which we are starting to invest.
07:33and we had the pleasure yesterday to announce our first investment of 15 million euros in a very promising startup
07:42in the domain of CHIPS Act,
07:45in fact, in exascale supercomputing.
07:48So, it's really deep tech, reason why also we are interested by this particular award.
07:53But you know that our ambition is clearly to become the European Unicorn Factory.
07:58So, this is our objective, this is the objective of the European Union, the member states, the European Parliament.
08:06And we know that we have in Europe a very promising startup, great talents, great innovators,
08:14in particular in deep tech and artificial intelligence, in big data.
08:18And we are sure that we can help them together with other investors to meet their dreams
08:25and therefore to meet the dreams also of our citizens.
08:29Okay, well, that sounds delightful.
08:31And so, for our first category, why do you think it's so important at the moment for AI deep tech?
08:37I mean, this category is fitting perfectly with our objective.
08:41I mean, one of the main weaknesses that remain in Europe in terms of investment,
08:47in particular in early stage, is in particular to accompany the growth of these deep tech startups.
08:54I mean, it requires sometimes long-term investment, patient capital investment,
08:59not very fitting with the interest of a private VC.
09:04But we have to give them a chance to this kind of company in order to validate their technology,
09:10to demonstrate by the example that indeed they can create new products that can disrupt new markets,
09:18create new markets.
09:19And this is the role of public bodies, like the EIC, to play this role
09:24and to, therefore, give the means to our innovators to transform this idea into concrete products and growth.
09:34All right, great.
09:35Well, let's get on to announcing who the winner is then.
09:38Indeed.
09:38So, it's clearly an underrepresented category.
09:41We've got 16 scale-ups among the 100 on the list.
09:45So, Jean-David Mallor, put us out of our misery.
09:48So, for the first category, which is, as you said, relating to artificial intelligence, deep tech,
09:57and big data, the winner is...
10:10Privetar.
10:19Congratulations.
10:21So, pleasure.
10:30Merci. Je suis honnête et honnête d'accepter ce prix parmi les équipes de l'équipe Privitar.
10:37Merci à VivaTech et à l'équipe de l'équipe de l'équipe de l'équipe de l'équipe de
10:43l'équipe.
10:44Qu'est-ce que l'équipe Privitar ? Aujourd'hui vous avez vu tellement de grandes innovations.
10:49All of them use data. At Privitar, we trust in the transformation power of the data,
10:57but also in the privacy rights for all the citizens.
11:04So what do we do? We deliver a software to empower all the organisations
11:10to respect the regulation and to respect customer trust.
11:15To do that, we have the solution to keep the utility of the data,
11:22but helping you to work with safe data.
11:26So data that respect the citizens.
11:30So thank you very much.
11:31And we expect that we will be able to use 100% of your data safely and ethically.
11:39Sebastian.
11:40Thanks again.
11:40Thank you so much. Before you head off, I've got another prize for you.
11:45Sebastian, sorry. We also have another prize before you run off.
11:48So we also have this NFT to offer you, which is an exclusive one designed by Oblivious.
11:53And there are only 13 copies in the world.
11:56Thank you very much.
11:57Thanks so much.
12:03All right. Well, thanks so much.
12:05So as we have seen, the Covid pandemic has changed our habits, mainly shopping,
12:11many of us now shopping online.
12:12And with that, we've also seen the growth of scale ups in this domain
12:16and also the marketplace category, which is the third largest category this year.
12:21So to award our next prize, let's welcome to the stage another member of the jury, Joy Sufi,
12:28who's a partner at GP Bullhounds.
12:42Joy, thank you so much for joining us here today.
12:45Hi, everyone.
12:46So I'm very happy actually to announce the Marketplace Next Unicorn Awards.
12:52So marketplaces have been actually quite represented in the Next Unicorn statistics of this year.
13:00It's the third category among various subsectors, whether it's on the work side,
13:05on the commerce side, or even on the automotive side.
13:09So obviously the winner is today in one of those segments
13:13and we'll discover it quite soon.
13:19So the winner for the next Unicorn Awards of Marketplaces is...
13:29Malt!
13:39Congratulations.
13:42Thank you.
13:43Thank you, Joy.
13:45Thanks to VivaTech.
13:46Thanks to GP Bullhounds.
13:47Thanks to the jury.
13:49So I'm Vincent Regev, the CEO co-founder of Malt.
13:51We are obviously a marketplace, but we're also a community of 400,000 freelance consultants in Europe.
13:58We're the European leader now in that field.
14:00We've just bought, actually, so we started in France.
14:04And we just bought a company from Germany called Comatch.
14:08And so very happy to be here.
14:11If you're a freelancer or if you plan to be a freelancer, please join us.
14:15You can go on Malt.fr, Malt.de, etc.
14:18And if not, we are looking for a lot of people to hire.
14:21We're in six countries now in Europe.
14:23So please join us in that case, too.
14:25Thanks a lot, Joy.
14:26Thanks to you.
14:30Thank you, Sebastian.
14:33And you have another prize.
14:35Thank you so much.
14:36Thank you very much.
14:38Now, let's move on to our next category, which is digital media.
14:43It's one of the key categories to our prize today.
14:48And the prize of digital media actually came in second place today, taking over FinTech last year.
14:56So to present this award, I'm delighted to introduce you to Germano Fuliguerro, the CEO from Diesel.
15:02So, sorry.
15:26Okay, so.
15:28Oh, sorry.
15:29Excuse me.
15:31Sorry.
15:32A bit of a confusion there.
15:33We have Mr. Botteri with us today, who is going to.
15:38Yeah.
15:40Hi, everyone.
15:42I'm Philippe Botteri.
15:43I'm from Accel.
15:44So we're a global venture firm.
15:47And we do invest in a lot of startups across three areas, everything around software, cloud, security, data.
15:56So all the B2B, very active on FinTech online financial services, and very active on everything online consumer.
16:07And we hope that our startups turn into unicorn.
16:09Philippe Botteri, thank you for joining us today.
16:12So I want to discuss the scale-up scene in Europe.
16:16So it's been growing in the past few years, and we've seen particularly in France.
16:20But the US is still leading ahead.
16:22Have we caught up at all?
16:23Are we going to catch up at all?
16:26Yeah, so I think we, you know, if you look at the news cycle right now, I think things are
16:31different.
16:31But before getting there, let's look back at what happened in the past 10 years.
16:39So if you look at 2000, you know, in 2016, so that's about, you know, six years ago now, seven
16:49years ago, the total amount invested in a year in European and Israeli cloud companies was $1 billion.
17:01That $1 billion, that $1 billion, that was around one-tenth or less than one-tenth of what was happening
17:08in the US at the time.
17:12Now, if we, and interesting stat, I mean, if you look at what happened last year, just one single cloud
17:21company in Europe, Celonis, raised around north of $1 billion.
17:27So basically, you had one company last year who raised as much as all the ecosystems seven years ago.
17:34So now, where are we today if we compare Europe versus the US?
17:39So I have the stats from 2021.
17:42And in 2021, there was $44 billion invested in European and Israeli cloud startups.
17:50That was slightly less than half about what happened in the US.
17:55So basically, in the past six, seven years, we went from being one-tenth to being roughly close to half.
18:03Now, if you look at the unicorn generated, 44 cloud unicorn in 2021 in Europe versus 88 in the US.
18:14So roughly half.
18:16So basically, we're not very far, and we've been growing very, very fast.
18:21So I think, you know, we're really catching up right now.
18:25And if you look at 2021, if you look at the largest cloud IPO in 2021, that was UiPath.
18:33That was a European company, a company out of Bucharest, Romania.
18:37So if we had basically asked anybody, you know, in 2010, 2015, like, do you think that Europe will generate
18:46the biggest IPO in a year in software globally?
18:52Like, the answer where I've been like, there's no way that's going to happen.
18:55And it happened last year.
18:56So I think we're catching up very fast.
18:59And I'm so very optimistic about what the next decade will generate for Europe.
19:05Okay. Speaking about the next decade and the now, obviously, financial markets, they're a little bit under pressure.
19:11So is the capital still going to be available to scale up these businesses?
19:16Yeah. So that's a good question.
19:18So that was, you know, it's always good to look back.
19:20And it was, you know, a lot of great things happened.
19:23I think now we live in a totally different world.
19:27But if we look at the numbers, there was roughly $210 billion that were raised in the US, Europe, and
19:36Israel to invest in venture and growth companies.
19:40So $210 billion.
19:41So even if right now the pace of investing, you know, in the past couple of years has been very
19:48fast and funds were invested with, you know, a two-year cycle, that means that there is more than half
19:54of that that is available today.
19:56That's more than $100 billion.
19:58So the answer is, yes, there is going to be plenty of capital available.
20:04But, of course, it's going to be much harder to get it because just a bar to raise money is
20:09going to be, you know, is going to be higher.
20:11So that's the scale ups.
20:13What about for the unicorn founders?
20:15What do we see happening now?
20:18Yeah, I think so for founders, like what are the implications?
20:23Because if you look at the past couple of years, I think companies have raised a lot of money.
20:30They have raised way more money than anything that happened, I think, in the past 10 years.
20:37So today, we're in a situation where, yes, the environment is very different, but companies still have a lot of
20:44money on their balance sheet.
20:45So now the corollary is that they usually have a high burn.
20:49And so now it's really the question.
20:52So the answer is not, well, let's, you know, cut costs, stop growth and stop everything because it's a crisis
20:58out there.
20:58I think the question for the founders right now, which is a very hard question to answer, is to say,
21:04you know, basically the cost of capital has gone up dramatically.
21:09So if the cost of capital has gone up dramatically, that means that the ROI that you need for every
21:15dollar that you invest needs to be much higher, right?
21:18And I think it's like 10x higher.
21:20So when in the past, it made sense to invest pretty much in anything because anything that could generate a
21:26marginal growth was worth it because the cost of that capital was close to zero.
21:31Now the cost of that capital is 10x higher.
21:34So every dollar you invest basically needs to generate a 10x higher ROI.
21:39So what does this mean?
21:40It means that you really need to look at all your initiatives and cut everything that was generating a marginal
21:46return so that you can focus on having a very efficient growth model.
21:51And for some companies, it means that they will need to cut back a lot.
21:55For some companies, it means that they need to cut back a little.
21:58And for some companies, it means that they need to continue to invest because their model is already super, super
22:05efficient.
22:06That's why I don't think it's one answer fits everyone.
22:08But I think it is really, really a good time to look at all your investments and really focus on
22:16what makes the most sense.
22:18All right.
22:19Philippe, I'll leave you there.
22:20So thanks so much for that insight, Philippe from ASEL.
22:24Thank you for being with us today.
22:32Now let's move on to our next category, which is digital media.
22:37It's one of the key categories of VivaTech's unicorn awards today.
22:40It took second place taking over fintech from last year.
22:44And so to present the award, I'd like to welcome back again, Geronimo Foluguer, the CEO of Deezer.
23:02Hello.
23:04Great.
23:04So sorry for the misunderstanding before.
23:08I'm here to present the winner for the digital media category.
23:14And the winner is Brainly.
23:38And we have the winner on Zoom.
23:42He couldn't be here today.
23:46Sorry about that.
23:48But thank you for this recognition.
23:51It's a great honor.
23:52And I will make sure to share it with the team who is behind Brainly.
23:58Because of them, we are able to provide study help to hundreds of millions of students and parents all around
24:05the world.
24:05And, you know, as an impact of that, we are contributing to democratizing access to education.
24:13And I remember when I was starting Brainly, I was trying to create something that I wish I had when
24:19I was in high school.
24:21And today, it's so great to see all of the positive feedback that we are getting from our users who
24:27are discovering the product every day.
24:32Thank you again for this award.
24:34It will make us even more motivated to build the biggest online education platform in the world.
24:42Thank you again.
24:44Greatly appreciated.
24:48Great. Well, thank you so much and well done to you.
24:52That's one of our scale-ups from Poland today.
24:55Congratulations, Michael.
24:58Now, it's time for the FinTech and InsureTech award.
25:02But first, I'd like to call on Guillaume Vitryk from White and Case.
25:06Guillaume is one of our sponsors here today of this award.
25:09And he'll be able to tell us about the initiatives of White and Case
25:12and how they're committed to strengthening the European tech ecosystem
25:16and the scaling up of startups.
25:19So, please join me on the stage, Guillaume.
25:32Guillaume, pleasure to have you with us here today.
25:35Guillaume Vitryk.
25:35Thank you very much.
25:37Thank you.
25:37Thank you, everyone.
25:38And thanks to VivaTech and all the partners for this wonderful organization.
25:44I'm a partner at White and Case.
25:46We're a law firm.
25:47We're delighted to be partner of this event and to be part of the jury.
25:53It's actually the second year we're partnering with this event.
25:58Maybe just a few words.
26:00Not about what we do, but about those crazy last 12 months.
26:06When I'm talking about those last 12 months, I'm not talking about last year.
26:09I'm talking about exactly one year ago when we started working on crazy six months
26:17where everyone called us and that happened in France and we were the unicorn maker.
26:23You know, over a period of six months, we worked on Back Market.
26:28We worked on Malt and United, ExoTech, Swy, Sora, you name it.
26:34It was just crazy.
26:36Six months of incredible valuation, incredible transactions, unicorns here and there.
26:42And then, you know, what happened over the last six months?
26:47Some call it back to normal.
26:49Maybe that's back to normal.
26:51I don't know.
26:52Time will tell.
26:53You know, valuation, lowering and obviously some investors pulling out of the French market.
27:02And harder times for founders to raise money even with amazing projects at a very already mature state.
27:14So, two remarks on that.
27:16What it means and what are the key takeaways.
27:20Key takeaways for me is that the incredible six months we had and the incredible year we had last year
27:28will remain and has changed the market.
27:32First thing is that, and that's very relevant for when we're talking about next unicorns,
27:37is that no one blinks at a, you know, 100 million plus financing run anymore.
27:43The market has changed.
27:44The gap has closed with respect to the difference between EU and the US.
27:50with respect, you know, to scale up to late stage funding.
27:54So, this has changed tremendously.
27:57And that's the key takeaway.
27:59And the other takeaway is that the fundamentals are here, you know.
28:04The need for those tech solutions, et cetera, everything remains.
28:08So, I'm very optimistic.
28:10And the second takeaway is what does it mean is that you'll need good lawyers.
28:15You know why?
28:16And I'm not saying that because I'm a lawyer.
28:18Why?
28:19Because negotiated term sheets are back.
28:23You know, times have changed.
28:262X liquidation preference, participating, they're back in the term sheets.
28:30You know, all those terms that you didn't see in different times because, you know, the focus was different.
28:35It was super easy for founders just to collect term sheets and to have investors sign at the bottom of
28:41the page.
28:41That has changed.
28:42And that's the key takeaway.
28:44Thanks, everyone.
28:45So, clearly, sorry, I just want to ask you a couple more questions.
28:48So, clearly, celebrating our scale ups is very important.
28:52What do these awards mean?
28:54So, those awards are very important, I think, in the message that, you know, they're saying.
29:02Because, first, it's showing, you know, the depth of the European market and how much great companies are lining up
29:11and what they can offer.
29:13And I think it's also a good message that sends the investors into the market.
29:19Okay, great.
29:20So, without further ado, this is FinTech and the InsurTech is the second most active sector behind Enterprise SaaS with
29:28118% growth in new billion-dollar companies, which is massive.
29:33InsurTech, as well, accounted for 18% of FinTech's new billion-dollar entrants.
29:38So, Guillaume, I want to ask you, can we reveal the winner, then, of this important award?
29:44Yes.
29:45So, in the letter, we have...
29:49Lucco.
29:59Congratulations.
30:00Here is...
30:04Thank you very much.
30:06Hi, everyone.
30:07I'm Benoit, CTO and co-founder at Lucco.
30:11So, a brief word about Lucco.
30:14In France, 55% of people does not trust the insurance industry.
30:20Why?
30:21Because the interests of the insurance and the insurance are misaligned because when your insurance pay you a claim, basically,
30:28they'll lose money.
30:29So, at Lucco, we have decided to create this simple, transparent, and trustfully insurance, home insurance product.
30:38How do we solve this industry problem?
30:42The first one is using the give-back.
30:44So, on every premium we collect, we use 30% of the premium to pay Lucco, and we use 70
30:51% of the premiums that we put in a common pot.
30:55And we use this common pot to pay every claim that our customer has.
31:00At the end of the year, the money that is still left in this common pot, we use this money
31:06to give to NGOs that the customer can choose.
31:09And so, basically, thanks to this very powerful give-back, we align the interests of Lucco and the interests of
31:16our own series.
31:17The second one is to create this transparent insurance product with a very seamless and simple subscription online funnel.
31:27And the second one is avoid any kind of small asterisks, small mentions that forbidden us to reimburse any kind
31:37of sinister we have.
31:38So, really explain where and when you are covered by Lucco and when you are not covered by Lucco.
31:44The last one is being the best buddy to help you to live in your home in a safer and
31:50greener way by providing you tips, providing you also video consultancy for your home,
31:56to make sure your home is safe, to make sure your electricity, your plumbery is safe and you will not
32:03experience any kind of disaster.
32:05Where we are today at Lucco? We are the first insurtech company in Europe. We have more than 300,000
32:15insuries.
32:17And we are in three countries today. We launched Spain a year ago and we have acquired an insurance company
32:25in Germany called Coya six months ago.
32:28And we are now a full stack insurance company with our own license.
32:34Lastly, we are now a team of more than 200 Lucco, really focusing and moving mountains to make European home
32:43greener and safer. Thanks.
32:46Great. Thanks. And best of luck with the Lucco. Thanks a lot.
32:54All right. So, let's move on to the biggest category then, which was enterprise SaaS.
32:59So, before presenting this prize, I would like to welcome on stage Capgemini Ventures, Lucia Znapi.
33:08Thank you.
33:20Lucia, welcome.
33:23Thank you.
33:25So, let's talk about Enterosas. Why is it such an important award?
33:32Well, we heard from JP Burhund that the European scene when it comes to startup is pretty buoyant.
33:42And valuation matters. Why? Because when you become a unicorn, it means that you've been recognized by not only VCs,
33:55but clients, of course.
33:57So, it's not, of course, the end game, but it's a way to get visibility.
34:06And at Capgemini, that matters. Why?
34:10We are the partner of our clients to help them on digital transformation.
34:16And we do combine and integrate all sorts of solutions, the most established, but including startup solutions.
34:26So, we are a channel to market for unicorns, of course, but also for smaller startups.
34:36We only start at scale-ups, because before that, it's pretty difficult to work with two early-stage companies when
34:44you want to go to market together.
34:47And Capgemini Ventures has a dual role.
34:50It has an investor role for minority tickets into startups in partnership with ESAE through our ESAE Cap Venture Fund.
35:01And it has a role of facilitating partnerships between the business units of Capgemini and scale-ups, promising startups that
35:13are relevant to our clients.
35:15This is important because you need funds, but you also need clients when you're a startup.
35:23And for startups, addressing the B2B segment, adoption at scale very often comes with some complexity in navigating into the
35:34client organization.
35:35So, being able to partner with the Capgemini and the like is also a way to increase the top line
35:44and expand not only in Europe, but internationally.
35:48So, for all these reasons, I think that this award that is now close to 10 years is also a
35:58launching pad.
36:00And I think that we looked at stats and 40% of the nominees actually became unicorns.
36:08So, possibly it has an effect.
36:11Yeah.
36:12Noviti Software as a Service, again, it took pole position this year in the top 100.
36:1827 of those companies entered it.
36:21So, without further ado, Lucia, can we reveal who the winner is?
36:25Well, so, the one I'm going to announce is in the enterprise SaaS, so it makes sense for Capgemini, obviously.
36:35That's an important one because in the digital transformation, beyond e-commerce where you need to transact and pay more
36:45and more,
36:46you need to be able to validate the identity of the persons who transact in different spaces for financial purposes,
36:57but also when you want to sign official documents, for instance, at the notary.
37:03So, I won't keep the suspense more.
37:06The winner is...
37:08The winner is...
37:10Jingle?
37:11I thought there was a jingle.
37:13ID now!
37:23Thank you.
37:28Thank you very much.
37:29It feels great to be back in Paris after a long time, after a long COVID travel.
37:34I'm very happy to accept this award on behalf of everyone at ID now group.
37:40I mean, there's so many people working in our company silently, not coming on stage at all.
37:47So, this is for all of you guys working at ID now.
37:50I'm very happy about the award for two reasons, many reasons.
37:53The one is that the awards helped us initially to build the credibility, to build our business, because we create
38:03solutions, software for many sectors like banking industry, financial industry, and it helped us to build the credibility early on.
38:12And secondly, we combined, actually, with a French leading company, we acquired Ired Knight last year.
38:20So, we have a strong relationship between our headquarter in Germany and France.
38:25That's why I'm very happy to be here.
38:27So, we founded ID now eight years ago with the vision of building a pan-European champion for digital security
38:37and identity verification.
38:39And we believe that trust is the ultimate glue for all of us to do business, actually, on the internet.
38:48So, you need trust when you open a bank account.
38:50You need trust when you apply for credit, or you rent your car, or you buy crypto, whatever.
38:57And we provide the technologies to do that.
39:01It's called know your customer.
39:03We do identity verification, EIDs, wallets, in many European countries, and it's just the very beginning.
39:12More and more businesses obviously go online, and we want to provide the technologies.
39:17So, thank you so much for this award, and it's great to be back, finally, at an event here in
39:21Paris.
39:22Thank you so much.
39:22Thank you so much, and congratulations.
39:26Thank you.
39:28All right.
39:29So, that is our five sector winners.
39:32So, now we're going to go to the Coup De Coeur Impact Award, which is a very special category.
39:38The jury was asked to vote for the most inspiring scale-up with two principal criteria, impact and resilience.
39:45More than 40% of those companies in the running have a full good business model, and they represent a
39:53trend towards sustainability.
39:54So, to discover who is the winner, I'd like to first welcome Toma Platenga from Vinted.
40:10Hello, everybody.
40:11It feels like coming home here, seeing the previous winner, which is very familiar to me.
40:18I'm a part of that company as well.
40:21Presenting it for this category means a lot to me.
40:24I think this category is one where we're going to change industries, where we're going to make industries sustainable.
40:31So, I'm very proud to announce that the winner that we have is a company that is going to be
40:37hopefully having a tremendous impact on our society as well.
40:41The winner of last year is on a track to do that and just raised recently 500 million.
40:47So, in this game-changing category, I would like to announce the winner.
40:54There's no music.
40:55They said, there we go, music.
40:57Timber.
40:58The winner is Timber.
41:06Ah, there he is on the screen.
41:08So, I'm holding your award.
41:14Thank you so much.
41:17Thank you so much.
41:18And it's a pity I'm not able to be there together with you on the stage.
41:24First of all, I would like to thank Viverthec and the jury.
41:28And I, based on behalf of the whole team, I see this as a recognition of the work that we
41:36try to do in order to empower people to make smarter usage of energy.
41:40Because what we do is to try to give people the right tools.
41:47All right. Just a little cut there.
41:49Thanks.
41:50You looked happy with the prize.
41:53Thank you so much.
41:54There goes French internet.
41:56Thank you so much.
41:58And you can enjoy his prize.
42:04All right.
42:05So, let's get to the moment we've all been waiting for.
42:08And that is the grand prize.
42:10So, that is with John Chambers, who will be coming up to present that award.
42:16You may, of course, know his name.
42:17He was the former CEO and executive of Cisco and now at the CEO of JC2 Ventures.
42:25Many of these scale-ups can also learn a lot from him.
42:29So, I'd like to welcome him to the stage and he will present the big winner today.
42:40Thank you very much.
42:42Thanks, John.
42:42Thanks for being with us today.
42:43It's a pleasure to be here.
42:46You know, I've had the chance to believe in France and Europe as a startup community and the place to
42:52invest for five and a half years.
42:54And when I originally said that to my colleagues in the US, they were very nice.
42:59They said, John, you get market transitions right.
43:02Everyone deserves to make a mistake now and then.
43:05And I said, no, you can feel the change occurring.
43:08It starts in the universities with the startups that are beginning to just start to emerge.
43:14It starts with a country leader and I'm a huge believer in Macron here in France with a vision of
43:19what's possible.
43:21For me, it's especially rewarding because now that's come true.
43:24The critics of five years ago who said when we'd ask him to come over and consider investing in France
43:31and in Europe,
43:32they would say, John, only as a favor and only if you buy us dinner and give us some nice
43:37wine.
43:38On the plane on the way over two days ago, I saw six of the top venture capitalists out of
43:44the US in the world on the way over,
43:47literally unannounced because they believe in the future of this country and the future of Europe in terms of startups.
43:53For me, having been on this type of stage when I was at Cisco, where we took it from a
44:00company with 400 employees
44:01and 70 million in sales to 49 billion and 75,000 employees, created 10,000 millionaires among our employees first
44:10decade,
44:11and we're for a period of time the most valuable company in the world.
44:14When I have a chance to come and present the top prize award to startups in all of Europe,
44:21it is a tremendous thank you for what you all have done.
44:25All right, John. Let's get to it then.
44:27I'm all excited.
44:27Let's get to it then.
44:29Who is our grand prize winner this year?
44:32Okay, or do we get music in the background?
44:34Hopefully.
44:36Maybe not.
44:37There we go.
44:47It is Luko.
44:51Benoit, are you there?
44:54Ben, congratulations.
44:55Thanks, John.
44:56Whoa!
44:58Enjoy the moment.
44:59Thanks, John. Thanks.
45:00I'm proud of you.
45:01Thank you very much.
45:03I'm glad.
45:04If you want, take a moment to enjoy it.
45:07and also share with you what it means.
45:11Yes, I'm very proud of receiving this prize.
45:14I'm very proud also for the team, for all the Lukums
45:17that have done a tremendous amount of work to get there.
45:21So I'm very happy and thank you very for the team
45:25and for all the Lukums across the world.
45:27Thanks.
45:28Enjoy the moment. So proud of you.
45:31All right.
45:31Take a picture by yourself.
45:32So more Lukums on the rise we can see from today.
45:35So I'd now just like to say a big thank you to everyone
45:38who's been here today.
45:39All the entrants, all the scale-ups who made the list.
45:42And I'd like to invite our jury members and the winning scale-ups
45:45to join us on stage for a group photo now.
45:47to join us in lap 1, переход of our courthouse to visit
45:55You are the right at little link.
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