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SelfTrade is an online stock brokerage company based in France and one of the first independent flat-fee brokerage companies in Europe. The Company was founded by Charles Beigbeder, a French national and former investment banker in London. Since founding, the Company has expanded its geographical focus to the UK, Italy and Spain and widened its product offering from secondary equities to mutual funds, warrants and initial public offerings.

IPOed at the Nouveau Marché, in March 2000 - Merged with DAB, September 2000 and sold in 2001.

CEO: Charles Beigbeder

Worldres is an online hotel distribution network for leisure travel. WorldRes connects member hotels worldwide with travellers via a global network of partner websites and call centers. The company was founded by Greg Jones and Eric Christensen in 1995. Since inception, the company has expanded its operations and currently has offices located in Düsseldorf, Germany; Paris; Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France; and Staines, Middlesex, just outside London. They have continued to develop significant partnerships and services including an Online Reservation Program.
Investors include Walden new media, Apax, TDF, Times Mirror, Alcor

Acquired

CEO: Wolfgang Kitza

Chateau-Online.com is an e-commerce site for wine sales initially targeted to European consumers and businesses for use as corporate gifts. The website offers users a wide variety of wine selections and the opportunity to search for wines by price, country or region, and colour and provides recommendations by wine specialists. The Company was founded in early 1998 in Paris by Gregory Salinger and Alexandre Basdereff, entrepreneurs with a strong network of French wine producers. Today, the company has over 70 employees that include European wine specialists and revenues are increasing from online sales in France, the UK, Germany, and Italy.

Acquired by CL Financial, February 2005

CEO: Christophe Poupinel

Direct.it is an e-commerce vendor of information technology ("IT") products (e.g., hardware, software and consumables) to Italian consumers and small businesses. The company was founded by Anthony Daniel and Celine di Pisa. Since founding, Direct.it has become a true leader in the sale if IT products in the Italian marketplace to SMEs.

Merged with Paperand, December 2001

CEO: Roberto Marconi

eDreams is an Internet-based travel company that sells holiday packages from leading tour operators focusing on Italy, Spain and UK. The company's flagship product, called DreamGuides, provides best offers in the different segments and ongoing counselling to travellers. Since its incorporation in December 1998 by Javier Tenessa and James Hare, formerly with Netscape Communications, it has expanded its geographical locations to include UK, Spain, Italy, France and USA.

Acquired by TA Associates

CEO: Javier Tenessa

Makemusic! licenses the digital distribution rights to the world's largest catalog of sheet music titles from all music genres and offers secure downloads of sheet music to musicians. The company was founded in Metz (France) by Claude Poletti, a music conductor with the mission to digitalize music sheets. In May 2000 the company has merged with Coda Inc., a US listed company developing educational software in the music field.

Merged with Coda Inc. (US), May 2000

Sold in 2002

CEO: Sean Lafleur

Focused on creating value for corporates and institutional investors by leveraging a proprietary "one to many" platform to create efficient, competitive and transparent markets in the areas of financing, cash management and asset management, bfinance is Europe's leading technology-enabled broker of non-quoted financial services. bfinance also operates a targeted online information service which reaches over 10000 financial decision makers in France, the United Kingdom and Germany. The information service helps market and drive bfinance’s core tender and auction platform. The company is present in France, the UK and Germany, has over 300 financial institutions participating in the platform and has managed over 20 Billion € in transactions for Europe's leading companies, institutionals and municipalities: Air Liquide, Siemens, JC Decaux, Oxfordshire County Council,...

CEO: David Vafai

The company was one of the first European sites to offer volume discounts to consumers for group buying activities. During 2001 the company shifted its focus from group buying to direct selling with the possibility for the customers of an express delivery service (24-48 hr after the order).
At the end of Q1 2003 after several months of discussions, the company signed a framework agreement to merge with Top Achat, one of its main competitors, ranking among the biggest electronics e-tailers in France. The new merged entity is now in the top 5 electronic e tailers.

Acquired

CEO: Bruno Viret-lange

Yousports.com is an independent online platform that integrates the value chain in the sporting goods market. The company provides personalised services to consumers including personalised advice on product selection, special offers and information on retailers. They also provide a business-to-business exchange platform to retailers and producers that are integrated with their respective backend ERP systems. The company was founded by Christophe Syz early in 2000. Their initial focus is on servicing German-speaking countries including Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

Acquired

CEO: Christophe Syz

MutuiOnline is an online mortgage listing and application service for Italian consumers. The Company was founded in December 1999 by Marco Pescarmona and Alessandro Fracassi to grow and facilitate the underdeveloped mortgage market in Italy compared to Northern Europe and in particular the US partly due to the absence of brokerage businesses. In addition, the Company plans to streamline the mortgage application process offline and provide a back-end service to other financial institutions. The Company also plans to expand its service offering to provide a wider range of credit products, and expert and independent consultations.

IPOed at Milan Stock Exchange in June 2007

Co-CEOs: Marco Pescarmona and Alessandro Fracassi

Freever offers a range of innovative wireless services (including forums, chats, personal pages) that creates a rich thematic environment where mobile users can fulfill their needs for communication, information, entertainment and transaction. The company also provides communication tools such as group messaging, instant messaging and e-mail. Freever supplements these communications tools and services with moderators who promote interaction within a topic area. Freever partners with different European mobile operators for the launch & development of its features.

Aquired by Buongiorno.it, September 2005

CEO: Jerome Traisnel

Yoox sells on-line end-of-season and excess inventory apparel and accessories from the most prestigious international fashion brands, with an average discount of 50%. The company was founded in October 1999 to bring to customers the best fashion shopping experience on-line at the best price, and to producers and retailers a more efficient and effective management tool for end of season products.

CEO: Federico Marchetti

DPT Global (formerly Accucard) is a new European credit card company based in the UK. It has developed an innovative credit card technology that allows the end user a choice with respect to the mix of APR rates, cash back, yearly fee and card design. Applications can be made online primarily through branded channel distribution partners. Since October 2002, the UK business is managed by Create Card (www.createcard.co.uk), a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB. DPT Global is currently planning its expansion outside the UK.

Acquired by Lloyds TSB

Euroffice is the leading online procurement site for small-to-mid size businesses in the UK. Founded in 1999 the company enables small businesses (1-100 employees) to optimise their purchases of office products and services using the internet.

CEO: George Karibian

Ipanema Technologies is a leading provider of systems for the complete and global management of application performance over IP networks. Designed for enterprises and Service Providers, the Ipanema Technologies systems are based on a unique patented QoS measurement and dynamic optimization technology of all IP communication flows. The Ipanema Technologies' objective-based network management approach improves dramatically the existing network performance and empowers to control and track precisely the telecommunication budget. Combining advanced optimization features with a very low management workload is the essential characteristic of the Ipanema Technologies systems which drive a fast return on investment.

CEO: Jean-Yves Leclerc

Radiance is an enterprise software company based in the Silicon Valley. The developed and patented technology addresses the business need of moving large data sets. While most of the current applications revolve around video data, this technology is also used in many other applications (e.g., large CAD files to multiple locations, audio files, etc). Radiance solution offers cost savings to enterprises by allowing them to use their bandwidth more efficiently and by offering the possibility to deliver large files not just to cache servers, but all the way to the end-user terminals. Co-investors in Radiance are Vanguard Ventures, Chevron Ventures and Sutter Hill.

CEO: Ashfaq Munshi

Soamai has developed a patented software toolset which enable programmers in a distributed computing environment to easily develop assemble and manage components/objects and web services applications. The solution enables easy re-use of already developed and deployed "run-time" objects over any application server and drammatically reduces development and maintenance costs. The company was created by Philippe Triem, one of the founders of Wincap, a fairly successful French software company in the related area of repository for software code in the mainframe environment.

Acquired by ASG, Naples (USA), March 2004

Chairman and President: Philippe Triem

CEO: Eric Didier

SmartJog, a France Telecom/Globecast spin-off, has developed a highly secure satellite enabled distribution platform for the broadcast industry. The company provides a full range of value-added services to right acquirers and holders alike. The right acquirers access and browse a large catalog of programs in a high performance broadband environment, and increase the speed and effectiveness of their programs acquisition process. The right holders enhance the efficiency of their logistics and the effectiveness of their promotions, increase exposure and sales of their properties and receive a full activity feedback reporting.

Acquired by TDF Pris

CEO: Julien Seligmann

Co.Import is a fast growing retail chain of house accessories that has based his success on the combination of Italian style and Far East manufacturing prices. Co.Import’s offering on the Italian market is unique at the moment: a variety of low price, good quality articles sold in 15 large flagship stores with a continuous innovation in the assortment. The company is profitable. The founder, Mrs T. Diotto is a serial entrepreneur.

Acquired by SG Private Equity

CEO: Claudio Poggio