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The 11 Collection: five books, a sixth in the making, and a home online

Five risograph photography books published with Éditions Bessard, a sixth in production with Adel Haddoud and Max Pam, and a new website where every volume can now be explored: the11collection.com.

Market trends

After the shell

On the Ukrainian front, casualties are now inflicted by drones. The forge, the cost-plus contract, and the billion-euro production site belong to the last war.

Best Practices

The Largest Hidden Cost for Private Companies

European scale-ups pay the full cost of equity compensation and capture almost none of its retention value. Equity retains people only when they believe it will convert to cash within a reasonable timeframe, and in Europe, that conversion has no reliable infrastructure.

Entrepreneurship

The 11, Vol. 3: Loyalty. What remains when everything changes.

The 11 is a collection of limited-edition photobooks. Each volume explores a human quality at the heart of entrepreneurship, through a conversation between an entrepreneur and a photographer. No preset thesis. A word emerges from the dialogue. It becomes the thread of the book.

Entrepreneurship

The 11: How AI and human energy redefine Resilience

Art and entrepreneurship are acts of resistance. Following "Emergence"’ The 11 Collection Vol. 2 explores raw resilience. AI permeates this opus, serving as a guiding thread for the dialogue.

Entrepreneurship

Beyond the pitch: “Emergence” and the human soul of entrepreneurship

Art and entrepreneurship share the same raw material: human qualities. That conviction led Newfund to partner with Éditions Bessard to create The 11 Collection: a series of limited-edition photobooks offering a direct, grounded view of what it actually takes to build a company.

Market trends

The collapsing French fundraising market and the AI hope: Time to invest or time to wait?

I’ve been struggling for months to understand what’s happening in the venture market. It feels like we’re in both the coldest and hottest fundraising markets ever, simultaneously. Here’s what we know: the liquidity crisis is severe, with fewer IPOs and exits than we saw even during

Brain Capital

Skills enhancement startups: an investor point of view

We have decided to dedicate a series of articles on the BrainTech market to show our investor perspective. After discussing the Brain Technology Revolution, Brain and Nutrition, BCI, Psychedelics and Sleep tech, this new article deals with Skills Enhancement. Introduction Skills are defined as cleverness at doing something, resulting either

Brain Capital

The SleepTech Industry: an Investor Perspective

Introduction We have decided to dedicate a series of articles on the BrainTech market to show our investor perspective. After discussing the Brain Technology Revolution, Brain and Nutrition, BCI, and Psychedelics, this fifth article deals with the SleepTech industry. The SleepTech industry is defined as ‘the sector of technology and

Market trends

Fundraising trends of French startups in Q3 2023: The VC market saved by deeptech

Following the studies on the financing of French startups for the two quarters of 2023, Newfund now reveals the trends observed at the end of the third quarter. The downward gap compared to the third quarter of 2022 is now only 21%, compared to 48% when comparing the first three

LPs

The “Newfund LP Experience”: designed to elevate your financial and intellectual growth

In the fast-paced world of venture capital, Newfund has been a key player since its creation in 2008, guiding early-stage founders towards global expansion and substantial growth. This journey has enabled our French and US teams to meet with numerous visionary entrepreneurs, conducting not only to a favorable

Venture Capital

Investing in the Next Newfund Fund : How Do I Determine My Commitment?

Unlike some investment mechanisms that immediately mobilize the subscribed amount, investing in private equity is gradual: the fund "calls" capital as it makes investments. Similarly, the fund distributes the proceeds from sales as they occur. Newfund's experience demonstrates a certain regularity in these cash flows, in

Analysis

Empowering women entrepreneurs

Newfund 2023 Action Plan Every year, Newfund analyzes the gender diversity in our dealflow at each stage of the investment process. This serves the purpose to ensure that there is no bias in our selection method. As the Newfund report shows, startups co-founded by at least one woman saw

Fundraising Advice

Ultimate 2023 VC Guide for your fundraising in France!

Fundraising is a crucial part of developing one’s startup. It is often a lengthy process that involves countless hours researching and reaching out to funds. In order to help entrepreneurs target the right funds and avoid wasting time reaching out to the wrong funds, we are relaunching a 2023

Market trends

The withdrawal of American funds and its impact on French startup investments

French startups are facing a 68% decline in funding during Q1 2023 compared to Q1 2022. In light of this historic shift in the French startup ecosystem, Newfund has published a study highlighting the link between fundraising amounts and the decrease of US funds’ activity in France. American funds are

Fundraising Advice

Ultimate 2021 VC Guide for your fundraising in France!

[If you came for the maps of the French ecosystem, just scroll below — last updated May. 25th, 2021 ⚙️ NEW: Excel download here] In order to help entrepreneurs target the right funds and avoid wasting time reaching out to the wrong funds, we have worked hard these past few weeks to

Fundraising Advice

How to raise your Seed round in San Francisco (via Zoom) ?

Ever since Newfund Capital landed in the US in 2013 via a “flip” of one of its portfolio companies, its american-ess has progressively increased : 1/3 of our investments are state-side, 15% of our LPs live in the US, 25% of the Newfund team has an american training

Fundraising Advice

Business Angels or Seed Funds?

I must hear it every day. Should you raise your seed round with a few Business Angels (BAs) or should you raise with a Venture Capital Seed fund? I am obviously biased since I work for a VC fund, but I once raised money from Business Angels as an entrepreneur,