“Leaving Rennes, it was already an achievement to go and sell to Parisian CAC 40 companies. So, the United States seemed to me for a long time to be another planet. » Matthieu Beucher's trajectory over the last fifteen years offers a striking summary of the progress but also the limits of French and European start-ups.
In 2009, the Frenchman created, in Rennes, what he calls, emphasizing the word, a “TPE” (“very small business”). The “start-up nation” was not yet a concept and the entrepreneur “not interested[t] person “by his own admission. His company, which became Klaxoon in 2015, offers software that facilitates collaborative work in companies. It started with eight years of self-financing, continued with several fundraising before taking the plunge in 2021, when Mr. Beucher left for the United States to try to conquer the American market. Finally, on December 10, he announced the sale of Klaxoon to its American competitor Wrike, for an undisclosed sum.
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Source: Lemonde