Athletico Ventures

“I founded Gladia for a very personal reason – I was frustrated that existing audio transcription services were not able to understand my French accent,” explained Jean-Louis Quéguiner, CEO and Co-Founder, Gladia. 🤣 🤣 🤣 Very French, and very true my dear Jean-Louis! Thrilled to announce our participation in Gladia's $16m Series A, alongside XAnge, with participation by Illuminate Financial, XTX Ventures, Gaingels, Mana Ventures, Motier Ventures, Roosh Ventures, and more. Funding will accelerate Gladia’s transition from a speech-to-text API to an end-to-end audio infrastructure provider for use cases like agent assistance for contact center platforms, sales enablement tools and AI meeting assistants. Because good news always come in pairs, Gladia also announces the launch of the first multilingual real-time audio transcription and analytics engine! Given that most speech recognition models today are trained predominantly on English audio data and are therefore inherently biased, Gladia prioritized building the first real-time product that is truly multilingual. The new fine-tuned engine delivers advanced real-time transcription in over 100 languages, along with enhanced support for accents and the unique ability to adapt to different languages on the fly.

J’ai l’immense joie d’annoncer aujourd’hui que Jump lève 11 millions d’euros pour faire bouger les codes du travail pour les jeunes générations 🚀 Cette série A leadée par Breega, avec la participation de RAISE, et le renouvellement de la confiance d'Index Ventures va nous permettre de déployer le modèle en France et en Europe pour soutenir les travailleurs modernes en quête de liberté. On est à un point de bascule, les chiffres parlent d’eux-mêmes :  📌 Déjà +4 millions d’indépendants en France, la plupart de la Génération Y ; 📌 La GenZ arrive massivement sur le marché du travail et 1 jeune sur 2 ne souhaite pas de CDI classique. C'est le bon moment pour sauter le pas. Merci à nos investisseurs Julia Andre, Benjamin Deplus & Lucile Beaume, Stéphane PESQUE pour leur confiance. Merci aux milliers de Jumpers qui nous ont déjà rejoints et à tous ceux qui vont sauter le pas dans les prochains mois et les prochaines années. Enfin, merci à cette incroyable équipe Jump dont je suis si fier. Merci pour votre dévouement, pour aller chercher l’extra-mile, pour votre drive au quotidien et pour votre humilité. Let's go !

Thrilled to participate in Neat's Series A! Congrats Fabien Cazes, Maximilien Dauzet and the entire NEAT Protect team. Neat makes insurance transparent and effortless by embedding it into the products and services people use and love. Their impressive growth since inception 2.5 years ago validates their vision. This funding gives them the resources to take it to the next level! #yousellwecare #seriesA #athleteinvestors

The 16th edition of Athletico Ventures's newsletter is out. A selection of celebrity investments and venture capital contents published over the last few months. Highlights: > How NFL legend Joe Montana became one of the greatest venture capitalists with his firm Liquid 2 Ventures => Must listen interview of Joe Montana by Noah Lack > Andreessen Horowitz' Cultural Leadership Fund paper: "Influence meets innovation: how founders and cultural leaders can work together" => Must read content by Derek Dolin and the team > Podcast recommendation: "The Deal" with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly (esp. the episode with Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova) All links in comment. #athleteinvestors #startupfunding #venturecapital

Thanks CFNEWS for the mention. "Alan, Sorare, Umiami... Plus de 30 start-up tricolores ont attiré les capitaux d'athlètes nationaux depuis 2021, selon les chiffres CFNEWS, mettant ainsi en avant une tendance venue des Etats-Unis : l'investissement des sportifs dans le private equity. Parfois fédérés, comme au sein de Teampact Ventures ou Athletico Ventures, ils apportent plus que des fonds aux jeunes pousses." https://lnkd.in/e45npFS4

Less than 1% of the global textile market currently comes from recycled fibers, as traditional methods are unable to separate the original raw materials from blended textile waste. Marco Bertone and Louis Monsigny are using green chemistry to close the loop on synthetic textiles, starting with nylon. Thrilled to participate in Syntetica’s €4.2m seed round alongside EQT Ventures and top tier angels (Better Angle, Bear Flag Capital, Pareto Ventures, Patrice Lafargue Lionel Mora, Nicolas Morin-Forest, and more).

The news is finally out ☀ ☀ ☀ Very excited to participate in Samara’s Series A alongside Green Generation Fund, Move Energy , Ring Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Seaya. In less than two years, Samara has supported more than 1,700 families in their transition to clean energy, establishing themselves as one of the fastest Spanish companies in the energy sector. And it's only the beginning! Congrats Iván Cabezuela, Manel Pujol Olivares and the entire Samara team for your amazing vision and flawless execution. Looking forwards to the next steps together, accelerating the energy transition in Spain, one solar panel at a time. This marks our second investment in Spain and also illustrates our strong commitment to investing in companies building a sustainable future.

🚀 The agenda for tomorrow's Athlete Investor Summit is now live via our website https://lnkd.in/eDV98RFn 🎯Join us on 22nd March 2024 at Samsung KX. Tickets: https://lnkd.in/eNVhgZsx We have limited tickets left via this link and access to registering for tickets will close at 11:30am tomorrow. #linkedinsports #whatthefootie #athleteinvestor #sportsbusiness

The 14th edition of Athletico Ventures's newsletter is out. A selection of celebrity investments and venture capital contents published over the last few months. > Podcast recommendation: Crucible Moments by Roelof Botha, Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital (esp. the episode with Brian Chesky from Airbnb and the episode with Hosain Rahman from Jawbone, including a very true quote from Roelof Botha on how athletes learn from failures and how that should apply to founders and investors. Links in comment. #athleteinvestors #startupfunding #venturecapital