Galileo Partners

Galileo Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Paris, France, that focuses on investing in innovative companies primarily in the energy, information technology, internet, software, media, electronics, semi-conductors, telecommunications, and medical sectors, with a particular emphasis on French companies. Established in 1989, the firm typically invests between €1 million and €5 million in initial rounds, with the potential for additional investments of up to €10 million in subsequent rounds. Galileo Partners can act as a lead investor or co-invest alongside international and French partners, often seeking a seat on the board and acquiring minority or majority stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm provides not only capital but also strategic advice throughout the development cycle, from seed funding to IPOs, and is known for supporting turnarounds and spin-offs from larger firms. Galileo Partners manages €250 million in private equity capital from esteemed international investors and has a history of contributing to significant success stories in the technology and media sectors.

Francois Duliege

Partner

34 past transactions

Scality

Series E in 2018
Scality, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions designed for active archives, content distribution, cloud services, and enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Scality's flagship product, RING, enables users to scale storage to petabytes while ensuring high performance and data protection. The RING architecture supports billions of files and delivers 100% availability, making it suitable for large-scale applications. It integrates seamlessly with various standard storage protocols, including NFS and S3. Scality's customer base includes major players in the media and telecommunications sectors, including some of the largest cable operators and mobile operators in the US, Europe, and Japan. Additionally, Scality offers the HALO Cloud Monitor, a comprehensive monitoring solution for its storage platform, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability.

Classy

Series C in 2016
Classy, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates an online and mobile fundraising platform designed for nonprofit organizations and social enterprises globally. Established in 2006, Classy provides an integrated solution for various fundraising needs, including crowdfunding, peer-to-peer campaigns, and direct donations. The platform also supports event ticketing and registration while offering features for branding and customization. Additionally, Classy integrates with Salesforce to enhance fundraising management. The company emphasizes user support through strategy consultations, website design services, and priority assistance. Classy also promotes social innovation by hosting events like the Collaborative and Classy Awards, which recognize excellence in the sector.

Scality

Series D in 2015
Scality, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions designed for active archives, content distribution, cloud services, and enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Scality's flagship product, RING, enables users to scale storage to petabytes while ensuring high performance and data protection. The RING architecture supports billions of files and delivers 100% availability, making it suitable for large-scale applications. It integrates seamlessly with various standard storage protocols, including NFS and S3. Scality's customer base includes major players in the media and telecommunications sectors, including some of the largest cable operators and mobile operators in the US, Europe, and Japan. Additionally, Scality offers the HALO Cloud Monitor, a comprehensive monitoring solution for its storage platform, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability.

Classy

Series B in 2015
Classy, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates an online and mobile fundraising platform designed for nonprofit organizations and social enterprises globally. Established in 2006, Classy provides an integrated solution for various fundraising needs, including crowdfunding, peer-to-peer campaigns, and direct donations. The platform also supports event ticketing and registration while offering features for branding and customization. Additionally, Classy integrates with Salesforce to enhance fundraising management. The company emphasizes user support through strategy consultations, website design services, and priority assistance. Classy also promotes social innovation by hosting events like the Collaborative and Classy Awards, which recognize excellence in the sector.

Scality

Series C in 2013
Scality, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions designed for active archives, content distribution, cloud services, and enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Scality's flagship product, RING, enables users to scale storage to petabytes while ensuring high performance and data protection. The RING architecture supports billions of files and delivers 100% availability, making it suitable for large-scale applications. It integrates seamlessly with various standard storage protocols, including NFS and S3. Scality's customer base includes major players in the media and telecommunications sectors, including some of the largest cable operators and mobile operators in the US, Europe, and Japan. Additionally, Scality offers the HALO Cloud Monitor, a comprehensive monitoring solution for its storage platform, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability.

VirtuOz

Venture Round in 2011
VirtuOz specializes in Digital Customer Relationships, focusing on providing Intelligent Virtual Agents for large and mid-market enterprises. These virtual agents enhance online marketing, sales, and support channels, delivering a high-quality user experience while optimizing operational performance. Recognized for its innovative solutions, VirtuOz has processed over 166 million conversations on behalf of its clients, including prominent companies like PayPal and Michelin. The company's approach combines advanced virtual agent technologies with industry best practices to ensure effective development, deployment, and optimization, enabling predictable and measurable results. As intelligent virtual agents are anticipated to become the standard for customer interaction, VirtuOz is positioned as a leader in this burgeoning market.

Scality

Series B in 2011
Scality, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions designed for active archives, content distribution, cloud services, and enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Scality's flagship product, RING, enables users to scale storage to petabytes while ensuring high performance and data protection. The RING architecture supports billions of files and delivers 100% availability, making it suitable for large-scale applications. It integrates seamlessly with various standard storage protocols, including NFS and S3. Scality's customer base includes major players in the media and telecommunications sectors, including some of the largest cable operators and mobile operators in the US, Europe, and Japan. Additionally, Scality offers the HALO Cloud Monitor, a comprehensive monitoring solution for its storage platform, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability.

Alyotech

Venture Round in 2010
Alyotech Group is an international industrial holding company which aims to consolidate and unite, by strategy build-up companies specializing in the field of technology consulting. A policy of external growth, representing two thirds of overall growth, has been established within the Group Alyotech. By late 2008, the group should achieve a turnover of 150 million and be listed.

Scality

Series A in 2010
Scality, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions designed for active archives, content distribution, cloud services, and enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Scality's flagship product, RING, enables users to scale storage to petabytes while ensuring high performance and data protection. The RING architecture supports billions of files and delivers 100% availability, making it suitable for large-scale applications. It integrates seamlessly with various standard storage protocols, including NFS and S3. Scality's customer base includes major players in the media and telecommunications sectors, including some of the largest cable operators and mobile operators in the US, Europe, and Japan. Additionally, Scality offers the HALO Cloud Monitor, a comprehensive monitoring solution for its storage platform, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability.

Talend

Series D in 2010
Talend S.A. specializes in providing data integration and integrity solutions across diverse industries worldwide. The company's flagship product, Talend Data Fabric, is a comprehensive software platform designed to integrate data and applications in real time, accommodating both cloud and traditional environments. This platform enables organizations to collect, govern, transform, and share data, thereby facilitating a unified view of business operations and enhancing decision-making processes. Talend's offerings include various functionalities such as data ingestion, big data integration, application and cloud integration, and self-service data preparation. Additionally, the company provides professional services, including strategic advisory support and technical training. Talend markets its products directly to customers as well as through channel partners, and has established strategic partnerships to enhance its data integration capabilities. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Suresnes, France, Talend continues to focus on delivering trusted data solutions that empower organizations to navigate complex data challenges effectively.

Radio Systemes Ingenierie

Series D in 2009
Radio Systemes Ingenierie S.A. provides wireless communication systems. It offers Visioguard, a wireless alarm system that provide remote video monitoring, local monitoring with a TV or a monitor, integrated Internet-server, and emails with attached video-files. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Strasbourg, France.

Bizanga

Series A in 2009
[Bizanga](http://www.bizanga.com) is a provider of email and message management platforms.

VirtuOz

Series B in 2009
VirtuOz specializes in Digital Customer Relationships, focusing on providing Intelligent Virtual Agents for large and mid-market enterprises. These virtual agents enhance online marketing, sales, and support channels, delivering a high-quality user experience while optimizing operational performance. Recognized for its innovative solutions, VirtuOz has processed over 166 million conversations on behalf of its clients, including prominent companies like PayPal and Michelin. The company's approach combines advanced virtual agent technologies with industry best practices to ensure effective development, deployment, and optimization, enabling predictable and measurable results. As intelligent virtual agents are anticipated to become the standard for customer interaction, VirtuOz is positioned as a leader in this burgeoning market.

Alyotech

Venture Round in 2008
Alyotech Group is an international industrial holding company which aims to consolidate and unite, by strategy build-up companies specializing in the field of technology consulting. A policy of external growth, representing two thirds of overall growth, has been established within the Group Alyotech. By late 2008, the group should achieve a turnover of 150 million and be listed.

Meilleurtaux

Venture Round in 2007
Meilleurtaux is a Paris-based financial services provider specializing in advisory and brokerage services for individuals seeking real estate loans. The company focuses on mortgage loans, credit repurchase, borrower insurance, and consumer credit, operating both online and through a network of franchises. Meilleurtaux has established partnerships with various retail banks and insurers in France, enabling it to offer a comprehensive range of financial products. The company aims to enhance the user experience by providing online tools such as calculators, rate barometers, and simulation resources, assisting clients in making informed decisions regarding their financial services, particularly in the mortgage sector.

Talend

Series B in 2007
Talend S.A. specializes in providing data integration and integrity solutions across diverse industries worldwide. The company's flagship product, Talend Data Fabric, is a comprehensive software platform designed to integrate data and applications in real time, accommodating both cloud and traditional environments. This platform enables organizations to collect, govern, transform, and share data, thereby facilitating a unified view of business operations and enhancing decision-making processes. Talend's offerings include various functionalities such as data ingestion, big data integration, application and cloud integration, and self-service data preparation. Additionally, the company provides professional services, including strategic advisory support and technical training. Talend markets its products directly to customers as well as through channel partners, and has established strategic partnerships to enhance its data integration capabilities. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Suresnes, France, Talend continues to focus on delivering trusted data solutions that empower organizations to navigate complex data challenges effectively.

Alyotech

Venture Round in 2007
Alyotech Group is an international industrial holding company which aims to consolidate and unite, by strategy build-up companies specializing in the field of technology consulting. A policy of external growth, representing two thirds of overall growth, has been established within the Group Alyotech. By late 2008, the group should achieve a turnover of 150 million and be listed.

Talend

Series A in 2006
Talend S.A. specializes in providing data integration and integrity solutions across diverse industries worldwide. The company's flagship product, Talend Data Fabric, is a comprehensive software platform designed to integrate data and applications in real time, accommodating both cloud and traditional environments. This platform enables organizations to collect, govern, transform, and share data, thereby facilitating a unified view of business operations and enhancing decision-making processes. Talend's offerings include various functionalities such as data ingestion, big data integration, application and cloud integration, and self-service data preparation. Additionally, the company provides professional services, including strategic advisory support and technical training. Talend markets its products directly to customers as well as through channel partners, and has established strategic partnerships to enhance its data integration capabilities. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Suresnes, France, Talend continues to focus on delivering trusted data solutions that empower organizations to navigate complex data challenges effectively.

BI-SAM Technologies

Series A in 2006
BI-SAM Technologies S.A. provides analytics software, client reporting, and data management solutions to the investment management community. It provides functional and operational solutions; technical architecture solutions; B-One platform for data management, performance, attribution, and risk portfolio analysis, as well as automated fact sheets and institutional client reports production; and analytics suite to calculate performance measurement, equities/balanced attribution, fixed income attribution, risk attribution, and decomposition. The company also offers data management suite, an info-centre for the management of data integration, integrity, storage, extraction, data management, data repository, data mart manager, and application protocol interface Web service phases; and reporting suite to customize and diffuse report builder, report generator, report publisher, and workflow management. In addition, BI-SAM Technologies S.A. provides services, including integration interfaces, data management and controls, calculation and classification settings, customized reports, go live and stepped implementation assistance, technical and business training, and client support; professional services; and training services. Its customers include private banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and family offices. The company has strategic partnerships with Rimes, Business Objects, Altran Switzerland, Fincad, Citisoft, Investit, Bea, Oracle, Sybase, and IBM. BI-SAM Technologies S.A. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Luxemburg, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific.

MeilleurMobile

Series A in 2006
MeilleurMobile is a French company based in Saint-Cloud, founded in 2004. It operates an online platform that specializes in selling mobile phones, tablets, internet boxes, and accessories. The platform allows users to compare prices and features of various mobile devices and subscriptions, helping customers make informed decisions about their purchases. By providing comprehensive price comparison information, MeilleurMobile enables consumers to find the best deals available, enhancing their shopping experience for mobile technology.

msg Plaut Austria GmbH

Venture Round in 2006
Plaut combines business consulting with solution-oriented IT implementation. In the combination of theme and industry competence solutions are developed and implemented together with customers.

SeLoger.com

Venture Round in 2005
SeLoger.com operates as an online platform for property advertisements in France, providing a user-friendly experience for both property seekers and real estate agents. The company features listings from various real estate agents on its primary site, SeLoger.com, as well as on immostreet.com and Belles Demeures.com. By offering dedicated online portals, SeLoger.com simplifies the property search process, allowing users to find listings that meet their specific criteria. Additionally, the platform addresses common inquiries related to property transactions, enhancing the overall experience for its users.

VirtuOz

Series A in 2005
VirtuOz specializes in Digital Customer Relationships, focusing on providing Intelligent Virtual Agents for large and mid-market enterprises. These virtual agents enhance online marketing, sales, and support channels, delivering a high-quality user experience while optimizing operational performance. Recognized for its innovative solutions, VirtuOz has processed over 166 million conversations on behalf of its clients, including prominent companies like PayPal and Michelin. The company's approach combines advanced virtual agent technologies with industry best practices to ensure effective development, deployment, and optimization, enabling predictable and measurable results. As intelligent virtual agents are anticipated to become the standard for customer interaction, VirtuOz is positioned as a leader in this burgeoning market.

Deskom

Series A in 2005
Deskom runs a hub allowing its b2b customers to exchange electronic invoices. It provides services and softwares to help customers and 3rd party software to hook into the hub.

Kaidara

Series B in 2003
Kaidara is a software company that specializes in delivering advanced service and support solutions aimed at enhancing customer service for manufacturers of complex products. By facilitating the transfer of expert knowledge within organizations, Kaidara's software streamlines product selection, support, and repair activities, ultimately reducing service delivery costs and accelerating problem resolution. Its tools are particularly beneficial for customer contact centers, field service organizations, and diagnostic troubleshooting operations. The software also supports online commerce and self-service portals by assisting customers in product selection and troubleshooting, while providing expert advice on product usage. Additionally, Kaidara's natural language processing capabilities help organizations capture and preserve valuable knowledge and experiences, ensuring that expert guidance remains accessible. Based in Paris and Los Altos, Kaidara serves a diverse clientele, including major companies like CFM International, DaimlerChrysler, and General Motors, all of which benefit from improved customer service and reduced operational costs.

Quallaby Corporation

Series C in 2002
Quallaby Corporation is a privately-held business focused on delivering innovative solutions in its industry. The company operates with a commitment to quality and excellence, striving to meet the evolving needs of its clients. By leveraging advanced technology and expertise, Quallaby aims to create value through its products and services, fostering strong relationships with customers and stakeholders alike. The organization's dedication to continuous improvement positions it as a significant player in its market.

Wokup

Venture Round in 2002
Wokup is a software company that provides a multi-platform document publishing software solution. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Quallaby Corporation

Venture Round in 2001
Quallaby Corporation is a privately-held business focused on delivering innovative solutions in its industry. The company operates with a commitment to quality and excellence, striving to meet the evolving needs of its clients. By leveraging advanced technology and expertise, Quallaby aims to create value through its products and services, fostering strong relationships with customers and stakeholders alike. The organization's dedication to continuous improvement positions it as a significant player in its market.

SiberCore Technologies

Series C in 2001
SiberCore Technologies Incorporated is a pure-play, Internet IC company developing high-value-added Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) for intelligent hardware-based switching and routing platforms, such as Gigabit / Terabit Routers and Layer 2 / 3 / 4 Ethernet Switches. The company's initial products are a family of high-speed high-capacity packet forwarding engines based on Content Addressable Memories (CAM technology) which overcome the performance bottleneck associated with the network's routing table look-up function. This emerging market has been created by the demands of the explosion in datacom traffic, coupled with the worldwide deployment of fiber optics and DWDM. These broadband deployments have shifted the bottleneck from the Access and Transport section of the network, to the Routers and Switches connecting to these pipes. The company's founding technical team gained industry-wide recognition for its world-class design expertise in this area at Nortel Networks. A veteran Executive team in all the functional divisions of the company supplements this preeminent technical team.

Radio Systemes Ingenierie

Series A in 2001
Radio Systemes Ingenierie S.A. provides wireless communication systems. It offers Visioguard, a wireless alarm system that provide remote video monitoring, local monitoring with a TV or a monitor, integrated Internet-server, and emails with attached video-files. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Strasbourg, France.

Enition

Seed Round in 2000
Enition designs and markets network-centric payment technology and systems for the valuation and payment of information and services over the Internet in the United States and France. The company offers NetToll system, an Internet protocol based infrastructure solution that enables content, content distribution, and network service providers to price and sell digital content and services. It serves various markets, including business information services, entertainment, e-learning, application service provider services, and digital storage.

Quallaby Corporation

Private Equity Round in 2000
Quallaby Corporation is a privately-held business focused on delivering innovative solutions in its industry. The company operates with a commitment to quality and excellence, striving to meet the evolving needs of its clients. By leveraging advanced technology and expertise, Quallaby aims to create value through its products and services, fostering strong relationships with customers and stakeholders alike. The organization's dedication to continuous improvement positions it as a significant player in its market.

Quallaby Corporation

Series B in 1999
Quallaby Corporation is a privately-held business focused on delivering innovative solutions in its industry. The company operates with a commitment to quality and excellence, striving to meet the evolving needs of its clients. By leveraging advanced technology and expertise, Quallaby aims to create value through its products and services, fostering strong relationships with customers and stakeholders alike. The organization's dedication to continuous improvement positions it as a significant player in its market.

Alapage.com

Seed Round in 1997
Alapage.com operates as an online vendor of cultural products. It offers books, magazine subscriptions, multimedia products, video games, show tickets, and music CDs.
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