Time For Growth

TIME was created in 2009 by Henri de Bodinat and YAM Invest, a €350m long-term investment holding established by 4 successful European entrepreneurs TIME is run by three partners with strong digital and private equity expertise combined with industrial and entrepreneurial approaches; We responsibly support innovative and profitable companies in Europe at an inflection point of their development. Active on the European market, we seek out companies with an enterprise value between €30-€200m. We invest between €10-€30m of equity in each business and look for opportunities in all sector, with a focus on our core expertise: the digital sector. Our fund can take both minority and majority positions in all types of transactions from equity injections to complex LBO/MBO structures.

Cyrot, Jean-Luc

Partner

13 past transactions

Oslo

Private Equity Round in 2019
Oslo is a software editor and integrator for SMEs and large accounts alike in the retail, field service management and facility management sectors.

La Boutique Officielle

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2007 in Lyon, LaBoutiqueOfficielle.com is the French leader in the online sale of urban ready-to-wear ("streetwear" or "urbanwear"). The site displays an original niche positioning centered on urban culture at the crossroads of the worlds of music, sport and the performing arts.

Geolid

Series C in 2015
Geolid is a search optimization website with a primary focus on french consumers.

Zound Industries

Venture Round in 2015
Zound Industries designs, develops, and markets headphones. It offers four brands, intended to serve specific audiences: Urbanears, Coloud, Marshall, and Molami. The company has set up distribution in more than 100 markets, and its products are available at over 20,000 locations globally, including Apple, Best Buy, HMV, Target, Urban Outfitters, Colette, FNAC, Media Markt, Telia, Deutsche Telecom, Orange, and Tesco. Zound Industries was co-founded by Konrad Bergström, Niklas Bergh, and Oscar Axhede in 2008 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its products were first introduced to the market in December 2009.

Oh BiBi Games

Series A in 2014
Oh BiBi Games is a French mobile games studio. It was founded by Stanislas Dewavrin and Martial Valery, who had both previously worked on Gameloft’s hits Minion Rush and Asphalt. Oh BiBi Games has specialized in racing games. However, the gaming studio also wants to branch out into new genres more connected with PC and console gaming. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Paris, France.

USINE IO

Seed Round in 2014
USINE IO is a unique space to move from idea to prototype and to prepare for industrialization. No selection. Not making capital. Prototyping Workshop High-tech. Experts full time (electronic, CAD, design for manufacturing). Coworking.

TransMedia Communications

Venture Round in 2012
Transmedia is Europe’s premier video-on-demand rights aggregator, active across all emerging IP VOD platforms: DSL, Fiber-optic, Satellite, Cable, VPN (including hospitality/hotel business) and mobile video. Founded in February 2003 Transmedia became a pioneer in the rapidly growing market of content distribution over IP Broadband. It offered telecoms and broadband networks a cleared of rights library of premium video-on-demand content which could add value to broadband subscriptions.

Brille24

Venture Round in 2012
#eyetech - More than 135 employees, 1 mio. customers and already more than 2 Mio. glasses sold: Brille24 is one of the leading online opticians in Europe. They sell own-labelled glasses (digitally native vertical brand) from 39.90 EUR incl. completely refined lenses as well as famous brands like Ray-Ban, Oakley, or Kerbholz. Their mission is the digitalisation of the optical industry. They believe in the power of technology and will be the first AI-driven company in the optical industry. CEO is Christophe Hocquet.

iConcerts

Venture Round in 2012
iConcerts™ is the first digital entertainment channel dedicated 100% to live music. The multi-media platform is available in 85 countries and in over 250 million households worldwide. Available for multi-screen distribution, iConcerts™ features premium linear HDTV and video-on-demand on IPTV, the web, connected TV's and mobile devices. iConcerts™ HDTV has established itself as the first live music channel in Europe and Asia and has recently developed in Africa. The unique and exclusive on-demand catalogue is the biggest digital live music library in the world. Featuring concerts, TV shows, documentaries and interviews from today's talents (SIA, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding) to yesterday's legends (The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley). Their ambition is to share a new live musical experience with everybody, everywhere, whenever.

THEMA

Venture Round in 2011
THEMA, a Paris, France-based company that specializes in the development and the worldwide distribution of thematic, generalist and ethnic TV channels.

Oodrive

Venture Round in 2011
Oodrive, the specialist in online file management A software publisher established in 2000 and pioneer of SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions in France, Oodrive is a leading European provider of secure online file management services for companies: - AdBackup, the range of premier online backup solutions in Europe - PostFiles and iExtranet, online file sharing solutions - Omnikles, the range of solutions for virtualization of calls for tender Oodrive solutions are used by VSBs, SMEs as well as large corporates (over 55% of the companies listed on the French CAC 40 index use an Oodrive solution) in many business sectors (industry, construction, media and communications, services, luxury goods, administration, consultancy, legal and accountancy firms, etc.). Oodrive also develops applications for general consumers through strategic partnerships with major European players in distribution (such as Fnac, Darty, Auchan, Orange, NordNet, The Phone House and the MAAF). For each brand name, Oodrive develops specific remote backup, and online file storage and file sharing services, offered mostly as part of packages for private individuals. Currently based in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany and Asia (Singapore), Oodrive has around 11,000 professional clients and more than a million users in over 90 countries.

CCM Benchmark

Private Equity Round in 2010
CCM Benchmark is a french online media group with web properties in 6 different languages (french, english, spanish, portuguese, italian, german). CCM Benchmark is the merger between CommentCaMarche and Benchmark group in october 2010.

AdScale

Series C in 2010
adscale offers advertisers and website owners a transparent and high-reach trading space for digital advertising space (display, video and mobile). The adscale Supply Side Platform enables publishers to optimize their yield management through private deals and private auctions. Business partners benefit from various optimization technologies (programmatic buying, targeting, data management platform) and a fair price-performance ratio.
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