Sofinnova Partners led the second round of funding for enterprise social software company blueKiwi.
The funding amounts to €4.7 millions, making it one of the largest achieved in France since the beginning of the year on the small caps market.
The Paris-based company, apart from having a cool website, provides a software solution that enables people-centric organizations to create powerful and secure professional networks where employees, partners and customers can share conversations, ideas, skills, resources and best practice with one another. The very definition of enterprise social software.
“We are thrilled to complete this second tour and to welcome such a first class industrial partner as Dassault Systèmes” says Carlos Diaz, CEO of blueKiwi Software. “This strategic alliance will allow us to accelerate our international expansion and also to out-innovate new Enterprise 2.0 usages while elevating technological entry barriers”.
Dassault Systèmes, the worldwide leader in 3D and PLM solutions, is participating with more than €3 million and joining the board of the company. This new entry at blueKiwi Software’s board is a major milestone underlying a strategic technological and sales alliance signed by both companies to drive new growth opportunities and deliver on their shared vision of the Enterprise 2.0.
Olivier Sichel, partner at Sofinnova Partners concludes: “blueKiwi Software has a considerable potential of growth, encouraged by a steady increase of customers and a talented managerial team, now strengthened by Bernard Charlès joining as executive sponsor. This alliance is a perfect match and will propel the company at the first place with the ability to leverage Dassault Systèmes’ powerful team and exceptional experience”.
