François Claustres
Le Conseil des Entreprises Innovantes
Since 1997 I’m involved the development of innovative companies, first as founder of JeuxVideo.com then as an investor in innovative companies with my own startup fund Claustres Conseil Internet, always in a spirit of value creation in the long term and with close proximity with entrepreneurs. I advise since 2004 innovative companies in areas as diverse as cloud computing, e-commerce, VOIP ...
509 contactsFacilitator of mobile success, APPS PANEL ( www.apps-panel.com ) publishes a SaaS platform dedicated to marketing and development for apps on smartphones and tablets (iOS, Android, Windows phone ...).
PANEL APPS provides developers an "all inclusive" solution which allows fast integration into native apps of notifications, polls, content management (connectors to RSS, Blog, CRM, Facebook, Twitter ...), ad server, real time statistics ... With the possibility of reselling white label for communication agencies.
For huge sending of notifications, PANEL APPS also provides a "notification only" solution that can quickly deliver at unbeatable cost millions of notifications on apps, with real time monitoring of shipments.
Claustres Conseil Internet owns shares in companies like RAPHAEL MICHEL SA (formerly ADVENDI SA) or MADE IN DESIGN ( www.madeindesign.com ).
Since 2004 the experience I gathered in coaching the management of these companies led me to become a business development consultant.
2010 - 2011Onlymee Interactive is the editor of the Onlymee biometric authentification middleware solution.
2009 - 2011MGI has developed Onlymee®, an innovative solution for easy and secured transactions
2006 - 2007AGE Studio is developping historical simulation & strategic videogames.
It has been founded after the major success of Birth of America ( www.birth-of-america.com ), the first game edited by AGEOD ( www.ageod.com ).
The development team is leaded by Philippe THIBAUT, well known for his past creations (Europa Universalis...).
Other titles are on the way for this studio, which will become a specialist for serious historical games.
AGE Studio is member of LYON GAME ( www.lyongame.com )
2005 - 2006Made in Design ( www.madeindesign.com ) is the leading French e-commerce website for design furnitures, with major brands like Kartell, Magis, Serralunga...
I helped operationally the top management in order to pursue the quick growth of this company.
2004 - 2005I was consultant partner in Tempo Line, which has stakes in different new emerging sectors, in USA & in Europe.
2002 - 2003ADVENDI is now a holding that owns a major wine wholesaler in Orange (south of France), RAPHAEL MICHEL SA. We made it public in january 2004, at the Paris stock exchange [MLRAM].
1997 - 2000JeuxVideo.com is the most prestigious and most accurate video game dedicated site from France. Since april 2000, JeuxVideo.com is a subsidiary of GameLoft SA (UbiSoft SA), one of the two major french video game company.
1997 - 1999Writer of the Internet heading news.