Scan & Target raises €1 Million First Round from Crédit Agricole Private Equity and Scientipôle Capital

For immediate release – October 13, 2010

Scan & Target (www.scanandtarget.com), a service as a software company (SaaS) that provides real-time analysis and filtering of text user generated content, announced that it has secured a €1 million first round of funding from Crédit Agricole Private Equity and Scientipôle Capital.
 

The proceeds will be used to expand the team, further develop the core technology, and to speed international development in Europe.
 

Scan & Target’s multi-platform solutions include internet, mobile, and interactive television and can handle very large volumes of several hundred objects per second. For example, Scan & Target solutions allow clients who provide chat or SMS information services to moderate the exchanges between users and route questions to agents with the right skills set. Messages are analyzed in real time by Scan & Target, which applies customer-generated rules to decide how to treat the incoming content.
 

Scan & Target can also monitor user-generated content to determine whether chat messages are published or refused, and provides interfaces for the moderating team to review all messages posted by users and penalize potential fraudsters by means of warnings, suspension, or complete prohibition. Scan & Target also proposes real time contextual advertising solution while respecting users’ personal data.
 

Scan & Target solutions are aimed at publishers of community and social networks, moderation service providers, and providers of technical solutions for Web 2.0, such as forums, blogs, chat and social buying. Scan & Target’s solutions also have practical application in professional services, such as CRM and contact centers.
 

Current clients include the French national railway system, the SNCF, the information service 118 218 and the Française des Jeux (the French National Lottery). Soon, Scan & Target will be able to operate in languages beyond those using Latin letters, adding Arabic, Cyrillic and Asian characters.
 

Bastien Hillen, co-founder and CEO of Scan & Target: “We are delighted to welcome two new investors – Crédit Agricole Private Equity and Scientipôle Capital – that share our industrial vision and international ambition.”
 

Marc Devillard, Investment Director at Crédit Agricole Private Equity: “Scan & Target is introducing an innovative and much-needed service in a fast-growing niche area, i.e. real-time analysis of text content. The team’s success in launching an effective service in the space of a few months demonstrates its strong combination of skills. We are also attracted by the company’s SaaS model.”
 

Representatives
Crédit Agricole Private Equity
Marc Devillard, Investment Manager Venture Capital Team
François-Xavier Dedde, Associate Venture Capital Team

Advisors
Crédit Agricole Private Equity financial and legal audit
Ernst & Young: François Poncet and Emmanuel Picard
Vendôme Law: Lionel Jung-Allegret and Nicolas Mazzella
 

Scan & Target
Kahn & Associés: Marie Laure de Cordovez and Annoushka Chaillet

About Scan & Target

Scan & Target (www.scanandtarget.com) allows users to moderate UGC and fighting traffic diversion, target user-generated contextual advertising and unstructured text streams, route unstructured content (e-mail, SMS, etc), control the quality of customer relationship text channels (chat, e-mail, SMS, etc.), validate classified ads and populate customer relationship management databases. Founded in 2007, Scan & Target is based in Paris, France and is available in 2 languages.
Please visit www.scanandtarget.com for more information. 

About Crédit Agricole Private Equity

Crédit Agricole Private Equity, an AMF-authorised investment management company and whollyowned subsidiary of Crédit Agricole S.A., specialises in direct private equity investment in unlisted companies. A multi-specialist, Crédit Agricole Private Equity has 50 investment teams focusing on different segments of the private equity market (LBO & Expansion, Venture Capital, Mezzanine, Renewable Energy, PPP Infrastructure, Liquidity Solutions, Co-Investment) and manages a total of €2.8 billion in various types of private equity vehicle (FCPR, SICAR, FCPI and SCR).
www-rec.omnescapital.com

About Scientipôle

Scientipôle Ile-de-France Capital is a regional seed capital investment fund for the young innovative enterprises. It was created in 2006 by Scientipôle Initiative: a support fund which grants no interest and non guaranteed loans to innovative entrepreneurs. This fund provides “second stage” financing by investment by taking stock in the companies.
The different investors of Scientipôle Ile-de-France Capital are partners (Caisse d’Epargne Ile-de- France, Ile-de-France Region, Banque Populaire,…) with the same objectives: to support to new innovative enterprises and investment in research and development in Paris area.

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