After Selling Seek To F-Secure, French Entrepreneurs Land $3M For Ezakus Labs

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French entrepreneurs Christophe Camborde and Yannick Lacastaigneratte, who founded cloud storage storage Steek and sold it to F-Secure for close to $40 million in 2009, are apparently at it again.

A year after founding a company called Ezakus Labs, which has yet to launch a product, they’ve raised $3 million in funding from Idinvest (formerly AGF Private Equity) – for those who understand French, check our coverage of the news on TechCrunch France.

Not much is known about the company at this point, but here’s the buzzword-laden pitch from the press release:

The company features a groundbreaking audience targeting service allowing publishers and advertisers to easily set up social profiling offers with a cutting edge precision compared to the current standards.

Groundbreaking and cutting edge? Clearly, it’s a revolutionary, next-generation service.

For what it’s worth, Idinvest is an investor in several successful French companies, including Meetic, Criteo, Viadeo, Deezer and Dailymotion.

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French Software Company Qosmos Raises €20 Million

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Qosmos, a Paris, France-based network intelligence technology company, has raised close to €20 million euros (approximately $28.5 million) in a deal that was co-led by DFJ Esprit and FSI, a French government fund.

The deal, which closed at the end of last month, is a combination of primary equity and debt and a secondary purchase of former investor Sofinnova’s stake in Qosmos. Existing shareholder Alven Capital increased its investment.

Qosmos provides visibility into real-time data transactions on networks. Its network intelligence technology, which is based on DPI or deep packet inspection technology, extracts and translates information from network traffic.

Its customers are network equipment providers, software vendors and systems integrators serving telco, security, B2B, B2C and government markets who integrate its components into solutions where real-time network intelligence is vital.

Qosmos has been self-reportedly profitable since 2009.

The company says the additional capital will support its expansion in the North America and Asia-Pacific regions as well as fund potential acquisitions.

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