Leading customer engagement platform iAdvize receives €14 million in venture financing to fuel global expansion.
Clipperton Finance acted as lead financial advisor to iAdvize in collaboration with Ader Finance.
Paris – September, 28th 2015 – Clipperton Finance, a leading European corporate finance firm focused on the Technology, Media and Healthcare industries, worked alongside leading European customer engagement SaaS vendor iAdvize on the structuration of a €14 million financing round led by Iris Capital, with Bpifrance and historical investor Alven Capital. iAdvize is positioned as one of the key players in the customer engagement ecosystem in Europe, and will use the funds to accelerate international expansion and further strengthen product innovation.
Founded in 2010 with the mission to add a human touch to online customer service,iAdvize doubled revenue each year and now serves over 2,000 brands in 40 countries. Its unique customer engagement platform empowers online businesses with a solution that detects visitors who really need assistance and advice. Connecting these leads with the most suited contact, a customer service professional or a brand advocate, iAdvize strives to provide visitors with enriched and non-intrusive customer experience and its customers with a ROI-driven engagement solution.
Consistently bringing innovations to market, iAdvize introduced its Click to Communitysolution earlier this year and reinforced its platform with powerful social features following the acquisition of Bringr in April 2015. The Company will announce further strategic innovations early 2016 and will keep on investing significantly in R&D in the years to come. Already addressing customers throughout Europe,iAdvize will also deploy additional financial capacities to establish presence in a series of markets including the UK, Germany and Spain before expanding to the US.
For more information, please contact:
Clipperton Finance
Nicolas von Bülow, Partner, nvonbulow@clipperton.net
Antoine Ganancia, Senior Associate, aganancia@clipperton.net
Martin Vielle, Associate, mvielle@clipperton.net
iAdvize
Maxime Baumard maxime@iadvize.com
+33 (0)6 13 16 74 65
About Clipperton Finance
Clipperton Finance is a European independent corporate finance advisory firm exclusively dedicated to the Technology and Healthcare industries, advising high growth companies on M&A transactions, debt financings and equity offerings. With offices in London, Berlin, and Paris and an international reach,Clipperton Finance is a European leader in Technology financial advisory. Over the past 15 years, the team has successfully completed more than 150 high profile transactions globally.For more information, visit www.clipperton.net