Location:
Technopole de Ch-Gombert BP 100 ,
Marseille Cedex 13, 13382,
France
Founded in: 2007 Stage: Revenue generating Number of employees: 1-5 Completed funding: Angel/Investor Profitable year: 2011 Short URL:http://vator.tv/c/f9f
Profile creation: May 05, 2009 Last updated: November 20, 2009
Categories
Business to Business, Internet Social Media, Software, Software as a Service
Calinda Software provides a dynamic e-mail mapping solution.
Today, corporations are organized in projects with distributed teams, customers and partners. The dominant communication tools remain the e-mail and the telephone. The e-mail allows communicating more and faster, but it creates a significant information overload.
At Calinda Software, we created a technology that dynamically builds maps from e-mails exchanged within a workgroup, regardless of type of e-mail people use, and without installing anything on their computers.
The resulting visual representation simplifies the identification of key information, decision making and capitalization of knowledge.
This solves the main productivity challenge in the knowledge economy.
Finalizing scenario for demo video of MindUP mail spaces for SharePoint, to be shot toworrow at Microsoft Campus and put on Microsoft's web site
on November 11
Integrating new version of MindUP for SharePoint. It's like Google Waves (but more visual) built from your team's current e-mails exchanges and shared in your SharePoint site.
on November 10
Today, corporations are organized in projects with distributed teams, customers and partners. The dominant communication tools remain the e-mail and the telephone. The e-mail allows communicating more and faster, but it creates a significant information overload. At Calinda Software, we created a technology that dynamically builds maps from e-mails exchanged within a workgroup, regardless of type of e-mail people use, and without installing anything on their computers. The resulting visual representation simplifies the identification of key information, decision making and capitalization of knowledge. This solves the main productivity challenge in the knowledge economy, with a 10 to 20% gain.
Although the $4.4bn Team Collaboration Software market is growing 10-20% per year [Gartner] and about 100% of large and medium corporations purchased a platform, studies show a poor adoption rate by users of only 20%, while e-mail is used by 99%. Customers see this as a failure of their team collaboration software projects are looking for a better return on investment through an improved adoption rate.
MindUp Enterprise: Sell Software Licences, integration services and yearly maintenance to large companies. THe solution is integrated with the Enterprise collaboration platforms in place (such as Microsoft SharePoint) through connectors. Pricing: $30k-$500k, depending on number of users (50 to several ‘000s)
Distribution : MindUp Enterprise: distribute through software integrators. Sell a bundle with other software as complete solutions (collaboration platform+MindUp), along with integration services provided by resellers and partners (CAP GEMINI, ATOS ORIGIN, etc.).
MindUp Live: Sell monthly online Software service subscriptions to project teams, small companies and consultancies. Pricing €20 per user per month (max 100).
Calinda Software developed the patent-pending and award-winning C2IM technology, to capture, model and visualize collective knowledge on the fly. Using this technology allows to leverage and capitalize the vast amount of knowledge exchanged by e-mail within projects, in an non-intrusive way, regardless of the messaging applications the participants use. Its basic principle is to structure the messages people send to the project team, allow recipients to reply specifically on a given item or paragraph, and insert traceability codes to allow MindUp to retrieve the context and thread structured discussions.
The resulting model of e-mail discussions can be used to improve the performance and reliability of non-deterministic analysis techniques (semantic, syntaxic, statistic, etc.) by using the structure of the analyzed knowledge as a heuristic.
Alex Mermod, 33, Co-founder & CEO: Alex previously was the CTO of Bee Ware ($9m raised with Sofinnova Partners, acquisition and integration of a 20 people competitor), a manager at BMC Software and an Engineer at Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto. He holds a diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Seb Bassompierre, 33, Co-founder & CTO: Seb has many years of experience with the most advanced technologies (Java/J2EE, XML, etc.). He was one of the authors of the industry leading PATROL Visualis and BSM Discovery software products at BMC Software. Seb also taught Java development at the University of Avignon.
Ray Bouchet, 40, Sales Manager: Ray joined Calinda in March 09 after a successful career in selling major software from Computer Associates, Software AG, Microfocus in France. Ray brings his experience in selling to large corporations, his relentless positive energy and his business development skills.
Chris Guyard, 45, Co-founder & Business Angel: Chris brings his experience of business, management and entrepreurship, as well as his business contacts. He is currently the CEO of Bee Ware, which he co-founded and for which he secured more than $9m of VC funding from Sofinnova Partners. As a true Serial Entrepreneur, he previously founded Axians and headed several companies inside the Vinci Group.
Board of advisors: 9 major business figures took a stake in Dec 08 and help the company in its development.
Strong patent on the specific technique used to track and structure e-mail exchanges in a team, regardless of the e-mail people use and without requiring any installation.
I met Alex at Innovate!Europe (produced by Guidewire) in Zaragoza, Spain. Alex is very impressive. He's smart. He understands his business. And he's very assertive. All the good traits for a CEO. Moreover, Calinda is in an interesting space. The company's product is similar to what Xobni, and to some extent Xoopit, is offering. No one has dominated the space to organize email. So, Calinda has a good chance to capture market share.
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Third place in Summer of Innovation $2,000 to $25,000 Competition
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