Founded in April 2012 by Edouard de La Jonquière, Arnaud Le Blanc, Didier Forest, Thibaud Elzière (founder of fotolia.com, US$ 100M revenue) and Quentin Nickmans (cofounder of e-founders), mention makes it possible not to miss anything said about a name, a product or a company on the web and social web.

Available on every device, mention allows you to create an alert on your name, brand, company and competitors and be notified, in real-time of any new mention on the web and social networks. With mention, users are also able to share and react to these mentions, and make the Community Management work collaborative.

“We’ve decided to quickly raise a seed round on a “flash mode” to take advantage of the momentum we are in”, says Edouard de La Jonquière, CEO of mention. “We’ve contacted 5 investors whom we knew were thrilled by the project with a single HTML 5 presentation page and a pre-drafted terms sheet. The whole idea was not to lose any time on the round and keep focusing on product development and traction”.

mention has currently 50,000 users, paying customers from 46 countries and revenue growing double-digit every month.

“What’s terrific with this project is the broad variety of users. 50,000 users is almost equivalent to 50,000 businesses” says Elzière. “We have law firms, universities, city councils, start-ups, PR firm, private detectives, communities, Fortune 500 enterprises as well as students, NGO, political parties, hotels and restaurants. And all those from San Francisco to Tokyo”.

The company will use the capital in order to structure a marketing and sales team, as well as develop the product to make it even more collaborative for multiple-users organizations. A US relocation of the core team is in the pipe.

“This is a game-changer company that puts Google Alerts on steroids and combines it with social media monitoring, and on top adds straight forward Community Management features. Their competitive positioning on the Fortune 5,000,000 market is a right match with our SMBs SaaS strategy that we will pursue with our new fund Alven IV, of which mention is the 1st deal”, says Nicolas Celier from Alven Capital

“We’re very impressed with mention‘s easy-to-use product and the immense traction which the company developed within a short period of time. On a side note we’re also very happy to welcome the first startup from France to our growing SaaS portfolio!” says Christoph Janz from Point Nine Capital.
About mention

mention is a french startup founded in 2012 by Edouard de La Jonquière (Capgemini), Thibaud Elzière (fotolia.com), Quentin Nickmans (cofounder of e-founders), Arnaud Le Blanc and Didier Forest.
mention is a media-monitoring app combining web and social networks. With more than 50,000 users in 46 countries, mention targets the growing population of community managers in Fortune 500 to Fortune 5,000,000 companies.
For more information : https://mention.net

About Point Nine Capital

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), eCommerce, marketplace and mobile. The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz, have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Westwing and Zendesk from their earliest stages. In early 2013, Point Nine announced the closing of a new €40 million fund, Point Nine Capital Fund II. More information can be found at www.pointninecap.com

Contactually has built a new marketing channel for professionals in relationship-driven businesses that helps them retain mindshare and generate business and referrals from the people in their network. The innovative platform instantly generates your address book based on the people with whom you communicate via email and social media, and then intelligently prompts you to reconnect with your most important contacts when it matters the most. Contactually ensures that your most important relationships never slip through the cracks, and that you consistently stay top-of-mind and relevant with your most important contacts.

“We are very impressed with team behind Contactually, the product they have built in such a short time, the traction it gets with users and the vision behind the company,” remarked Pawel Chudzinski of Point Nine Capital. “They’re offering a truly unique solution to help professionals proactively engage with their most important relationships.”

With the new funding round, Contactually plans to accelerate its rapid growth by developing and scaling its sales and development teams.  Additionally, the capital will allow the company to focus heavily on value-add partnerships with other complementary SaaS products, made possible by Contactually’s API. The platform currently integrates with tools like Salesforce, Google Contacts, Highrise, Pipedrive, SugarCRM and MailChimp. Contactually also recently announced its newest partnership and integration with Do.com, Salesforce’s task management platform.

The Contactually API enables third-party software providers to seamlessly access the rich contact data and communication histories that users can access on the native platform. In particular, Contactually’s integration partners can use the API to automatically add and update contact records from email and social media, as well as see the interactions that they have had with a given contact over email and social media. For example, if a user receives an email from a prospect, Contactually will automatically track it and update that contact’s profile if he included any new contact data or information in his email signature. Then, using the API, Contactually will sync that updated contact data and the email communication with any integrated third-party platform like Salesforce. With the power of the Contactually API, users can rest easy knowing that their contact data is in sync across their entire network and workflow.

“We’re really excited to launch our new API.  Everything you see in Contactually is now accessible externally, and we’re already seeing a lot of innovation from our current partners,” explained Contactually COO and co-founder Tony Cappaert. “Other companies and developers shouldn’t have to worry about building out a contact manager, because Contactually can automatically organize and sync contacts for their app from anywhere.”

Third-party software vendors who are interested in partnering and integrating with Contactually should visit the developers page at http://developers.contactually.com and the partnership page athttp://www.contactually.com/partners for more information.

About Contactually

Contactually was founded in 2011 by Zvi Band, Tony Cappaert and Jeff Carbonella. The Washington, D.C.-based technology start-up builds a new marketing channel focusing on on managing your most important professional relationships by automatically reminding you to follow up with key contacts. The SaaS platform integrates seamlessly with email, social networks, and CRM tools to keep all of your contacts up-to-date and in sync across your entire network.  The team was previously part of the 500 Startups incubator in Mountain View, California.

Point Nine Capital and Alven Capital invested $800k in mention in a Seed Round in early 2013.

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Point Nine led a $1M Seed Round in Contactually in early 2013. Other investors included Boston Seed Capital, 500 Startups and various angels.

Point Nine participated in a seed round alongside Y-Combinator, 500 Startups & angels in early 2012.