Technology Fast 500™ Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)

About our sponsors

The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA program offers its thanks to the following organizations for their support:

Euronext is the leading pan-European exchange in the eur zone with more than 1,300 listed issuers worth close to €3.1 trillion in market capitalization as of end July 2016, an unmatched blue chip franchise consisting of 25 issuers in the Euro Stoxx 50® benchmark and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets. Its total product offering includes Equities, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. Euronext operates regulated markets, Alternext and the Free Market; in addition it offers EnterNext, which facilitates SMEs’ access to capital markets.

Salesforce is the #1 CRM platform and ecosystem, with leading apps in sales, service, marketing, community, analytics and the Internet of Things. Salesforce is the fastest-growing top 10 enterprise software company. Over the past 17 years, Salesforce has expanded the scope of CRM, redefining the category with its trusted multitenant, metadata-driven cloud, social, mobile, data science and IoT technologies. Salesforce provides the enabling technology and CRM platform that enables companies to create personalized, 1:1, real-time, intelligent experiences. No other enterprise software company offering can match the innovation, breadth and depth of the Salesforce Customer Success Platform, covering sales, service, marketing, community, analytics, apps and IoT. The Salesforce Customer Success Platform enables companies to connect with customers in new ways, run their business from their phones, create 1-to-1 customer journeys and make smarter, more predictive decisions from anywhere, in real time–all of which help accelerate growth.

Orange meets the financing needs of fledgling firms, whatever their level of maturity, through Orange Digital Investment. This entity, which was established in 2016, supports the Group’s investments with the aim of gaining both financial benefits and improving the products and services that Orange provides to its customers through these synergies. Orange Digital Investment brings together Orange’s investment activities in the start-ups:

• Fund of funds activity: it groups together Orange’s holdings in external funds which have their own investment strategy; the most well-known of these is Iris Capital, founded with Publicis, for which Orange announced an additional appropriation of €75 million at the end of last year.
• The Orange Digital Ventures internal fund is the Group’s investment vehicle; created in 2015, it is endowed with €100 million. Orange Digital Ventures’ investment themes are connected with the priorities of the Essentials2020 strategic plan (new connectivity, Internet of Things, Fintech, etc.).
• Corporate digital development activity: to identify opportunities and make a success out of acquisitions or major strategic investments in digital activities that are not part of the core business but that are used to reinforce the Orange promise: Deezer, Dailymotion, Jumia Group, etc.

With more than €350 million under management, Orange Digital Investment is already among the top five most dynamic French corporate venture funds.

KKR is a leading global investment firm with deep investment experience and in-depth industry knowledge focused on growing and improving businesses. KKR’s Growth Technology Strategy focuses on growth equity investments in high-growth businesses with equity investments ranging from $20M-$100M. Through this strategy, KKR seeks to partner with leading entrepreneurs—investing flexible, patient capital and leveraging the entirety of KKR’s platform to help growth companies maximize their long-term value potential.