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Restaurant vouchers: Montpellier Swile at the unicorn table

2021-10-11T15:15:52.447Z


The company specializing in meal vouchers brings SoftBank International Group into its capital. In Montpellier (Hérault) For a meal voucher specialist, Swile has an ogre appetite. After a fourth round of funding in as many years of existence, the company claims to enter the circle of unicorns, these young companies valued at over a billion dollars. Its latest operation: the entry, on Monday, of the Japanese SoftBank to its capital, via its fund dedicated to investments in Latin America, and


In Montpellier (Hérault)

For a meal voucher specialist, Swile has an ogre appetite.

After a fourth round of funding in as many years of existence, the company claims to enter the circle of unicorns, these young companies valued at over a billion dollars.

Its latest operation: the entry, on Monday, of the Japanese SoftBank to its capital, via its fund dedicated to investments in Latin America, and, to a lesser extent, the Headline fund.

By their side, all the previous shareholders (the founding manager Loïc Soubeyrand, Kima Ventures, Idinvest, Index Ventures, Eurazeo, Bpifrance), with the exception of Daphni, decided to hand over to the pot for a total amount of 175 million euros.

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Based in Montpellier, Swile is one of the rare unicorns to appear in the region after the website hosting company OVH (Roubaix) and telecoms Sigfox (Toulouse).

"The fact that the company is based in the region is clearly a plus"

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Source: lefigaro

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