Hi everyone,
As we prepare to dive into summer, we reflect on a quarter filled with fresh starts. At Hexa, we were thrilled to announce our plan to launch new startup studios in various verticals and officially called for the founders who wished to embark on this adventure. Setting the stage for an exciting future ahead of us! Know someone who’s ready to experience a new way of entrepreneurship?
And happening today is the highly-anticipated launch of Cycle 2.0 (eF#19) - what exactly are they launching? 👀 It’s all in here.
Happy reading,
Studio News
✍️ Putting pen to paper - Founder Thibaud wrote an op-ed published in La Tribune on how it’s time to build the next European Champions. While Florent, 3founders Studio Founder, wrote in Journal du Net about how web3 will be embedded in every product.
🧠 Exposing Hexa -If you missed it, listen to Thibaud speak about all things Hexa and the future of our model in Sebastien Couasnon's podcast. You'll also hear about the recipe behind many of our successes during the 0 to 1 phase.
✨ Shining a light on our model - If you've ever wondered about the differences between accelerators, incubators, and startup studios, we've got the article for you. Key to the startup studio model we’ve pioneered is the concept of team entrepreneurship: the premise that by uniting our forces and building altogether as a team, we can build more successful companies. But how exactly does that work in practice? You can find out here.
Spotlight on the current batch
🐣 New reveals - Two new startups came out of the eFounders woods. Catalog (eF#23), the B2B ordering solution enabling manufacturers to sell smarter, and sell more, and Okko (eF#23), the modern buying channel designed for teams. And Okko didn’t stop there. They launched the first community of procurement leaders: the Procure Squad.
💫 New category - Dialog (3f#22) is opening up a new whole category that is set to revolutionize the way marketing is done. It’s called Wallet-Based Marketing and it’s taking the web3 world by storm.
Highlight of past batches
🚴♂️ Cycle is launching - The Tour de France is in full swing and here’s your opportunity to support the aptly named Cycle, not on the tour, but on Product Hunt. It’s right this way.
🔐 Seed funding for Elba - Huge congrats to elba (eF#21) who became independent from the studio recently and raised a seed round to bring employee-focused security worldwide.
🎓 Decoding the Chief of Staff role - Upflow's (eF#18) team shared a valuable article exploring the Chief of Staff role, clarifying its often misunderstood nature through real-life examples from other CoS. Interestingly, Swan is currently searching for their next Chief of Staff. Know anyone?
🪄 Keeping up with AI - folk (eF#19) unveiled a new AI feature that takes their intelligent CRM to the next level. And, as always, they crushed their product hunt launch.
🌳☁️ A Forest in the cloud - Forest (eF#16) just launched the cloud based version of their product, eliminating the need for any server installations.
Job Alerts
📈 Founding Sales at Okko - Embrace the Okko vision and help build an ambitious sales machine from scratch.
⚒️ Fullstack Developper at Hexa - We are looking for a Fullstack Developer to join our Core Team and help us develop our tools.
🤫 Founding Engineer at a yet to be revealed project - It’s all in there.
We hope you’re ready for what comes next! And if you ever have any questions or suggestions for this newsletter, don’t hesitate to hit reply.
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Cheers,
The Hexa Team