Dear friends,

Our thoughts are with Ukraine and all the people affected as we witness the horrible events unfold. If you’re looking to help, here’s a list of resources to support verified charities.

On another note, today is International Woman’s Day. And what better way to mark this day than by giving your support to a woman-led eFounders company: Kairn, as they are launching on Product Hunt today. The app is no longer on a waitlist, you can start using it today. Regain control of your days:

And just so you know, we’re switching our newsletter format, as eFounders grows, we’ve got more and more companies, and more and more news to share with all of you. So you’ll now be receiving our newsletter at the start of each month with news across our studio, our current batch, and our previous batches - in an easily digestible format.

Studio News

Inside eFounders 🔍  Maddyness interviewed our founder Thibaud Elziere in a really interesting piece where Thibaud revealed how exactly we come up with our ideas, our process of ideation, the people we look for, and what we’ve got in the store for the next few months 👀

Read more in Maddyness

Spotlight on the current batch

New website ✨  Dotfile (eF21) unveiled a brand new website. The team, who’s building a product that enables anyone to create powerful onboarding flows without any code, has been working hard and is now ready to market.

Big reveal ✏️  One of our very latest startups is Roundtable (eF22). The team has just released its new name and ambitious mission: to create the go-to social platform for private investments in Europe.

Check out Roundtable

In the headlines 📰  After raising a large first round of funding at the end of last year, the team at Numeral (eF21) has been growing fast and they’re getting noticed. TechCrunch wrote a piece on how Numeral wants to turn bank accounts into micro-services. Worth a read

Read more on TechCrunch

Highlights from past batches

Launching 🚀 As mentioned at the start of this letter, Kairn (eF20) is launching today on Product Hunt. Kairn is a productivity app like no other that combines the simplicity of tasks with the power of projects.

Sign up, it's free

Fundraising 💰  Legendary VC fund Sequoia backed our first web3 company Multis (eF18). The team raised a $7M round to help build the financial and operational tool stack for DAOs and DeFi startups. A new milestone in the life of our first web3 company and a key moment for crypto businesses. And props to Thibaut, co-founder & CEO, for doing his part to help with the Ukrainian crisis.

Read more on our blog

Campaigning 🚇  Fellow Parisian readers, did you spot Yousign’s campaign in the metro? The team behind the leading eSignature solution in Europe went all out and orchestrated a full marketing campaign with metro & video ads. You wait, or Yousign?

Innovating 🛰️  Slite (eF16) is now a fully-remote team of 32, now operating in 25 cities, across 9 countries, and 6 timezones. They’ve got extensive experience on how to structure a remote team. Each employee in their team, no matter where they live, enjoys the same purchasing power (for the same role and level). But not the same pay. Now they’re sharing with the world their fair pay model to help remote teams all over the world bring on fair pay.

Fair pay this way

That’s all from us. See you soon and until then, keep safe.

The eFounders team ✌️