Coaching entrepreneurs in their growth strategy
Bloom was founded in 2006 to help entrepreneurs and business leaders organise, document and finance their growth strategies.
Our clients are :
- • Startup entrepreneurs preparing a new venture
- • Entrepreneurs looking for investors to finance their next stage of development
- • Leaders and owners of small businesses who need documents to finance an operation (capital increase, IPO, MBO...) or for internal purposes (board meetings, strategic vision...)
- • M&A boutique banks and financial consultants who need an additional resource in their team to build financial models, decks and info memos for their clients, or search for investors.
We bring them our skills in entrepreneurship, finance and storytelling, and our networks of investors, advisors, and economic players.
OUR EXPERTISE :
- - Creation of financial business plans : Excel financial models on many business models - saas, eshop, DNVB, Pharma development, asset portfolio, hotel network, stores or restaurants...
- - Creation of investor documents: Teasers, Executive Summary, Pitch Deck, Management Presentation, Information Memorandum... In French or in English
- - Search for investors: business angels, investment funds (VC, corporate VC, development capital), family office and strategic partners (industrial) - Setting up contacts, organizing meetings, following up on exchanges and analyses during the due diligence phase, advising on the entire process
- - Creation of financial management tools: budgets, reporting, year to date management, shareholders' board dashboards
- - Grants, loans, creation of subsidiaries : setting up relationships with service providers, project follow-up
SECTORS OF ACTIVITY :
- - Digital : Saas, Software, DNVB, Platforms, Social Networks, e-Commerce, Digital Media
- - Biotech: Diagnostics, Drug development, Medical equipment, e-Health
- - Traditional economy: Hotels, Restaurants, Real Estate, Fashion, Luxury, Communication agencies, Activity centers (yoga, sports, cinema,...)
- - Impact projects: Energy transition, new materials, patent innovations...
Services
Recent projects
CELLQUEST • AUTOMATED PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS FOR CAR-T CANCER TREATMENTS
Financial business plan - Investor deck and teaser - Budget and cash flow forecastsFundraising management (venture capital funds, industrialists and family offices)
2.7M RAISED IN SEED ROUND IN 2023
LINNEA LUND • CONSCIOUS LUXURY CASHMERE
Support for 2 fundraisings (Love Money and Seed) as external CFO • Total 1,3M€Financial business plan • Investor deck and teaser • Budget and cash flow forecasts
TIP AND SHAFT • DIGITAL MEDIA DEDICATED TO COMPETITIVE SAILING
Financial business plan • Investor deck and teaser • Budget and cash flow forecastsCompany valuation
ATELIER NUBIO (DNVB Brand) - JUICES AND COSMETICS ONLINE
Financial business plan • Budget and cash flow forecastsThe investment funds were impressed and reassured by the documents created by Bloom, which enabled us to communicate the relevance and quality of our project and the key elements of our strategy during our fundraising.
Guillaume
Founder of CellquestIn less than three weeks, Bloom restructured our business plan for a due diligence with an investment fund.
Catherine
Cofounder of CariansWe also worked for
Profile
Stéphane de Maintenant,
founder of Bloom since 2006
Stéphane de Maintenant
An entrepreneurial expertise
After graduating in 1992 from HEC business school (France’s leading business school), with a major in Finance, I successfully created and developped two BtoC companies in Paris from 1994 to 2002 : à la Carte, a multi-restaurant delivery service pionneer to Deliveroo and Foodora, and 1001 Listes, an online multi-store wedding list service.
With an initial capital of 15.000€ borrowed from our parents at the age of 23, my partner and I developped à la Carte into a local business reaching 2M€ sales in 2001, with 2.500 active customers (private and corporate) and 40 employees.
Alongside, I partnered with a business school friend in 1999 to create 1001 Listes, for which we raised 1M€ in 2000.
Entrepreneurs and leaders need help for (good) business plans
In 2005, I helped a friend who owned a local business and needed a Business Plan to seize an opportunity to raise funds. She was overloaded with work and was spending her evenings working on Word, Excel and Powerpoints documents, and couldn’t get done with it.Together, we finished very persuasive and reassuring documents and financial scenarios within 5 weeks, with which she managed to sollicitate many potential investors.
Investor documents are key in the process of raising funds, selling a company, or making a decision for an investment. They are often assigned to junior staff members, and take time for day-to-day operations (or family life) – most often with a disappointing final result
I realized that I could bring my entrepreneurial experience, my storytelling and financial skills to many entrepreneurs and leaders, and decided to specialise in this activity by creating my company, BLOOM
Contact
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Address
10 rue du Jourdain
75020 Paris, France