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The Company

    Paris-based company with a strong presence in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and London
    Highly experienced international team that has built successful businesses in the fields of music, gaming, technology and content driven enterprises
    Passionate about helping to define the future of the music industry
    Founded in 2006 by Gilles Babinet, Sylvain Huet and Philippe Ulrich, successful serial entrepreneurs in the music and gaming industry
    Venture‐backed by A‐list investors : Sofinnova Partners, Ventech and Orkos Capital
    Gilles Babinet (Chairman of the board) successfully created and managed various successful businesses as CEO. At the age of 24, he set up Absolut, a product design firm that he sold in 2000 to Euro-RSCG. That same year, he founded Musiwave, that was sold to Openwave for $139M in Jan 2006. Since then, Gilles co-founded :
    - Eyeka, a Platform that gathers 75,000 video makers, answering to pitches posted by brands. Eyeka is backed by Ventech Ventures, SFR Ventures and DN Capital
    - Digicompanion, a company using film and music to organise marketing operations for brands, backed by Alven Capital
    - Sawnd, a music publishing company that helps musicians increase their presence on the Internet.
    Gilles is serving as Chairman at Eyeka, MXP4 and Awdio.
    High profile independant board members and advisory board members :
    - JF Cecillon (Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EMI Music International).
    - Jordan Greenhall (co-founder of DivX and who served as the Company's CEO until July 2007 and Chairman of the Board of Directors until December 2007).
    Multi‐patented technology