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French tech startup\u00a0<\/span>Distinctive Leisure\u00a0<\/span>Exp\u00e9rience<\/span>, which is doing enterprise as Powder,\u00a0<\/span>introduced that it has secured a $14M USD Collection A financing spherical led by\u00a0<\/span>Paris-based enterprise capital agency\u00a0<\/span>Serena. Additional buyers embrace Normal Catalyst, Sluggish Ventures, Alven Capital,\u00a0<\/span>Banque\u00a0<\/span>publique<\/span>\u00a0d\u2019investissement\u00a0(<\/span>Bpifrance<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0by way of its fund Digital Enterprise,\u00a0<\/span>Secocha<\/span>\u00a0Ventures, Turner Novak, and Kevin Hartz.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The startup<\/span>, which was co-founded in 2018 by Stanislas Coppin (CEO), Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Kiss (Chief Development Officer), Yannis\u00a0<\/span>Mangematin<\/span>\u00a0(Chief Content material Officer), and Christian\u00a0<\/span>Navelot<\/span>\u00a0(CTO),<\/span>\u00a0revealed that it intends to make use of its Collection A proceeds to \u201cenhance the tempo at which we’re constructing the video infrastructure of social gaming.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This spherical of funding brings Powder\u2019s complete funding to $18M, after a pre-seed spherical of $400K in August 2018 (Kima Ventures, Antoine Martin, Alexis Bonillo), a seed spherical of $1.5M in March 2019 (Normal Catalyst, Sluggish Ventures, Dream Machine, SV Angel, Brian Pokorny, Florian Kahn, Guillaume\u00a0<\/span>Luccisano<\/span>), and a seed spherical extension of $1.3M in Could 2020 (Alven Capital, Normal Catalyst, Sluggish Ventures, Dream Machine,\u00a0<\/span>Seraam<\/span>\u00a0Make investments, Farmers, Maxime\u00a0<\/span>Demeure<\/span>, Jean-Nicolas Vernin) and funding from\u00a0<\/span>Bpifrance<\/span>\u00a0and CNC.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n