KIMA VENTURES SUPPORTS SHOORK’S DEVELOPMENT

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Paris, Octobre 15th, 2012 ? ShoorK, a french start-up specializing in social media analytics tools, today announced it has closed its first funding round of 100.000 euros with Kima Ventures, the fund owned by Xavier Niel and Jeremie Berrebi. This first round will enable ShoorK to accelerate the development of its products and position itself strongly on the Social Media Analytics market.

« This first funding round reinforces the belief we have in the product we are developping and we are proud it is a well established fund like Kima Ventures that has decided to follow us », says Jean-Michel Trayaud, Co-Founder of ShoorK. « We are going to release very soon our « premium » offerings to offer to community managers, social agencies and brands new tools that will enable them to precisely measure the level of engagement of their communities. »

ShoorK features ShoorK {metrics}, a social media analysis tool (Social Media Analytics) that enables brands, community managers or agencies to benefit from precise data on the level of engagement of their communities, the top pages of their market and competitors, the type of posts used and their content and many other information proposed by ShoorK. The start-up offers a localized approach by country and local markets, using a manual selection and classification of the pages.

« ShoorK?s solution seduced us by its new approach of Social Media Analytics that enables to precisely measure the way all brands act on social media and not anymore look only at their own actions », explains Jeremie Berrebi, Co-Founder of Kima Ventures.

Abount ShoorK(TM) – Social Media Analytics
ShoorK is a French startup specializing in the development of applications for community managers. Created in 2012 by Jean-Michel Trayaud and Brice Cascade, ShoorK?s goal is to propose a range of tools for statistic analysis of social media (Social Analytics). ShoorK?s unique technology enables to efficiently manage high volumes of social data. It is composed of a management tools, client libraries and a distributed architecture that can be interfaced with external API?s like Facebook(TM) or Twitter(TM). This technology developped internally since February 2012, enabled the creation of ShoorK {metrics} in only a few weeks and will enable to propose shortly new and innovative « Social Media Analytics » products.

About Kima Venture
Kima Ventures is the investement fund created by Xavier Niel & Jeremie Berrebi in 2010. With more than 150 investements in startups around the world, they still finance 1 to 2 new startups every week.

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