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Paris France YC W24 all-in-one payroll/HR for French SMBs handling 800+ labor agreements; $9.2M total (€3M Breega/FundersClub/YC seed) competing with PayFit for French startup and SMB payroll compliance automation.
malibou is a Paris, France-based all-in-one payroll and HR platform for French SMBs and startups — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $9.2 million in total funding including a €3 million seed from Breega, FundersClub, Y Combinator, and Telecom Paristech — providing French companies with a single web application for employee management, payroll processing, and labor compliance that handles the complexity of France's approximately 800 different labor agreements (conventions collectives), each with its own rules for working hours, leave entitlements, overtime calculation, and social contribution rates. Founded in 2023 by Drummond, Alexandre, and Pernin, malibou addresses the compliance burden that makes French payroll among the most complex in Europe for small businesses to manage.
Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).
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