Timeline

We focus GI on 2 activities in order to build performance organizations:

• Strategic Consulting & Services
• Financial Services

We work to form multiple industry-leading companies focused on growth sectors of eCommerce, software development and business process automation, all powered by Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

GI extended the power of GI BDA to help merchants increase revenues and margins.

GI added collaborative features to GI MFR to help financial controllers and other fintechs to finance businesses.

GI grows GI POF capacity to finance 1m€ per month.

We received support from BPI and Caisse d’Epargne.

GI is ready to provide capital, technology and services. We successfully deployed our diversified business model on 6 pillars (GI CAP, GI SCS, GI BDA, GI MFR, GI OKR, GI POF).

GI restarts POF after 2 years of transformation.

GI Capital, our financial services division, is born in the USA as we achieved a 200% return on capital in 2021.

GI starts to modify the relationship with merchants. GI invested in Zoomici, brought GI Big Data Analytics to power the business, and GI OKR to improve the execution.

In 2020, GI was completely transformed as the company faced 2 big rocks:

1. BNP Paribas stopped the collaboration in Europe (the great visionary sponsor passed away).  GI was forced to develop a strategy for re-entering the Purchase Order Financing business.
2. Covid-19

The company focused on:

1. Direct investment in SME
2. Marketfire (business analytics platform for online merchants)
3. GI BIg Data Analytics for SME

First purchased orders financed for merchants on Amazon and Cdiscount with BNP Paribas in Europe.

First loans from GI to the merchants with purchase orders financed by BNP Paribas.

GI Big Data first steps in Silicon Valley.

Release of the beta version of GI MFR – Marketplace Financial Reporting.

Release of GI OKR – Objectives & Key Results – 833 organizations on as of Dec 31st, 2019.

Complete redesign and release of the Networked Business Technology Platform (keynets.com) – The Business Network.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in Europe & USA.

Release of the Networked Finance Technology Platform to enable BNP Paribas to finance any vendor and supplier in Europe.

Improvement of the Networked Business Technology Platform (keynets.com) – The Business Network.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in Europe & USA.

First tests of the Networked eCommerce Technology Platform with Cdiscount in Europe. Unfortunately, it does not work.

Improvement of the Networked Business Technology Platform (keynets.com) – The Business Network.

Improvement of the Networked Finance Technology Platform to enable BNP Paribas to finance any vendor and supplier in Europe.

Investment in prototypes in the banking industry in USA.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in Europe & USA.

Improvement of the prototype of the Networked eCommerce Technology Platform to enable Big Retailers to sell products on high traffic publishers’ websites worldwide.

Design & building of the Networked Finance Technology Platform to enable BNP Paribas, a major financial player, to finance any vendor and supplier.

Merging of FBD Foundation and FBD Innovation Funds into Fair Business Deal Innovation Foundation.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in Europe & USA.

Release of 1st version of the Networked eCommerce Technology Platform to enable Cdiscount sell products on high traffic publishers’ websites in France.

Release of 1st version of the Networked Business Technology Platform (keynets.com) – The Business Network.

Work on the integration of the Networked Finance Technology platform with BNP Paribas.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in Europe & USA.

Building of a prototype version of Networked eCommerce Technology Platform.

Design & building of the Networked Business Technology Platform (keynets.com) to be used as success story repository, app store of the boutiques and funds request repository.

Release of the Big Data component of the Networked Finance Technology platform.

First loan (50k EUR) to a merchant using the Big Data component of the Networked Finance Technology platform.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in Europe & USA.

Investment in several prototypes for one eCommerce leader in France to use Big Data to drive the business and bridge the gap with US eCommerce leaders.

Design & building of the 1st Networked Business Technology Platform (keynets.com) to be used as a real customer project & success story repository.

Design & building of the Big Data component of the Networked Finance Technology platform to enable financial players finance merchants on marketplaces.

Investment in prototypes for the eCommerce leader in France to develop the Networked eCommerce Business to grow the GMV.

Design & building of the Networked eCommerce Technology Platform to enable eCommerce leaders to sell products on high traffic publishers Web sites in France through boutiques.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in USA & Europe.

Development of FBD Foundation.

First investment in several prototypes for a major eCommerce player in France to rebuild the marketplace technology platform (catalogs upload, customer support, API, merchant tools, mobile apps…) and bridge the gap with US leaders.

Invention of the Networked eCommerce Business & the Networked Finance Business (First applications of the Networked Business way).

Investment in a Business Network prototype (keynets.com) to do Networked Business and help customers discover real projects & certified success stories of companies and innovators to build better solutions and businesses.

Investment in a Big Data prototype for a US financial leader in order to finance merchants on marketplaces.

Consulting & Services for Internet Critical Businesses in USA & Europe.

Invention of the Networked Business.

Invention of the Fair Business Deal.
– Business could finance social and solve great causes for the benefit of Society
– Social could finance innovation and enable business to grow in the first stage for the benefit of Business

Startups in Europe & USA, experiences on great IT projects such as social networks, search engines, web services, API JSON/REST platforms, fulfillment services, Big Data, complex projects with companies such as: Amazon, eBay, Google, CNRS, Orange, Thales, Carrefour, La Poste, Crédit Agricole, Wikipedia, Peugeot, Spir Communication…

We learned a lot, we tried, we failed. We persevered, never gave up and, one day, started to succeed because we love what we do & know why we do it.