A simple and fast way to share files peer-to-peer has been a holy grail for years: back in 2006, there was a flurry of companies addressing the space. You might remember AllPeers, Pando (not PandoDaily), or ToPeer, but rest assured, there were a lot of them, most of which threw in the towel when they found no clear path to monetization. When using a personal P2P program, the file is transferred directly to the recipient, as opposed to a web file sharing service like iCloud, which uploads the file to a server.

In the meantime, Dropbox became a $10 billion company while embracing the cloud: by applying a slick interface to Amazon Web Services, and promising users a dead simple way to share files, it gained over 300 million users and forged a bright future — no peer-to-peer protocols needed. But now a new French startup, Infinit, is revisiting personal P2P, but adding a cloud-based twist.