By akademiotoelektronik, 01/02/2023

The 30 entrepreneurs who energize business on the Atlantic coast

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Freddy and Nicolas Babin, 51 and 47: managers of Ernest Le Glacier

From their small shop of 15 square meters opened in 1999, these two brothers increased to 800 square meters, under the Ernest Le Glacier brand, divided into several points of sale in La Rochelle, including three on the Old Port, to 60 employeesIn the midst of season, and more than 1.6 million euros in turnover in 2015.

Only their watchword remains the same, according to the elder: "Everything that is integrated into our ice cream has been transformed into us, from our gauge cornets to our roasted driving fruits.On the innovation side, they had already invented a scooter to sell their ice cream throughout the city, or supply the Francofolies, in 2012.

More recently, after having moved their downtown workshops in January, they had to develop a new mode of pasteurization of their mixes.They also installed corners in the market time stores, which welcome regional products, in the Beaulieu district and the town of Angoulins to start.Bordeaux, Nantes, Royan and Niort will follow.

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Jean-Paul Calès, 57 years old: founding president of Cap Igelec

"My teams knew how to set up electrical networks that do not break down," recalls this engineer of arts and trades to explain how his experience in the project management opened him the door of data centers.Successfully: his 270 engineers-he is looking for eighteen more at the moment-have garnered 34 million euros in fees in 2015.

Quickly, he sought to reduce the energy expenses of these new monsters.For an investment of 2 million euros, it manages to reduce the electricity bill from a server room by 500 square meters by 800.Euros per year.A competence that seduced in France, then in Spain, Italy, and very recently in Turkey and Ireland.

But the biggest markets of his engineering company located in Saint-Jean-d'Aillac, near Bordeaux, are to be conquered in Africa, fanders of smartphones, and therefore a large consumer of data storage.Here it is already selling its services in Morocco, Senegal and Cameroon.

Christophe Chartier, 49 years old: CEO of immersion

Airbus, Dassault, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Inria… For more than twenty years, this Bordeaux pioneer who has become European leader in 3D simulation only worked for the older ones.But, since this year, the simplification of the production of its helmets, gloves and virtual tables, the reduction in their cost and the simplification of their use have allowed it to tackle the market of more reduced companies.

The new generation of the Meetiiim table, tactile, collaborative and 3D enriched, can now be purchased for 30.Euros, or rented for 900 euros per month.However, sharing software remained to be created, connecting this table to others, but also to any virtual environment ... or even a simple tablet.But the funds began to miss."We have therefore opened our capital on the stock market and raised 2.53 million euros," explains the manager, who retains 78% of this TPE generating 8 million turnover.

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Arnnaud de la Fouchardière and Xavier-David Beaulieu: their robot vitirover weed the vines

Do not judge their robot on its small size: it is one of its assets ... combined with the autonomy it owes to its solar panels.Since his invention five years ago, Vitiover has been strolling between the vines to mow and weed without tamping the earth, without damaging the feet, without oil and, above all, without being piloted.And he harvested a multitude of data in passing, on the state of health of grains, for example.All for 5.Euros.

"A simpler solution, more respectful of the environment and more economical than the tractor", underlines Arnaud de la Fouchardière, the director general (on the right).The Saint-Emilion start-up which has been marketing it since this year has sold around forty in Chile and has about sixty additional sales to reach 1 million euros in turnover in 2016.

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Thomas Samuel: his lampposts light up Africa

It was in Blanquefort, on the Bordeaux outskirts, that his workshops are installed ... But it was in Africa that this engineer graduated from the University of La Rochelle has proven himself.Because its lampposts, which operate with solar energy, resist extreme heat.Easy to install, they have a lifespan of ten years without the slightest maintenance.More than 5.000 have already been installed in 20 countries.

Next step: nanogrid.Launched at the end of 2015, this complete system makes it possible to electrify four households with a single floor lamp."We also have to respond to growing demand from European communities," said the CEO of Sunna Design.The equipment of our cities is indeed increasingly solar, and its autonomous solutions seduce.It is to carry such ambitions that the start-up created in 2010, which employs 30 employees, recruits and plans, within a year, to have raised around 20 million euros additional.

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Cédric Dumas, 42: CEO of Wiidii

Find a gym for the same evening, and in a city where you are only passing through?This promises to be more tiring than the session itself.This kind of research, the Wiidii traveler can take care of it for you, after a simple dialogue.As he can advise you a restaurant according to your tastes and budget, then reserve a table there.

Wiidii is a hybrid personal assistant, a kind of super virtual concierge."The more you use it, the more the application gets to know you," explains its creator, keen on artificial intelligence, and also the boss of a traditional high -end concierge.When the concierge 2.0 is short of answers, he passes his hand to a human operator based in Bordeaux.

Fifteen people make up the current team.They should be 50 at the end of the year, then a hundred a year later, to meet a growing demand for hotel groups and tour operators that offer this service to their customers.An ambition that will pass, in the coming months, through a fundraising of 5 to 7 million euros after that of 600.Euros réalisée l'an dernier.

Nicolas Gardies, 52 years old: CEO of Fountaine Pajot

Since he was at the head of the Catamarans manufacturer, the successor to Jean-François Fountaine has seen the latest generation of boats, released between 2013 and 2015, seducing his audience: “Our teams have focused on comfort, withbrighter interiors, while maintaining good marine, lively and fast behavior.In the end, turnover jumped 24% in 2015, reaching 61.6 million euros.

The investments that have led to this result - notably the recruitment of 100 people over two years - having been beneficial, the director intends to reproduce the scheme, with the hiring of 150 employees in the next four years and the implementation of a planComplete reorganization, named Ocean 40: a new visual charter for boats, logo and website, an extension of the Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis site, near La Rochelle, 8.000 square meters, and the overhaul of construction processes.

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Matthieu Glayrouse and Mathieu Cholon, 34 years old: Co -founders of octopper

With 10 million pages viewed per month, half of which through mobile applications, and 200 new members every day, their Yummypets site is one of the essential references of animal friends.

It must be said that the two patterns of Octopapper, the Bordeaux web agency that has developed it, do not skimp on the services offered by their social network: classified ads, magazine, sheets on breeds, personal photo albums and, now, connected objects.They have indeed launched a necklace with geolocation and activity monitoring, in collaboration with Orange.Since the entry to their capital, in March, of the Breton group Diana, which has a branch dedicated to animal feed, they go to conquer international markets, starting with England, Spain, Brazil andMexico.

Gautier Guilleron, Rémy Ramadour and Cyrille Leroux: Ullo co -founders

To pass an electroencephalogram, you have to move to a special room, be applied many electrodes on the skull and remain motionless for a quarter of an hour session.So many constraints that the three Rochelais propose to delete thanks to a portable helmet, light, set up in a few seconds and therefore usable in his hospital room, or even at home.As for the disturbances that the slightest movement creates and which today can make an unusable measure, they will be erased by software.

Their solution, rather intended for doctors, will cost around 1.400 euros, against 15.000 for existing devices."We are going to release this product in September, but we are already working to add applications to it," says Gautier Guilleron.A fundraising of 150.Euros est donc prévue, de même que le recrutement d'un médecin au sein de l'équipe, de deux développeurs et de commerciaux, tandis que va être mis en place un comité scientifique d'une douzaine de médecins, psychologues et neurologues.

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Jérôme Jarlang and Raphaël Acis, 37 and 35 years old: founders of A2J Composites

One, Jérôme Jarlang, engineer, had already set up around thirty companies for customers, the other, Raphaël Acis, headed a design office.It didn't take more to climb composites, in response to the urgent needs of a local yachts manufacturer."In two months, we had to find 350 square meters of locals, lift 70.Euros de fonds, monter les statuts et recruter.»»»»

Just over two years later, the company specializing in the manufacture of parts in composite materials employs 12 people (20 at the end of the year).The founders invested in a digital cutting machine and settled in workshops of 2.500 square meters in Périgny.They achieved a turnover of 500.Euros en 2015 et visent un prévisionnel de 900.000 for 2016.

They are now prospecting their customers on the whole coastline, have diversified in renewable marine energies and participate in a solar port project in Lot-et-Garonne, where barges equipped with adequate panels will sail in summer and will meet in winterTo supply electricity residents.

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Antoine Villalobos: its management software targets doctors

Its DRSANTÉ software, intended for general practitioners and launched last March, is not its test.This computer scientist (in front of the photo), also graduated from a business school, had already launched Drveto, a complete management solution targeting veterinarians, who had imposed himself as a niche leader, with 5.000 at 6.000 users today.Its main asset was its ergonomics, inspired by leisure applications, thus simplifying its grip by users.

"From the start, I wanted to create management software for all health professionals," explains the Calimaps director.By focusing on a smaller population, I was able to refine my product.»»»» Il compte reproduire son succès avec DrSanté, aussi intuitif et incluant notamment l'utilisation de smartphones, pour le médecin comme pour le patient.

Charles Kloboukoff, 52 years old: founding president of Léa Nature

Floressance, So'Bio, Organic Garden ... Lovers of organic and natural products for food, health, cosmetics and even cleaning products are familiar with the brands of this group.Since the start, in 1993, its founder wanted to give organic as possible as possible.Its turnover of 182 million euros in 2015 proves that he was right.

To continue to highlight his products as much as his philosophy, he will build, in front of his siege in Périgny near La Rochelle, where 550 people work, two passive energy buildings.A project of 12 million euros, funded half by his company, for the other by himself.The first building must accommodate an exhibition hall for local associations, a restaurant focused on organic and local kitchen and an educational garden on biodiversity.He will open next September.The second, rather devoted to sports, will follow little.

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Jean-François Létard: 48 years old, founder of Olikrom

Its intelligent pigments change color depending on the temperature, pressure or light, and their applications are not lacking.A paint containing its pigments applied to the nose of an airplane, for example, can report a part made fragile by an impact suffered in flight.

This chemistry researcher, after seventeen years spent at the CNRS, launched his company a year and a half ago and lifted 740.Euros en trois mois.It is full of ideas: “We have more than forty projects in progress, including a witness to the traceability of the cold chain, a painting that changes its shade according to the sunshine or an indicator of sterilization of the equipmenthospital.»»»»

Within three years, production should go from 1 tonne per year to ten tonnes each month.The entrepreneur, who is counting this year on a turnover of 1.4 million euros, is already looking for a new site four to eight times larger than that occupied today in Pessac.

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Jean-Christophe Leducq, 45 years old: Manager of Lumiscaphe

For eleven years, this 3D software publisher for industry has only developed in France.Even today, its biggest customer remains Renault, whose engineering, design and marketing services are equipped.

But, since 2012, the arrival of Toyota among its customers, followed by other players in the Japanese automobile, has opened the Japan market to him.It has since opened a subsidiary there and now achieves 500.Euros de ses 3,1 millions de chiffre d'affaires."We have managed to make ourselves known in France," explains its manager, but I estimate our presence at only 0.5% of the potential global market.We are in a position to increase our shares in this market easily.»»»»

Its next target is China, with the current opening of a new subsidiary and a series of visits to future customers, which should represent 500.Euros de ventes rapidement et 1 million dès 2019.

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Vincent Merling, 66 years old: founding president of the Merling cafes

The former rugby player, president for twenty-seven years of the Rochelais stadium, continues to develop the company of roasting of coffee and distribution which he set up in 1979.Today it employs around 420 people in France, including a hundred at the siege of Périgny, near La Rochelle.

After being established in Limousin with the acquisition of the Errel house, it strengthened its presence between Bordeaux, Bayonne, Pau and Agen thanks to the acquisition of Soubira cafes, based in Floirac, on the Bordeaux outskirts, which supply hotels,Restaurants and cafes in its sector.By the way, Vincent Merling has recovered around fifty employees, and he will bear his turnover of 50 million euros in 2015 to 60 million in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016 in 2016.

Marc Berrebi: His health box already connects 200.000 patients with their doctors

Pioneers of connected objects in 2000, the co -founders of Edevice in Mérignac, Marc Berrebi and Stéphane Schinazi, have seen their Flair for a few years finally rewarded: 3 million euros in turnover in 2013, they increased to 20 millionin 2015 and expect 50 million in 2016."The 40 largest manufacturers in the medical aircraft sector total more than 400 billion euros in annual turnover," recalls Marc Berrebi.And they ask more and more to connect their devices to the Internet, our specialty.»»»»

Its Healthgo box transmits the info noted by pacemakers or insulin pumps to the doctors concerned;200.00 patients are already connected, making it the first patient monitoring company in the world.

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Jean-Christophe Lépine, 55 years old: CEO

The first seven years of this start-up, specializing in the treatment and enhancement of toxic waste in Mérignac and Pau, were mainly devoted to research and development. « Nous avons développé des solutions avec le CNRS, mais il a aussi fallu concevoir des unités de fabrication, monter des partenariats, notamment avec Air liquide, et, le plus long, obtenir des autorisations administratives»»»», relate son P-DG.And last September, the company, which bought Syneox, presented a small autonomous robot capable of inspecting nuclear power plants.

She also recently filed a patent to neutralize cold asbestos.What attract Chinese (3 million euros) and Kazakh (1.5 million), and Chinese (5 million) (3 million) and French (5 million over five years).

Denis Mollat, 63: director of the Mollat bookstore

By quickly positioning itself on the Internet when competition was threatening, the first independent bookstore in France has not only kept online sales it could have lost in store, it also recovered its customers.Today, 25% of 80,000.store loyalty cards were requested on their Mollat e-commerce site.com.

She also works her brand image by distributing a weekly newsletter at 190.000 subscribers.And, for three years, she has published Station-Ausone.com, a cultural portal where booksellers, trained in video, hold blogs. « Il suffit d'une caméra, d'un micro et d'un bon contenu… ce n'est pas un gros investissement»»»», rappelle le directeur de l'entreprise familiale, qui a généré un chiffre d'affaires de 26 millions d'euros en 2015.He is now working on a site bringing together these two with MollatPro.com, which will use databases accumulated from the tastes of visitors.

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François Papin, 51 years old: director of the Alstom La Rochelle site

Arrived on the site in 2012, this former automobile manages 1.200 employees installed in the town of Aytré, south of La Rochelle, who are currently moving on over forty TGVs, deliverables between this summer and early 2019.Those who will circulate next year on the Tours-Bordeaux line, in particular, will be equipped with a brand new interior, with, among other things, more capacity and internet access on board.

But the activity will especially be relaunched on the tram side, sector subject to electoral calendars.After three years in slow motion, the production team will be doubled, with the hiring of 14 permanent contracts and 80 temporary workers, and is preparing for 63 deliveries in 2017, and at least 76 in 2018 in 2018.

For an amount of 91 million euros, Nice will thus be equipped with 19 trains from the Citadis X05, on which the design office has been working for two years. « Nous l'avons conçu de manière à réduire les coûts de maintenance de 20% et les dépenses énergétiques de 30%»»»», explique le directeur.

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Alexandre Petit: he converts EHPAD to digital

From his experience as a night watchman in a geriatric service during his studies, this young entrepreneur held the deficiency in new technologies in assistance to the elderly: “Home automation, social ties via the Internet, geolocation, connected objects ... These tools couldas much to improve the lives of users and to simplify the work of staff.»»»»

He created his consulting company in Bordeaux, listing around 900 solutions for promoters, EHPAD managers, communities and social landlords.His start-up Alogia (200.Euros de CA fin 2016) a inauguré sa première réalisation à Bordeaux, une résidence équipée de domotique.And she prepares a fundraising of 1 million euros in order to launch her first homemade product.

Benoît Panel and Adrien Pinson, 39 and 28 years old: founders of Yescapa

Since its launch in 2012, JelouemoncampingCarcar.com Truste the niche of the connection between owners and motorhomes of motorhomes, with 63.000 active registrants and 450 new per day, and a number of rentals which doubles each year.

Its designers have decided to change its name in Yescapa, in order to harmonize their brand in all the countries where they deploy their concept. « Nous sommes en plein développement international et voulons que nos utilisateurs espagnols puissent facilement chercher un véhicule en France, et réciproquement»»»», justifie Benoît Panel.

After having successfully entered Spain in April 2015, thanks to a fundraising of 550. Euros, ils se sont établis en avril dernier en Allemagne, le plus gros marché européen, avec une nouvelle levée de même ampleur.Their objective ?Shine in eight countries, from their premises in Bègles, from 2018.

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Nicolas Leroy-Fleuriot, 52 years old: CEO of Cheops Technology

This computer scientist did not lack intuition, in early 2010, by launching on the nascent market of cloud computing: from the start, he focused on SMEs and ETIs, positioning himself in a lasting niche leader.This materializes by a turnover of 73 million euros in 2014 and 80 million in 2015.

Cheops Technology, which he bought in 2004, employs 420 people, including 120 at the headquarters of Canéjan, near Bordeaux.The company plans to accommodate 60 additional people in two years, mainly system, network and security engineers, to launch three new offers.Two will be adapted to users of specific technologies (Oracle and SAP), the third aims to offer complete computer accommodation at a lower cost (less than 1.Euros par mois), tout en laissant au client un accès complet à ses données. « Ce service est encore hors de portée des entreprises à moindre budget et correspond à une demande croissante»»»», précise Nicolas Leroy-Fleuriot.

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Hervé Pestourie, 58, CEO of Unikalo

With Naé, its range of bio -based paint (based on vegetable resins) launched in 2014, this painting supplier for building professionals showed once again its attachment to nature respect for nature.Its headquarters and production workshops in Mérignac, which welcome 190 employees (out of 490 in France), are also on a site meeting the ISO 14001 standard of environmental management.This did not prevent him from increasing his consolidated turnover by 14% last year, to bring it to 130 million euros.

Après un investissement de 400 Euros environ, il va sortir en fin d'année une peinture dépolluante, qui absorbe les émanations des meubles contenant des colles chimiques : «Le produit est prêt, mais il faut encore définir la stratégie commerciale.Because, sold 20 to 30% more expensive than its classic equivalents, it deserves to be presented to the end consumer rather than to the painter who will put it.»»

Olivier Richart, 45, president of Selenium Medical

Its activity is available in two specialties: packaging of medical implants (screws or prostheses, in particular) and the treatment of their surface.He has already illustrated in the first sector, two years ago, by presenting Sotube, a system designed to manipulate the implants without touching them.

While its 2015 turnover was 2.9 million, it has already recorded nearly 10 million euros in contracts for 2020 just on this product.This allowed him to pass his rock teams from 30 to 61 people, integrating above all engineers, and will lead to the recruitment of ten more people, in production.He now intends to find the same success in surface treatment, thanks to Starsurf, launched in April, intended to make the screws easier to install and accelerate the patient's restoration after the operation.

Alain Sutre, 55 years old: CEO of the Ertus group

This consultant traverses the vineyards, armed with his advice and his software, to help the winemakers to restructure their processes, to review their expenses in phytosanitary products, to better use their machines, and thus to reduce their costs and to simplify their work.

A bearing activity, since the turnover of his Bordeaux firm, with a subsidiary in Montreal, increased by 15% last year, to reach 1.1 million euros, and that it aims at 1.6 millionIn 2016, thanks in particular to its latest creation, Exapta, produced with Inria. Cette solution permet aux viticulteurs de se conformer aux règlements de traçabilité : « Ces mesures sont obligatoires et impliquent de grosses dépenses, sans gain pour celui qui les fait»»»», remarque-t-il.Its system, involving sensors and software, reutors the operation by analyzing in detail all the exploitation of the land to detect any errors there.

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Sebastian Wloch and David dedeine: their augmented reality video games are a hit

By using Asobo's know-how to promote his Hololens helmet, Microsoft propelled the start-up to the front of the stage.The Bordeaux video game studio has indeed designed for this augmented reality headset, two games exploiting this revolutionary technology.

In fragments, for example, the player puts on the helmet, and a crime scene appears in the form of holograms in his living room.He must resolve the investigation by looking for the scattered clues. « Nous comptons tirer profit de ce que nous avons appris avec HoloLens pour nos productions futures»»»», prévoit David Dedeine, l'un des cofondateurs (à droite).

On the ascending slope, the company will recruit 15 people before the start of the school year to strengthen its team of a hundred employees.Its turnover should reach 9 million this year.If the studio continues to produce video games, it also offers its services to large companies wishing to develop mixed reality solutions.

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Caroline and Xavier Vitrac, 39 and 42 years old: founders of Phenobio

From the launch of their Bordeaux biotech specializing in the manufacture of plant extracts, in 2012, these doctors in biology were distinguished, among the actors of the cosmetic industry, by extracting their active ingredients with subcritical water.Innovative technology that allows you to do without solvents, and the interest of which is as economological as ecological. « Cela nous a permis de travailler sur des plantes auparavant peu étudiées»»»», explique Xavier Vitrac.

From the fruit of passion, hitherto confined to food, they have thus managed to draw polyphenols with anti-aging properties.Their next tracks are based on regional products: sea pines and vines, rich in antioxidants.They thus hope, in three years, to multiply by four their annual turnover, currently 200.Euros.

Frédéric Varin and Farid Zaïdi, 49 and 39 years old: Cogerants by Tem Sega

No sooner had they resumed in 2011 the reins of this company of Pessac specializing in biomedical devices, in which one was technical director and the other salesperson, than the two partners set out to give him a stroke of young.It must be said that she was starting to go on her laurels, her tank screening case, essential on the market, dating from 1993. « Toute notre R & D était réalisée en externe, rappelle Frédéric Varin.Our first decision was therefore to create a design office, hiring three people, and buying a 3D printer.»»»»

Their challenge?Modernize their case to lower the diagnostic time from forty to ten minutes while reducing its price to bring the cost of screening under the ceiling for the reimbursement of the security.The new product should be launched in early 2017.The company, which achieved a turnover of 1.8 million euros last year and has only one rival (American), also decided to push the fires internationally, where itdoubled its sales in five years.

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Jérôme Leleu, 43 years old: Healthcare interaction president

Comme les pilotes s'entraînant à manier leurs avions sur des simulateurs de vol, infirmiers et médecins généralistes ou spécialistes peuvent désormais se former aux soins grâce aux « serious games»»»» de cette agence bordelaise. « Notre business se trouve à la croisée de deux marchés florissants, la santé et la formation»»»», explique son patron, qui a vu son chiffre d'affaires grimper de 3,2 millions d'euros en 2014 à 4,3 millions en 2015.

To continue its ascent on the digital simulation market in the health field, it has just raised 5 million euros.A windfall he will partly use to install his premises, at the end of 2017, in the future digital city of Bègles and to recruit around thirty people in three years, who will join his team of 45 employees. L'essentiel de ses nouveaux employés va travailler en R & D.The others will have to develop international marketing, this market already representing $ 700 million worldwide.

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