MerciYanis signs a fundraising of 2.7 million euros

MerciYanis signs a fundraising of 2.7 million euros

The French startup, MerciYanis, which aims to offer an optimal employee experience thanks to its platform, has just completed a fundraising of 2.7 million euros. Business Cool spoke with Guillaume Blanc and Elise Applanat, both respectively CEO and CTO of this startup, to learn more about their projects.

Everything you need to know about MerciYanis

Who are you ?

We are Guillaume Blanc and Elise Applanat, school friends, originally from Aveyron, and CEO and CTO of MerciYanis. After obtaining our computer engineering diploma, we continued our end-of-study project together: Moop, a connected bracelet. After making every possible entrepreneurial mistake, we relaunched with MerciYanis!

What does MerciYanis do?

Thanks to a platform and connected sensors, MerciYanis centralizes the activities of work environment departments, cleaning and facility management providers to help them offer healthy, safe, pleasant and sustainable premises. In the post-covid time of the “great resignation”, teleworking and the environmental emergency, offering an optimal employee experience, benefiting from the best services and reducing their energy expenses are real challenges for companies.

Thanks to the analysis of the performance of buildings and uses, MerciYanis helps stakeholders in the work environment to make decisions supported by data, to facilitate daily operations for their teams and to manage the work environment. with more perspective. With more than 20 integrations available, MerciYanis is part of the entire building life ecosystem and connects to its customers’ business tools as well as a catalog of IoT sensors provided to monitor temperature, air quality , leaks, breakdowns, occupation of spaces, legionnaires’ disease, etc.

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We already have more than 200 clients, including Danone, TF1, EDF, FNAC-DARTY, CGI and Société Générale…

MerciYanis’ fundraising

Why did you raise 2.7 million euros?

To support our development: we plan to double the size of our teams over the next 12 months in order to develop new features and acquire new customers. The investment will also make it possible to develop a new software brick based on artificial intelligence to carry out predictive maintenance and plan cleanliness services based on use, thanks to the millions of data collected every day since 2019.

Why did you choose to bring these investors into your capital?

MerciYanis has chosen to bring IRDI Capital Investissement, WinEquity, 50 Partners Capital, Femmes Business Angels, Capitole Angels, as well as business angels into its capital. First, to be able to assume our development and consolidate our position on our market, but not only: IRDI Capital Investissement and WinEquity are investment funds which will help us achieve our objectives, while sharing our values ​​(regional fund which promotes mixed founding teams). The same goes for the FBA and Capitole Angels business angel groups. We are also delighted to see our funds and our historic business angels, experts in SaaS and the work environment, following us again on this tour: it is an important guarantee of confidence. Finally, the new business angels who have joined us support the growing interest in work environment issues, as well as the work that we have been doing at MerciYanis for 4 years.

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What will MerciYanis look like in five years?

In 5 years, MerciYanis will be the leader in Smart Workplace in France and Europe!