Company of the month: OpenAirlines
Founded in 2006 by Alexandre Feraythe Toulouse-based OpenAirlines, which develops eco-piloting software solutions allowing airlines to make fuel savings while reducing their CO2 emissionsannounced in November 2024 the success of its newfundraising of €45 million.
Alexandre Feray is the founder of OpenAirlines. (©OpenAirlines)
Based on artificial intelligence and the analysis of data recorded during flights, the solution developed by OpenAirlines, called SkyBreatheallows you to reduce fuel consumption by 3 to 5%. Knowing that fuel alone represents nearly 30% of air carrier expenses, the product has already attracted more than 70 companies in the world. In 2023, the use of SkyBreathe allowed them to save 420,000 tonnes of fuelthe equivalent of 1.4 million tonnes of CO2.
This round table, carried out withEiffel Investment Group and of Manshould enable OpenAirlines to strengthen its leading position in American markets et Asian qualified by the company as “strategic”. It will also allow it to enrich its software platform with new features.
The Toulousain also plans to carry out operations of external growth in order to expand its product portfolio. It wishes to offer new solutions to companies for the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria as well as to air traffic control players.
The start-up to follow: MyRookie
Former rugby player, from Toulouse Eric Anselme launched MyRookie in 2019, an application which borrows its name from sports jargon, where a “rookie” designates a player who is completing his first season in a professional club.
Former Toulouse rugby player Éric Anselme launched the MyRookie application in 2019. (©MyRookie)
Specializing in the screening of players for rugby XV, XIII and 7, the application aims to offer athletes, who dream of a high-level sporting career but who have neither the means nor the codes and even less the necessary network, a direct and simplified route to a professional career in France and or tostranger.
Thanks to an initial fundraising of 150 K€ carried out in 2023 and the arrival of a major investor in the person of a French rugby international, the application is today positioned as a premium intermediate between athletes and recruiters from around the world. In detail, this LinkedIn you rugby includes three main functionalities: the publication of a CV, real multimedia and digital profile (statistics, videos, etc.), the publication of announcements (job offers, detection days, etc.) and finally, the request for connection which, if accepted, allows the two interlocutors to exchange via secure messaging.
With already more than 14,000 players and almost 2,000 recruiters registered in around thirty countries, Éric Anselme is on the verge of succeeding in his challenge, namely to make MyRookie a key player in digital sports recruitment. To accelerate its development and open up to other sports such as footballbasketball or handball, Éric Enselme announced his desire to lift €1 million at the start of 2025.
Community action: €107.5 million to transform Reynerie
Hired in 2019 by Toulouse Metropolisthe national urban renewal program of Reynerie district entered a more concrete phase at the end of 2024 with the demolition work of nearly 860 housing units. They must allow the construction of 1,206 new housing units which will take the form of small collectives (four to six floors), intermediate housing (two floors) as well as individual houses.
The Reynerie renewal project also provides for local servicesincluding the construction ofa new health center. It will bring together various practitioners: doctors, psychiatrist, physiotherapist, podiatrist, speech therapist, dietician, midwife, orthoptist, psychologist, etc. Its delivery is scheduled for the end of the first half of 2025. The creation of various businesses is also planned with restaurants, a medium-sized food outlet, a butcher’s shop, a bakery and a hairdressing salon.
To occupy the wastelands while awaiting reconstruction operations, a project of market gardening urban developed by Milpa, a company of professional market gardeners, was also launched. It should allow local residents to have access to fruits and vegetables at a lower cost.
The cost of the operation is estimated for the City and the Metropolis at 107,5 M€. Several communities participate in the financing: the National Agency for Urban Renewal (Anru) to the tune of €20.6 million, the Occitanie region (2,6 M€), l’Europe (€2.2 million) and the Department of Haute-Garonne (€1 million).
