What Unico does

UNICO France is a Paris-based SaaS company founded in 2019 (one source cites 2022) that sells a purpose-built operations management platform for waste collection and environmental services. The company's core product, UNITECH, is a modular cloud platform covering route planning and optimization, pre-collection and maintenance, on-demand collection scheduling, traceability and pre-billing (with native Trackdéchets API integration for French regulatory compliance), and equipment integration (RFID, OBD/FMS/BUS CAN telematics, AI-enabled fill-level sensors and cameras). Companion modules include UNINAV (mobile field-agent application), UNI&CO (citizen/client portal), and UNIFORM (on-demand intervention management). The platform addresses all major French waste streams — household, selective sortation, bulky, industrial, DASRI, and bio-waste — as well as urban cleanliness (sweeping, washing, graffiti) and maintenance interventions.

UNICO serves French municipalities, intercommunal structures (EPCI), metropolitan areas, and private waste collection operators, with a stated footprint of 300+ services and visible logos including Toulouse Métropole, Bordeaux Métropole, Métropole du Grand Paris (Vallée Sud), PAPREC, Groupe Nicollin, and Ortec Group. The go-to-market is direct enterprise sales via a demo-driven motion, with no public pricing and annual SaaS subscription contracts likely tiered by service size, vehicle count, or modules selected. Documented outcomes include ~20 km savings per route at Grand Lac (28 communes), 80% time reduction on service orders at Serre-Ponçon, and a 1–2 week-to-under-24-hour improvement in anomaly resolution.

The company operates as an ESS (Économie Sociale et Solidaire) entity, has secured labels including Solar Impulse and Greentech Innovation (Ministère de l'Environnement), and was a 2023 laureate of the Île-de-France AMI for surgical-mask recycling alongside GobUse and FabBrick. UNICO raised a €1.5M seed round in October 2022 from Holnest, Melting Capital, and Seed4Soft, and is exclusively focused on the French market with no disclosed international expansion. The team of approximately 15 named individuals is led by co-founders Clément Marty (Directeur Exécutif), Jules Grammont (Directeur Commercial), and Colin Nicolas (Directeur Produit).

Name

Unico

Legal name

UNICO France

Website

https://unicofrance.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UNICO France is a Paris-based SaaS provider of UNITECH, a purpose-built operations platform for French waste collection, route optimization, and regulatory traceability, serving 300+ municipalities and private operators via direct enterprise sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Waste Management Software

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Hazardous Waste Collection (562112), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Hazardous Waste Management (4955), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Waste Management & Hazardous Waste Compliance (RCRA, Universal Waste, Waste Characterization/Manifests) (EUAHABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Hazardous Waste & Universal Waste Handling (Batteries, Lamps, Aerosols) (BPABALAE)

Keywords

• Waste collection software
• Route optimization SaaS
• Municipal waste management
• Regulatory waste tracking
• Field operations platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Software Subscriptions: UNICO operates as a SaaS (Software as a Service) provider with annual subscription pricing for its waste collection management platform. The platform is described as hosted in the cloud, with subscription billing and automatic updates. No specific pricing tiers are publicly disclosed; the company uses a demo-based sales approach suggesting customized enterprise pricing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

UNICO operates a SaaS platform dedicated to waste collection management for French municipalities, intercommunal structures, and private waste operators, centralizing route planning, fleet tracking, field operations, regulatory compliance (Trackdéchets), and pre-billing. The platform consists of the UNITECH core back-office, UNINAV mobile application for field agents, UNI&CO client/citizen portal, and UNIFORM for on-demand interventions, supported by RFID/IoT, AI sensor, and vehicle telematics integrations.

Product overview

UNICO is a unified SaaS platform dedicated to waste collection management, environmental services, and urban cleanliness operations for French municipalities and private operators. The core product is UNITECH, which provides the main operational backbone for collection, planning, and traceability. The platform is modular, comprising specialized modules including: UNINAV (mobile application for field operators), UNI&CO (client/citizen portal), and dedicated modules for pre-collection & maintenance, planning & on-demand collection, traceability & pre-billing, and equipment integration. The platform covers all waste streams (household, industrial, professional, bio-waste, selective collection) and urban cleaning services (sweeping, washing, graffiti removal), serving over 300 municipalities and operators across France. UNICO integrates with Trackdéchets for regulatory compliance, ERP/CRM systems, GIS mapping tools, vehicle telematics, RFID container systems, and AI-powered fill-level sensors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UNITECH: Core software platform for waste collection management operations
• UNINAV
• UNI&CO
• UNIFORM

Products and services

• UNITECH UNITECH is UNICO's core operational platform for waste collection management. It centralizes all service data including collection circuits, vehicle fleet, teams, schedules, tonnages, and incidents, providing real-time tracking, anomaly management, automated reporting, route optimization, regulatory compliance (Trackdéchets), pre-collection and maintenance management, and traceability/pre-billing for municipalities and waste collection operators.
• UNINAV UNINAV is the embedded mobile application for field operators and drivers, enabling container database census via mobile/tablets/PDA, real-time pre-collection operation tracking, dynamic routing, digital waybill management, RFID reading, data synchronization, and geolocation directly from the cab or collection vehicle.
• UNI&CO UNI&CO is the client and citizen web portal providing secure individual web access with multi-site capability. It distributes information, documents, and customer data; enables incident reporting and additional collection requests; and offers a mobile-responsive interface with unique hashed email/password login for waste collection service users.
• UNIFORM UNIFORM is UNICO's solution for managing specific interventions and on-demand collection requests within the UNITECH ecosystem, covering planning, scheduling, ticket handling, route optimization, and automatic assignment for ad hoc waste services and citizen-requested pick-ups.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduction in kilometers per route: 20 km per route for Grand Lac community (28 communes, 35 routes)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability5 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• GobUseminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 August 2023GobUse is a partner in the Île-de-France surgical mask recycling project alongside UNICO and FabBrick. UNICO provides the digital logistics layer (smart collection point location, route planning, and recycling indicator generation) while GobUse contributes its expertise in mask collection and recycling. All three companies were selected as laureates of the Île-de-France AMI (appel à manifestation d'intérêt).
• FabBrickminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 August 2023FabBrick is a partner in the Île-de-France surgical mask recycling project. FabBrick specializes in transforming materials (masks) into construction materials (bricks). UNICO provides the logistics digital layer while FabBrick handles the material transformation aspect of the recycling process.
• ESAT (Établissements et Services d'Aide par le Travail) - Île-de-FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 August 2023UNICO partners with several ESAT (social integration work establishments) in Île-de-France for the surgical mask recycling project. ESAT workers perform the collection sorting and recycling operations, with UNICO providing smart logistics to plan collection routes near ESAT sites and generate recycling performance indicators. This reflects UNICO's ESS (social economy) company identity.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• AMCS: AMCS is the global leader in vertical SaaS for the waste and recycling industry, headquartered in Ireland with operations across multiple continents. It is the most direct scaled competitor to UNICO in waste management software, offering route optimization, compliance, and operational tools to waste haulers and municipalities globally.
• Ciril GROUP: Ciril GROUP is a major French public-sector software publisher serving municipalities, EPCI, and local authorities with administrative, financial, and operational IT solutions including waste management modules. It is a broad incumbent competitor in UNICO's primary customer segment of French collectivités.
• Berger-Levrault: Berger-Levrault is a long-established French software vendor specializing in public-sector IT for municipalities and public administrations, including solutions for waste and environmental services. It overlaps with UNICO's customer base and competes in adjacent operational software modules.
• Civadis: Civadis is a Belgian/French public-sector IT publisher providing solutions to municipalities including waste and environmental services modules. It targets a similar collectivités buyer segment with broader administrative software, overlapping with UNICO's addressable market.
• Veolia Environmental Services: Veolia is one of the world's largest waste management operators with significant internal IT capabilities and digital platforms serving its own collection and treatment operations. While primarily an operator, its scale and vertical integration make it a strategic threat and potential partner to vertical SaaS providers like UNICO.
• TOMRA: TOMRA is a global sensor-based sorting and collection technology provider with strong positions in reverse vending, recycling, and waste sorting. It competes in adjacent waste technology domains and represents both a potential integration partner for sensor-based fill-level data and a competitor for digitization of waste operations.
• Salesforce Field Service: Salesforce Field Service (formerly ServiceMax-era field service) is a global cloud field service management platform increasingly used by large enterprises and public-sector organizations. While not waste-vertical-specific, it represents competitive pressure at the high end of the field service software market UNICO serves.

Direct peers

• Praxedo: Praxedo is a French cloud-based field service management software vendor serving enterprises including utilities, infrastructure, and public-sector operators. It competes directly with UNICO in the French B2B SaaS market for field operations management, including similar mobility and dispatch functionality.

Others

• Suez Environmental Services: Suez is a major global waste and water services operator with significant internal digital tools deployed across its collection and recycling operations. Like Veolia, its scale and IT investment capability represent both competitive pressure and a potential partnership or acquisition target for vertical SaaS providers in France.

Emerging players

• RouteOptix: RouteOptix provides route optimization software for waste collection and other service operations, with comparable algorithmic capabilities to UNICO's optimization engine. It represents an emerging player in the route optimization layer that intersects with UNICO's core functionality.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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