What TEA Ergo does

TEA Ergo (legal entity TEA Sarl in France and TEA Inc in the United States, operating under the Semco group) is a Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy / Essey-lès-Nancy-based specialist in wireless measurement and analysis of human behavior, active for more than 30 years. The company designs and sells a proprietary hardware-and-software stack centered on the CAPTIV measurement synchronization platform — a data-acquisition system that records, visualizes, and analyzes video alongside physiological (EMG, ECG, GSR, respiration, temperature), biomechanical (IMU/motion, load cell, accelerometer, FSR), and environmental (noise, dust, VOC, vibration) data streams — and the T-Sens family of wireless sensors that feed it, supported by the T-REC long-range receiver and T-Server networking module.

The business model combines one-time hardware sales, perpetual transferable CAPTIV software licenses (including the L7000 flagship, CAPTIV Activity, CAPTIV AI, CAPTIV Score ergonomic-assessment module, and a Heart Rate Module), and professional services for custom ergonomics, VR/AR assessment, neuroscience studies, and bespoke integration. Go-to-market is enterprise field-sales-led in France with a network of more than 10 distributors across Europe and Asia plus a North America subsidiary; an e-commerce shop covers smaller buyers, and public-tender participation covers government accounts. Customers span enterprise industrial buyers (Airbus, Toyota, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Alstom, Bosch, 3M, Air France), insurance (AXA), defense (French Ministry of Defense/DGA), healthcare and life sciences (Sanofi, Novartis), testing and inspection (Bureau Veritas), market research (Ipsos), and academic research (TU Delft, TUM, McGill), with four primary use cases: workplace ergonomics/MSD prevention, human-factors and biomechanics research, consumer-neuroscience/UX, and innovation/VR-based design validation.

The company's primary technical moat lies in its deep interoperability — pre-built plug-and-play integration with 20+ third-party systems including Xsens, Tobii, faceLab, EyeTech, DSI, B-Alert, Epoc, Delsys, B&K, and Svantek — combined with validated ergonomic scoring methodologies (OCRA, RULA, NIOSH, REBA, EAWS, KIM) embedded directly in CAPTIV Score, which together make the platform a synchronization hub in multi-vendor research and corporate ergonomics stacks. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company has received EU co-financing and operates as a privately held subsidiary of the diversified Semco group, with no venture capital or public-market ownership signals in the available data.

Name

TEA Ergo

Legal name

Semco group ( TEA Sarl – TEA Inc )

Website

https://teaergo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TEA Ergo is a French specialist in wireless sensors and software for measuring and analyzing human behavior, serving enterprise and academic customers in workplace ergonomics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and human factors via its CAPTIV platform and T-Sens sensor ecosystem.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Vandoeuvre-lès-nancy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sensors: Wireless T-Sens sensor product line including Motion, EMG, ECG, GSR, Respiration, Temperature, Load Cell, FSR, Accelerometer, and Universal sensors. Sold as one-time purchase with perpetual license.
2. Software Licenses: CAPTIV software platform including CAPTIV L7000 (permanent transferable license), CAPTIV Activity, CAPTIV AI, and CAPTIV Score ergonomic assessment modules.
3. Professional Services: Custom ergonomics consulting, VR/AR assessment services, neuroscience studies, and bespoke technical integration and deployment services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TEA Ergo (Tech-Ergo-Appliquées) designs, develops, manufactures and sells the T-Sens wireless sensor family and the CAPTIV software platform for synchronized recording, visualization and analysis of human behavior data — including motion capture, surface EMG, ECG, electrodermal activity, respiration, temperature and environmental measurements — for workplace ergonomics, human factors research, neuroscience, and UX/marketing applications. The company also delivers professional services such as custom ergonomics consulting, VR/AR assessments and bespoke technical integration.

Product overview

TEA (Tech-Ergo-Appliqué) is a French company with over 30 years of experience developing wireless measurement sensors and software for human behavior analysis. The product portfolio is organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on the CAPTIV software ecosystem. CAPTIV L7000 (Premier) serves as the core measurement synchronization platform that records, visualizes, and analyzes multiple data streams including video, physiological, biomechanical, and environmental measurements. Supporting software includes CAPTIV Activity (simplified video-task analysis), CAPTIV AI (AI-enhanced analysis), CAPTIV Score (automated ergonomic risk assessment using OCRA, RULA, NIOSH, REBA, EAWS, KIM methods), Heart Rate Module (CFM Meunier), and T-Server for networked data distribution. The T-Sens wireless sensor family provides specialized measurement capabilities: Motion (IMU for posture/movement), EMG-2 (surface electromyography), ECG (electrocardiography), Respiration, Temperature, 3T (triple-point temperature), Accelerometer, Load Cell, GSR (electrodermal activity), GSR+TEMP, and FSR (force-sensitive resistor). Data is acquired via the T-REC long-range receiver which supports up to 16 sensors with real-time synchronization. CAPTIV integrates with a broad ecosystem of third-party tools including eye trackers (Tobii, faceLab, EyeTech, FX3/Fovio, Pupil Labs, Pertech), motion capture systems (Xsens), EEG (DSI, B-Alert, Epoc), physiological sensors (Delsys, Biometrics, Thought Technology), environmental sensors (Bappu, 01dB, B&K, Svantek, Cirrus, pDR, RAE, Evec), and video cameras (GoPro, webcam, camcorder).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CAPTIV: Measurement synchronization platform for human behavior analysis, including CAPTIV L7000, CAPTIV Activity, CAPTIV AI, and CAPTIV Score (OCRA, RULA, NIOSH ergonomic assessment tools).
• T-Sens
• T-REC
• T-Server

Products and services

• CAPTIV L7000 (Premier)

Quantifiable outcome

• Validated ergonomic risk assessment using internationally recognized methods (OCRA, RULA, NIOSH, REBA, EAWS)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration24 records

AI capability2 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• International Distributor NetworkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNetwork of more than 10 distributors covering Europe and Asia, enabling localized sales and support in international markets.
• European UnionminorOthersTEA has received EU funding as indicated by the 'Financé par l'UE' logo on their website.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Tobii: Tobii is a leading vendor of eye-tracking hardware and analytics used in research, UX and consumer neuroscience. Tobii's gaze/pupillometry devices integrate with CAPTIV and overlap with TEA's cognitive-workload and neurosciences-marketing/UX use cases.
• Vicon: Vicon is an established optical motion-capture provider with a broad product and analytics portfolio spanning life sciences, entertainment and engineering. It overlaps with TEA in human movement research and ergonomics but at much larger scale and across many adjacent verticals.
• OptiTrack: OptiTrack supplies high-precision optical motion-capture cameras and tracking software used in biomechanics, sports science and engineering research. It competes with TEA's IMU-based motion capture for the same research/ergonomics use cases but is broadly positioned across many motion-capture verticals.

Direct peers

• Noraxon: Noraxon develops wireless EMG, IMU and pressure-instrumentation systems synchronized through its myoRESEARCH platform, serving sports biomechanics, rehabilitation and workplace ergonomics – the same core use cases and customer types as TEA's T-Sens / CAPTIV stack.
• Delsys: Delsys manufactures surface EMG and physiological sensors widely used in biomechanics, ergonomics and neurophysiology research. It is both a TEA integration partner and a direct competitor offering standalone EMG/physiology capture plus analysis software.
• Thought Technology: Thought Technology provides physiological monitoring and biofeedback hardware/software for research, clinical and human-performance markets. It is a CAPTIV integration partner and competes directly in EMG/GSR-based physiological measurement.
• BTS Bioengineering: BTS Bioengineering produces integrated gait, posture, EMG and motion-analysis systems for clinical, sports and ergonomics applications. Its full-stack Smart Suite overlaps directly with TEA's CAPTIV plus T-Sens offering for human movement and posture measurement.
• Xsens (Movella): Xsens (now part of Movella) makes wireless inertial motion-capture systems used in biomechanics, ergonomics and human factors research. TEA integrates Xsens sensors via CAPTIV while competing against its end-to-end motion-analysis stack, making it a direct peer in inertial motion capture for human behavior measurement.
• Biometrics Ltd: Biometrics Ltd designs wired and wireless sensors (goniometers, EMG, force) plus data-acquisition software used in human factors and rehabilitation research. It targets the same research, ergonomics and biomechanics workflows as TEA.

Emerging players

• Kinesis Health Technologies: Kinesis Health Technologies (including the QTMS/balance/falls-assessment product line) focuses on inertial-sensor-based quantitative movement analysis for clinical and workplace applications, intersecting TEA's motion and posture-measurement portfolio from a more focused emerging-player angle.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Tech_Ergo_Appli
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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