What Groupe Zephyr does

Groupe Zephyr is a privately held French home-care holding company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Amiens, operating through four complementary service brands: Senior Compagnie (home maintenance for elderly and disabled persons via 135+ franchise agencies), Free Dom (comfort services such as housekeeping, ironing, childcare, gardening and minor repairs via 68+ agencies), SynergieMed (home-based clinical nursing including perfusion, nutrition, pain management, stomatherapy and wound care via 4 agencies), and Libelia (CPAM 75-conventioned assisted transport for persons with loss of autonomy in Paris and surrounding departments). The group serves 23,000 clients across 241 implantations nationwide with a workforce reported between 4,800 and 6,500 collaborators, organized around a franchise and directly-operated agency model.

The business generates revenue through recurring, multi-week home-care and assistance contracts funded primarily via French public schemes (APA, PCH, CESU) and direct private pay, with additional institutional income from CPAM conventions for medical transport. Technology stack is intentionally light: standard web technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS) on the corporate and career sites, off-the-shelf ATS/HR tooling (DigitalRecruiters by BANKESS, Cegid HR), and basic web analytics. The company's value proposition rests on brand reputation (Capital magazine 'Leader' ranking for eight consecutive years through 2024), national franchise density, and a pluridisciplinary service mix that enables cross-referral between brands.

Groupe Zephyr's go-to-market combines local franchise-agency sales with centralized employer branding through a dedicated recruitment portal and social channels (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram). The company is founder-controlled, with co-founders Nicolas Hurtiger (President, ESSEC graduate, founder of Senior Compagnie in 2007) and Rym Belkora (General Director since 2014) leading a SAS entity with share capital of €99,366 and no disclosed institutional investors or external funding rounds. Growth has historically been driven by acquisitions — Libelia (2016), SynergieMed (2017), Free Dom (2018), and Adomis (2020) — rather than external capital, and the group also operates the Loi 1901 association Partager Pour Mieux Vivre as a societal engagement platform.

Name

Groupe Zephyr

Legal name

GROUPE ZEPHYR

Website

https://groupe-zephyr.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Groupe Zephyr is a French home-care holding company operating four complementary brands (Senior Compagnie, Free Dom, SynergieMed, Libelia) across 241 franchise and direct agencies nationwide, serving 23,000 elderly and disabled clients through 6,500 caregivers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Home Healthcare Services

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120), Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623)

SIC

Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Care Navigation & Service Coordination (Medical, Social, Community) (HSABAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Care Coordination & Navigation (Multi-Provider) (HLADALAB), Care Management & Care Coordination (Home & Community-Based) (HLAFAEAL)

Keywords

• Home care services
• Elderly care assistance
• Disability home support
• Medical transport assistance
• Personal services franchising

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Home Care and Assistance Services: Revenue generated from providing home care services including elderly care, disability assistance, medical care at home, transport assistance, and household services through multiple brands under franchise/network model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Groupe Zephyr is a French holding company that operates four complementary service brands delivering in-home autonomy, care, transport and comfort services to elderly and disabled individuals across France. Its core activity is field-based personal care delivered by caregivers, nurses and drivers, organized through a national franchise and agency network of 241 locations serving around 23,000 clients.

Product overview

Groupe Zephyr is a holding company operating four complementary service brands in the French home care and assistance market. The portfolio consists of: (1) Senior Compagnie, the core home-maintenance brand for elderly and disabled persons; (2) Libelia, a medical-transport service; (3) SynergieMed, a home-nursing provider; and (4) Free Dom, a comfort-services franchise. These four sub-brands collectively cover the full spectrum of in-home autonomy needs — from daily assistance to medical care to transport — enabling Groupe Zephyr to offer pluridisciplinary support. Additionally, the group sponsors Partager Pour Mieux Vivre, a 2015 Loi 1901 association acting as a societal initiative hub for caregivers and professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Senior Compagnie: Home care services for elderly and disabled persons with over 135 agencies, ranked as leader in quality of service by Capital magazine.
• Libelia
• SynergieMed
• Free Dom

Products and services

• Senior Compagnie Home maintenance and support services for elderly and/or disabled individuals delivered across a network of 135+ agencies nationwide; the flagship brand of Groupe Zephyr and recognized by Capital magazine for service quality.
• Libelia Assisted transport services for individuals with loss of autonomy in Paris and neighboring departments, operated under a CPAM 75 convention with the French public health insurance system.
• SynergieMed Home-based nursing care delivered through a 4-agency national network, including perfusion, nutrition, pain management, stomatherapy, and wound care performed by qualified nurses.
• Free Dom Comfort services for households delivered through a network of 68+ agencies in France, including housecleaning, ironing, childcare, gardening, and minor home repairs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8 consecutive years as 'Leader' in quality service for elderly and disabled persons (Capital magazine)

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DigitalRecruiters (by BANKESS)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2017DigitalRecruiters software, edited by BANKESS company, enables job posting distribution, candidate collection and management. This ATS (Applicant Tracking System) is used for external and internal recruitment processes.
• Cegid HRcoreTechnology or IntegrationCegid HR provides recruitment software, ATS, CRM, and career sites technology for Groupe Zephyr's recruitment operations.
• Partager Pour Mieux Vivre (PPMV)minorOthersPartager Pour Mieux Vivre is a Loi 1901 association founded in 2015, created by Groupe Zephyr. It serves as an innovative approach and exchange platform between professionals and caregivers, aiming to provide pragmatic responses to well-living and well-aging challenges.
• CPAM 75 (Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie de Paris)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLibelia is conventioned with CPAM 75, indicating a formal partnership with the French public health insurance system for providing transport assistance services to insured patients.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Domidom: French franchise network specializing in personal and household services for elderly and dependent persons. Competes head-to-head with Groupe Zephyr brands on home-help and assistive-living services delivered through a national agency footprint.
• O2 (France): France's largest personal-services franchise network offering home cleaning, childcare, and elderly assistance through agency locations. Direct franchise-driven competitor to Senior Compagnie and Free Dom across both hourly care and comfort services.
• AXEO Services: National French franchise in personal and household services including housekeeping, childcare, and senior assistance. Mirrors Free Dom's comfort-services positioning while also overlapping Senior Compagnie on elderly care.
• Maison & Services: French franchise network providing household maintenance, gardening, and home-help services through local agencies. Closest peer to Free Dom's comfort-services franchise model on a comparable geographic-reach basis.
• Aidadom: French home-care network offering personal assistance, dependency care, and household services nationally via franchisee agencies. Direct competitor in the same regulatory and reimbursement framework as Groupe Zephyr's Senior Compagnie brand.
• Petits-Fils: French home-help franchise dedicated exclusively to elderly assistance (aide aux aînés). Closely aligned with Senior Compagnie's elderly-focused positioning and operates a similar national franchise unit-economics model.
• ONELA: French personal-care provider delivering in-home assistance, housekeeping, and comfort services through a network of local agencies. Comparable to Free Dom and Senior Compagnie on home-help service mix and target elderly clientele.
• ADMR: Federation of French associations providing home care, household help, and family services nationally. Operates a similarly large local-agency model covering elderly and disabled clients and is one of the largest networks directly comparable to Senior Compagnie.

Emerging players

• Alenvi: French in-home care operator specializing in elderly assistance and home help through a community-of-caregivers model. Addresses the same elderly at-home segment as Senior Compagnie, but with a more focused, less franchise-driven approach.

Broad incumbents

• Korian (Clariane): Major European senior-care operator (Clariane group) combining nursing homes, assisted living, and home-care services. Overlaps with Groupe Zephyr on home-care and clinical services but at much broader scale and across multiple European geographies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/seniorcompagnie
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCt54WqByC0GG08wgRMrNxmg
• Facebookfacebook.com/Senior-Compagnie
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/groupe-zephyr
• Instagraminstagram.com/senior_compagnie/?hl=fr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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