Interstices Sud Aquitaine

What Interstices Sud Aquitaine does

Interstices Sud Aquitaine is a French Coopérative d'Activité et d'Emploi (CAE) structured as a SCIC (Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif), founded in 2002 in Tarnos and headquartered at the Pôle de services Jean Bertin. The cooperative hosts and accompanies aspiring and established entrepreneurs who operate their own business activities under the cooperative's legal and administrative umbrella. Its core contractual products are the CAPE (Contrat d'Appui au Projet d'Entreprise), which lets project holders test a business idea within a secure framework, and the CESA (Contrat d'Entrepreneur.e Salarié.e Associé.e), which gives entrepreneurs a salaried-employee status while they develop their activity. As of 2021 the cooperative hosted 129 entrepreneurs (28 CESA + 101 CAPE) and had 78 sociétaires distributed across five governance colleges.

The business model combines recurring hosting and contribution fees from hosted entrepreneurs with co-working space and meeting-room rentals at five sites across South Landes and Pays Basque (Tarnos, Bayonne, Ascain, Hendaye, Soustons), Qualiopi-certified training delivered through a collective of expert trainers (187 participants in 2024, 94% satisfaction), and public co-financing from the EU, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, Department of Landes, and local municipalities. The cooperative operates two adjacent ventures: Metroloco, a youth cooperative restaurant launched in 2019, and Trebatu, an agricultural test space. Distribution is direct and in-person, supplemented by information meetings co-animated with France Travail, Indar Développement, CBE du Seignanx, and the Entreprendre en 64 partnership pathway; the JeunESS cross-border POCTEFA project (2024-2026, ~€1.2M budget) extends reach into the Basque Country and Navarre.

The underlying technology stack is non-proprietary — WordPress plus HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL — appropriate for a regionally-anchored nonprofit cooperative rather than a technology company. The GTM motion is community-led and event-driven, anchored in territorial partnerships and referrals rather than digital marketing. The cooperative is governed by five colleges of sociétaires under the SCIC one-person-one-vote principle, with Bernhardt Beaudry serving as Directeur and Stéphane Montuzet as Gérant. The company is not backed by external investors; it is self-financed through member contributions, training revenue, co-working income, and public grants.

Name

Interstices Sud Aquitaine

Legal name

SCIC Interstices Sud Aquitaine

Website

https://interstices-sud-aquitaine.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Interstices Sud Aquitaine is a French SCIC (cooperative) founded in 2002 that hosts and accompanies entrepreneurs in South Landes and Pays Basque through CAPE/CESA contracts, co-working spaces, Qualiopi-certified training, and Metroloco youth restaurant, serving SMB entrepreneurs across five sites with public co-financing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tarnos

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Cooperative membership and hosting fees: Interstices generates revenue by providing legal and administrative hosting services to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs become members (sociétaires) of the SCIC and pay for the structural support, insurance, and administrative services that enable them to develop their business activities.
2. Co-working and meeting room rentals: Revenue from renting shared workspace including open space desks, private offices, and meeting rooms at their 5 sites across South Landes and Pays Basque.
3. Training services: Since 2021, the SCIC has been Qualiopi certified, enabling them to deliver training programs. The collective of trainers offers professional development courses to residents and local stakeholders.
4. Metroloco restaurant operations: The cooperative operates Metroloco, a youth cooperative restaurant (Entreprise Coopérative Jeunesse) at Tarnos beach, managed by young people aged 17-25 as a training and skill-building tool.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Interstices Sud Aquitaine is a cooperative business incubator (SCIC) that hosts individual entrepreneurs under CAPE testing contracts and CESA salaried-entrepreneur contracts, providing them with legal status, accounting, training, and coworking space across five sites in South Landes and Pays Basque, while running operational subsidiaries such as the Metroloco youth cooperative restaurant.

Product overview

Interstices Sud Aquitaine is a Coopérative d'Activité et d'Emploi (CAE) operating as a SCIC (Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif) that provides a comprehensive ecosystem for entrepreneurship support. The cooperative offers the CAPE (Contrat d'Appui au Projet d'Entreprise) for testing business ideas and the CESA (Contrat d'Entrepreneur.e Salarié.e Associé.e) for developing established activities, complemented by co-working spaces, meeting rooms, and a collective training program certified Qualiopi. Additional initiatives include Metroloco, a youth cooperative restaurant venture, and Entreprendre en 64, a regional accompaniment pathway for entrepreneurs in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 2019, the cooperative also organizes 'Le Couteau Suisse de l'Entrepreneur.e,' practical workshops for entrepreneurial skill-building.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Metroloco: Youth Cooperative Restaurant (Entreprise Coopérative Jeunesse) operating seasonally at Plage du Métro, Tarnos, serving fresh and local products. Managed by young people aged 17-25 as a training and entrepreneurship tool.

Products and services

• CAPE — Contrat d'Appui au Projet d'Entreprise

Quantifiable outcome

• 187 people trained with 0% abandonment rate and 94% satisfaction rate (2024)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Entreprendre en 64coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Partnership with Entreprendre en 64 collective pathway for entrepreneurial accompaniment in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Interstices provides individual and group accompaniment (presential and video) as part of this structured pathway for future entrepreneurs.
• Entreprendre en 40minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Entreprendre en 40 for entrepreneurial pathway coordination in Landes department, linking to BGE TecGeCoop network.
• SCIC Habitat Eco-ActioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner CAE (Coopérative d'Activité et d'Emploi) specialized in construction and building trades. Interstices contributed to its creation and maintains regular cooperation including methodology sharing and synergy creation between entrepreneurs. Located at Tarnos.
• SCIC Pau-PyrénéescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner CAE based in Pau. Interstices contributed to its creation and maintains regular meetings to share methodologies, build common tools, and create entrepreneur synergies. Together with Habitat Eco-Action, forms the Sud Aquitaine CAE network.
• PTCE Sud Aquitaine (Pôle Territorial de Coopération Economique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInterstices actively participates in the PTCE working group on business creation. The PTCE represents a strong and lasting collaboration between economic and social actors across South Landes, Pays Basque, and Béarn regions, initiated by CBE du Seignanx and including numerous ESS actors.
• CBE du SeignanxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal business organization animating the PTCE. Key founding partner of Interstices Sud Aquitaine (project initiated by CBE in cooperation with Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs, Mission Locale, Tec Ge Coop). Continues to provide governance participation and support.
• JeunESS Project ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTransborder project (2024-2026) promoting ESS and cooperative entrepreneurship for youth (16-30 years) across South Aquitaine, Basque Country, and Navarre. Partners include: CBE du Seignanx, SCIC Pau-Pyrénées, CRESS Nouvelle-Aquitaine, ANEL (Navarre), Konfekoop. Budget: €1,199,629, with €779,755.54 FEDER funding from POCTEFA.
• Metroloco partnersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners in the Metroloco youth cooperative restaurant project include: CBE du Seignanx, HAJSA (Habitat Jeunes Sud Aquitaine), DecliC, with support from EU, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, Department of Landes, and Ville de Tarnos. The project is part of PTCE Sud Aquitaine.
• Indar Développement (Business Incubator)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBusiness incubator partner co-animating information sessions with Interstices at multiple locations (Bayonne, Ascain, St-Jean-le-Vieux/Irissarry). Provides workspace at Lanazia (Ascain) and Lutxi (Irissarry) locations.
• France TravailcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench public employment service co-animating information sessions and participating in entrepreneur pathway programs with Interstices.
• Association Andere NahiaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal association co-animating information sessions at St-Jean-le-Vieux location, contributing to the territorial ecosystem network.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ADIE (Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Économique): ADIE is a national microcredit association financing business creators excluded from traditional banking — a comparable incubation-adjacent function for vulnerable entrepreneurs. Operates nationally with territorial branches that can be complementary or competitive with local CAEs like Interstices.
• France Active: France Active is the national ESS financing network (loans, guarantees, equity) supporting project leaders and social enterprises across France. It complements Interstices' accompaniment activity with capital, and both organizations frequently co-finance the same entrepreneurs in ESS.
• Réseau Entreprendre: Réseau Entreprendre is a French network of volunteer entrepreneurs supporting business creation/buy-out through peer mentoring and startup loans. Its model overlaps with Interstices' accompaniment layer and competes for the same aspiring entrepreneurs at higher-budget segments.

Direct peers

• Coopaname: Coopaname is the largest Paris-based Coopérative d'Activité et d'Emploi structured as a SCIC, hosting salaried entrepreneurs with full administrative, legal and accounting hosting — the same core model as Interstices but at national scale (~1,000+ entrepreneurs).
• Alter'Incub: Alter'Incub is a French cooperative incubator focused on social and solidarity economy (ESS) innovation projects, with an explicit ESS+innovation incubation mission that overlaps with Interstices' PTCE role and JeunESS ambitions in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
• BGE Réseau (Boutique de Gestion / BGE TecGeCoop): BGE is the largest French network of business creation support organizations, providing incubation, mentoring and business plan validation to aspiring entrepreneurs across the country. It is the direct national counterpart to Interstices, with whom it partners via Entreprendre en 40 and the wider CAE ecosystem.
• Oxalis (SCOP): Oxalis is a French cooperative (SCOP) and CAE active in Lyon and surrounding regions offering salaried-entrepreneur hosting and business accompaniment — directly analogous to Interstices' CESA framework with overlapping service design.
• CBE du Seignanx: CBE du Seignanx is the founding partner of Interstices Sud Aquitaine and the animator of PTCE Sud Aquitaine. It is a comparable French local business creation organization operating the same territory-anchored accompaniment model.

Others

• CRESS Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional Chamber of the Social and Solidarity Economy for Nouvelle-Aquitaine — a partner and ecosystem coordinator (involved in JeunESS) rather than a direct competitor. Comparable as the broader territorial actor in which Interstices and other ESS cooperatives co-produce regional policy and visibility.

Emerging players

• 1000 Cafés (Gîtes de France): An emerging rural-anchored multi-service cooperative concept integrating hospitality, food and entrepreneurship support in low-density territories — conceptually similar to Interstices' Tiers-Lieu / Metroloco cross-vertical model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/SCIC.INTERSTICES
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scic-interstices-sud-aquitaine

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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