Name

ECO-MED OCEAN INDIEN

Legal name

ECO-MED Océan Indien

Website

https://cyathea.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

ST DENIS

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Environmental Consulting Services: Revenue generated from providing environmental consulting services including ecological expertise, natural inventories, regulatory studies, environmental assessments, and monitoring services for development projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

ECO-MED Océan Indien (operating as Cyathea) is an environmental consulting and advisory firm based in Réunion with a satellite office in Mayotte. It provides ecological expertise for development projects across the French territories of the Indian Ocean, including naturalist inventories, environmental sensitivity assessments, regulatory dossiers, impact mitigation proposals, and ecological monitoring during construction and operation.

Product overview

ECO-MED Océan Indien (operating as Cyathea) is an environmental consulting and advisory firm offering a unified portfolio of ecological expertise services. The core offering consists of naturalist inventories (fauna and flora), environmental sensitivity assessments, regulatory dossiers, and construction-phase monitoring. The firm also produces illustrated field guides as reference publications for species identification. This is a traditional consulting services firm rather than a software product platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Inventaire naturaliste (Naturalist Inventories)
• Environmental Sensitivity Assessments
• Impact Mitigation and Optimization Proposals
• Dossier réglementaire (Regulatory Dossiers)
• Suivi de chantier (Construction Site Monitoring)
• Suivi écologique (Ecological Monitoring)
• Plan de gestion (Management Plans)
• Diagnostic phytosanitaire et biomécanique
• Schéma et planification (Schema and Planning)
• Dérogation espèce protégée (Protected Species Derogation)
• Étude agronomique (Agronomic Studies)
• Illustrated Field Guides (Guides illustrés de terrain)
• Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Comoros Archipelago

Quantifiable outcome

• 600 project references over 25 years demonstrating extensive experience and track record

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DEAL de Mayotte (Direction de l'Environnement, de l'Aménagement et du Logement)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2019ECO-MED Océan Indien produced an illustrated reference guide for protected terrestrial fauna of Mayotte on behalf of DEAL de Mayotte. The guide covers 226 protected species across 8 different groups.
• GEPOMAY (Oiseaux de Mayotte)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership for the protected fauna reference guide, with GEPOMAY providing ornithological expertise for birds.
• SRAM (Société Réunionnaise d'Artophilie et de Malacologie)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership for arthropod expertise in the protected fauna reference guide for Mayotte.
• OCEA Consult' (Faune aquatique)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership for aquatic fauna expertise in the protected fauna reference guide for Mayotte.
• Munich Zoological Museum (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019International collaboration partner for the Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Comoros archipelago, combining expertise from France (Mayotte), Germany, and Union of the Comoros.
• Union of the Comoros (Anjouan, Grande Comore, Mohéli)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaboration with local authorities in the Comoros archipelago for the amphibian and reptile atlas project, integrating local professional and amateur naturalists.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• EODD Ingénieurs Conseils: Sister company under common group ownership, providing broader environmental and regulatory engineering consulting (industrial environment, water, waste) for project developers. Comparable as part of the same consulting ecosystem, though with a more engineering-driven rather than pure ecology focus.
• Naturalia Environnement: French ecological consultancy specializing in flora, fauna, and habitat inventories as well as regulatory impact studies. Closely comparable in service offering and project-based B2B/public-sector model, primarily serving the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Occitanie regions.
• ECO-MED: Sister company under common group ownership, offering the same portfolio of naturalist inventories, environmental assessments, and protected-species expertise — but focused on mainland France and the Mediterranean. Effectively a sister unit replicating the Indian Ocean firm's model on a different geography, and a natural cross-referral counterpart.
• Bureau d'Études Biogée: Mid-sized French ecological consultancy providing naturalist inventories, environmental impact studies, and regulatory dossiers for development projects, primarily in western and southern France. Closely comparable in service mix and small-to-mid-scale consulting model.
• BIOTOPE: One of France's largest specialist environmental consultancies, providing naturalist inventories, ecological impact studies, and regulatory dossiers nationwide. Most direct comparable in service mix and client base (public authorities and project developers), though operating at much greater scale and geographic reach than ECO-MED Océan Indien.

Broad incumbents

• Ginger Burgeap: Major French environmental and geotechnical consultancy within the Ginger Group, offering environmental impact assessments, water/soil studies, and regulatory support across France. Operates at significantly larger scale and broader geographic footprint than ECO-MED Océan Indien.
• Antea Group: International environmental and infrastructure consultancy providing impact assessments, permitting, and ecological services globally. Comparable in environmental consulting capability and project-based model, though with much larger scale and geographic footprint than the Indian Ocean firm.
• SCE (Atelier SCE): French engineering and environmental consultancy providing biodiversity, water, and environmental planning services. A broader incumbent with multidisciplinary capabilities, comparable to ECO-MED Océan Indien on ecological studies but with substantially more capacity and geographic reach.
• Egis Environnement: Large French engineering group with a dedicated environment practice offering impact assessments, biodiversity studies, and regulatory consulting for infrastructure projects. A much larger competitor with capacity to enter French overseas territory projects where ECO-MED Océan Indien currently operates.
• Artelia: International engineering and project management group with environmental consulting services for infrastructure, urban development, and industrial projects. Comparable on the environmental integration angle, but operates at a vastly larger scale with broader multidisciplinary offerings.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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