What INAUV does

INAUV (operating as Ingénierie Auvergne) is a private, multidisciplinary engineering consultancy founded in 2010 and headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The firm operates as a bureau d'études pluridisciplinaires with deep specialization in Life Sciences, providing design, specification, and project management services for technically complex environments including pharmaceutical clean rooms, biotechnology pilot plants, laboratory facilities, animal research facilities (A1/A2/A3), healthcare infrastructure, and agri-food production sites.

The company delivers its services across eight vertical domains — Santé (pharmaceutical/healthcare), Laboratoire, Biotechnologie, Industrie, Animalerie, Enseignement, Agroalimentaire, and Tertiaire — built on a shared engineering core covering process fluid systems (purified/osmosed water, pure steam, process gases), clean room and controlled environment design, equipment specification (fermenters, lyophilizers, autoclaves, filtration), and HVAC/utility loops. Project examples include multi-site engagements for Sanofi (Colomiers, Montpellier, Compiègne, Neuville sur Saône), public sector work for CHU Clermont-Ferrand, INSERM, INRA, and various Centres Hospitaliers, and industrial clients including Michelin, Adisseo, and Roxlor.

INAUV earns revenue through project-based professional services engagements, with pricing quoted per project rather than published. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales, with no visible digital marketing or channel partnerships. The firm has 11 employees and operates exclusively in France, with project references spanning at least eight French regions. Ownership is private and undisclosed; no funding rounds, M&A, or leadership changes are recorded.

Name

INAUV

Legal name

INAUV

Website

https://inauv.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

INAUV is a private French engineering consultancy in Clermont-Ferrand that designs clean rooms, pharmaceutical facilities, and Life Sciences laboratories for clients such as Sanofi, CHU, INSERM, and INRA across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Clermont-Ferrand

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Project-based engineering and consulting services for the design, specification, and project management of technical facilities in Life Sciences sectors. Revenue is generated through professional services engagements with pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, research institutions, and industrial clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

INAUV is a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm specializing in Life Sciences facility design and project management. It delivers engineering services for clean rooms, controlled environments, pharmaceutical and cosmetic production units, biotechnology pilot plants, animal research facilities, healthcare/hospital infrastructure, agri-food processing facilities, and tertiary buildings, including process fluid systems, equipment specification, and thermal/energy audits. Services span concept design through execution for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, research institutions, and industrial clients across France.

Product overview

INAUV is a multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm (bureau d'études pluridisciplinaires) based in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France, with deep expertise in Life Sciences. The company operates as a single unified service offering across eight specialized engineering domains: Santé (health/pharmaceutical), Laboratoire (laboratory), Biotechnologie (biotechnology), Industrie (industrial), Animalerie (animal facilities), Enseignement (education), Agroalimentaire (agri-food), and Tertiaire (commercial/tertiary buildings). These service areas share common engineering capabilities around environmental treatment, equipment specifications, fluid systems, and cleanroom/controlled environment design, allowing INAUV to deliver integrated project services from concept through execution across regulated and technical environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Santé (Health Sector Engineering)

Named customers18 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Artelia: French-headquartered multidisciplinary engineering group with a Life Sciences division covering pharmaceutical plants, clean rooms, and healthcare facility design. Most directly comparable French peer in scope of services and customer base.
• IPS (Integrated Project Services): Pharma-focused engineering, construction validation, and compliance firm serving drug manufacturers globally. Comparable on GMP pharma facility design, clean room engineering, and process system specification.
• Assystem: French engineering and digital services group with life sciences and industrial infrastructure practices. Comparable as a French-headquartered engineering services competitor operating in regulated industrial environments.
• Exyte: Global engineering specialist in high-tech facilities including clean rooms, GMP pharma production, and biotech labs. Comparable on technical specialization in controlled environments and pharmaceutical facility engineering.
• CRB Group: Engineering, architecture, and consulting firm focused on life sciences facilities including pharma, biotech, and research labs. Comparable in delivering complex regulated-facility engineering similar to INAUV's Laboratoire and Biotechnologie verticals.
• NNE (Novo Nordisk Engineering): Specialist pharma engineering consultancy delivering facility, process, and GMP-compliant design for drug manufacturers. Closest international specialist peer given INAUV's pharma/clean room/process engineering focus.

Broad incumbents

• Egis: Large French engineering group with broad infrastructure, buildings, and energy practices including healthcare and tertiary facilities. Comparable as a French incumbent that overlaps with INAUV's Tertiaire and Santé verticals but at much greater scale and breadth.
• Wood Group: Global engineering and consulting firm with process and industrial expertise relevant to pharma and biotech facility engineering. Comparable as a large, diversified incumbent with overlapping capability in process and clean environment engineering.
• Fluor Corporation: Global engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and project management company with a life sciences manufacturing practice. Comparable as a broad incumbent operating in regulated pharmaceutical facility construction and process engineering.
• Jacobs Solutions: Global professional services firm with a significant life sciences practice covering pharma facilities, advanced manufacturing, and clean rooms. Comparable as a large-scale incumbent offering overlapping capability sets in pharma and biotech facility engineering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/inauv

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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

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