Orspere-Samdarra

Name

Orspere-Samdarra

Legal name

Orspere-Samdarra

Website

https://orspere-samdarra.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Mental Health Services

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

Keywords

• Mental health research
• Psychosocial support services
• Public health observatory
• Migration mental health
• Professional health training

Headquarters

HQ city

Bron

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, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public institutional funding: Orspere-Samdarra operates as a public health observatory hosted at Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier. Its activities including L'espace (community resource center), publications, formations, and telephone helpline are financed by public institutional bodies such as the Agence régionale de santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Métropole de Lyon, the Ville de Lyon, and the Préfecture du Rhône. The organization does not sell commercial products or services.

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Orspere-Samdarra is a French public health observatory that operates at the intersection of mental health, migration, and social precarity. It produces the Rhizome peer-reviewed journal, delivers professional training through university diplomas and online courses, runs L'espace (an open-access community resource center), operates a multilingual telephone helpline, and publishes multilingual digital resources for both vulnerable populations and health/social-work professionals.

Product overview

Orspere-Samdarra is a mental health observatory focused on mental health, vulnerabilities, and society. Rather than a unified technology product, it operates as a research and support organization offering a portfolio of publications (Rhizome journal), support services (L'espace resource center, telephone hotline), educational programs (university diplomas, online training), and creative projects (documentary film, music workshops, collaborative journal). The organization addresses mental health in contexts of migration, precarity, and social vulnerability through publications, training, community resources, and artistic expression.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rhizome Journal Rhizome is a peer-reviewed French-language thematic journal published periodically on mental health, migration, precarity, suicide prevention, and social vulnerability, sold by digital or print subscription to libraries, universities, health institutions, and professionals.
• L'espace Resource Center

Quantifiable outcome

• L'espace provides open-access psychosocial community support to persons concerned by migration in Lyon 3è
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• CH Le Vinatier (Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrspere-Samdarra is hosted within the Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier psychiatric hospital in Bron, Lyon. This institutional hosting arrangement is foundational to the organization's operations, providing physical premises and institutional anchoring in the psychiatric sector.
• Cité éducative de VilleurbannemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrspere-Samdarra partners with the Cité éducative of Villeurbanne to organize study days on mental health of precarious populations at the neighborhood scale. This collaboration brings together educational and health actors to address social vulnerability.
• Nîmes Université (APSY-V lab)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearchers from Nîmes Université collaborate with Orspere-Samdarra on publications in the Rhizome journal, including work on suicide risk among young LGBT populations. The partnership involves academic research and knowledge production.
• La Commune (Lyon 7)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerL'espace photo exhibition 'Je suis là' by Paul Bourdrel was hosted at La Commune venue in Lyon 7è arrondissement, demonstrating a partnership with a local cultural venue for public awareness events.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier: Public psychiatric hospital in Bron that physically and institutionally hosts Orspere-Samdarra. Not a peer in the competitive sense but the anchoring institution whose priorities and resources directly shape the observatory's operating envelope.

Direct peers

• COMEDE (Comité pour la santé des exilés): French organization dedicated to the health of exiled persons, combining direct medical and psychosocial care with training, advocacy, and publications — a structural analog to Orspere-Samdarra's service mix.
• Centre Primo Levi: Paris-based care and research center providing mental health support to migrants, refugees, and victims of political violence. Highly comparable to Orspere-Samdarra in combining clinical care, training, and publications on psychotrauma and migration.
• Centre Minkowska: Paris-based mental health center specialized in care for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, with training and research activities. Operates in the same niche as Orspere-Samdarra in a different French region.
• France Terre d'Asile: Major French association supporting asylum seekers and refugees through reception, legal aid, accommodation, and psychosocial programs. Comparable in mission overlap (migrant precarity) and in being a publicly funded non-profit operating at regional and national level.
• La Cimade: Historic French association defending the rights of migrants and refugees, combining legal accompaniment, advocacy, training, and publications — a thematic peer at the migration–rights end of Orspere-Samdarra's mandate.
• GISTI (Groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés): French NGO producing legal analysis, training, and publications for professionals working with migrants. Comparable to Orspere-Samdarra as a knowledge-production body serving professionals in the migration field.

Broad incumbents

• Croix-Rouge française: France's Red Cross society delivering health, social, and humanitarian aid including dedicated programs for migrants, refugees, and precarious populations. Overlaps with Orspere-Samdarra on psychosocial support but operates at national scale.
• Médecins du Monde: Large international medical humanitarian organization running programs in France including migrant health and mental health. Broader in scope and scale than Orspere-Samdarra but operates overlapping service lines with migrant populations in France.

Regional players

• Fondation Abbé Pierre: French NGO focused on housing precariousness and homelessness, with research publications and policy advocacy. Comparable to Orspere-Samdarra on the 'précarité' axis and as a research-driven French non-profit, though housing- rather than mental-health-led.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/orspere_samdarra
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCb_ZsVp074_3RS1UaII-VkfRZFZ-uCBqP
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/orspere-samdarra

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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