SEMIR

What SEMIR does

SEMIR is a privately held French company (SIREN 379 102 874) that operates a network of three business incubators (pépinières d'entreprises) on La Réunion, an overseas French département in the Indian Ocean. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Le Port, the company provides flexible workspace, workshops, and business domiciliation services to startups, independent professionals, SMEs, and training organizations across the north, west, and south of the island through sites in Sainte-Clotilde (Saint-Denis), Le Port, and Étang-Salé. Its infrastructure totals 104 offices (15–43 m²), 66 workshops (60–140 m² with 380V power and loading access), and 9 meeting rooms (2–4 rooms per site), and serves over 100 resident companies across diverse industries including IT, construction, accounting, logistics, manufacturing, and renewable energy.

The company's product portfolio comprises five integrated lines: office rental (Location de Bureaux), workshop rental (Location Ateliers), meeting room rental (Location Salles de Réunion), company domiciliation (Domiciliation), and ancillary administrative services (Prestations Diverses) covering telephone reception, mail handling, IT support, and reprography. Facilities are delivered with standardized infrastructure (climate control, fiber optic connectivity, telephone systems, 220V/380V electrical installations, natural lighting, ventilation), with the Étang-Salé site built to HQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) environmental standards and the Saint-Denis site located within a Zone Franche Urbaine (ZFU) that allows eligible residents to benefit from corporate tax exemptions. SEMIR also holds a partnership with Buro Club, a global network of 300+ business centers, giving its residents and Premium Domiciliation clients reciprocal access to international locations.

SEMIR's business model is fundamentally a subscription-based recurring rental revenue engine, with offices, workshops, meeting rooms, and domiciliation contracts billed on monthly cycles and contract durations ranging from hourly access to multi-year leases. The company has 22 employees, share capital of €1,438,500, and no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or external funding. Go-to-market is direct, with customers engaging each site via dedicated phone lines, email, on-site visits, or the website contact form. The company is privately held, financially opaque (no public revenue disclosure), and operating in a small island market where it is the only operator covering all three major economic zones of La Réunion under a unified brand.

Name

SEMIR

Legal name

SEMIR

Website

https://semir.re

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SEMIR is a privately held French operator of three business incubators on La Réunion (Saint-Denis, Le Port, Étang-Salé) providing flexible offices, workshops, meeting rooms, and company domiciliation services to startups, freelancers, SMEs, and training organizations, and serving over 100 resident companies under a recurring subscription model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sainte-Clotilde (Saint-Denis)

HQ country

Réunion

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Office/Bureau Rental: Rental of offices ranging from 15 to 43 square meters, available for hours to several years. Offices are individually air-conditioned with furniture, telephone, and electrical/telematic infrastructure.
2. Workshop/Atelier Rental: Rental of workshops (60-140 m²) with direct parking access for logistics and deliveries. Includes 380V electrical connections, water access, and space for lifting equipment. Workshop types range from small (60 m², 9 KVA) to large (120-140 m², 24 KVA).
3. Meeting Room Rental: Rental of meeting rooms across three sites: 2 rooms at Saint-Denis (15 persons), 3 rooms at Le Port, and 4 rooms at Étang-Salé. Suitable for training organizations, business meetings, and inter-company sessions.
4. Business Domiciliation: Company domicile services establishing a legal registered office address with mail handling, telephone reception, and access to meeting rooms. Includes optional telephone answering services and administrative registration support for companies outside La Réunion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

SEMIR operates three business incubators (pépinières d'entreprises) on La Réunion island, renting flexible offices (15–43 m²), workshops (60–140 m²), meeting rooms, and providing company domiciliation (legal registered office with mail and telephone handling). Its target customers are startups, freelancers, training organizations, and small artisan/manufacturing businesses needing professional workspace, business addresses, and administrative support without the capital commitment of dedicated premises.

Product overview

SEMIR operates as a unified business incubator platform offering three integrated service lines across three physical locations in La Réunion (Saint-Denis, Le Port, and Étang-Salé). The core offering combines flexible office space rental (Location de Bureaux), workshop rental (Location Ateliers), and meeting room rental (Location Salles de Réunion) with a company domiciliation service. All three sites provide standardized facilities with complementary administrative support services (Prestations Diverses) including phone reception, mail handling, and IT/reprography. Residents and domiciled companies benefit from shared infrastructure across the network, with Buro Club international access for mobile professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Location de Bureaux (Office Rental)

Quantifiable outcome

• Access to 300+ business centers worldwide through Buro Club partnership

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Buro ClubcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerBuro Club is the first network of business centers in mainland France and worldwide, providing SEMIR residents with access to over 300 spaces across France, Caribbean, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Morocco, USA, Asia, and Australia. SEMIR residents and Premium Domiciliation clients receive one free day per month at any Buro Club location of their choice.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Deskeo: Paris-based premium flexible office operator offering private offices, coworking, meeting rooms, and domiciliation. Comparable in SME/startup customer profile and full-service offering; geographic complement (mainland France vs. overseas).
• Buro Club: SEMIR's exclusive partner network and the first network of independent business centers in France. Buro Club franchisees offer the same mix of offices, meeting rooms, and domiciliation, making it the closest comparable peer — although SEMIR operates Réunion exclusively rather than mainland France.
• Multiburo: French operator of business centers offering offices, coworking, meeting rooms, and domiciliation across major French cities. Directly comparable in product offering and SMB/startup target customer; comparable in scale to SEMIR's per-site footprint.
• Kwerk: French premium coworking and serviced-office operator with locations in Paris and select international cities. Comparable in product mix and enterprise/SMB customer base; a relevant benchmark for differentiated premium positioning.
• Bework: French coworking and flex-office operator with multiple sites in Paris and other French cities. Comparable product mix (offices, meeting rooms, coworking) and SMB target; relevant peer for benchmarking French flex-office unit economics.
• Regus Réunion / Spaces (if present): Any IWG-brand presence on La Réunion would be SEMIR's most direct head-to-head competitor. Regus/Spaces offer the same offices-and-meeting-rooms product to a similar SMB/multinational client base on the island.

Broad incumbents

• WeWork: Global coworking and flex-office operator serving startups and SMBs with office, meeting-room, and domiciliation services. Directly comparable in customer segment (startups, freelancers) and product mix, though WeWork targets dense metropolitan markets versus SEMIR's island geography.
• Regus / IWG: Global leader in flexible workspaces with thousands of centers worldwide. IWG operates multiple brands (Regus, Spaces, HQ) and is the dominant incumbent in flex-office; comparable to SEMIR in core product (office and meeting-room rental) but at vastly larger scale and with a technology-led booking platform.

Regional players

• Worklab: French coworking and serviced-office brand operating in select cities. Comparable in product (offices, meeting rooms, domiciliation) and SMB target; not present in Réunion, making it a regional rather than direct competitor.

Others

• CCI Réunion (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie): Local chamber of commerce that historically supports business creation and may operate its own incubator or partner with one. Comparable as an ecosystem player enabling SMBs and startups on Réunion, but not a direct commercial competitor for workspace.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/semirreunion

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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