What SOLER IDE does

SOLER IDE is a French environmental consulting and engineering firm headquartered in Massy, France, operating as the dedicated environment entity within the Vertical Sea collective, a six-firm group covering building, environment, geotechnics, communication, public consultation, and urban planning. With 40 years of operating history, the firm delivers a broad portfolio of environmental expertise services to clients across building, infrastructure, real estate, industrial, energy, and territorial planning sectors, including sustainable building certifications, natural environment management, hydrogeology, contaminated site and soil remediation, waste management, renewable energy advisory, industrial decarbonation, circular economy consulting, climate adaptation, and urban ecology.

The firm operates on a pure professional services model, engaging clients through consultative, project-based mandates over the full project lifecycle — from initial site analysis and certification strategy through to operational monitoring. It holds multiple sector certifications (OPQIBI, RGE, CIRCOLAB, UPDS, LNE-SSP Rehab, LNE-SSP Ctrl, UPGE) that qualify it to bid on regulated environmental and renewable energy work in France. Its competitive positioning is methodological rather than technology-based: it frames environmental factors as early-stage project-shaping design inputs rather than late-stage compliance hurdles, and uses a systemic cross-domain lens (climate, water, soil, biodiversity, land use) to inform client decisions.

The go-to-market is sales-led, direct enterprise engagement typical of professional services firms, with no disclosed pricing, no self-serve channels, no software product, and no public-facing technology platform. The firm is privately held, with no disclosed funding, revenue, or headcount; it is part of the Vertical Sea collective, which provides shared marketing infrastructure (collective website, LinkedIn, YouTube) and cross-referral capacity with sister entities. The collective appears to employ more than 50 people, as evidenced by Soler IDE's published 2025 French Professional Gender Equality Index score of 88/100.

Name

SOLER IDE

Legal name

Soler IDE

Website

https://soler-ide.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SOLER IDE is a French environmental consulting firm within the Vertical Sea collective, delivering multi-domain environmental expertise (sustainable building, hydrogeology, contaminated sites, industrial decarbonation, circular economy) to building, infrastructure, industrial, and territorial clients across project lifecycles.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Consulting Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

akta.pro primary industry

EHS Management Systems & ISO Consulting (ISO 14001/45001) (BPAHAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Waste & Hazardous Materials Management (incl. HazMat) (BPAHAJAK), Circular Economy & Waste/Materials Reporting (Zero waste, packaging) (EUAHAJAL)

Keywords

• Environmental consulting
• Industrial decarbonization
• Contaminated site remediation
• Sustainable building certification
• Territorial planning advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Massy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Environmental Consulting Services: Professional consulting services providing environmental expertise throughout the project lifecycle, including environmental assessments, certifications, planning, and ongoing monitoring for building, infrastructure, real estate, and industrial projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

SOLER IDE provides environmental consulting and engineering services to enterprise clients across the project lifecycle, from initial environmental analysis through operational monitoring. Core offerings include sustainable building certifications, natural environment assessments, industrial environmental compliance, hydrogeology, contaminated site and soil remediation, waste management, renewable energy advisory, territorial and urban planning, industrial decarbonation, circular economy, climate adaptation, and urban ecology.

Product overview

Soler IDE is an environmental consulting firm and part of the Vertical Sea collective, offering a comprehensive suite of environmental expertise services. The firm operates as a unified service offering rather than a platform with discrete modules. Key offerings include environmental consulting for sustainable buildings and certifications, natural environment management, industrial environmental compliance, hydrogeology, contaminated sites and soils remediation, waste management, renewable energy advisory, territorial planning, industrial decarbonation, circular economy consulting, climate services, and urban ecology. These services are coordinated to provide systemic environmental analysis that informs project decisions throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Environmental Consulting Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Professional equality index score of 88/100 in 2025

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Vertical Sea CollectivecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoler IDE is one of six specialized entities within the Vertical Sea collective, operating alongside Builders (building), Sol Conseil (geotechnics), Tecta (urban planning), Sennse (communication and consultation), and Arc Alpin (Alpine region). The collective coordinates complementary expertise areas for integrated project delivery.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Arcadis France: Global design and consultancy firm with strong French environmental and sustainability practice. Competes for the same building, infrastructure, and industrial environmental mandates as Soler IDE but at significantly larger scale.
• Egis: Major French engineering group with a substantial environment practice covering environmental assessments, water, biodiversity, and decarbonation. Wider scope than Soler IDE but overlapping on infrastructure and territorial projects.
• SGS: Global testing, inspection, and certification company offering environmental services in France including site assessments and compliance consulting. Overlaps heavily with Soler IDE's environmental certification and contaminated site practice.
• Bureau Veritas: Global TIC major with extensive French environmental and EHS service lines. Directly comparable in environmental assessment, certification, and contaminated site work but operates at much greater scale across multiple industries.
• WSP France: Global engineering professional services firm with a French environmental consulting practice covering environmental impact assessments, contaminated land, climate, and sustainability. Comparable in methodology, larger in scale and geographic reach.

Direct peers

• Ginger Group: French engineering and environmental consultancy with comparable service lines in contaminated sites, hydrogeology, environmental studies, and infrastructure project support. Direct competitor for the same French client base.
• Antea Group: French-headquartered environmental and infrastructure consulting firm offering similar services in site remediation, water management, environmental assessments, and sustainability advisory — closely matched mid-market competitor.
• Burgeap (Artelia): French environmental engineering consultancy (subsidiary of Artelia) specializing in polluted sites, hydrogeology, and environmental impact studies. Most direct mid-sized competitor in France for contaminated site and environmental assessment work.
• ICF Environnement (ICF Group): French environmental engineering firm offering comparable services in environmental studies, site remediation, water, waste, and regulatory compliance. Mid-sized direct peer with similar service breadth.

Emerging players

• Cabinet Pierre Ravez: Smaller French environmental consultancy specializing in sustainable building certifications (HQE, BREEAM, LEED) and environmental assessments. Smaller-scale emerging player with strong overlap in building certification work.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@Verticalsea-YouTube
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/soler-ide

Compliance8 records

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

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