ENVILYS

What ENVILYS does

Envilys is an independent French consulting firm founded in 2005 that specializes in agronomy and environmental advisory for two customer groups: agricultural professionals (farmers, cooperatives, wine producers) navigating climate, market, and regulatory change, and public- and private-sector natural resource managers (water authorities, intercommunal structures, territorial agencies) tasked with defining, implementing, and evaluating environmental action plans. The firm is headquartered in Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone in the Hérault department and operates across France, Belgium, and Switzerland, having completed over 300 projects since inception with a multidisciplinary team of approximately 15 collaborators spanning agronomy, environment, facilitation, GIS, and software development.

The company complements its consulting services with two proprietary digital products. Odeliane is a web-based action plan management and piloting platform developed over 20 years of methodological refinement, providing stakeholder exchange management, action tracking, dashboards, mapping, and webservices for data and partner communication; it has scaled to over 200 users across 40 territories covering 8,000 agricultural holdings as of 2025. Cartocouverts is a remote-sensing service that combines Sentinel Copernicus radar and optical imagery with field validation to produce parcel-scale cartography of soil coverage and quantify nitrate leaching risk across watersheds covering more than 100,000 hectares. Additional service lines include participatory facilitation/concertation work and advisory on Paiements pour Services Environnementaux (PSE / environmental services payment) schemes.

Envilys generates revenue through project-based professional services engagements and, to a lesser extent, through platform adoption by public-sector clients. Pricing is quote-based and project-specific with no publicly disclosed rate card. The company is privately held as a SARL with €55,000 of share capital, has no parent company or disclosed venture investors, and maintains financial partnerships with the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Région Occitanie, and BPI France to co-f innovation and R&D initiatives. Distribution is direct: the firm engages public authorities, cooperatives, and project holders without intermediary channels, and marketing relies on its website, LinkedIn presence, and accumulated project references rather than broad demand-generation campaigns.

Name

ENVILYS

Legal name

SARL Envilys

Website

https://envilys.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Envilys is an independent French consulting firm founded in 2005 that provides agronomy and environmental advisory to agricultural professionals and public/private natural resource managers, supported by proprietary platforms Odeliane and Cartocouverts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental and Agronomy Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Farm Management Services (115116)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm Technology Enablement & Data Integration Advisory (FMIS/ERP, IoT, Decision Support) (AFACAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Irrigation, Water & Energy Efficiency Operations Advisory (AFACAJAM), EHS Management Systems & ISO Consulting (ISO 14001/45001) (BPAHAJAF), Plant Tissue, Soil & Water Sampling Coordination (Agronomy-Focused) (AFACABAH)

Keywords

• Agronomy consulting
• Environmental consulting
• Water resource management
• Digital agriculture platforms
• Soil cover mapping

Headquarters

HQ city

Villeneuve-les-genêts

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Technical Studies: Professional services including strategic advice, financing research, and technical or regulatory studies for agricultural and environmental projects. Services provided to both public and private sector clients including catchment area management, watershed management, and territory-scale projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

ENVILYS provides independent agronomy and environmental consulting for agricultural professionals and natural-resource managers, including project accompaniment, water-resource preservation studies, and stakeholder facilitation. The firm also develops and operates two proprietary digital tools: Odeliane, a collaborative platform for managing environmental action plans, and Cartocouverts, a satellite-based mapping service for agricultural soil coverage.

Product overview

ENVILYS is an independent service provider specializing in agronomy and environment, offering advisory services, technical studies, and digital solutions. The product portfolio consists of consulting/advisory services for agricultural projects and water resource preservation, complemented by proprietary digital platforms: Odeliane (action plan management platform) and Cartocouverts (satellite-based soil coverage analysis). These digital tools work alongside facilitation and environmental payment scheme services to provide comprehensive support for agricultural-environmental policy implementation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Odeliane: The first professional platform for managing and piloting action plans, developed by Envilys with pilot client support, featuring over 200 users across 40 territories covering 8,000 agricultural exploitations as of 2025.
• Cartocouverts

Products and services

• Odeliane Cloud-based action-plan management and stakeholder-collaboration platform used by public water managers, cooperatives, and project developers to design, execute, and monitor multi-stakeholder environmental and agricultural programs.
• Cartocouverts Satellite-imagery-based cartographic service that maps and analyzes agricultural soil cover (inter-rows, fallow land, catch crops), delivered to public authorities, cooperatives, and project developers for diagnostic and monitoring purposes.
• Agricultural project accompaniment (Accompagner les projets agricoles) Advisory engagement that supports agricultural professionals — cooperatives, wine producers, and grouped farms — in designing and rolling out agronomic and agroecological projects.
• Water-resource preservation advisory (Préserver les ressources en eau) Technical and strategic consulting for public water-resource managers (water agencies, departmental councils, inter-municipal structures) covering diagnostic studies, action-plan design, and program monitoring for water-quality protection against agricultural pressures.
• Concertation and facilitation (Concertation / Facilitation) Structured stakeholder-engagement and facilitation service used to align farmers, public authorities, and project developers around shared environmental or land-use programs.
• Environmental Services Payments advisory (PSE — Paiements pour Services Environnementaux) Advisory service supporting the design and implementation of Payments for Environmental Services (PSE) schemes that compensate farmers for practices delivering water-quality and biodiversity benefits.

Quantifiable outcome

• 200+ platform users managing 8000 agricultural holdings across 40 territories
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature2 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Egis: Major French engineering group with water, environment, and territorial development practices serving public-sector clients. Comparable in serving the same French water authorities and ecological-transition programs, though as a much larger generalist.
• Antea Group: International engineering and environmental consulting firm active in water, soil, and agro-environmental studies. Comparable in providing catchment diagnostics, environmental impact studies, and water-quality advisory services to public and agricultural clients.
• Bureau Veritas: Global testing, inspection, and certification firm with an EHS and agri-food compliance practice serving public and private clients. Comparable because it offers overlapping environmental and agricultural compliance services, including on catchment-quality and agro-environmental diagnostics.
• SUEZ Consulting (SAFEGE): Engineering and consulting arm of SUEZ offering broad water, environment, and infrastructure advisory services. Comparable because it serves the same French public water authorities and competes for territorial water-resource mandates, though at significantly larger scale and breadth.

Direct peers

• Altereo: Independent French environmental engineering consultancy focused on water resource management, hydrology, and territorial diagnostics for public and private clients. Highly comparable given its shared focus on catchment studies and water-quality action plans in France.
• Naldeo Group: French engineering and consulting group specialized in water, environment, and energy transitions. Comparable because it serves the same French public water authorities and agricultural territories with similar catchment-management, hydro-agronomy, and environmental consulting services.
• Agrosolutions (InVivo group): French agro-environmental consulting subsidiary of the InVivo cooperative group, focused on helping farmers and territories meet environmental and regulatory expectations. Closely comparable given shared agronomy, agro-environmental diagnostics, and sustainability advisory focus.
• Ginger Group (BURGEAP): French environmental and geotechnical engineering group with a strong water and soil consulting practice serving local authorities and industrial clients. Comparable as a direct competitor for hydro-agronomic and environmental regulatory mandates.
• Cereg: Independent French consultancy delivering water, environment, and territorial development studies for public actors. Highly comparable in size and positioning to Envilys, with similar catchment-area and water-quality diagnostic offerings.

Regional players

• Chambre d'Agriculture (network) — France: Public network of French agricultural chambers providing agronomic advisory and catchment-area services to farmers and local authorities. Comparable because it offers competing agro-environmental consulting and water-quality advisory services in the same French territories where Envilys operates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/envilys

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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