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Valued at $2 billion, the nugget from Lille, created in 2015 by engineers Romain Moulin and Renaud Heitz, continues to grow.
Great. Skypod machines designed by Exotec, a company specializing in the robotization of warehouses where orders for e-commerce giants are prepared.
Par Clemence de Blasi
Published on 05/13/2022 at 8:00 p.m.
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LTheir story, they wrote it at breakneck speed. In 2014, two engineers from General Electric Medical, Romain Moulin and Renaud Heitz, wondered how they could compete with the robots used by Amazon in its warehouses. Are those of the American e-commerce giant grounded? Never mind: theirs will climb to the ceiling!
The two thirty-somethings launched a start-up in Paris during the summer of 2015. The first buyer, Cdiscount, signed a year later. The order picking system was delivered in 2017 and immediately put to use. The same year, the very young company of 15 employees – which, in the meantime, settled in the North, in Croix – achieved a turnover (CA) of 700,000 euros. Four years later, in 2021, it has 360 employees…
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