Entrepreneur portrait : Julie Chapon (EDHEC 2011) presents Yuka !

Pouvez-vous nous expliquer en quelques mots comment est née votre entreprise ? (équipe, origine et originalité du projet)

We are 3 people on this project, including 2 brothers. The 3 of us are very aware of the impact of food on health. One day, we discovered a book named "The good choice in the supermarket" that classified by products category the good and bad products for health. We realized that a lot of products we used to buy and that we thought were healthy, were actually not healthy at all. That's why we wanted to digitalize this idea to make it more accessible, more exhaustive and easier to use !

Quel premier bilan tirez-vous de cette aventure entrepreneuriale ? Quels conseils pouvez-vous donner aux jeunes entrepreneurs ?

In a little bit less than a year, we learned a lot if things, much more that we had learned untill now. We developed skills on many topics that we barelly knew  before, and we met a lot of very interesting and inspiring people.

If I had a advice to give it would be : Dare, because at worst it works ! We should not create ourselves barriers and stops just because we are "small" because we have often been surprised of the accessibility of some people and some objectives.

Avez-vous pu profiter à un moment ou un autre du réseau des diplômés de l’EDHEC ?

Not yet, because we are already well supported by the EYE incubateur, and our product is not launched yet. But I hope we will benefit from this network then on various topics like legal or communication.

Quel aide, soutien vous a apporté l’incubateur EYE ?

The EYE incubateur helps us on demand, everytime we have a question or a subject we don't  know how to deal with. For instance, we have recently been helped to build all the documentation for the BPI FrenchTech application. We also had the opportunity to integrate our project for the BIP (Business In Project) for the MSc Entrepreneurship and we have a group of EDHEC students currently working on one of our problematics for one month.

Quelles sont les prochaines étapes de votre entreprise ?

We are now in the beta testing phase with about 30 people. Our app should then be launched to the general public on iOS at the end of November.

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