Entrepreneurship: Mathieu Asse (EDHEC GE 1999) & Stéphane Bouniot (EDHEC GE 2006)

I/ Identity
Mathieu Asse (EDHEC GE 1999)
Stéphane Bouniot (EDHEC GE 2006)

II/ Business venture:
Grandir is a service provider for children
www.groupe-grandir.fr
Innovative and committed, Grandir specialises in customized child-oriented solutions, offering home-based early learning programmes and academic tutoring.
Our local teams, Saperlipopette and Eureka, guarantee urban families that want more for their children prompt, tailored and professional solutions to stimulate their children’s development from birth through to coming of age.
•    Saperlipopette offers exclusive early learning services with stimulating individual or group childcare based in the child’s own home. Attentive to the child’s well-being, learning pace and comfort zone, Saperlipopette offers a customized early-learning programme to help children to develop autonomy and socialization skills
•    Eureka offers tutoring services, combining individual home-based courses and group courses in our centres. To ensure lasting academic success at school that goes beyond exam performance alone, Eureka adapts the teaching method to the profile of each child.

Size of the team: 3 associates, including 2 Edhec
Originality: Our team of expert consultants and professionals design tailored programmes, with individual and ongoing monitoring and assessment of the service. The quality of our service makes Grandir your ideal family partner.
Growth prospects: The first Grandir agency opened at the beginning of September 2011 in the heart of the Batignolles district, at 41 rue des Dames in the 17th arrondissement in Paris. We hope to open a second agency at the beginning of the academic year 2012-2013, with a team of at least 50 service providers.

III/ What would you like from the Edhec network?
We’re looking for opportunities to promote and develop Grandir’s offer:
•    Edhec alumni with children who live and work in the Paris area can contact us to find out more about the home-based early-learning and tutoring solutions we offer!
•    Other Edhec alumni who live and work in the Paris area can pass on our address to their friends and colleagues with children!
•    Edhec alumni elsewhere in France or abroad who work in the field of education or childcare, for the press or lifestyle management concierge services, can help us to market our service or to prospect for new clients (online and off line). We’re also looking for partnerships to consolidate our development.

CONTACT:
Stéphane BOUNIOT
06.01.35.30.44
stephane.bouniot@groupe-grandir.fr
www.groupe-grandir.fr