Mobility Work announces its fundraising with Saint Gobain

This autumn, Mobility Work raised 2 million euros from strategic partners including Farinia (its incubator) and the giant Saint-Gobain (through its venture capital investment department NOVA).

This funding round supports Mobility Work's growth in Europe and internationally, with its major account and SME clients. It allows the startup to strengthen its commercial and technical teams by recruiting fifteen senior profiles over the next two years.

By mid-2024, the objective is twofold. First, double the number of customers equipped with the maintenance management application by bringing more added value through new functionalities and integrations with partner tools. Then, save them time and reduce the stress associated with the replenishment of spare parts, thanks to an ordering tool connected to a large panel of suppliers.

A spin-off from the Farinia group, Mobility Work has taken off

In 2016, the Castelbriant General Mechanical Foundry (part of the Farinia group) incubated a brand new CMMS in its factory to meet 3 challenges of its maintenance teams: the mobility of technicians, the adoption of computer tools, the adoption of computer tools, communication between teams, between factories, and with suppliers.

Word of mouth quickly aroused the interest of the curious, and the founders of Mobility Work realized that the problems of FMGC were shared by a very large number of companies.

“The global maintenance market is a colossal market, worth over 600 billion euros. Technicians and maintenance managers have real pain points and the new technologies that surround us allow us, combined with an innovative mindset, to provide a lot of solutions. Our mission is to simplify the life of maintenance teams by allowing them to easily collect and use the right data,” says Morgane Guinot, CEO of Mobility Work.

Today Mobility Work has nearly 350 user factories, to which the startup provides a next-generation, mobile, intuitive and community-based solution.

Certified ISO 27001, the application is applicable both for large groups (around 25% of CAC 40) and for SMEs in various industrial sectors (Automotive, Construction, Aeronautics, Metallurgy, Plastics, Cosmetics, F&B, Cosmetics, F&B, Cosmetics, F&B, Energy, Energy, Pharmaceuticals, Packaging...) and provides a payback in 3 to 6 weeks.

“With Mobility Work, we have reduced the time spent preparing maintenance interventions by 50% and the time spent on interventions by 15%. We have gained 10 machine availability points” says Hervé Gestas, CEO of Setforge, a first time customer of Mobility Work.

“The advantage of Mobility Work is the ease with which the solution wins the support of technicians in the field and the speed of deployment. The solution is already solid, it has benefited from a valuable incubation within Farinia which has allowed it to fully understand users and to establish relationships of trust with other demanding manufacturers such as our factories at Saint-Gobain. The industry is digitizing more and more quickly and the CMMS market is booming. The Mobility Work team is well placed to take advantage of this opportunity and has the capacity to implement its plan” comments Claude-Sébastien Lerbourg, Director of Nova in Europe, the venture capital investment department of the Saint-Gobain group.

“When equipment breaks down, tens or even hundreds of thousands of euros are sometimes lost per minute for a company,” recalls Morgane Guinot. It is essential to have a tool that allows teams to have the best possible responsiveness and efficiency.

Maintenance also plays an important role in meeting the environmental, quality and safety challenges of businesses.

Mobility Work has identified 6 main steps in the Maintenance process: Request for intervention, Work order, Planning, Scheduling, Execution, Reporting & Continuous Improvement... 6 steps that the team considers fundamental to manage and optimize maintenance activities. The Mobility Work application has been designed to provide the most appropriate tool to navigate through these 6 steps in a simple and effective way, by connecting all maintenance actors on a single platform, accessible on any device.

Performance through data sharing

Recognizing the challenges and difficulties of maintenance teams, Mobility Work places the sharing of knowledge and information, the monitoring of data and the simplification of procurement mechanisms at the heart of its future developments.

The interconnection of the various tools used by customers is now necessary and brings real added value. This is why Mobility Work is constantly working to build bridges between its CMMS and other solutions such as IOT sensors or platforms, BI tools, ERP, PDCA tools...

“We made the choice to build an ecosystem with strategic partners in the service of performance.” explains Morgane Guinot.

To achieve its objectives, the startup is supported in its growth by investors involved since the beginning of the adventure (including Farinia), and others who are joining it today with the closing of this Series A (including Saint-Gobain), with significant resources and a very good knowledge of the subjects that concern it.