Start-up app for parking and office management

Start-up app for parking and office management
Parking and office management: why mycarspot has become Sharvy
The Montpellier startup MyCarSpot has just changed its identity. A necessity to better stick to the extension of its functional coverage: while it offered the intelligent management of business parking spaces, it has extended its application to the management of offices or even corporate restaurants. Its international development strategy is taking shape.

Because finally, the intelligent management of office spaces or spaces available in a company restaurant is like the intelligent management of spaces in a company car park, the Montpellier startup MyCarSpot has extended its functional coverage from 2020. Consequently, the name of its application, which explicitly promised "a place to park" with a logo incorporating the parking symbol, no longer corresponds to the reality of its activity.


This is the reason why the startup is making an identity shift and adopting the new name of Sharvy, in reference to "to share", which can be associated with all existing contexts of use, whether parking, office, restaurant or other to come.

“We have voluntarily chosen Anglo-Saxon consonances because it corresponds to our international development strategy,” explains Stéphane Seigneurin, co-founder of the startup in 2018 with Alexandre Michel. We generate more than 30% of our turnover internationally, and the application is available in six languages ??and used in around ten countries. "

"Respect the filling gauges of their offices"
Today, the startup claims a hundred customers in Europe and manages 20,000 parking spaces. The start-up is also already optimizing the occupation of more than 55,000 m2 of offices in France and Europe.

Major accounts work with Sharvy, such as La Mutuelle Générale, JC Decaux, Lavazza, Merck, Groupe Atlantique, or Onet, and more recently "the Tarkett group in La Défense, EDF in the Port-Marianne district in Montpellier, France Adviner, l 'IRD de Marseille, Ecole Sup de Co de Pau, and discussions are underway with Airbus, ”explains Stéphane Seigneurin.

“We have experienced a strong acceleration since this start of the school year,” underlines the manager. We are currently supporting the opening of the new headquarters of the Vinci France group in Nanterre, i.e. 4,000 people and 1,000 parking spaces. Two weeks ago, we started at Engie's Urban Garden site in Lyon, where 2,000 employees work for 400 parking spaces ... The working environment has changed a lot with teleworking. We have noticed, for example, that employees who have parking spaces are those who will telework the most, which allows them to share their parking space with other employees. "

On the office side, “customers found themselves in the situation of having to respect the filling gauges of their offices, of managing the problem of employee traceability to know who is present in the office and who is not, and '' provide secure access to the office. We now offer additional services such as the ability to indicate which offices have been occupied by cleaning teams. For example, at Nestlé, employees scan the QR code of their office in the morning to indicate that the office has been occupied and to notify cleaning teams. For those who have an assigned office, Sharvy allows all employees to know who will be there or not, and therefore also to know which office will be free and therefore to be shared with employees who are passing through ”.

United States in 2022
Sharvy also continues to improve the features dedicated to parking. The application now makes it possible to give priority to employees using carpooling or electric vehicles, or to manage overflows to secondary car parks.

Today, Sharvy claims a presence in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Moldova, Hungary and Germany. The fundraising of 1.2 million euros carried out in November 2020 was intended in particular to accelerate its international deployment. What Stéphane Seigneurin confirms: “The objective is to strengthen our presence in Europe especially and also to attack the United States, but rather in 2022. A business developer has just joined us and another will arrive in October. And we will go to CES in Las Vegas in January 2022 with the Occitanie Region and the French Tech Méditerranée ”.

Sharvy should end the year 2021 with a turnover of 1 million euros and aims for 2 million in 2022.