JEMS Group, an expert in Big Data and the leading player in the data industry, is acquiring Emotic, a digital strategy and innovation agency based in Nantes.
The operation is part of JEMS' external growth strategy and its ambition to become the European leader in data and Big Data industries. It will allow the group, which already has a presence in Nantes, to extend its reach in the West of France and strengthen its digital innovation offering, particularly in the development of digital products for its clients.
Founded in 2007, Emotic is a Digital Services Company specialising in Strategy consulting and digital innovation, offering strong expertise in innovative digital strategy solutions, software product and platform development, and design. Emotic undertakes projects for a client base of mid-to-large companies (ETI) and major accounts such as Saint Gobain, Groupe BPCE, Enedis, SNCF, and RATP.
Emotic has around thirty employees: designers, embedded engineers, new technology developers, and project managers. Its teams respond with agility and speed to all needs in UX (user experience) strategy and deployment, and in emerging technologies, to accelerate the creation and integration of new digital uses for its major clients and startups.
Additional offers
Emotic's offering complements that of JEMS, whose business involves creating, managing, and exploiting companies' data assets. A pure player in Data Manufacturing, JEMS has 745 employees and achieved a turnover of 74 million euros in 2022.
The group offers bespoke services that transform company data into real assets. It advises its clients on data architecture and the choice of tools to be used, implements data platforms, and maps data and its uses. JEMS also deploys specific environments and services for its clients, and knows how to implement data use cases with AI.
Nicolas Laroche, Managing Director and Jacques Benhamou, President of JEMS:
« We are delighted with the acquisition of the Emotic company. This external growth is perfectly in line with the Group's strategy, and allows us to consolidate our presence in the West region. We were impressed by the professionalism and high level of expertise of all the Emotic teams.».
André Renaison, partner at Meanings Capital Partners and Guillaume Wolff, Investment Director
« We are very pleased to have been able to support JEMS's management in their thinking strategic and thus lay the first stone of the group's ambitious strategy, particularly in terms of external growth in Western Europe.»
Michael Thoby, Chairman and Founder:
«We are very pleased to join the JEMS Group, with whom we have real strategic complementarity, as well as its management, which we found to be of high quality.»
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