AGENIUM

AGENIUM GROUP specializes in the deployment of software solutions and techniques in the defence, industrial and space sectors. Currently with about sixty staff, it is structured around two business units. In defence, the group’s core market, AGENIUM IT & SYSTEMS offers innovative solutions and a comprehensive range of services for training and systems simulation. The company has developed a platform on which its clients and partners can acquire a hyper-realistic simulation environment in an operational multi-domain and multi-field framework. It is also an acknowledged player in the obsolescence treatment of critical systems.  

In addition to its long-established activities, the Group has developed by creating AGENIUM SPACE, a French deep tech entity, around a team of specialists in artificial intelligence and observation of Earth. AGENIUM SPACE has developed a Deep Learning at the Edge service (onboard) that simplifies and executes neural networks in extremely compact environments (such as nanosats) without altering their performance.  

Context of the deal

To Europeanize its sales, the company, which deploys software solutions and techniques for sectors with a high degree of technological expertise such as defence, aeronautics and space, collected €5m with Axio Capital, the Definvest fund of the Minister of the Armed Forces managed by Bpifrance, Galia Gestion and CEN Capital Développement. 

The group, formed in 2003, has experienced real traction and a change of scale since 2018, thanks largely to the renewal of its management team. 

Axio Capital wished to play a part in this new story by structuring the company to match a growing level of business sustained by a healthy defence sector and the “New Space” revolution while also enabling it to position itself on large-scale projects. Furthermore, this fund-raising campaign gives the group the means to market its new “deep learning” technological solution.