M6 proposed, this Wednesday, February 8, the last episode of the third season of Who wants to be my partner? And a project hit very hard by achieving the biggest fundraiser of this edition. Exceptionally, the entrepreneur did not face five investors, but the six business angels of the program, Delphine André, Éric Larchevêque, Jean-Pierre Nadir, Anthony Bourbon, Isabèle Chevalier and Marc Simoncini. Thierry Carlin created Helio Water, a device that produces drinking water from seawater and to treat any type of water that is currently unfit for consumption. An innovative system that relies solely on renewable energy.
Helio Water (Who wants to be my partner?): the record deal of the third season with 1,000,000 euros!
The entrepreneur had come to ask investors for 250,000 euros for 5% of the shares of his company. Marc Simoncini was absolutely thrilled by Thierry’s project and immediately offered 500,000 euros against 10% of the company. “The first who makes an offer, I kill him”, he warned other investors. Éric Larchevêque and Isabèle Chevalier nevertheless wanted to follow their playmate and offer, in addition, 250,000 euros for 5% of the company, each. It is therefore with 1,000,000 euros against 20% of the capital, that the entrepreneur concluded the deal. “We had already worked on the development of the company and we wanted our process to be marketed from the beginning of 2023. It’s really unrelated to the show. It really came at the right time to speed everything up”told us the entrepreneur, delighted with this experience.
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“Apparently, it’s rather fast, according to M6”
Thierry then revealed to us exclusively the rest of the negotiations. And things went very, very quickly for Helio Water, much more than for other projects this season. “Very quickly, I was contacted by Marc Simoncini, who took the lead over the three investors and who offered to work in a structured way with his lawyers and my lawyer. So, we set up a whole procedure , which is classic when an investor enters a company. There is an audit that is done. There are agreements that are signed. Today, we are in a well advanced phase, since we have signed the first agreement, which are the broad outlines of the shareholders’ agreement. We really agreed on everything. And there, we are in the legal audit phase. A completely classic procedure, so it’s progressing well. We have planned an effective entry, a signature of the final agreement for the end of February“, he detailed. “Apparently, it’s rather fast, according to M6”he rejoiced.
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“We are in the starting blocks”
The entrepreneur would like things to go even faster for the development of his project. “This money will really be used to start a very intense commercial phase, especially abroad. Where the need is most felt. (…) We are in the starting blocks, we have started to prepare the stock. We started to audit for recruitment, to find the production premises. We’re doing everything we can to be ready when the time comes.” he added.
