After a very emotional testimony in Who wants to be my partner?, the farming couple managed to raise 70,000 euros from Éric Larchevêque and two other investors. Now they can imagine a better future for their family and their projects.
“Positive” ! In Who wants to be my partner?, where investors meet entrepreneurs seeking to raise funds, M6 viewers were able to discover the adventures of Jean-Sébastien and Marine, a couple of farmers. Faced with the vagaries of an increasingly difficult job, the couple tries to secure the future of their children by creating a reusable rye straw. An ecological project which found favor with Éric Larchevêque.
Eric Larchevèque saw Jean-Sébastien and Marine several times after Who wants to be my partner?
It must be said that for the co-founder of Ledger, 343rd fortune in France, this investment makes sense: the 49-year-old entrepreneur is indeed seeking to promote the French regions, he who was born in Vierzon, in the Cher. With his wife, he created an endowment fund to finance educational projects in the Centre-Val de Loire. Faced with the couple of farmers and the emotion aroused by their testimony, he thus entered the capital up to 24%, divided into shares of 8% between him, Delphine André and Jean-Pierre Nadir. Now partners, the cohabitation is going well: “So far it’s going well, the only thing we’re seeing together right now is preparing for the show,” entrusts Jean-Sébastien to Tele-Leisure. “We work together on the stock, the merchant site and the communication”, he adds in order to cope with the influx of visitors once the broadcast has passed. The trio saw each other several times in video, and helped them redesign the visual part of their website.
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Ecological and futuristic projects for the farming couple
As for Marc Simoncini, who had promised to contact his restaurant friends to offer them the couple’s straw, Jean-Sébastien indicates that he has not yet heard from: “For the moment no.” But hope is not lost, especially since they have other projects under development. Straws are only the beginning of a great story: “We are still at the project stage to replace disposable objects, we want to make straw-based products, a biomaterial (…) we are working on straw insulating panels for the construction of houses.” In the more distant future, it is a project in development with a local laboratory that the couple hopes to be able to offer. “horse dung logs for wood-burning stoves.” And if necessary, now very motivated, the two farmers will not hesitate to go back to investors to raise new funds.
