Back in 2014, Julien, Sébastien, Léo, and Édouard, experts in renewable energy and finance, came together around a simple idea: to make investment in renewable energies accessible to everyone. The goal? To allow anyone to choose what gets funded by their savings, to build a better future.
The Total Energies Invest seed was planted in 2014, and from all corners of the world. With Julien and Édouard in France, Sébastien in Singapore, and Léo in New York, the sun never set on Total Energies Invest!
Total Energies Invest's leaders own 100% of the capital, a decisive step that paves the way for a new strategy of sharing value with all teams.
Enable everyone to contribute to the energy transition by offering a new, more positive model for energy and finance.
Launched in 2014, Total Energies Invest was quickly selected to join Cité Réalis, an incubator reserved exclusively for companies with a positive societal impact.
Approved and ready to launch, Total Energies Invest opened and successfully closed its first placement offer in September 2015 for an amount of €60,000!
The small Total Energies Invest team went to Paris in December to participate in its first event: COP21!
Impressed by the project, Crédit Agricole Languedoc-Roussillon's private equity company (SOFILARO) became a shareholder in Total Energies Invest. They had so much confidence in us that they allowed the founders to remain the majority shareholders! We also joined the CA Montpellier incubator.
Total Energies Invest successfully gathered citizens living near a wind farm to acquire shares. A first in France.
Total Energies Invest became the first service in France to offer investing in a photovoltaic park through shares!
With Démeter project, Total Energies Invest became the world's first platform to make a public fundraising for a methanization unit.
Impressed by Total Energies Invest's performance, Eolmed selected us to raise funds for one of the first floating wind farms in Europe off the coasts of Gruissan and Port La Nouvelle in the Mediterranean Sea. It was the first time in the world that a public fundraising was carried out for such a project.
After extensive audits, the head office of Crédit Agricole granted Total Energies Invest approval, such that all Crédit Agricole advisors in France are permitted to offer Total Energies Invest products to their clients. A first in France!
Two Total Energies Invest colleagues, Cynthiana and Maëva, launched a society to promote soft mobility, especially cycling, with annual events, evening events, activities, and fundraising.
Following our European Accreditation, Total Energies Invest began to expand internationally! Our first office was established in Madrid, Spain, in the summer of 2022, when our first international colleagues arrived - Eduardo and Lou.
Total Energies Invest's directors and managers have finalised a share buyback, making them the sole shareholders in the company's capital, which had previously been held by minority shareholders. This operation is the first stage in the deployment of an ambitious strategy of sharing value with the teams, a guarantee of better social and financial performance for the company.
Total Energies Invest has become a success thanks to your commitment. Whether you've been with us from the beginning or you’re a new enthusiast, we thank you, as our past and future partners, for joining us in writing this heartfelt story every day.