She wants to make life easier for amateur gardeners. The Breton start-up Ortusia markets kits that allow you to make your organic vegetable garden at home and that adapt to all spaces: garden, courtyard, terrace or balcony. Two brothers are at the origin of its creation, Michel and Guillaume le Denmat both in their thirties. Michel is a computer engineer and Guillaume has an eco-landscape training. During their childhood, these two nature enthusiasts were bathed in gardening practiced in the family home in Ploubalay in the Côtes d’Armor.
Five vegetable garden kits and an educational app
Ortusia is aimed more at gardeners in cities who only have small plots. Five kits, offering five different vegetable ranges, are marketed, at less than 20 euros each, in garden centers in particular. A kit is baptized, not without humour, “Breizh who can”. “This kit is our first regional” enthused Michel le Denmat “the objective is to discover Breton varieties such as the small gray melon from Rennes, the wild strawberry, the early tomato from Quimper or even a flower that we like in Brittany, the poppy“. An educational application allows amateur gardeners to follow the development of seedlings and their maintenance on their computer. The seedlings are of biological origin, the kit is made of cardboard, it is manufactured by disabled staff from a Reindeer esat and it is eco-designed.
Looking for private investors
Ortusia now wants to expand to create three jobs in marketing and sales. The two brothers are looking for private investors with the objective of raising funds of 150,000 euros.
We are in a phase where we want to accelerate. We have already sold our first 10,000 kits. In 2022, we released our second optimized version of our application with today 8,000 users – Michel le Denmat
The start-up accelerator, Novapuls, installed in a building in the Euro Rennes park, is currently helping Michel and Guillaume le Denmat to find investors, the only solution to develop.
MORE INFORMATIONS : Ortusia’s website