HVAC & refrigeration
Preventive and corrective maintenance, service contracts, plant replacement, commercial and industrial refrigeration.
Multi-technical building services
Bringing together the companies that keep buildings running.
Mantea unites high-quality small and mid-sized companies in multi-technical building maintenance — HVAC, electrical, plumbing, energy efficiency, building management systems — to build the reference consolidator of the sector in France and Europe.
€18bnFrench multi-technical building maintenance market
6,534Small and mid-sized companies serving it
6Trades brought together within the group
100%Of companies keep their name and their teams
Mantea estimates — French multi-technical building maintenance market.
The group
A skilled market, spread across thousands of independent companies.
Multi-technical maintenance rests on solid companies: decades of accumulated craft, loyal teams, recurring service contracts and clients who renew year after year.
Taken individually, these companies stay at a distance from multi-site tenders, national accounts and the digital investment their clients now expect. The energy transition of buildings is creating demand that only organisations with broad coverage and engineering capacity can serve.
Mantea brings them together. Each company keeps its name, its teams and its local roots. The group provides financial strength, shared support functions and access to national contracts.
Mantea is a federated group: operational autonomy at company level, mutualised finance, payroll, procurement, insurance and IT at group level, and a community of managing directors who share practice and bid together.
Our trades
Electrical & low voltage
Distribution, lighting, statutory inspections, structured cabling, EV charging infrastructure.
Plumbing & sanitary
Water networks, domestic hot water, water treatment, legionella risk management.
Energy efficiency
Audits, metering, energy performance contracts, heat pumps and heat recovery, decarbonisation.
BMS & smart building
Building management systems, multi-site supervision, controls, instrumentation and remote operation.
Fire safety & security
Detection, suppression, smoke control, access control and video surveillance.
For business owners
Passing on your company without erasing what you built.
Selling to a group that absorbs you, or handing over to an individual buyer without means: many owners hesitate between these two routes. Mantea offers a third.
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Your teams continue
The transfer takes place with headcount unchanged. Contracts, seniority, organisation and management stay in place.
- 02
Your brand remains
The name your clients know stays on the vans and on the quotations, with the added mention of the Mantea group.
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You can stay invested
Part of the price may be reinvested in the holding company, making you a shareholder of the whole group.
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New markets open up
Multi-site tenders, national framework agreements, cross-selling between trades and mutualised purchasing terms.
For investors
A consolidation thesis on a €18bn market.
Contractual revenue, demand supported by energy regulation, and a market structure spread across thousands of independent companies.
Recurring and regulated
Maintenance contracts renew, statutory inspections are a legal obligation, and the energy retrofit of commercial buildings supports demand over the decade.
Widely spread
Around €18bn of revenue served by some 6,534 companies, mostly regional and single-trade. Large European players cover the top of the market, leaving a broad field to consolidate.
A change in the nature of the asset
A regional company and a national multi-trade platform are valued on different references. Moving from one to the other is the core of the value creation.
Bertrand de Poly
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder of Aquyre Biosciences: fundraising, FDA clearance, partnerships with Canon Medical and Johnson & Johnson. President of Club Repreneurs HEC. HEC Paris, certified Operating Partner (CAPOP).
Badr Hjiaj
Co-founder & CFO
Former Managing Director of GreenOffice. Restructuring and integration of more than 35 subsidiaries. ESCP, Finance.
David Boccara
M&A adviser
13 years of mid-market M&A. Partner France at Effective Capital (11 years). Started at Rothschild & Cie. Partner at Nine58 since 2024.
Disclaimer
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