PRESS RELEASE
Paris, October 2, 2025
Actions de Partage: GENEO Capital Entrepreneur's innovation to support Simon de Cyrène's ambition and inclusive housing, and give meaning to investment.
GENEO Capital Entrepreneur, an investment company dedicated to SMEs and ETIs, is breaking new ground by creating Actions de Partage to support Simon de Cyrène. This unique value-sharing mechanism will combine evergreen financial investment with charitable action, to support the opening of 30 new inclusive homes over the next 5 years, offering disabled people a shared, independent living environment.
Created in 2006, the Simon de Cyrène association is developing shared homes where people who have become disabled after a life accident (head injury, stroke, brain damage, etc.) and able-bodied people live together. Born of their experience, it is based on a simple observation: beyond the physical or cognitive after-effects, it is often loneliness that constitutes the greatest suffering.
Simon de Cyrène, a pioneer in the development of inclusive housing, aims to double its capacity to create 30 new shared housing units by 2030.
Each resident has his or her own studio and co-manages the common areas - living room, kitchen, dining room - in a spirit of fraternity, autonomy and co-responsibility. Simon de Cyrène's shared homes are thus guided by values of mutual trust, autonomy and independence, but also accessibility, openness to others, and a spirit of profound mutual aid that enables everyone, able-bodied or disabled, to find their rightful place.
Today, the association supports 800 disabled people, including 300 in shared homes, spread across 30 open homes located in 8 towns: it is the leading national inclusive housing network for this public and enjoys the support of over 11,000 people across France. This social innovation was awarded the "La France s'engage" prize in 2015 and inspired the law on inclusive housing, which has spawned more than 2,000 projects in France.
This social innovation provides a major response to the challenge of extreme frailty (disability, old age) in our society. It was honored in 2015 by the French President's "La France s'engage" award, which enabled the association to make a plea that inspired the law on inclusive housing, at the origin of more than 2,000 projects in France.
Ultimately, the development of the network should enable 1,000 disabled people to rebuild their lives, with 600 homes built, 400 stable jobs created, and more than 2,000 family members, volunteers and staff involved in the experience of solidarity and living together.
On the strength of these results, Simon de Cyrène now aims to multiply its impact and open 30 new homes by 2030 in cities such as Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Lille.
This ambitious plan represents €89.5m of investment, of which €57.2m has already been committed and €32.3m remains to be financed. In Lille, for example, a project valued at 4.8 M€ is currently in preparation.
Thanks to its evergreen dimension, GENEO has created a unique tool for financing associations over the long term: sharing actions.
As a long-term investment company with a mission, GENEO Capital Entrepreneur has made 4 statutory commitments, including a strong commitment to value sharing, which is already reflected in the development of employee shareholding in its holdings and the donation of a third of the team's carried interest to a philanthropic endowment fund.
For Simon de Cyrène, GENEO goes one step further and offers a unique system: Actions de Partage, which combines an investment in GENEO with a redistribution mechanism for the benefit of Simon de Cyrène.
In concrete terms, people wishing to support Simon de Cyrène can, in addition to the usual solution of making an annual donation, invest in GENEO shares, which will trigger automatic, recurring funding for the association each time GENEO pays a dividend.
Actions de Partage, available from €100,000, are based on GENEO's evergreen model, which guarantees stability and visibility:
- a diversified portfolio of 22 companies (SMEs and ETIs), built up over the past 7 years,
- remuneration in the form of annual dividends, when results permit,
- a long-term horizon, aligning investment with business needs.
At the time of investment, the subscriber can instruct GENEO to pay 30% of its gross annual dividend to the Simon de Cyrène association to finance its development plan. The GENEO Community Endowment Fund has decided to match these annual payments.
As the investment vehicle is deployed at 100%, the amount is invested in a single operation, entitling the investor to dividends from the very first year. The mechanism for repayment to the association is therefore immediate and, subject to results, should enable Simon de Cyrène to benefit from resources as early as July 2026.
Each year, the association provides an impact report to measure the project's progress in concrete terms. It also provides ongoing communication on its developments and needs.
Over and above financial flows, this partnership embodies a form of collective commitment: investors become members of the GENEO Community, part of an entrepreneurial dynamic serving inclusion and social cohesion.
" Thanks to this collaboration, we are giving new impetus to the opening of our shared homes. Over and above financing, GENEO is committing itself to a social approach based on dignity, encounters and living together."
Laurent de Cherisey, General Manager of the Simon de Cyrène Federation and co-founder of maisons partagées
" This commitment is fully in line with the mission we have set ourselves: to put our capacity for financial innovation at the service of an association whose human and social impact is exemplary. Together, we share the same vision: to make finance a concrete lever for building a more inclusive society. "
Fanny Letier and François Rivolier, co-founders of GENEO Capital Entrepreneur
Like all private equity instruments, sharing shares carry a risk of capital loss and a liquidity risk. They are reserved for professional, well-informed investors. For further information, please refer to GENEO Capital's articles of association.
For further information, please contact :
- Simon de Cyrène's Collections Manager, Laure Jamet (laure.jamet@simondecyrene.org ; 06 62 60 47 12)
- GENEO Capital's Investor Relations Manager : Nicolas Lapeyre (nicolas@geneocapitalentrepreneur.com ; 07 83 14 28 99)
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About Simon de Cyrène
The Simon de Cyrène association develops and runs shared homes, community living spaces where able-bodied adults and people who have become disabled (as a result of brain injury, head trauma, stroke, etc.) share a friendly, supportive relationship.
Founded in 2006, the association offers an innovative response based on the conviction that life takes on meaning in a free relationship with others.
Each shared home brings together a number of disabled and able-bodied adults who freely choose to live there and play an active role in "living together". Each has his or her own private studio and co-manages shared living areas (lounge, dining room, kitchen, etc.).
Today, almost 1,000 disabled and able-bodied people take part in shared living at Simon de Cyrène, with 30 shared homes (i.e. almost 300 units) and 12 daytime activity centers. 21 shared homes are currently under development.
For more information, please visit their official website: https://www.simondecyrene.org
https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-simon-de-cyrene/
About the management company GENEO Capital Entrepreneur
GENEO Capital Entrepreneur's raison d'être is to provide the real economy with positive finance that reconciles performance and meaning.
Designed to unlock the value-creation, job-creation and impact-creation potential of SMEs and ETIs, GENEO Capital Entrepreneur has nearly 740 million euros under management. In particular, it manages the "evergreen" investment company GENEO Capital, whose capital is majority-owned by families and entrepreneurs. GENEO thus provides tailor-made capital that adapts to the pace of each company, offering responsiveness and flexibility.
As a business partner and mission-driven company, GENEO mobilizes all its teams, including specialized business partners (external growth, liability structuring, positive impact, digital and innovation), to support the execution of structuring, growth and transformation projects. It also boasts a platform of over 70 independent experts and a Community of over 230 families and entrepreneurs, offering a unique opportunity to share experience and build a business network unmatched in France. The terms of this operational support are tailored to the specific needs of each company, and formalized jointly by the GENEO team, the management team and the company's other shareholders in a "Carnet de croissance".
Passionate about those who make, create and want to move the lines, the only ambition of the GENEO team is to bring the ambition of each entrepreneur to the top.
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