Anne Gérard and her brother Jie Gérard co-founded GERARD FARM. Together, they designed a robot called Poopy, which helps outdoor farmers triple their income. How? The robot collects fecal matter so that it can be converted into energy through dry biomethanization, and this green electricity is sold.
Anne and her brother are NIMA (not from an agricultural background). They visited many farms, particularly dairy farms, with the initial idea of opening a cheese dairy. Good cheese requires good milk and a beautiful farm.
However, the reality is that farming and livestock breeding are currently difficult, low-paying, and unsustainable professions. The solution quickly became apparent: work on a project aimed at deploying autonomous green energy generation by utilizing the raw material resource that is animal waste from livestock farms.
Anne, an engineer from Grande Ecole Engineering Programme Arts et Métiers Grande Ecole Engineering Programme Arts et Métiers Class of 2021), has always been personally committed to fostering harmony between the animal and human worlds.
👉 Together with his brother, an artificial intelligence engineer, they are now incubated at the Arts et Métiers campus incubator Arts et Métiers Paris and recently won the Entreprendre pour demain award from the Sopra Steria Foundation-Institut de France!
Thanks to this award, the start-up GERARD FARM will receive €10,000 in funding, comprehensive support for the project and entrepreneurial methodology from Vianeo, and six months of incubation at Planetic Lab in Paris . A mentor from Sopra Steria will also provide support for the project throughout its duration.
