One team, one vision, one conviction: mobility must become safe, social, accessible and intelligent. POLVA was born to bridge the gap between user experience and the challenges of territories.
POLVA reconciles technological performance with user experience. We think of mobility as a living system: safety, collective intelligence, meaning.
Secured routes, community reports, SOS button: safety is not an option, it's the starting point.
Zou, our conversational AI, turns every journey into a dialogue: guidance, memory, personalization.
The city is built together. POLVA gives students, visitors and citizens tools to share, report and create connection.
PhD candidate in cognitive sciences, experience designer.
DeepTech entrepreneur & PhD candidate in cognitive sciences, I work at the intersection of human behaviors, real-world usage and technological systems.
I am today the founder & CEO of POLVA, a company that designs tailor-made mobility solutions for universities, tourism offices and local authorities. POLVA also develops its own application, The Student GPS, a smart navigation solution designed to facilitate the movements of students and city dwellers on a global scale.
My work rests on a strong conviction: mobility is not just about optimizing routes, but about understanding how individuals perceive, feel and experience their journeys on a daily basis.
It is in this spirit that I previously founded VASY, a multimodal urban mobility application. This project formed a foundation of research and experimentation that was decisive in building my current approach.
My journey has taught me one essential thing: a technology that ignores how people actually use it almost always ends up producing counterproductive effects.
I stand for an innovation that is:
— frugal
— inclusive
— responsible
— grounded in science and real-world usage, rather than driven by technological imperatives.
National programs, deeptech labels, academic partnerships and international missions.
International selection and funding program (Expertise France) for innovative African and diaspora startups.
Deeptech incubation and support at the BIC of Montpellier, within the French Tech ecosystem.
Research collaboration in cognitive sciences applied to mobility.
Startup pitch prize in Montpellier.
National recognition label for high-potential deeptech startups.
Member of the national student innovation and entrepreneurship network.
Territory, inclusion and innovation category.
Recognition for inclusive innovation and accessibility.
National label for territorial and digital innovation.
Selected for the tourism digitalization mission to Canada / USA.
A path that blends academia and the field, cognitive sciences and entrepreneurship.
POLVA is part of a demanding institutional and scientific ecosystem: public deeptech funding, academic research and international programs.
Institutional support for French deeptech innovation.
POLVA is part of the French Tech ecosystem, the label for innovative startups.
International program for export and development support.
Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier.
Cognitive sciences laboratory, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
Flagship international client. White-label application for the island of Djerba.
Whether you are a local authority, university, tourism office, student, scientific partner or investor, we would be delighted to talk with you.