This is already one of the revelations of the fourth season of “Who Wants to Be My Partner?”
» on M6.
With his moving journey and his entrepreneurial spirit, Fabio Coupas convinced the investor Anthony Bourbon on Wednesday January 17.
Aged 21, after falling into alcohol and drugs, the young man gets his revenge: he officially founded the company CominGaïa in January 2023. The platform connects individuals and landscape gardeners.
Fabio Coupas started with just 100 euros in his pocket and used his first paycheck to buy a caravan to escape his family home.
With courage, he approached clients and took on projects.
He then identified several problems that he is now trying to resolve thanks to his application and his website.
Find a professional quickly
“Customers have a hard time finding a landscape gardener near them.
It takes time: you have to bring them to your home, wait for the quote and study it, look for opinions from former customers,” he analyzes.
On CominGaïa, everything goes faster.
They must enter their postal code, answer a few questions about their plot and their project then have access to a list of professionals.
“They can choose a maximum of ten.
The selected landscape gardeners receive the project and send them a quote within 24 hours,” summarizes Fabio Coupas.
Today, around
600 landscape gardeners
are registered on the platform.
“We have entered around fifty per day since the show aired,” certifies Fabio Coupas.
To help customers make their choice among all these professionals, CominGaïa distributes certifications to some.
Landscape gardeners must have received at least ten positive reviews from previous customers to benefit from this promotion.
“This guarantees their work, their mentality and of course it reassures customers,” assures the young business manager.
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For who ?
CominGaïa ensures coverage “all of France” thanks to its network of professionals.
Services range from regular or occasional garden maintenance to the design of a balcony.
“The typical profile of our clients: a family with two children, the parents are aged between 30 and 45, they have land of between 100 and 200 m²,” explains the entrepreneur.
But the company also targets urban dwellers with small exteriors.
In all cases, users of the website pay nothing to CominGaïa.
“They just have to pay for the service to the professional they have chosen,” he adds.
Landscape gardeners also benefit from this: no more prospecting and, above all, they obtain support for administrative procedures.
In fact, CominGaïa helps them in particular to produce quotes or invoices.
“It’s the application that I would have liked to have had when I started,” swears Fabio Coupas, also founder of the service company Coupas Jardin.
Soon a franchise?
During the show, Anthony Bourbon agreed to invest 200,000 euros against 11% of the capital of Fabio Coupas' companies.
In addition to obtaining financial assistance, the young man of course benefited from wide media exposure.
“With my career, I want to prove that everything is possible and that we can succeed,” he tells us.
He dreams of modernizing the image of the profession of landscape gardener, often considered as “a bypass” for young people with educational difficulties.
He believes in this market and will soon launch his own franchise based on the model of his first company founded in 2021. “At Coupas Jardinier, we have developed a method, a strategy and an image.
I started from 100 euros to reach a million euros in turnover,” he argues.
Within a year, he hopes to bring together enthusiasts under the same brand, the name of which has not yet been chosen.