Company

Our mission

E-peas’ mission is to enable the seamless operation of all connected nodes, anywhere, anytime, in any conditions with smart, innovative solutions.

Overview

e-peas stands for Electronic Portable Energy Autonomous Systems.

The company was founded in 2014 on the conviction that the trillions of connected nodes of the IoT to be deployed in the next few years will require disruptive solutions to extend batteries life-time. Only two ways exist to reach this objective:

• by increasing the amount of harvested energy
• by drastically reducing the energy consumption of all power consuming blocs of the system.

At e-peas, we believe that new applications will ultimately be made possible by the combination of both approaches.

Relying on 15 years of research and its patented disruptive technologies, e-peas offers a portfolio of products including photovoltaic, thermoelectric, vibration, and RF harvesters interface ICs, microcontrollers and sensors solutions, all thought to be easily interfaced in order to improve system robustness and reduce your application development time.

Leadership

• Geoffroy Gosset

  CEO – Co-Founder

  Geoffroy Gosset received the Industrial Engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Metiers (ECAM), Belgium, in 2005, after pursuing his Master thesis research at Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland and the M.Sc. degree in electromechanical engineering as well as the Ph.D. degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 2007 and 2013 respectively. In 2013 and 2014, he pursued a MBA at the Louvain School of Management.

• Julien De Vos

  CTO – Co-Founder

  Julien De Vos received the M.Sc.degree in electromechanical engineering in engineering science and the Ph.D. degree from Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 2008, and 2013 respectively. In 2012, he was a visiting Ph.D student at STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France, in DC/DC converter design. In 2014, he received the ICTEAM Thesis Award for his Ph.D. work. His research interests include low-power circuit design, wireless sensor networks, and DC/DC converters with a specific interest on switched-capacitor networks and on energy harvesters management.

• Jean-Paul Bardyn

  Chief Operating Officer

  Jean-Paul Bardyn joined e-peas to drive its operations after many years as corporate CTO of Semtech (SMTC). His 30 years of experience in this industry are marked by being the VP of Research and Development for the worlwide LoRa team and leading the roadmap working group of the LoRa alliance. Jean-Paul has started building his expertise in 1983 by gaining an Engineering Degree from ISEN Lille (FR) and successfully completing his PhD from the University of Lille (FR) in 1990. The same year, he founded mixed-silicon structures and co-founded Xemics in 1997 which was acquired by Semtech in 2005.

• Christian Ferrier

  Chief Marketing Officer

  Christian Ferrier is driving e-peas marketing strategy and sales after 12 years in Semtech (SMTC). He is experienced in both the business and technical aspects of the IoT and IT marketplace and has years of experience in building strategic relationships with many successful outcomes. Christian's last years position was worldwide Product Marketing Director of LoRa's 2.4GHz product line and director of the global EDA organisation at Semtech. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of  Nexlink SA, Hosted and IT services. Christian got his engineering degree from EIVD (CH) in 1999, EMBA from the university of Applied Sciences at HEG ARC and Certificate of Advanced Studies in company management (CH) in 2014.

Investors

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  The Faktory

  9th of December 2014 and 30th of September 2016

  We are proud to be backed by a private seed investment fund – The Faktory – created by a true entrepreneur like Pierre L’Hoest.

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  WING

  30th of September 2016 and 31th of July 2017

  WING (Wallonia Innovation and Growth) is a new investment fund for the Walloon digital startups, launched as part of the implementation of Digital Wallonia.

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  Partech

  31th of July 2017

  Partech Ventures is a global investment firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar.

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  Airbus Ventures

  31th of July 2017

  Headquartered in Silicon Valley and Paris, Airbus ventures is an early-stage investment group seeking exceptional, inspired founders from around the world who will set the course for ground-breaking innovation in mobility, security, and the future of flight.

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  JCDecaux

  31th of July 2017

  JCDecaux— now the global industry leader — is an international player focused exclusively on outdoor advertising, developing 3 areas of business: street furniture, transport advertising and billboard advertising.

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  Semtech Corporation

  31th of July 2017

  Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor platforms and advanced algorithms, having 31 offices worldwide, located in 14 different countries.

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  VIVES

  31th of July 2017

  VIVES is a multi-sectoral technology fund that invests in UCL spin-offs and start-ups in both Belgium and neighbouring countries. The fund invests in the different developmental stages of a company : seed, start-up and growth.