Wintegreat, a non-for-profit start-up, training enterprise, was founded in 2015 by Théo Sculba. The founding value of the startup is optimisme.
It helps refugee families that are seeking to build a better future in France, by helping them integrate easily into the jobs market. On his arrivals to the ESCP Campus where he was admitted to study, Théo with an entrepreneurial mindset was eager to find a startup idea. In his first day at school he was invited to the center of refugees where he met two highly skilled immigrent individuals who weren’t working, when he saw that he realised that there was an opportunity to take here. Help train these highly skilled indivuals to adapt to the work life in France and find them jobs. Wishing two weeks, Wintgreat was founded. The company’s first seven recruits were from the MiM class which proved both a blessing and a curse, one of the first recruits went on to launch a for profit company, and others have left Wintegreat, over differences about business decisions. Théo admits that creating that team was a big mistake because not everyone was aligned with the company’s mission, which was to help refugees. Wintegraet provided at first a 12-week course covering covering various skills to help refugees fit in easily in a French entreprise, mainly communication and languages skills. Wintegrat grew, regardless of the difficulties it faced, to about 50 employees and it helps refugees to study in 13 French business schools as well as engineering schools and universities. it has trained more than 1,000 people, 95 per cent of whom report positive personal improvements, and 73 per cent say they have had a “positive outcome” within three months of starting the programme. Wintegreat and ESCP realtionship proved useful in the former’s international expansion because the school has campuses around Europe and further afield. The startup also opens on new opportunities in it’s effort to internationally expand as it’s making new operations with institutions in Germany and Italy by the end of 2020. Wintegreat’s courses are provided for free to refugees as it’s a non profit. The enterprise is able to provide it’s courses because of it’s relationship with the schools, the sponsor universities provide the training and facilities for free. The universities do sponsor Wintegreat ignorer to show they have an impact beyond just teaching students about business.
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