UPMYCO, YOUR GROWTH PARTNERConcrete solutions to meet your challenges
A bridge between European standards and African realities, for bankable projects.
Upgrade My Company: your partner for concrete and sustainable growth.
Strategy, finance, and people: sustainable performance built with you.
Analysis transformed into action, for tangible results.
UPMYCO, YOUR GROWTH PARTNERConcrete solutions to meet your challenges
A bridge between European standards and African realities, for bankable projects.
Upgrade My Company: your partner for concrete and sustainable growth.
Strategy, finance, and people: sustainable performance built with you.
Analysis transformed into action, for tangible results.
Upgrade My Company
This name reflects our mission:
Supporting our clients in their growth and sustainable value creation.
VALUE AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE CREATORS
UPMYCO benefits from rare bicultural expertise, at the crossroads of European standards and African realities.
We stand out through our nuanced understanding of African entrepreneurial ecosystems—local networks, practices, donor expectations—essential expertise to make your projects “bankable” in sometimes heterogeneous environments.
This dual legitimacy enables us to understand expectations of international investors and executives while mastering local economic contexts.
The firm draws on solid experience in corporate finance, strategy, and management, nurtured by diverse engagements with value creation as their ultimate goal.
We combine agility with personalized human support; in our approach, we blend proximity with results-oriented pragmatism.
This posture, highly valued by executives, is reinforced by our founding partner’s availability and the lasting trust-based relationships we systematically establish.
UPMYCO is a growth partner, by your side from strategic thinking through to results. We are grounded in business reality and put strategy and finance at the service of executive vision.
“UPMYCO was created based on a deep conviction: companies deserve accessible consulting that is clear, actionable, rigorous, and pragmatic. Our goal is to make them earn money, not to dazzle boardrooms with beautiful presentations. Analysis must be transformed into concrete actions and tangible results for our clients.”
Pierre BITON
Founder and Managing Partner
“UPMYCO was created based on a deep conviction: companies deserve accessible consulting that is clear, actionable, rigorous, and pragmatic. Our goal is to make them earn money, not to dazzle boardrooms with beautiful presentations. Analysis must be transformed into concrete actions and tangible results for our clients.”
Pierre BITON
Founder and Managing Partner
WHAT WE DO
We support businesses, executives, and investment funds.
We provide advice and a range of solutions in FOUR complementary areas of expertise:
Transaction
preparation
Corporate
finance
Strategy and
organization
Outsourced CFO
SERVICE AREA
Based in the South of France and active internationally, our service area spans France and French-speaking Africa, where our team possesses specialized expertise through extensive professional and personal experience.
OUR BELIEFS
Born from over twenty years of international experience, UPMYCO embodies a strong conviction: sustainable performance is built at the intersection of strategy, financial rigor, and people.
Our DNA rests on three essential pillars:
Strategic clarity
Helping executives make structural decisions with clear-sightedness, method, and foresight.
Financial mastery
Transforming complexity into concrete, readable, and actionable indicators.
Human relationships
Supporting with pedagogy, listening, and trust, in a co-creation approach.
IN PRACTICE
- We support you in making your company investor-friendly
- We help you prepare for a sale or an equity offering, working with you to identify ways to grow your EBITDA and maximize your valuation, as well as to enhance the quality of your corporate governance.
- We prepare you to control your narrative and approach investor questions with confidence. We build data room documentation or pitch narratives together with your teams.
- We support our clients in building their strategic plan, objectives, business plan, budgets, and reporting.
- For SMEs seeking structure and management systems, we design and help you implement profitability management tools (budgets, reporting, analytics, margin and performance control).
- When needed, we intervene to help you better manage cash flow or design cost reduction plans.
- We also offer different types of audits (independent business review, diagnostic audit, organizational audit) to help you integrate best practices, identify risks, or work on improvement areas.
- We can support you in executive committee facilitation, to unlock interpersonal communication issues or strengthen team buy-in to the company project.
- Finally, if you want to free up leadership time and benefit from strategic operational support, the personalized services of our outsourced CFO department are designed for you - they're cost-effective and allow you to refocus on your company's development and core business.
DISCOVER OUR TEAM
A team of experts committed to your success.
Questions & answers
What makes a project "bankable" and how does UPMYCO help?
A project is "bankable" when it is solid and credible enough to secure financing from banks or investors: clean financials, a documented business plan and well-managed risks.
A bankable project reassures financiers about its ability to generate revenue and repay. UPMYCO structures the financing file: a rigorous business plan, financial modeling, clean accounts and prepared answers to lenders' questions. Thanks to its nuanced understanding of African entrepreneurial ecosystems (local networks, practices, donor expectations), the firm adapts this preparation to sometimes heterogeneous environments, in France and across French-speaking Africa, to maximize the chances of securing funding.
What is UPMYCO's bicultural European and African expertise?
UPMYCO holds a rare bicultural expertise at the crossroads of European standards and African realities. It understands the expectations of international investors and executives while mastering local economic contexts, networks and donor practices across French-speaking Africa.
UPMYCO's founders built their experience over more than 20 years across Europe and French-speaking Africa, which gives the firm a dual legitimacy that few advisors offer. On one side, a command of European financial and strategic standards expected by international investors and executives. On the other, a nuanced understanding of African entrepreneurial ecosystems: local networks, business practices and donor expectations. This bicultural perspective lets UPMYCO support leaders in their international development or local establishment with a keen awareness of economic and cultural realities, and it is decisive when making a project bankable in heterogeneous environments. Whether you are a French company expanding abroad, a fund assessing an African asset or a local entrepreneur seeking structure, UPMYCO bridges both worlds with the same rigor and pragmatism.
Bridging Europe and Africa for your project: talk to UPMYCO.
How does UPMYCO measure the success of its engagements?
UPMYCO measures success by the concrete results it delivers for clients, not by the presentations it produces. The firm commits to objectives set at the start of each engagement and stays involved until they are achieved, with measurable outcomes such as EBITDA improvement and higher valuation.
At UPMYCO, success is not measured by the number of slides, but by real impact on the business. The firm rejects theoretical recommendations: every analysis is turned into concrete, measurable action. Objectives are defined at the start of the engagement and tracked over time. The orders of magnitude observed illustrate this standard: EBITDA improvement of +25% to +40% on optimization engagements, valuation multiplied by 1.5 to 5 on sale-preparation work, and 92% of action plans delivered to their objectives. The founders stay personally involved and present until results are in. It is this commitment to outcomes, not just efforts, that guides every engagement, and it is the reason executives describe the relationship as a true co-pilot partnership rather than a detached advisory service.
Let's set your outcome targets together: contact UPMYCO.
Why was UPMYCO founded?
UPMYCO was founded on a clear conviction: companies deserve accessible consulting that is clear, actionable, rigorous and pragmatic, with the goal of making them money rather than dazzling boardrooms.
Drawing on more than 20 years in international financial and general management, the founders created the firm they would have wanted as executives: advisors who genuinely understand business challenges and deliver pragmatic solutions, with real involvement in the client's success. UPMYCO was built to help executives step out of the isolation they face in complex situations and to lead the transformations they need. Its conviction is simple: analysis must be transformed into concrete actions and tangible results, not beautiful presentations.










