For this episode, Antonin Léonard sat down with Philippe Berlan, CEO of Everdye.

Philippe spent 25 years in the fashion industry, leading iconic French brands like Petit Bateau and La Redoute, where he orchestrated a remarkable turnaround through a management buyout.

Today, he's joined Everdye, a deeptech startup founded by Amira Erokh, to tackle one of fashion's biggest blind spots: textile dyeing.

Textile dyeing alone is responsible for 52% of the fashion industry's carbon impact and 20% of global water pollution. Yet while the industry focused on organic cotton and fiber recycling, nobody was fixing the dye.

Everdye's patented green chemistry technology enables dyeing at room temperature, reducing energy consumption by 8x, greenhouse gas emissions by 61-89%, and water pollution by over 90%.

In this conversation, we explore:

→ Why textile dyeing is fashion's hidden carbon problem

→ How a PhD discovery by accident led to a breakthrough in green chemistry

→ What it takes to leave a corporate career and join a 20-person startup at 55

→ The difference between running a 2,000-person company and a startup (the boat metaphor)

→ How to build a complementary relationship with a technical founder when you're not the inventor

→ Why Everdye could become the "Intel Inside" of sustainable fashion

To learn more: asterionventures.com

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Pour cet épisode, Antonin Léonard s'est entretenu avec Philippe Berlan, PDG d'Everdye.

Philippe a passé 25 ans dans l'industrie de la mode, à la tête de marques françaises emblématiques telles que Petit Bateau et La Redoute, où il a orchestré un redressement remarquable grâce à un rachat par les cadres.

Aujourd'hui, il a rejoint Everdye, une start-up deep tech fondée par Amira Erokh, pour s'attaquer à l'un des plus grands angles morts de la mode : la teinture textile.

À elle seule, la teinture textile est responsable de 52 % de l'impact carbone de l'industrie de la mode et de 20 % de la pollution mondiale de l'eau. Pourtant, alors que l'industrie se concentrait sur le coton biologique et le recyclage des fibres, personne ne s'intéressait à la teinture.

La technologie verte brevetée d'Everdye permet de teindre à température ambiante, réduisant ainsi la consommation d'énergie de 8 fois, les émissions de gaz à effet de serre de 61 à 89 % et la pollution de l'eau de plus de 90 %.

Dans cette conversation, nous explorons :

→ Pourquoi la teinture textile est le problème caché de l'industrie de la mode en matière de carbone.

→ Comment une découverte accidentelle faite dans le cadre d'un doctorat a conduit à une percée dans le domaine de la chimie verte.

→ Ce qu'il faut pour quitter une carrière dans une grande entreprise et rejoindre une start-up de 20 personnes à 55 ans.

→ La différence entre diriger une entreprise de 2 000 personnes et une start-up (la métaphore du bateau)

→ Comment établir une relation complémentaire avec un fondateur technique lorsque vous n'êtes pas l'inventeur

→ Pourquoi Everdye pourrait devenir l'« Intel Inside » de la mode durable

Pour en savoir plus : asterionventures.com

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For this episode, Antonin Léonard sat down with Philippe Berlan, CEO of Everdye.

Philippe spent 25 years in the fashion industry, leading iconic French brands like Petit Bateau and La Redoute, where he orchestrated a remarkable turnaround through a management buyout.

Today, he's joined Everdye, a deeptech startup founded by Amira Erokh, to tackle one of fashion's biggest blind spots: textile dyeing.

Textile dyeing alone is responsible for 52% of the fashion industry's carbon impact and 20% of global water pollution. Yet while the industry focused on organic cotton and fiber recycling, nobody was fixing the dye.

Everdye's patented green chemistry technology enables dyeing at room temperature, reducing energy consumption by 8x, greenhouse gas emissions by 61-89%, and water pollution by over 90%.

In this conversation, we explore:

→ Why textile dyeing is fashion's hidden carbon problem

→ How a PhD discovery by accident led to a breakthrough in green chemistry

→ What it takes to leave a corporate career and join a 20-person startup at 55

→ The difference between running a 2,000-person company and a startup (the boat metaphor)

→ How to build a complementary relationship with a technical founder when you're not the inventor

→ Why Everdye could become the "Intel Inside" of sustainable fashion

To learn more: asterionventures.com

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For this episode, Antonin Léonard sat down with Alex Haag, CEO and co-founder of Futurail.

Alex spent more than 15 years building autonomous systems in the automotive industry from being among the first engineers on Autopilot at Tesla to leading Audi’s autonomy unit.

Today, he’s applying that same execution discipline to one of Europe’s most critical, and most constrained, infrastructures: rail.

Rail is already one of the most efficient transport systems we have.

In Europe, it is widespread, trusted, and deeply embedded in everyday life.

We Europeans love trains. It’s part of our culture and part of our social contract. And that is precisely why what’s happening matters.

On many secondary lines, the economics no longer work. Capacity exists, but cannot be deployed.

The social cost is tangible: fewer connections, weakened territories, and people increasingly cut off from nearby cities.

In this conversation, we explore:

• Why rail autonomy is becoming a strategic necessity for Europe

• How driver shortages and operating costs are pushing the system to its limits

• Why Futurail starts with depot automation to unlock certification

• What it really means to build certifiable AI in open, non-fenced rail environments

• Why autonomous trains are fundamentally different from autonomous cars

🌍 Learn more: asterionventures.com

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For the first episode of Humans of Asterion, Antonin Léonard, partner at Asterion, spoke with Patricia Apostol, CTO and co-founder of Bubble Robotics.

Patricia previously worked at NASA JPL on robotic systems for extreme environments. Today, she’s building autonomous underwater systems to monitor offshore infrastructure, climate and biodiversity.

They discussed what it takes to design systems that must operate without humans, for long periods, in hostile environments.

We covered:

→ Space engineering applied to the ocean

→ Offshore infrastructure as a climate and security challenge

→ Strategic autonomy of Europe

→ Data as the compounding layer

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