Introducing 1Km à Pied and its financial challenges
Founded by Laure Wagner, 1Km À Pied is a startup developing HR software designed to analyze employees' home-to-work commutes in order to optimize their assignment across the company's various sites. The goal is twofold: improving employees' quality of life while reducing the carbon footprint of business travel.
Like any fast-growing startup, 1Km À Pied faces major financial challenges. Cash flow management, essential to strategic decision-making, was handled on Excel, a solution that quickly became limiting and a source of errors. The multiplication of financial scenarios (rapid growth, fundraising, hiring) made adopting a more suitable tool indispensable.
Cash flow management needs
Before using Okimia, Laure Wagner managed her company's cash flow on Excel, like many entrepreneurs. However, this approach had significant limitations:
- Growing complexity with the multiplication of file versions,
- A lack of flexibility to quickly test different financial scenarios,
- An unintuitive visualization of cash flows,
- Manual and tedious transaction management.
The company needed a simple, intuitive, and visual tool to model different financial scenarios and ensure precise tracking of cash inflows and outflows.
Why 1Km À Pied chose Okimia and what the solution brings them day-to-day
The discovery of Okimia happened at Station F, where Laure Wagner identified the tool as an alternative to Excel. After a demo, the decision to subscribe to Okimia was obvious:
- An intuitive, visual interface, making it possible to track the evolution of cash flow in real time,
- Advanced simulation features, facilitating the forecasting of financial flows,
- Automation of transaction reconciliation, reducing the time spent on administrative tasks,
- Precise, customizable reporting, useful for fundraising and investor presentations.
Today, Okimia is a central tool in the financial management of 1Km À Pied. It's used to build the annual budget, test growth assumptions, and track the company's key indicators. Laure Wagner emphasizes the importance of Okimia for startups raising funds, making it possible to have a very clear and professional forecast.
