Stych

Who owns Stych?

Stych is a French EdTech company, currently owned by Ring Capital since 2020 and Calcium Capital.

About Stych

Stych, formerly Auto-ecole.net, operates an integrated driving-school network in France, pairing online theory tuition and booking tools with more than 70 physical agencies and meeting points across 560 cities. The Paris-based company employed roughly 520 staff in 2024, including about 400 driving instructors, making it the largest employer in the French driver-training sector, with revenue of just under EUR 50 million that year. Calcium Capital credits the platform with having trained more than one million learners in a fragmented French market it sizes at over EUR 1 billion spread across some 10,000 independent agencies.

Ownership journey

The company was founded in Paris in 2014 as Auto-ecole.net, a digitally led driving school, by Stanislas Llurens, Olivier Boutboul and Benoit Storelli. Calcium Capital entered in 2015, taking a minority development-capital position it still holds. In October 2020, Ring Capital led a EUR 10 million round through its Ring Altitude fund, with Calcium Capital re-investing alongside; both firms remain active shareholders. The business rebranded from Auto-ecole.net to Stych in June 2021.

Under PE ownership

Under its PE backers the company scaled from 200 employees and 60,000 clients at the October 2020 round to roughly 520 staff, more than 70 agencies and a presence in 560 cities in 2024, with revenue of just under EUR 50 million. Expansion combined organic rollout with the progressive acquisition of independently owned traditional driving schools folded into the network. The 2021 rebrand broadened the offer into motorcycle, road-safety and eco-driving training, and the company is building out Stych Academy instructor-training centers, with more than 200 instructor hires planned for 2024 and a stated ambition of becoming France's leading driving school by 2030.