The Quimper Assia buys Stream-Techs, a third-party claims specialist based in Vitrolles – Le Journal des Entreprises

Assia (80 employees, €12m turnover), the Quimper software publisher for supplementary health insurance, acquires the company Stream-Techms, based in Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône), a subsidiary of the Parisian consulting group Valmen (80 employees, 13 M€ turnover) and specialized in recourse against third parties. This acquisition aims to amplify Assia’s development strategy on opening up to new services in the fields of health and insurance.

The Finistère-based group thus intends to strengthen its positioning as an aggregator and its strategy of supporting uses with social protection players by offering a solution for identifying and managing the recovery of claims against third parties for insurance players. supplementary health and provident insurance.

Turnkey offer

The southern company has more than ten clients, including Unéo, M like Mutuelle or Solimut Mutuelle de France, for a global portfolio of 2 million people protected. “The progressive development of the recourse activity as well as the challenges of industrialization, compliance and associated security, require a strengthening of the organization of the structure in order to better satisfy its customers. This change in governance should enable the company to take a new step. At the same time, this coincides, for the Valmen Group, with its development ambitions by refocusing its activities around service and consulting, with a view to external growth”, indicates Stéphane Choulette , co-founder of Stream-Techs and associate director of the Valmen group.

With the integration of Stream-Techs and its recourse service against third parties, Assia will be able to offer a turnkey offer with complete handling of the file, up to the reimbursement of funds lost to the mutual insurance company. The offer will now enter a phase of industrialization. “This acquisition allows us to provide a response to the challenges of controlling costs and providing additional services to players in complementary health insurance and provident insurance”, explains Mathieu Gozard, CEO of Assia.