The Group
Ten years to build the complete repair chain.
The Repair Group was born in 2016 from a smartphone repair workshop in Toulouse. It now brings together seven entities that train technicians, refurbish at industrial scale and sell to consumers.
Vision
Repair rather than discard, and make it a profession.
We want repair and refurbishment to become a French industrial sector: qualified technicians, profitable workshops, devices that last. Each entity of the group holds one link of that chain.
Figures consolidated from the group’s websites, 2026.
Timeline 2013 to 2025
From repair counter to ecosystem.
- 2013
First repair at school
In year 9, Alexandre Isaac repairs a classmate's iPod Touch 4 with a screen ordered on eBay. Until 2016, he repairs 250 to 300 smartphones during high school in Toulouse and resells batches of screens to other repairers with friends.
- 2016
July 2016
Phone Repair Toulouse
After the Haute-Garonne Chamber of Trades start-up course, Alexandre Isaac registers Phone Repair Toulouse in the family garage in Lapeyrouse-Fossat. During three years of preparatory classes in Montauban, he repairs in the evening at boarding school and at weekends in the garage.
- 2018
The microsoldering turning point
An iPhone 6 Plus sent to a shop comes back “repaired” with a mere plastic shim under the shield. Alexandre Isaac buys a trinocular microscope and teaches himself component-level repair. His first tutorials on the YouTube channel that became The Repair Academy’s draw repairers from all over France.
- 2019
February 2019
First training session, in the garage
During a school break, Alexandre Isaac trains his first microsoldering student in the Lapeyrouse-Fossat garage, around the workshop's only microscope.
- 2019
July 2019
The Novotel Compans-Caffarelli seminar
Seven days of intensive training in Toulouse with three REWA Technology trainers: 16 repairers from all over France. Its success validates the model and funds a permanent training centre.
- 2019
September 2019
The Repair Academy is born
On 19 September, Alexandre Isaac founds The Repair Academy, the year he enters Arts et Métiers. A first employee runs the Toulouse sessions while he studies in Bordeaux.
The Repair Academy → - 2019
November 2019
The Repair Academy Store opens
The online tool shop opens: students find the microsoldering equipment they learned with.
The Repair Academy Store → - 2020
March 2020
eChallenge first prize
On 2 March, the Cyclerr project, led with Clément Semirot, wins first prize at the 2020 eChallenge (ThincLab and University of Adelaide).
- 2020
Online training and first hires
The Repair Academy launches its video learning platform and hires its first repairers.
The Repair Academy → - 2021
The Leasétic challenge
Alexandre Isaac is following the CREDA entrepreneurship track at Arts et Métiers in Paris when Emmanuel Rousseau, president of Leasétic, contacts him: fleets returned at the end of leases go abroad for lack of a workshop able to refurbish them in France. The Seensys project is born from this challenge.
- 2022
May 2022
Seensys is founded
With Louis Mettery, an Arts et Métiers engineer, after the business plan is validated in March and funds are raised from private investors in April: Seensys starts production in Toulouse.
Seensys → - 2022
The Repair Lab is created
The Repair Lab is created with Nicolas Barattolo to design repair tools.
The Repair LabThe Repair Lab → - 2023
February 2023
Seensys expands
Seensys moves into larger industrial premises in Toulouse to keep up with growth.
Seensys → - 2023
August 2023
iSpart acquisition
Acquisition of the iSpart business, specialised in screen relamination: the broken glass is replaced, the original panel is kept.
iSpart Europe → - 2023
September 2023
RS6375 microsoldering certification
On 20 September, The Repair Academy's microsoldering certification is registered with France Compétences.
The Repair Academy → - 2024
October 2024
La Fixerie opens
The group launches La Fixerie, its consumer brand: QualiRépar-approved repair and French refurbished devices, in Blagnac then on Place de la Bourse in Toulouse.
La Fixerie → - 2025
April 2025
The Repair Group is created
The parent company, co-managed by Alexandre Isaac and Louis Mettery, steers the strategy, finance, HR and marketing of the entities.
- 2025
May 2025
The Repair Academy in the United States, with iFixit
The Repair Academy opens its first school in the United States: board-level microsoldering and diagnostics training at iFixit HQ in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in partnership with iFixit.
The Repair Academy → - 2025
REAV launches
In late 2025, REAV industrialises the group’s know-how: ITAD and turnkey workshops for third parties, with Léo Gonton and Driss Benyakhlef.
REAV →
Synergies
Vertical integration, in practice.
A technician pipeline
The Repair Academy trains the profiles that Seensys and La Fixerie hire. All Seensys technicians are trained in microsoldering by the Academy.
A pilot workshop
Seensys validates every method and tool in production before REAV deploys them at third parties.
A full refurbished-device circuit
Parts reused with iSpart Europe, devices refurbished by Seensys, sold to consumers by La Fixerie.
Circular economy and right to repair
A business model aligned with durability.
Every repaired motherboard is a device that does not become waste. The group also acts beyond its workshops: Alexandre Isaac is deputy secretary of R-Cube, the French right-to-repair federation, and the group takes public positions against parts pairing.
- Large-scale reuse of parts and devices
- Certified data erasure before any redistribution
- Certified training to professionalise the trade
- Contribution to associations and institutions
FAQ
The group in a few answers.
The group covers the whole repair chain: technician training, industrial refurbishment for businesses, retail for consumers, tooling, parts and workshop deployment for third parties.
Alexandre Isaac has been repairing since 2013 and set up his first company, Phone Repair Toulouse, in 2016. The Repair Academy was born in 2019, then Seensys and The Repair Lab in 2022, iSpart in 2023, La Fixerie in 2024, The Repair Group (parent company) and REAV in 2025.