marketing-medtech

**Founder:** Gauthier Brunel-Vier — Président (SAS), founder
**Background:** other | verified: True — Entrepreneur / business-commercial background. Gauthier Brunel (LinkedIn: Gauthier Brunel-Vier) is co-founder and CEO (Président) of Connect Santé, the SAS behind an AI-augmented hospital staff-scheduling and healthcare-recruitment platform based in Toulouse. He leads product strategy, commercial development, institutional partnerships, and deployment. He studied at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion (business school) and previously worked as an ingénieur d'affaires (business engineer) at Fortil. He is the non-medical, non-technical co-founder — alongside Dr Olivier Brunel (CMO, emergency physician at Toulouse CHU) and Nicolas Esteban (CTO, engineer). This matches a generic/'other' (business-commercial) background rather than a clinical or engineering one.
**Stage / fundraise:** pre-seed / ~17-month-old SAS, product live, no confirmed raise / No fundraise confirmed
**Regulatory trigger:** None applicable. Connect Santé is a healthcare workforce-SCHEDULING & RECRUITMENT SaaS (AI-assisted hospital shift planning that enforces Code du travail / CCN rules), NOT a Software as a Medical Device. No MDR / IEC 62304 / CE / reimbursement pathway. The only compliance angle on the site is French data sovereignty (data hosted in France); HDS hosting would be relevant but is not the IEC 62304/MDR work OmDev's compliance engine targets.
**Email:** contact@connect-sante.fr (confidence high) — contact@connect-sante.fr is published directly on the company website's contact page. The founder's own booking link is calendly.com/gauthier-brunel-connect-sante/45min, which strongly implies a personal address pattern (likely gauthier.brunel-vier@connect-sante.fr or gauthier@connect-sante.fr) but that personal address is NOT published, so only the confirmed generic mailbox is given.
**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauthier-brunel-vier-634269100/ **Website:** https://www.connect-sante.fr/
**Score:** 7 -> Tier C
**Hook:** Gauthier, you've shipped Connect Santé solo as a business-builder, and an explainable-AI scheduling engine that must hold up under hospital labour-law constraints is a serious build to carry without a CTO. OmDev gives early founders a senior dev team plus a dedicated CTO at a fixed monthly price ~3x cheaper than hiring that team in-house, with the client owning all the code — so you keep selling to CHUs while we own the optimization engine, the AI explainability, and the French-sovereign/HDS-grade hardening.

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## Founder & background
Gauthier Brunel-Vier, Président of the SAS (born 1995-06), is the sole registered dirigeant — no CTO/technical co-founder ([registry](https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=939909719)).
His profile is commercial, not finance/insurance/pharma/clinical: ex **Ingénieur d'affaires at FORTIL** (engineering/IT consulting & staffing) and a management-school (Institut Supérieur de Gestion) background, now LinkedIn-headlined to Connect Santé around "AI financing & business development" ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauthier-brunel-vier-634269100/), [post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gauthier-brunel-vier-634269100_jobalerte-fortil-cv-activity-6866312786679476224-JfUP)).
A strong seller building a hard AI product — but not the finance/insurance founder profile the ICP prizes.

## Funding & momentum
SAS created **2025-01-21**, ~17 months old, single Toulouse establishment, employer flag set, effectif not yet declared ([registry](https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=939909719)).
Product is live with a public site and a founder Calendly demo link, indicating early commercial motion.
**No fundraise, incubator, or press signal found** — treat as bootstrapped pre-seed.

## Product & regulatory
Connect Santé is an **AI-assisted staff PLANNING & RECRUITMENT SaaS for hospitals** — generating nursing/medical shift schedules that respect Code du travail and collective agreements, with French-sovereign data hosting ([site](https://www.connect-sante.fr/)).
It is **not a Software as a Medical Device**: there is no MDR / IEC 62304 / CE / reimbursement trigger — the only compliance angle is data sovereignty (future HDS hosting).
This puts it **outside the medtech/SaMD ICP**; OmDev's IEC 62304/MDR compliance engine is not the relevant pull here.

## Pain & buying signals
Solo, non-technical (sales) founder with **no CTO and no visible dev team**, yet shipping an explainable-AI optimization engine for regulated hospital staffing — a clear build-a-team gap.
Health-data SaaS implies rising security/HDS expectations as it sells to CHUs.
Reachability is good: published **contact@connect-sante.fr**, a personal Calendly, and an active LinkedIn.

**Why OmDev fits:** A senior dev team + dedicated CTO at a fixed price ~3x cheaper than hiring in-house lets a non-technical founder own a hard AI scheduling product end-to-end — but note this is a health-admin SaaS, not medtech, so it sits outside Damien's medtech-only focus (Tier C).

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**Sources:** https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=939909719 · https://www.connect-sante.fr/ · https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauthier-brunel-vier-634269100/ · https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gauthier-brunel-vier-634269100_jobalerte-fortil-cv-activity-6866312786679476224-JfUP · https://www.doyoubuzz.com/gauthier-brunel-vier