Victor Prigent is one of the three co-founders of Matera, with Raphaël Di Meglio and Jérémy Krebs. Di Meglio was chief executive and Krebs chief technology officer. Prigent held the chief product officer title.
The company was incorporated on 17 January 2017 as illiCopro, in Paris. The idea was to let co-owners run their own building through a cooperative syndic, with experts on hand for accounting and law, at a lower cost than a traditional property manager.
It raised €1.5 million in January 2019. In January 2020 it was renamed Matera and raised €10 million from Index Ventures, Samaipata and business angels. At that point it served more than 800 buildings and 25,000 co-owners.
In March 2020 the company ran its Merci Syndic campaign. A court ruling in January 2022 awarded €70,000 in damages for disparagement, and the appeal in March 2024 upheld that finding but cleared the cooperative model. Revenue reached €11.5 million in 2023 and €15.7 million in 2024.