Omar Ellou­mi, 23, has just com­plet­ed his stud­ies major­ing in com­put­er sci­ence at Com­pieg­ne. Three fruit­ful years dur­ing which he cre­at­ed My Match, a mobile appli­ca­tion ded­i­cat­ed to ama­teur foot­ball play­ers, and most recent­ly Clu­vo, the first arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-based start-up that helps bud­ding entre­pre­neurs to under­stand and lever­age every cus­tomer con­ver­sa­tion to build a prod­uct that tru­ly responds to the market.

Omar Ellou­mi is end­ing 2025 on a high note. He has just com­plet­ed his stud­ies at UTC and his work-study pro­gramme at Lex­is­Nex­is France, secur­ing a per­ma­nent con­tract as a Data Sci­en­tist III. In ear­ly Novem­ber, he also received the Prix Pépite Île de France award, organ­ised by the Min­istry of High­er Edu­ca­tion and Research in part­ner­ship with Bpifrance. This award is aimed at stu­dent entre­pre­neurs and recent grad­u­ates from the Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty Clus­ter who have launched an inno­v­a­tive busi­ness cre­ation project. “I actu­al­ly com­plet­ed a dou­ble degree in entre­pre­neur­ship with Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty. It’s called the Stu­dent-Entre­pre­neur Diplo­ma (D2E). It entailed a year of evening class­es. I have also just returned from a boot­camp in San Fran­cis­co in the Unit­ed States, where I was able to deep­en my skills in entre­pre­neur­ship and tech­no­log­i­cal prod­uct devel­op­ment, while work­ing on con­crete projects with local start-ups. This expe­ri­ence allowed me to devel­op a more inter­na­tion­al approach, focused on rapid inno­va­tion and bring­ing high-impact solu­tions to mar­ket. Then I went to Por­to, Por­tu­gal to rep­re­sent UTC-Com­pieg­ne as part of a team in a major entre­pre­neur­ship com­pe­ti­tion among 400 stu­dents from around the world. Our team won with the Clu­vo project, a new start-up designed to help entre­pre­neurs val­i­date their ideas with the sup­port of AI (arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence). The prize is a place in a three-month accel­er­a­tor pro­gramme in Sil­i­con Val­ley,” says Omar Ellou­mi, who is not for­get­ting to grow his oth­er busi­ness. MyMatch is an appli­ca­tion that makes it easy to book pitch­es, organ­ise match­es and track your per­for­mance through sta­tis­tics, rank­ings and badges to earn.

MyMatch is growing

The app now has more than 7 000 users and 60 part­ner pitch­es. It offers play­ers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to join match­es that are short of par­tic­i­pants or to reg­is­ter for com­pe­ti­tions. For pitch man­agers, MyMatch sim­pli­fies book­ing man­age­ment with an inter­ac­tive dash­board and detailed sta­tis­tics on the use of their facil­i­ties. “We organ­ised our first tour­na­ment in Tunisia on 25 Novem­ber. I am an ama­teur play­er myself in an envi­ron­ment heav­i­ly influ­enced by foot­ball. My father was a pro­fes­sion­al foot­baller and every­one around me played foot­ball, so our con­ver­sa­tions con­stant­ly revolved around match­es and famous play­ers. After mov­ing to a new city, I found it dif­fi­cult to find play­ers to organ­ise match­es and book pitch­es. It was from this expe­ri­ence that I began to think about a sim­ple and effec­tive solu­tion for foot­ball enthu­si­asts. I quick­ly realised that many oth­ers shared these same dif­fi­cul­ties: get­ting enough play­ers togeth­er, man­ag­ing pitch book­ings and main­tain­ing a social dynam­ic around foot­ball,” explains Omar Ellou­mi, who con­tin­ues to raise funds to sup­port the tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment of the app, finance mar­ket­ing and pur­sue its inter­na­tion­al expansion.

‘I feel like a full-time entrepreneur’

The app is cur­rent­ly avail­able in Tunisia and will soon be avail­able in France. The goal is to make the app avail­able on sev­er­al con­ti­nents, while adapt­ing its fea­tures to local speci­fici­ties (lan­guages, pay­ment sys­tems, etc.). “The UTC’s Elite Entre­pre­neur­ship pro­gramme has enabled MyMatch to take shape. It acts as a cat­a­lyst for its devel­op­ment. We have access to expe­ri­enced men­tors who help us refine our vision, strat­e­gy and busi­ness mod­el. It also allows us to ben­e­fit from prac­ti­cal advice on mar­ket­ing, project man­age­ment and prod­uct devel­op­ment,‘ adds the foot­baller, com­put­er sci­en­tist and entre­pre­neur, keen to pay trib­ute to his father through MyMatch. ’At the age of 16, I had an aver­age school grade of 8. I dreamed of becom­ing a pro­fes­sion­al foot­baller like my father, who want­ed me to study. I regret that he was­n’t able to see this hap­pen because he has since passed away. But I’m doing it for my moth­er today. Since then, I’ve been top of my class in Tunisia, then vale­dic­to­ri­an of my class in Com­put­er Sci­ence at Metz, and today I’m grad­u­at­ing with an engi­neer­ing degree from UTC. I love every­thing I do today. I’m pas­sion­ate about what I do, and I espe­cial­ly love build­ing some­thing from scratch every moment of my life, in the evenings, on week­ends, dur­ing hol­i­days. I love offer­ing some­thing use­ful to peo­ple. I feel like a full-time entre­pre­neur. I will always be deeply grate­ful to my fam­i­ly, my moth­er, my broth­ers, my men­tors and my teach­ers, who believed in me and sup­port­ed me every step of the way. Their trust and love have been my great­est strength.

KD