Born in august 2008, Ikalia is a private company, created by Daniel & Edith Rivalin.

After 20 years in the industry, including 2 years in China -  we thought it was the right time to think about new ideas using our competences, envies and values.

The contribution of Georges Rivalin, my brother, made it possible to launch a dedicated search engine in the media business in B2B.

A few facts made us jump in the knowledge arena :

- very difficult to find easily technical information, from internet, in particular global search engine

- many companies with very specific & high added value products and services are just invisible on the web.

- the professionnal associations lack visibility on the web. Few media, in particular search engines, cares really about them. Eventhough they lead the path to those niches, and among their members count their leaders !  Their power is not up their social responsability !

- thinking of creating a company with a real social impact.

So, how to deal with that ?

by creating

- a combination of a standard and a collaborative search engine

- with high filtering possibilities

- WITH the professionnals.

- with a reward for that collaborative work in the form of sharing revenues.

Ikalia is then born, with a commitment in “social entrepreneurship”  -

just trying to make knowledge more accessible with a mix approach win-win of “for profit” & “non-profit” activities.

We are based in the french Alps, close to Geneva

74230 Thones

ikalia@ikalia.com