In 2000, Groupe Chevrillon invested in Linagora, a French open-source software designer company founded in 2000 by Alexandre-Marie Zapolsky and Michel Maudet. Linagora is one of Europe’s leading open source software companies in terms of engineering, consulting and training. They are located in France, Belgium and since 2008 in the United States. Groupe Chevrillon sold its stake to the management in July 2016.