Edifice

What Edifice does

Édifice is a French EdTech company headquartered in Paris (SAS, RCS Nanterre 528 784 325) that develops cloud-based ENT (Espace Numérique de Travail) platforms for primary and secondary schools. Its two core products, ONE (over 16,000 primary schools in France) and NEO (over 3,300 middle and high schools), serve approximately 4 million students across more than 20 countries and are deployed within the French Ministry of Education's SDET reference architecture. The platforms are multi-tenant and customizable per académie or collectivité, with a modern web frontend (Vert.x 4 backend, React-based UI per release notes) plus native iOS/Android apps (ONE Pocket, NEO Pocket).

The product portfolio extends well beyond the core ENT: a Blog application with teacher-moderated publishing, a multimedia notebook (Cahier multimédia), course/wiki tools, mind maps (Carte mentale), timelines (Frise chronologique), an AI-assisted Exercices app, and a forthcoming Communautés app pivoting toward community-first sharing. Acquired products include Édifice Vote (formerly VOTIL, acquired September 2025) for online parent-representative elections, Flash (free primary teacher progress notebook) and Nabook (reading instruction). Third-party integrations include Pronote, Cantoo Web, Moodle Edunao, and BigBlueButton, surfaced through a service aggregator and a documented public API. Security posture is anchored by ISO 27001 and ENS certifications awarded in June 2026.

Revenue is generated via multi-year subscription contracts with French académies, régions, départements, intercommunalities, and individual schools, with the inferred 'Ultima' tier bundling advanced apps such as Présences (attendance) and Formulaire (forms). Go-to-market combines direct enterprise/B2G sales, an ERUN digital education coordinator network, the Cercle des Ambassadeurs teacher ambassador program, and presence at Educatech, BETT, and SIMO conferences. The company was previously known as OpenDigitalEducation, raised a €2.0M round in 2018 from Educapital and Impact Partenaires, and is led by co-founder and CEO Arnaud Albou with a 51–100 person team that grew by 12 hires in 2025.

Name

Edifice

Legal name

Édifice

Website

https://edifice.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Édifice builds ONE and NEO, the leading French cloud-based ENT (digital learning workspace) platforms, serving 16,000+ primary and 3,300+ secondary schools, 4 million students, and 20+ countries via multi-year B2B/B2G subscription contracts with académies, régions, and collectivités.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Technology / K-12 Digital Learning Environment (ENT) Software

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Parent/Student Portals, Communications & Consent Management (EDAFAEAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Group Work, Breakout & Collaborative Document/Workspace Tools (EDAFAGAE), HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance for Education (EDAFAEAD)

Keywords

• Digital learning environment
• Educational technology platforms
• K-12 classroom software
• School communication platforms
• Teacher collaboration tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. ENT Platform Subscriptions: Édifice generates revenue through subscription contracts with académies, collectivités territoriales, and individual schools for access to ONE and NEO platforms. Contracts are typically multi-year and structured at the territorial level (per académie or région). Pricing varies by school count and services included (e.g., Ultima subscription tier includes Présences, Formulaire applications).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Édifice develops and operates ONE and NEO, cloud-based ENT (Espace Numérique de Travail) platforms serving French primary and secondary schools respectively, along with companion mobile apps, voting, and teacher productivity tools. The platforms provide unified digital workspaces that combine communication, pedagogical content, attendance tracking, voting, and parent engagement functions for schools, académies, and collectivités territoriales. Revenue is generated primarily through multi-year subscription contracts with territorial authorities and direct sales to individual schools.

Product overview

Edifice is a French educational technology company offering ONE and NEO, two interconnected ENT (Espace Numérique de Travail) platforms serving France's digital education ecosystem. ONE serves elementary schools (écoles) with over 16,000 schools, while NEO serves middle and high schools (collèges and lycées) with 3,300+ institutions. Both platforms share a unified architecture with age-appropriate interfaces—colorful and intuitive for primary, more mature for secondary. The portfolio includes core platforms (ONE, NEO), mobile apps (ONE Pocket, NEO Pocket), specialized pedagogical applications (Blog, Cahier multimédia, Cours et Wiki, Carte mentale, Frise chronologique, Exercices, Communautés), and acquired products (Edifice Vote, Flash, Nabook). The platforms collectively serve 4 million students across 20 countries and feature AI-powered capabilities including AI-assisted exercise creation. Integration with third-party services (Pronote, Cantoo Web, Moodle Edunao, BigBlueButton) is available through the service aggregator and APIs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ONE: Collaborative network platform for primary schools (écoles), the #1 educational platform in France with over 16,000 schools.
• NEO
• Édifice Vote
• Flash
• Nabook

Products and services

• ONE Collaborative network platform for elementary schools (écoles) in France, positioned as the leading educational platform with deployment across over 16,000 schools. Provides age-appropriate digital workspace for primary school students (ages 3-11), teachers, and families, supporting communication, content creation, attendance (Ultima tier), voting, and parent engagement aligned with French national curriculum.
• NEO Collaborative network platform for middle schools (collèges) and high schools (lycées), deployed across over 3,300 institutions with age-appropriate interfaces for secondary students (ages 11-18). Provides advanced pedagogical tools, administrative features, exam preparation (brevet, baccalauréat) support, and integration with student information systems for the second degré.
• ONE Pocket Mobile application for the ONE platform available on iOS and Android, providing on-the-go access to primary school digital services, push notifications, multi-account management for parents, and offline-capable content viewing for the primary school community.
• NEO Pocket Mobile application for the NEO platform available on iOS and Android, offering mobile access to secondary school digital services with features for students, parents, and teachers in the second degré.
• Édifice Vote Online voting solution for parent representative elections in schools, originally developed as VOTIL by a student with input from a school director. Digitizes the election process replacing paper ballots and manual vote counting, with a 3-minute vote tabulation capability and integration into ONE and NEO platforms.
• Flash - Carnet de suivi Standalone mobile application (free) for primary school teachers to create learning progress portfolios (carnets de suivi). Can import class data directly from the ONE ENT platform, allowing teachers to track student progress throughout the year with mobile-first tooling.
• Nabook Reading application designed to transmit the pleasure of reading and develop reading aloud practice in class. Targeted at teachers for use in reading instruction and pedagogy, addressing early literacy and reading engagement.
• Communautés Community application enabling teachers to create educational spaces for classes or thematic groups, share resources directly with peers and students, and collaborate around teaching topics. Marketed on the website as a 'New' 2025/2026 product, part of the ONE/NEO suite under the NEO ecosystem.

Quantifiable outcome

• 92% user satisfaction rate for Édifice Vote in 350 pilot schools
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability4 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• VOTILcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 September 2025VOTIL was an online voting solution for parent representative elections created by student Timothée with input from his father, a school director. VOTIL joined Édifice in September 2025 and was rebranded as 'Édifice Vote'. The tool was piloted in 350 schools achieving 92% satisfaction. Integration into ONE/NEO provides seamless voting experience for parent elections.
• Témoins PolairesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation providing educational content for the Under Antarctica project. Developed pedagogical notebooks about Antarctic glaciers for classrooms. Partners with Édifice to deliver scientific content through ONE/NEO blogs to engage students in polar science and climate education.
• OVHcoreTechnology or IntegrationOVH provides cloud hosting services for Édifice's servers. The website and platform are hosted on OVH infrastructure located in Roubaix, France. Critical infrastructure partnership for platform availability.
• UNESCOminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Under Antarctica expedition was placed under the auspices of UNESCO, lending international recognition and educational legitimacy to the project. Édifice provides the digital platform for classroom engagement with the expedition.
• Réseau CanopéminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench educational publisher and network referenced in Édifice's pedagogical resources. Mentioned in the context of Cours et Wiki progression planning tools for teachers.
• Open ENT NG ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOpen ENT NG is a community of ENT users and developers working on next-generation educational workspace standards. Édifice participates in this ecosystem of French EdTech companies and educational institutions.
• EDTECH FranceminorOthersÉdifice is a member of EdTech France, the French EdTech industry association. Association provides networking, advocacy, and industry coordination for French educational technology companies.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Pronote (Index Éducation): Index Éducation's Pronote is France's dominant gradebook, attendance, and student-information system and is directly integrated with Édifice (redirection between Carnet de bord Pronote and Pronote responsive). It is the most entrenched competitor in French K-12 student-record workflows that Édifice's Ultima tier now extends into.
• Beneylu: Beneylu offers Beneylu School, a French K-12 collaborative digital workspace for primary and secondary schools, directly competing with Édifice's ONE and NEO in the same French school procurement market with similar communication, blog, and pedagogical features.
• Appschooser (Kosmos): Kosmos Education's Appschooser is a French K-12 educational app aggregator and ENT-adjacent platform, offering schools a curated portal of educational applications and competing with Édifice's 'Agrégateur de services' and ONE/NEO feature apps.

Others

• Open ENT NG: Open ENT NG is an open-source consortium of ENT users and developers working on next-generation French educational workspace standards; Édifice participates as a member. It represents a potential open-source alternative path for French académies and could pressure pricing and lock-in over time.
• Réseau Canopé: Réseau Canopé is the French national education publisher and resource network referenced in Édifice's pedagogical resources (Cours et Wiki). It is an ecosystem partner/potential competitor in teacher resource publishing rather than a direct platform rival.
• Educapital: Educapital is a Paris-based EdTech-focused venture firm that co-led Édifice's 2018 funding round. It is a financial backer and portfolio peer in the French EdTech ecosystem rather than a direct operating competitor.

Emerging players

• ClassDojo: ClassDojo is a widely adopted primary-school communication, classroom management, and portfolios platform; it overlaps with Édifice's ONE on parent-teacher communication and student portfolios and represents a global, well-capitalized adjacent competitor in primary classrooms.
• Seesaw: Seesaw is a digital student-portfolio and family-communication platform widely used in K-5 classrooms globally; it competes with Édifice's ONE on parent communication, multimedia portfolios (Cahier multimédia), and teacher workflows.

Broad incumbents

• Google Classroom: Google Classroom is the global incumbent for assignment distribution, communication, and classroom management within Google Workspace for Education; it represents a free, widely-deployed alternative to Édifice's pedagogical workflow layer on top of which institutions may layer their own tools.
• Microsoft Teams for Education: Microsoft Teams for Education bundles communication, collaboration, video, and classroom orchestration for K-12 and higher education; it competes broadly with NEO's collaboration and secondary-school workflows and benefits from large institutional IT standardization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ONE_ecole

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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