Secab

What Secab does

SECAB is a French chartered accountancy firm (cabinet d'expertise comptable) founded more than 25 years ago, headquartered in Melun (Seine-et-Marne) and operating 16 physical branches across metropolitan France (Paris, Île-de-France, Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, Vaucluse, Gard, Avignon) and overseas Guadeloupe (Baie-Mahault). The firm serves approximately 3,500 clients with 150+ experts and collaborators (180+ per the Guadeloupe page), offering a 360° platform organized around three core pillars — Expertise-Comptable (accounting, payroll, tax), Droit (corporate and social law) and Conseil en Gestion (management dashboards, valuation, executive compensation) — extended by add-on missions such as Protection Fiscale, CSE setup, Prime de Partage de la Valeur (PPV) and the Coffre-Fort Numérique for pay-slip dematerialization. SECAB also operates dedicated industry-vertical service lines for real-estate agents, lawyers, bakers, BTP/artisans, hairdressers/beauticians, e-merchants, hoteliers, doctors/dentists, restaurateurs and VTC drivers.

The underlying technology stack combines proprietary client-facing portals with regulated third-party platforms: the firm migrated its core accounting and financial management offering to Pennylane in September 2025, runs HR and payroll on Silae, exposes client access via IBIZA, Quadratus and iDépot, and delivers electronic payslip archiving through Edoconnect (employer side) and eDocPerso (employee side, 10 GB storage, 50-year retention, France Connect login). The firm is a registered member of the Ordre des Experts-Comptables and has appeared for three consecutive years in Le Point's ranking of best French accounting firms (2026 edition). Strategic partnerships include LAPLACE (wealth management, November 2024), Relais & Châteaux (referral program), Barthélémy and D&M Avocats (complex labour law), and M Capital Partners as a financial backer (€4.7M for digitalization, 2025). Recent activity includes announced rapprochements (mergers) with EQUALIS EXPERTISE and Anges Audit Conseil, signalling an active consolidation strategy in the fragmented French SMB accounting market. SECAB's revenue model is professional services: recurring engagement-based mandates billed on a per-mission quote (no public price list) to a long tail of TPE/PME, startups, self-employed professionals, LMNP landlords and micro-entrepreneurs across the full business lifecycle (Création, Développement, Cession).

Name

Secab

Legal name

SECAB

Website

https://secab.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

SECAB is a French chartered accountancy firm operating 16 branches across metropolitan France and Guadeloupe, serving 3,500 SMB clients with 150+ staff through integrated expertise-comptable, legal, and management advisory services with industry-vertical specialization.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Chartered Accountancy Services

NAICS

Offices of Certified Public Accountants (541211), Miscellaneous Intermediation (523910)

SIC

Loan Brokers (6163)

akta.pro primary industry

Securitized Products Trading Platforms (MBS/ABS/CLO) (FSAFACAK)

Keywords

• Chartered accountancy services
• Payroll and HR advisory
• Business tax advisory
• Corporate legal services
• Management consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Neuilly-sur-seine

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices14 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Accounting, tax and management advisory mandates: Core recurring engagement-based revenue from expertise-comptable, fiscal, social, legal (droit des sociétés / droit social) and management conseil services billed on a per-mission/quote basis to TPE/PME, startups, self-employed professionals, LMNP landlords and micro-entrepreneurs across all stages of the business lifecycle (Création, Développement, Cession).
2. Turn-key personal income tax declaration service (volet social): Two paid service options offered to indépendants for the merged income-tax / social declaration: an end-to-end 'clé en main' option (delegated to SECAB acting as Tiers de confiance) billed on prior quote, and a 'calcul' option where SECAB calculates and transmits figures the client self-declares. Both options represent recurring, scope-bounded engagements.
3. Sponsorship/Referral-driven lead generation (Relais & Châteaux): Indirect revenue contribution: clients or external contacts are incentivized to refer new prospects via a formal 'Parrainage' program co-branded with Relais & Châteaux. The referrer is rewarded with a cheque or Relais & Châteaux gift box; new business is then closed via standard advisory mandates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SECAB is a French chartered accountancy firm (cabinet d'expertise comptable) providing a 360° offering built on three pillars: Expertise-Comptable (bookkeeping, payroll/social management, tax filings, annual accounts, dashboards), Droit (corporate law and social/employment law), and Conseil en Gestion (business valuation, executive compensation, lifecycle advisory). The offer is extended by complementary missions (Protection Fiscale, CSE setup, PPV, Coffre-Fort Numérique for payslips) and ten industry-vertical service lines targeted at French SMBs, startups, self-employed professionals, LMNP landlords and micro-entrepreneurs, delivered across 16 local agencies in France and Guadeloupe.

Product overview

Secab is a French chartered-accountancy firm (cabinet d'expertise-comptable) whose offering is structured as a unified service platform organized around three core pillars — Expertise-Comptable, Droit and Conseil en Gestion — extended by add-on missions (Protection Fiscale, Mise en place du CSE, Prime de Partage de la Valeur, Coffre-Fort Numérique for pay slips) and a set of industry-vertical service lines (Agents Immobiliers, Avocats, Boulangers, BTP & Artisans, Coiffeurs & Esthétique, E-Commerçants, Hôteliers, Médecins & Dentistes, Restaurateurs, VTC). Client delivery is supported by a connected Espace Clients that federates access to the IBIZA platform, the Silae HR/payroll environment, Quadratus and iDépot, with a recent platform migration to Pennylane (September 2025) modernizing the accounting and financial-management backbone. The Coffre-Fort Numérique (Edoconnect + eDocPerso) plugs into Silae to deliver dematerialized pay slips, and the firm has added a wealth-management partnership with LAPLACE (November 2024) and an LCB-FT compliance service (November 2024).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Expertise-Comptable Core chartered accountancy service covering bookkeeping, payroll/social management, tax filings (VAT, income tax), annual accounts, financial dashboards and consulting for TPE/PME, startups, independents, LMNP and micro-entrepreneurs across all SECAB offices in France and Guadeloupe.
• Droit Legal service covering corporate law (company creation, shareholder pacts) and social/employment law (employment contracts, disciplinary procedures, dismissals, collective agreements, CSE setup), delivered by SECAB's in-house legal teams and partner firms Barthélémy and D&M Avocats for complex social matters.
• Conseil en Gestion Management consulting service providing business dashboards, company valuation, executive compensation optimization, activity diagnostics and advisory support across the creation-development-cessation business lifecycle.
• Protection Fiscale

Quantifiable outcome

• Supports 3,500 clients across 16 agencies with 150+ collaborators (180+ per Guadeloupe page)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• PennylaneflagshipTechnology or Integration · 18 September 2025Migration of SECAB's accounting and financial management offering onto the Pennylane platform, announced September 2025. Frames the change as a modernisation and quality-of-service improvement for clients.
• LAPLACEflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 November 2024Strategic partnership for 'Gestion Patrimoniale' (wealth management). LAPLACE, a private wealth-management reference with 30+ years of history, supports SECAB in structuring its wealth-management activity, allowing the firm to offer chef d'entreprise clients a complete answer to their patrimonial challenges. Combines SECAB's accounting advisory with LAPLACE's wealth optimisation expertise.
• Relais & ChâteauxcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-branded referral/sponsorship program. SECAB and Relais & Châteaux jointly reward client referrals with cheques or Relais & Châteaux gift boxes usable at 580 luxury hotels and gastronomic restaurants in France and internationally. Drives qualified referrals to SECAB agencies.
• Barthélémy and D&M AvocatscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLong-standing partnership for complex social-law matters. The Pôle Social at Rueil-Malmaison refers complex labour-law subjects requiring specialised legal expertise to the cabinet Barthélémy and to D&M Avocats, both specialised in social law.
• EQUALIS EXPERTISEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSECAB announced its rapprochement (M&A / merger) with EQUALIS EXPERTISE, covered by FUSACQ and referenced on the contact page as press retombée.
• Anges Audit ConseilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPress retombée in Le Monde du Chiffre covering the rapprochement between SECAB and Anges Audit Conseil.
• SilaecoreTechnology or IntegrationHR and payroll platform used by SECAB for social-management mandates and exposed to clients in the Espace Clients portal. The Edoconnect coffre-fort is integrated with Silae for payslip distribution.
• IBIZAcoreTechnology or IntegrationClient-facing platform exposed in the Espace Clients for connection to SECAB.
• EdoconnectcoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital coffre-fort (employer side) integrated with Silae for secure payslip dematerialization: simplified access, automatic or manual validation of mail-merge, editique management, deposit tracking, access-rights management, automatic employee-data update, automatic sending of coffre-fort activation email.
• eDocPersocoreTechnology or IntegrationPersonal digital coffre-fort (employee side) for payslip reception: web/Android/iOS access, France Connect login, 10 GB of storage, document collection/sharing, export/reversibility functions, 50-year payslip archiving.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Mazars: International audit, tax and advisory firm with a French practice covering SMB through large-cap. Overlaps with SECAB on chartered accountancy and SMB advisory services but operates at a much larger scale with a wider service portfolio.
• RSM France: Mid-tier international audit and advisory network active in France, serving SMB and mid-market clients with expertise-comptable, tax and conseil missions. Comparable to SECAB on the regulated accounting core but with broader geographic and service scope.
• Grant Thornton France: Mid-tier international audit and advisory network with a French practice serving mid-market companies. Comparable to SECAB on the expertise-comptable core but addresses larger clients and offers a broader advisory portfolio.
• Baker Tilly France: International mid-tier audit/advisory network with significant French SMB and mid-market presence. Comparable to SECAB's expertise-comptable and conseil-en-gestion offering but typically serves a slightly larger client tier.
• BDO France: Member of the international BDO network providing accounting, tax and advisory services in France across SMB and mid-market clients. Comparable to SECAB in regulated expertise-comptable services but operates at larger scale and broader geographic reach.

Emerging players

• Indy: French digital-first accounting platform targeting independents, micro-entrepreneurs and very small businesses. Competes with SECAB's micro-entrepreneur and LMNP segment through a self-serve, lower-fee model, representing the digital challenger SECAB must defend against post-Pennylane migration.
• Pennylane: Cloud-native accounting and financial management platform adopted by SECAB in September 2025. A technology peer/partnership rather than direct accountancy competitor, but increasingly competes with traditional cabinets like SECAB for the same TPE/PME clients via a direct SaaS offering.

Direct peers

• Cogep: French chartered-accountancy group with a multi-branch footprint serving small businesses, farmers and professionals. Closely comparable to SECAB in regional-agency model, vertical specialization (agricole, TPE/PME) and Ordre des Experts-Comptables-anchored services.
• In Extenso: French chartered-accountancy network owned by Deloitte targeting exactly the same TPE/PME and SMB segments across regional agencies. Directly comparable to SECAB in business model, customer base (SMB), service offering (expertise-comptable + conseil) and multi-branch distribution model.
• Fiducial: France's largest SMB-focused accountancy, legal and payroll services firm with a dense national branch network. Highly comparable to SECAB's TPE/PME focus, quote-based pricing, payroll/pay-slip capability and reliance on small-business clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SecabFrance
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCvv9BnMbl_TDCt4JvRYTlcg
• Facebookfacebook.com/secabfrance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/secab

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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