What Synchrone does

Synchrone is a privately held French digital transformation consulting firm (ESN) founded in 2001 by Laurent Leconte and Pierre Lacaze, headquartered in Lyon with principal offices in Paris and Aix-en-Provence. The company serves approximately 120 key accounts—predominantly large French and international groups in banking and finance, services, transport, telecommunications, and industry—with expert consulting across four integrated domains: Finance Consulting (banking services, market solutions, regulatory compliance for Basel III, IFRS, EMIR, MiFID), Cybersecurity (GRC, SOC/SIEM, network security), Digital & Innovation (cloud infrastructure, application development, Web 3.0), and Data & AI (BI/Dataviz, machine learning, RPA, data governance and architecture). Its technical stack centers on established methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, CRISP-DM, ITIL, EBIOS) and proprietary frameworks for data democratization rather than discrete software products.

The firm operates an enterprise-only go-to-market with a dense French territorial network of 11 offices and recent expansion into the Iberian Peninsula (Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, Madrid). Revenue is generated entirely through professional services engagements, billed on a project/scope basis with no public pricing disclosure. Synchrone held ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 9001 certifications, achieved EcoVadis Gold (top 3% of IT consulting firms, 2023) and Greenly Diamond (top 1% climate strategy, 2024), and reported revenue of approximately €139–143M with ~1,500–1,600 employees as of 2023–2024. In November 2024, Olivier Lambert was appointed President, succeeding the founders in governance while they retain majority ownership.

Revenue concentration is moderate, anchored by long-tenured banking relationships but diversified across 120 named accounts spanning five verticals. The company has no disclosed external institutional investors, no disclosed M&A activity, and no public funding events in the source data; growth has been entirely organic since founding. Synchrone's competitive position rests primarily on a talent moat (specialized expert communities), regulatory credentialing in financial compliance and cybersecurity standards, and ESG certifications increasingly used as enterprise procurement gatekeepers.

Name

Synchrone

Legal name

Synchrone

Website

https://synchrone.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Synchrone is a French digital transformation consulting firm serving 120 large enterprise accounts across banking, telecom, retail, and industry with expertise in Finance, Cybersecurity, Digital/Innovation, and Data & AI consulting.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital & Technology Transformation Consulting (BPAHACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consulting (BPAHAEAH)

Keywords

• Digital transformation consulting
• IT consulting services
• Cybersecurity consulting
• Data and AI consulting
• Finance technology consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices16 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: Synchrone generates revenue through consulting engagements across four core domains: Finance Consulting, Cybersecurity, Digital & Innovation, and Data & AI. The company provides expert consultants to large organizations on digital transformation projects, typically billed through professional services engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Synchrone is a French digital transformation consulting firm (ESN) delivering expert consulting services across four integrated domains: Finance Consulting, Cybersecurity, Digital & Innovation, and Data & AI. The firm deploys specialist consultants to large organizations for project-based engagements spanning strategy, implementation, and managed services, typically delivered on client sites from a network of offices across France, Portugal, and Spain.

Product overview

Synchrone is a digital transformation consulting company (ESN) with four core consulting service offerings: Data et IA, Digital et Innovation, Cyber sécurité, and Finance consulting. These service lines deliver strategic consulting, implementation, and managed services to enterprise clients across banking/finance, services, transport, telecoms, and industrial sectors. The offerings are structured around specialized expert communities and methodologies (CRISP, Agile, ITIL) rather than discrete software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Data et IA (Data and AI) Consulting services focused on data intelligence and artificial intelligence, including BI/Dataviz, machine learning, RPA, data governance, data architecture, and data engineering, aimed at facilitating strategic decision-making and democratizing data usage for enterprise clients.
• Digital et Innovation Digital transformation consulting covering digital strategy and project management, Infracloud (cloud design, optimization, migration, Green IT), application development and integration, and innovation services including Web 3.0 and metaverse solutions for enterprise clients.
• Cyber sécurité (Cybersecurity) Cybersecurity consulting including Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), operational cybersecurity (SOC/SIEM/Pentest), and Network Security architecture and engineering to protect enterprise organizations against cyber threats.
• Finance consulting Financial consulting services for banking and finance organizations, covering banking services (Retail, Cash & Payment, Digital Banking), market solutions (Corporate Investment Banking, Asset Management), and risks and regulatory compliance including SWIFT, SEPA, EMIR, MiFID, IFRS, and Basel frameworks.

Quantifiable outcome

• Carbon footprint 3x below sector average (1.27 t CO2e per employee vs 3.9 t sector average)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• GreenlycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Greenly is Synchrone's partner for carbon footprint assessment and climate strategy. The partnership produces annual Carbon Balance Sheets covering all three emission scopes, tracking GHG emissions across Synchrone's entire operations in France.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Talan: French digital innovation and transformation consultancy with international offices and a comparable multi-domain offering (data, AI, cloud, cybersecurity) for enterprise clients.
• Wavestone: French-headquartered management and digital transformation consulting firm with similar enterprise client base and focus on technology advisory. Closely comparable in size, French footprint, and engagement model.
• Devoteam: French digital transformation consultancy with comparable expertise in cloud, data, and cybersecurity serving enterprise clients across Europe. Similar service-line structure and mid-market positioning.
• mc2i Groupe: French digital transformation and management consulting firm serving large French accounts with comparable multi-specialist expertise. Closely comparable by size, GTM motion, and French-anchored enterprise focus.
• ALTEN: French-headquartered IT and engineering consulting group; notably the former employer of Synchrone's new President. Highly comparable in terms of expertise domains, French key-account focus, and ESN positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Sopra Steria: Major French-headquartered IT services and digital transformation firm serving banking, public sector, and industry verticals. Overlaps Synchrone's banking and digital practice but operates at substantially larger scale.
• Capgemini: Global consulting and digital transformation leader with deep French heritage and a major French banking and industrial client base. Competes for the same enterprise transformation mandates at much larger scale.
• Accenture: Global professional services leader with a large French practice and broad digital, data, cybersecurity, and finance transformation capabilities. Competes for the same enterprise transformation engagements at scale.
• Atos: European-headquartered IT services and digital transformation firm with significant French banking, public sector, and industrial accounts. Overlaps Synchrone's core verticals with much broader portfolio.

Emerging players

• Keyrus: International data intelligence and digital transformation consultancy with strong data/AI and BI capabilities; comparable to Synchrone's Data et IA practice and competes for similar enterprise analytics mandates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfr-fr.facebook.com/pg/SynchroneFr
• LinkedInfr.linkedin.com/company/synchrone-fr
• Instagraminstagram.com/bysynchrone

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

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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