Diplomeo

What Diplomeo does

Diplomeo is a French higher-education orientation platform founded in 2011 that helps prospective students discover schools, training programs (formations), and career pathways across France. The platform operates as a centralized web-based marketplace where students can search by field of study (Commerce, Informatique, Finance, Santé, etc.), diploma type (BTS, Licence, Bachelor, Master, BUT, Prépa), city, or target profession, and access supplementary resources including a school directory with user reviews, an open-day events calendar, and editorial content on Parcoursup and educational reforms. Over 300,000 students use the platform annually, with a 4.8/5 rating across 2,931 reviews.

The underlying technology is a content-rich web platform comprising several integrated modules — Formation Search, Etablissements (school listings), Métiers (career discovery), Avis (reviews), Événements (open days), and Actualités (editorial media) — plus specialized vertical portals for Commerce, Informatique, and Finance & Comptabilité. There is no disclosed proprietary AI/ML stack, API, or SDK; platform intelligence appears to rest on a relevance-based ranking system that orders partner-school results by relevance, visibility elements, reviews, and active campaigns, with non-partner schools listed afterward.

The business model is a freemium two-sided marketplace: access is free for students, while revenue is generated from partner schools and educational institutions that pay a per-lead fee for each information request generated through the platform. Diplomeo is a privately held subsidiary of HelloWork Group, a French digital services conglomerate that also owns employment and training platforms such as HelloWork, MaFormation, and JobiJoba. The company is headquartered in France, employs 11–50 people, and operates exclusively within the domestic French market.

Name

Diplomeo

Legal name

Diplomeo

Website

https://diplomeo.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Diplomeo is a French education orientation platform, founded in 2011, that helps over 300,000 students annually discover schools, training programs, and career paths across France. It monetizes through per-lead fees from partner schools and operates as a subsidiary of HelloWork Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Marketplace & Student Orientation Platform

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Essay, Resume & Portfolio Coaching Platforms (EDAFAMAD)

Keywords

• Education marketplace
• Student orientation platform
• Formation search
• School directory
• Lead generation

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Lead Generation from Partner Schools: The platform is free for students. Revenue is generated from educational institutions (partner schools) that pay for each information request generated through the platform. This allows the platform to maintain its free service for users while monetizing through the B2B school partnerships.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Diplomeo operates a free web-based education orientation marketplace that allows students across France to search, compare, and request information about schools, training programs (formations), and career paths organized by field of study, diploma type, and city. The platform generates revenue from partner schools and educational institutions that pay for each qualified information request (lead) generated through the platform, connecting prospective students with relevant educational providers.

Product overview

Diplomeo is a French higher education orientation platform operating as a centralized discovery and search engine for students seeking schools, training programs, and career guidance across France. The core product is the Diplomeo Orientation Platform, a unified web application that consolidates listings of over 300,000 students annually. The platform comprises several integrated modules: Formation Search (for browsing programs by field, degree, and city), Etablissements (school directory with ratings), Metiers (career exploration), Avis (review system), Evenements (open day calendar), and Actualites (editorial content). The platform also features specialized sub-portals organized by field of study — including dedicated pages for Commerce, Informatique, and Finance & Comptabilite — each providing sector-specific program listings, specializations, and career pathway information. All modules share a common infrastructure, user reviews, and school profile pages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Diplomeo Orientation Platform A free French higher education orientation web platform that helps students search and discover schools, training programs, and career paths across France.
• Formation Search

Quantifiable outcome

• 300,000+ students use the platform annually for educational orientation
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered parent company and core.

• HelloWork Groupparent companyOthersDiplomeo is owned and operated by HelloWork Group, a French employment and education services company. The platform is part of a broader ecosystem that includes job platforms (HelloWork), other education platforms (MaFormation, JobiJoba), and various media properties.
• Partner Schools and Educational InstitutionscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSchools and educational institutions across France partner with Diplomeo to list their formations and receive student leads. Partner schools pay for each information request generated. The transparency statement notes that partner schools are ranked by relevance first, then by visibility elements, reviews, and active campaigns.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• MaFormation: A sister platform under HelloWork Group focused on professional training and formation search in France, directly competing with Diplomeo in the orientation and lead-generation space with overlapping partner schools and B2B model.
• L'Étudiant: A leading French education media brand (Groupe Amaury) providing school listings, orientation guides, and editorial content to prospective students across France — the most established direct competitor to Diplomeo.
• Studyrama: A French higher-education media platform offering school and formation listings, orientation content, and student recruitment events, closely comparable to Diplomeo's core offerings and audience.

Broad incumbents

• ONISEP: France's public information service on education, training, and careers; a structural incumbent that competes for orientation-related traffic and could expand its digital offerings to overlap further with private platforms.
• Parcoursup: The official French government higher education admissions platform that controls the application moment; not a direct marketing competitor but the dominant structural channel that defines Diplomeo's operating context.
• HelloWork: The flagship job platform of HelloWork Group (Diplomeo's parent), serving as both a corporate sibling and a cross-sell channel into employment services for users entering the workforce after education.
• Figaro Étudiant: The student-vertical property of French newspaper Le Figaro, offering orientation, school listings, and editorial content to prospective French students; an adjacent incumbent with broader media reach.

Regional players

• JobiJoba: A French job-search and HR platform under HelloWork Group with an adjacent mission to Diplomeo's orientation services, operating in the same French market with overlapping user segments transitioning from education to employment.
• Niche: A US-based K-12 and college search platform with school reviews and rankings; the closest international analogue of Diplomeo's school-discovery marketplace model, though operating in a different geography.
• Cappex: A US college-discovery and admissions platform helping students search and compare colleges; structurally similar to Diplomeo's school-listing and lead-generation offering but focused on the US market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Diplomeo
• Facebookfacebook.com/diplomeo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/diplomeo

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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