Digital Ace

What Digital Ace does

ACE DIGITALe is a French IT services company (ESN – Entreprise de Services du Numérique) founded in 2018 and headquartered in Lyon, with additional offices in Paris, Strasbourg, and Geneva (Switzerland). The firm employs approximately 40 experts and is co-led by founders Lionel Cauchy (engineer with 25 years of IT services experience) and Darko Calic. ACE DIGITALe serves enterprise clients across banking (La Banque Postale, Crédit Agricole, Banque Populaire), insurance (April, Apicil), energy (EDF, Enedis), industrial (Framatome), chemicals (Solvay), transportation (SNCF), and government (Pôle Emploi). The company differentiates itself through a "human-centric" participative organizational model that emphasizes work-life balance, transparent salary policy, variable compensation, and employee profit-sharing — atypical governance for an ESN.

The company operates three interconnected service lines: ACE DIGITALe-IT (full-lifecycle IT expertise spanning BIZ-DEV-OPS, including cybersecurity [SOC, CIRT, pentesting, vulnerability assessment, SIEM], DevOps, and software development in .NET, Java, and Angular); ACE DIGITALe-CONSULT (digital transformation advisory covering organizational design, service valorization, and technology roadmaps); and ACE DIGITALe-SEARCH (specialized recruitment consulting including strategy audit, sourcing, prequalification, and recruitment team coaching). The technology stack centers on the ELK platform (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for log analysis and SIEM operations, formalized through a 2024 partnership with Elastic.

The business model is professional services revenue: consultants employed by ACE DIGITALe are placed at client sites or engaged on projects across cybersecurity, development, and DevOps. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; the firm invests in talent attraction via a referral program (Coop'tonpote) and a relocation reimbursement (Mobili'ACE) of up to €2,000 for candidates moving more than 70 km to Lyon. ACE DIGITALe is a founder-owned SARL (capital €30,300) with no external institutional funding, no parent company, and no subsidiaries. The firm distributes services through direct sales and consultant placement, supported by content marketing, LinkedIn, and an active careers page.

Name

Digital Ace

Legal name

ACE DIGITALe

Website

https://acedigitale.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ACE DIGITALe is a French IT services firm (ESN) founded in 2018, headquartered in Lyon, with 40 experts delivering cybersecurity, DevOps, software development, digital transformation consulting, and specialized recruitment services to enterprise clients across banking, insurance, energy, and government sectors in France and Switzerland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & IT Advisory (BPAEAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Enterprise Architecture & IT Operating Model (BPAHAEAB)

Keywords

• IT consulting services
• Cybersecurity services
• DevOps consulting
• Digital transformation consulting
• IT recruitment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IT Consulting Services: Staffing and consulting services placing expert consultants in client organizations for IT projects in cybersecurity, development, and DevOps. Consultants are employed by ACE DIGITALe and assigned to client sites.
2. Digital Transformation Consulting: Consulting services for digital transformation, including organizational transformation, service valorization, and technology implementation.
3. Recruitment Services (ACE DIGITALe-SEARCH): Specialized recruitment services including audit & consulting in recruitment strategy, targeted sourcing, candidate prequalification & selection, and coaching of recruitment teams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ACE DIGITALe is a French IT services company (ESN) providing expert consulting and consultant placement across three service lines: ACE DIGITALe-IT (BIZ-DEV-OPS project expertise in cybersecurity, cloud, DevOps, and development), ACE DIGITALe-CONSULT (digital transformation and organizational consulting), and ACE DIGITALe-SEARCH (specialized recruitment consulting). Services are delivered by approximately 40 in-house consultants assigned to enterprise client projects across France and Switzerland.

Product overview

ACE DIGITALe is an IT services company (ESN) offering three interconnected service lines: ACE DIGITALe-IT covers full-lifecycle IT project services (BIZ-DEV-OPS) including cybersecurity, cloud, and DevOps; ACE DIGITALe-CONSULT provides digital transformation consulting; and ACE DIGITALe-SEARCH offers specialized recruitment services. The company positions itself as a human-centric, participative organization with 40 experts across Lyon, Paris, and Geneva, focusing on innovation and work-life balance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ACE DIGITALe-IT Full-lifecycle IT project expertise delivered to enterprise clients, spanning business analysis, development, and operations (BIZ-DEV-OPS). Specializes in digital transformation, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices for organizations needing specialized IT project delivery.
• ACE DIGITALe-CONSULT Digital transformation consulting helping clients transform and enhance their service offerings through organizational, human, and technological levers. Covers defining roadmaps, organizing services, valorizing IT offerings, and federating teams around a shared vision.
• ACE DIGITALe-SEARCH

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ElasticcoreTechnology or Integration · 5 April 2024ACE DIGITALe announced partnership with Elastic, recognized for their ELK stack solution (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), a reference in log analysis. As an integrator and cybersecurity solutions provider, ACE DIGITALe will leverage this partnership to offer ELK expertise to clients, particularly in SIEM deployment, administration, SOC analysis, cloud supervision, and user training.
• NOVACAPminorOthersNOVACAP partners with ACE DIGITALe to support employee mobility and housing search. Under certain conditions, NOVACAP assists employees with their mobility and property search when relocating to Lyon for ACE DIGITALe positions.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Sopra Steria: Major European IT services and consulting group with deep French banking, public-sector and energy accounts. Represents the large-scale incumbent that often sits as prime vendor on the same enterprise frameworks ACE DIGITALe is exposed to.
• CGI France: Canadian-founded IT and business consulting firm with strong French presence serving banking, energy and government clients. Comparable customer verticals and broader-scale IT consulting footprint.
• Inetum: Large French IT services group (formerly Gfi Informatique) with a broad consulting and digital transformation portfolio including cybersecurity and public-sector clients such as Pôle Emploi. Provides a benchmark for an incumbent ESN that ACE DIGITALe partly competes against in mid-market accounts.
• Capgemini: Global IT services leader with significant French operations covering consulting, cybersecurity, cloud and digital transformation. Relevant as a competitive incumbent and as the ultimate acquirer archetype for a specialist French ESN.
• Thales Services (Cybersecurity): Cybersecurity arm of Thales providing SOC, SIEM and managed security services to French and European critical-infrastructure clients. Directly competes for the same regulated cybersecurity mandates that ACE DIGITALe targets.

Direct peers

• Devoteam: French-headquartered IT services firm with a strong focus on cybersecurity, cloud and DevOps across European enterprises. Closest publicly comparable peer in terms of service mix (cyber, cloud, DevOps) and ESN-style consultant delivery model.
• Talan: French IT consulting and innovation firm operating in cybersecurity, data and digital transformation with offices in Paris, Lyon and internationally. Closely matches ACE DIGITALe's geography, service mix and mid-market positioning.
• Aubay: French IT services and consulting group specializing in development, integration and project management for banks, insurers and industry. Directly comparable customer verticals (banking, insurance) and ESN delivery model.
• Alten: European IT/engineering consultancy placing expert consultants in client projects, including digital transformation and software development. Comparable scale-up trajectory and similar consultant-placement revenue model in France.

Emerging players

• Stormshield (Cybersecurity): European cybersecurity vendor and integrator with French roots. Comparable in being a mid-sized European cyber specialist, though more product-led; useful as a regional cyber peer and potential ecosystem partner.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/acedigitale
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/acedigitale
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ace-digitale
• Instagraminstagram.com/acedigitale

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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