What Coopaname does

Coopaname is a French Société Coopérative Ouvrière de Production (Scop-SA), founded in 2004 in Paris, that operates as a Coopérative d'Activités et d'Emploi (CAE) — a cooperative of activities and employment. It provides a shared legal, economic, social, and human framework in which approximately 530 entrepreneur-members (coopérateur·ices) operate as independent micro-businesses while benefiting from entrepreneur-salarié status, which combines the autonomy of self-employment with the social protections (health, pension, unemployment insurance) of salaried employment. Members are supported by a 38-person permanent staff handling accounting, payroll, legal/social affairs, IT, training, and general management, across five physical offices in Paris (20e and 13e), Nanterre, Chevilly-Larue, and Le Mans.

The cooperative's technology backbone is a proprietary ERP built on the open-source Odoo platform, developed internally by member-developers and published under a free/libre software license in 2023. Coopaname's product surface spans the core CAE membership (with a fixed €30/month contribution plus a 13.5% variable contribution on member gross margin), the Coopératifs! wholly-owned subsidiary (founded 2007, offering personal/home services under the SAP tax-advantaged framework), a Qualiopi-certified training organization serving ~500 trainees annually via ~100 member-trainers, the CAPE (Contrat d'Appui au Projet d'Entreprise) entry contract, the Coopathèque digital archive, and three mutual risk-prevention funds (investment, relief, and receivables guarantee, established 2022).

Revenue is generated through member contributions, training program fees, and Coopératifs! service revenue, supplemented by institutional co-financing from the European Social Fund and Région Île-de-France. The cooperative has no external parent or venture capital backing; governance is democratic (one member, one vote), with a three-person collegiate Codirection générale and a board on which women hold the majority. Coopaname is a co-founder of the Bigre! movement (with Smart, Oxalis, and Manufacture coopérative) and holds seats on the boards of the Confédération générale des Scop and the Fédération des CAE, embedding it structurally in France's cooperative and social economy ecosystem.

Name

Coopaname

Legal name

Coopaname Société Coopérative Ouvrière de Production Anonyme à capital variable

Website

https://coopaname.coop

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Coopaname is a Paris-based worker cooperative (Scop-SA) founded in 2004 that provides ~530 micro-entrepreneurs with entrepreneur-salarié status, mutualized accounting/legal/HR support, and three solidarity risk-prevention funds, operating via Odoo-based proprietary ERP and a Qualiopi-certified training organization.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Worker Cooperative Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Microenterprise Group Lending (Joint Liability) (FSAKAGAH)

Keywords

• Worker cooperative services
• Entrepreneur employee status
• Professional training organization
• Personal home services
• Cooperative business framework

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Cooperative Membership Contributions: Entrepreneur-members (cooperator·ices) pay two types of contributions to fund the cooperative's operations: (1) a fixed contribution of €30/month (exempt for those on minimum social benefits), and (2) a variable contribution of 13.5% of their gross margin. These contributions are not the price of a service but rather the collective means of financing the shared work tool. At year-end, profitable activities contribute to a common fund that finances solidarity mechanisms.
2. Entrepreneur-Salarié Salary Conversion: Revenue is generated by the entrepreneur-members themselves through the turnover (chiffre d'affaires) they develop in their activities. The cooperative converts this CA into salaries. Members pay VAT (the cooperative operates on a hors-taxes basis), contribute to cooperative functioning costs, and pay employer and employee social security contributions. This is the core economic engine of the CAE model.
3. Training Organization (Organisme de Formation): Coopaname operates a certified training organization (Qualiopi-certified) offering professional training actions and competency assessments. Approximately 500 trainees per year are trained by around 100 coopérateur·ices trainers. Trainers can work alone or associate to respond to calls for tender, build and deliver training programs, and sell them directly or collaborate with other training organizations.
4. Coopératifs! — Personal Services (SAP): Coopératifs! is a subsidiary focused on personal/home services (services à la personne), offering activities such as gardening, handyman work, IT maintenance, tutoring. This subsidiary generates revenue through service provision and benefits from specific tax advantages for clients (tax credits, immediate advance on tax credit, reduced VAT rate). Created in 2007.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Coopaname operates a Coopérative d'Activités et d'Emploi (CAE) that provides independent entrepreneurs with a shared legal, accounting, payroll, social-affairs, and human-resources framework so they can invoice clients while retaining salaried employee status and benefits. It bundles this with a CAPE testing contract, a Qualiopi-certified training organization serving roughly 500 trainees per year through around 100 member-trainers, and the Coopératifs! subsidiary delivering personal/home services (gardening, DIY, IT maintenance, tutoring) under the French SAP framework with tax-credit advantages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coopaname CAE (Coopérative d'Activités et d'Emploi) Membership Core cooperative offering that gives individual entrepreneurs a shared legal, economic, social, and human framework to develop their activities while retaining employee status (entrepreneur-salarié) and social protections. Members invoice clients through the cooperative and receive accounting, HR, legal, and social-affairs support from a 38-person team.
• CAPE (Contrat d'Appui au Projet d'Entreprise) Business support contract that allows prospective entrepreneurs to test their activity while keeping their current status (jobseeker, student, retiree, or part-time employee) and benefits during the initial testing phase before full integration as entrepreneur-salarié.
• Coopératifs! Personal Assistance Services (SAP) Personal assistance services subsidiary delivering gardening, handyman/DIY, IT maintenance, tutoring, and sports-teaching services to households and consumers. Operates under the SAP framework, giving clients access to tax credits, immediate tax-credit advances, and reduced VAT rates.
• Coopaname Training Organization (Organisme de Formation Qualiopi-certified) Qualiopi-certified training organization delivering professional training actions (actions de formation) and competency assessments (bilan de compétences) across diverse sectors via approximately 100 member-trainers. Approximately 500 trainees per year are served through direct sales, collaboration with other training organizations, and responses to institutional calls for tender.

Quantifiable outcome

• Activities operating collectively generate 30% more revenue than individual activities
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Bigre! MovementcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Founded by Coopaname, Oxalis, Smart (Belgium), and other cooperatives. The Bigre! movement brings together cooperative, associative, and mutualist organizations committed to transcending the classic alternative between subordinate employment and precarized independent work. The movement advocates for re-socializing the economy through mutualist practices without waiting for public authority.
• SMart (Belgium)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean cooperative originating from Belgium, part of the Bigre! movement. SMart gathers 100,000 creative professionals across 9 European countries. Coopaname collaborates with SMart within the Bigre! framework to advance the mutualist project of reimagining work.
• Oxalis / OxamynecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the Bigre! movement and partner in the Manufacture coopérative research-action initiative. Oxalis is one of the founding members of Bigre! alongside Coopaname, contributing to the mutualist vision of work organization.
• Manufacture coopérative (Ladyss / Paris Diderot)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn ambitious research-action initiative led jointly by Coopaname and Oxalis, in partnership with Ladyss (Laboratoire de dynamiques sociales et de recomposition des territoires) of Paris Diderot University (Paris-VII). It aims to accompany the transformation of work collectives into cooperative organizations, building a vast network of mutual learning between former, new, and future coopérateur·ices.
• Vecteur ActivitésminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoopaname's 'fairy godmother' organization that accompanied its early years. Vecteur Activités played a mentorship role in Coopaname's formative period, supporting the cooperative during its startup phase.
• Scop276minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of Coopaname's 'goddaughters' — cooperatives whose early steps Coopaname has supported and overseen. Scop276 is a cooperative that grew with Coopaname's guidance.
• EsscoopminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnother of Coopaname's 'goddaughters' — a cooperative whose early development was supported by Coopaname.
• Pointcarré (Tiers-lieu)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA shared workspace (tiers-lieu) in which Coopaname is a participating member, contributing to the cooperative ecosystem and inter-cooperation on a shared territory.
• Confédération générale des ScopcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCoopaname is a member of the Confédération générale des Scop and holds a seat on the board of directors of the Union régionale des Scop d'Île-de-France, representing the cooperative within France's primary SCOP confederation.
• Fédération des CAEcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCoopaname holds a seat on the board of directors of the Fédération des CAE (Coopératives d'Activités et d'Emploi), the national federation representing CAEs in France. The federation provides advocacy, networking, and representation for the CAE sector.
• Région Île-de-FrancecoreOthersPrimary institutional co-financier of Coopaname's operations. The region has supported the cooperative's activities for multiple years and co-finances the 'école coopérative au service de l'emploi et de l'innovation francilienne' project via the European Social Fund.
• Ville de ParisminorOthersThe City of Paris supports Coopaname as a local institution, providing recognition and potential co-financing for the cooperative's activities serving Paris residents.
• Ville de NanterreminorOthersThe municipality of Nanterre supports Coopaname's presence in the city, hosting one of the cooperative's offices and supporting local economic development.
• Ville de Saint-DenisminorOthersThe municipality of Saint-Denis supports Coopaname as an institutional partner contributing to local economic development in Seine-Saint-Denis.
• Département du Val-de-MarneminorOthersThe Val-de-Marne department supports Coopaname's operations, hosting the Chevilly-Larue office and contributing to the department's social economy ecosystem.
• Département de Seine-Saint-DenisminorOthersSeine-Saint-Denis department supports Coopaname's activities in one of France's most underserved departments, contributing to local economic inclusion and cooperative development.
• Chaire ESS (Université Gustave-Eiffel)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe ESS Chair at Université Gustave-Eiffel, which is academically connected to Coopaname's ecosystem, supporting research and academic engagement with the cooperative model.
• Plaine Commune Grand ParisminorOthersAn intermunicipal structure (Établissement Public Territorial) in northern Paris metropolitan area that supports Coopaname's cooperative development activities in the Plaine Commune territory.
• La MielminorOthersA local institutional partner supporting Coopaname's activities in the territory served by La Miel.
• GOSBminorOthersA local institutional or economic development organization that partners with Coopaname for cooperative and social economy development.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Manufacture coopérative: Research-action initiative co-led by Coopaname, Oxalis, and Ladyss (Paris Diderot University) accompanying the transformation of work collectives into cooperative organizations. Directly involved in extending the CAE model through academic and field practice.
• Oxalis: French worker cooperative (Scop) operating as a Coopérative d'Activités et d'Emploi primarily in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Co-founder of the Bigre! movement alongside Coopaname and SMart, with a directly comparable CAE model, parallel solidarity mechanisms, and shared research-action via Manufacture coopérative.
• SMart: Belgian-origin cooperative covering 100,000+ creative professionals across 9 European countries. Co-founder of Bigre! sharing the same mutualist philosophy and entrepreneur-salarié model; the closest international direct peer to Coopaname.

Others

• France Active: National solidarity-finance network that has directly invested in Coopaname alongside Esfin Gestion and Garrigue. Provides financing and support to social-economy enterprises — an enabling role in the ecosystem rather than direct competition.
• ADIE: Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Économique — France's leading microcredit association for entrepreneurs excluded from bank credit. Adjacent rather than competitive: ADIE finances microentrepreneurs lacking access to bank credit, while Coopaname provides the legal and administrative shell; both serve the bottom of the entrepreneur population.
• Fédération des CAE: National federation representing Coopératives d'Activités et d'Emploi in France, on whose board Coopaname holds a seat. Provides advocacy, networking, and representation for the CAE sector — a non-commercial enabling organization rather than direct competitor.

Emerging players

• Alter'Incub: French cooperative incubator focused on social and solidarity economy (ESS) projects in the Rhône-Alpes region. Overlapping mission and target audience (mission-driven entrepreneurs) with adjacent training and accompaniment services, but stronger emphasis on venture-style incubation.

Broad incumbents

• BGE Réseau: French national network of business-development associations (Boutiques de Gestion) supporting entrepreneurs and small-business creation across all regions. Larger established player serving the same target market (aspiring and existing microentrepreneurs) but using classical business-creation support rather than the CAE/entrepreneur-salarié model.
• Caisse d'Epargne: Cooperative banking group with historical ties to the French cooperative movement and direct investment in Coopaname. Larger incumbent in cooperative finance; part of Coopaname's investor and partner network rather than a direct competitor.
• Crédit Coopératif: French cooperative bank serving social economy, mutualist, and cooperative organizations across France. Banks many CAEs and sits in the broader cooperative-finance ecosystem alongside Coopaname, with a much wider financial-services scope but aligned cooperative governance.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/coopaname
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coopaname
• Instagraminstagram.com/coopaname
• Xx.com/coopaname

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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