What Cellance does

Cellance is a French management consulting and digital solutions firm founded in 2016 and headquartered at 106 avenue Jean Jaurès in Lyon, with an additional office in the Paris La Défense area (Puteaux). The company serves the real estate sector, with a particular focus on social housing organizations (HLM operators, collectivities, Action Logement), broader real estate professionals (developers, property managers, administrators, real estate companies), and corporate real estate users. It combines advisory services in strategy and organization with a portfolio of proprietary digital applications, positioning itself simultaneously as a consultancy and a technology company.

Cellance's product portfolio consists of three core applications built on JavaScript frameworks spanning a front office (PC and mobile iOS/Android) and a back office using REST APIs and databases. UP BY CELLANCE is a sales management application that secures and optimizes residential unit sales across multiple tenure types (social rental/vente HLM, social ownership/accession sociale, PSLA, and free-market sales); WIP BY CELLANCE is a project portfolio management application introducing agile methods and collaborative tooling for real estate development projects; and GET manages the technical data of housing portfolios. Together they form an integrated ecosystem covering the social housing asset lifecycle from sales to project execution to technical property management, each distributed via a dedicated product website.

The business model pairs direct consulting engagements with executive teams (strategy and organization missions) and self-service access to its digital applications through product-specific sites. The company cites unique databases enabling real estate actors to benchmark performance, and a team of consultants with over 20 years of sector experience. No pricing information is publicly disclosed, no funding rounds are recorded, and revenue figures are not available in the source data. The company is privately held (RCS Lyon number 81824638100029), appears founder-led, and employs an estimated 11–50 people.

Name

Cellance

Legal name

Cellance

Website

https://cellance.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cellance is a Lyon-based French firm founded in 2016 providing management consulting and proprietary digital applications (UP, WIP, GET) to real estate professionals, social housing operators, and corporate real estate users for sales, project, and technical property management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Consulting & Software

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Management Services (8741), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Real Estate Market Research & Economic Advisory (Demand/Supply, Location Analytics) (BPAJANAD)

Keywords

• Management consulting services
• Digital transformation solutions
• Real estate software
• Social housing technology
• Business strategy consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cellance is a management consulting firm that advises real estate enterprises on strategy, organization, and digital transformation. It complements its consulting practice with three proprietary digital applications — UP by Cellance for housing sales management, WIP by Cellance for project portfolio management, and GET for technical property data management — designed specifically for social housing operators, real estate developers, property managers, and corporate real estate users.

Product overview

Cellance offers a unified portfolio of three digital applications designed for social housing operators and real estate professionals, complemented by management consulting services. UP BY CELLANCE handles residential unit sales management across multiple tenure types, WIP BY CELLANCE provides real estate project portfolio tracking with agile and collaborative features, and GET manages the technical data of housing portfolios. Together these products form an integrated digital ecosystem covering the full lifecycle of social housing assets, from sales to project execution to technical property management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UP BY CELLANCE: Application for securing and optimizing housing sales, integrating specific features for social housing, social ownership, PSLA, freehold ownership.
• WIP BY CELLANCE
• GET

Products and services

• UP by Cellance

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wavestone: French-origin consulting firm with a dedicated real estate and hospitality practice serving major property developers and public-sector housing operators. Overlaps with Cellance on strategy and transformation consulting for French real estate, but operates at much larger scale across multiple industries.
• Capgemini Invent: Global consulting arm of Capgemini with strong French public-sector and real estate digital transformation capabilities. Overlaps with Cellance on enterprise transformation mandates, but operates across industries with much larger consulting and technology delivery capacity.
• KPMG France: Big Four firm with a dedicated real estate and public sector advisory practice in France, including social housing operator clients. Competes with Cellance on transformation and strategic mandates for French real estate organizations, with substantially greater brand and delivery scale.
• Arthur D. Little: Global strategy consulting firm with a real estate and public infrastructure practice serving French clients. Competes with Cellance on high-level strategy and transformation advisory for real estate operators, though at significantly higher price points and broader scope.
• Sopra Steria: Large French IT services and consulting group with a public sector and real estate practice, including social housing software implementations. Competes with Cellance on digital transformation delivery for HLM operators but at vastly larger scale and with broader geographic reach.
• Sia Partners: Global management consulting firm founded in Paris with an established real estate and public sector practice. Competes with Cellance for strategy and digital transformation mandates from French real estate operators, but serves a much broader industry portfolio and has significantly larger headcount.

Direct peers

• Kea & Partners: Paris-based transformation and strategy consulting firm with comparable size and French market focus. Like Cellance, it combines strategic advisory with digital delivery and serves organizations undergoing transformation, though not exclusively in real estate.
• Ulterïa: French software vendor specialized in social housing operators (HLM), offering solutions for tenant management, sales, and operational workflows. Directly comparable to Cellance's UP and GET products in the same French social housing buyer base.

Others

• Monday.com: Global work management platform with project portfolio management capabilities overlapping with Cellance's WIP application. While not specialized in French real estate, it competes for the same project management budget within real estate development teams.

Emerging players

• Hopen Project: French PropTech startup providing digital tools for real estate developers and housing operators, including project management features comparable to Cellance's WIP product. Targets a similar French real estate buyer base with a more product-led approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cellance
• Xx.com/Cellance_exe

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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