AAEEA

What AAEEA does

AAEEA (Association des anciens élèves de l'École alsacienne) is a French non-profit association (loi 1901) founded in 1875 to serve graduates of École alsacienne, a private school located at 109 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The association maintains a membership network of approximately 10,500 alumni worldwide and is led by a volunteer board currently headed by Marine Nahooray (Promotion 94) as Présidente and Thomas Oudart (Promotion 2001) as Vice-Président. Its core activity is operating a community platform that reconnects former classmates, organizes professional and social events, and channels philanthropic support back to the school and related causes.

The digital backbone is an AlumnForce-powered alumni network providing a member directory, event registration, news publishing, job postings, and communication tools. The organization also curates an archive of more than 9,000 class photos dating to 1875 and operates the résEAutez! professional conference series, held roughly three times per year with alumni speakers. Partnerships include the parent association APEEA (for joint events such as the Soirée de Solidarité), the school itself (for social-mixity scholarships, including the Bourses Charcot, and artistic residencies such as the Villa alsacienne), and UNISAHEL for Sahelian educational twinning. International ambassadors are being appointed in multiple countries to re-engage alumni abroad.

The revenue model is dual-stream: annual membership dues (Cotisation) finance more than 50% of association activities, supplemented by charitable donations (mécénat) that benefit from French tax deductions (66% income tax, 75% IFI, 60% corporate tax). The association is entirely volunteer-run, does not employ paid staff at scale, and does not publicly disclose pricing or financial figures. No app, mobile product, or proprietary technology is owned; the platform relationship with AlumnForce is contractual rather than equity-based.

Name

AAEEA

Legal name

Association des anciens élèves de l'École alsacienne

Website

https://aaeea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1875

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AAEEA is a French non-profit alumni association founded in 1875 that operates a membership network of roughly 10,500 graduates of École alsacienne in Paris, running an AlumnForce-powered directory, a quarterly résEAutez! professional conference series, and philanthropic programs supporting the school.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Alumni Association Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Alumni Relations & Alumni Engagement Programs (EDALAOAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Alumni Events, Reunions & Regional Chapters (EDALAOAG), Alumni Benefits, Membership & Affinity Programs (EDALAOAM), Alumni Communications, Marketing & Publications (EDALAOAF)

Keywords

• Alumni association
• Private school alumni
• Alumni networking
• Alumni directory
• Alumni events

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues (Cotisation): Annual membership fees that finance over 50% of association activities including website, events, and publications. Entirely volunteer-run organization.
2. Mécénat/Donations: Charitable donations supporting social mixity projects, artistic residencies, and scholarship programs (Bourses Charcot). Donations benefit from French tax deductions (66% income tax, 75% IFI, 60% corporate tax).

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

AAEEA is the official alumni association for graduates of École alsacienne, a historic private school in Paris founded in 1875. It serves more than 10,500 alumni worldwide through a member directory, the résEAutez! networking conference series, class photo archives, and in-person networking events. The association is structured as a French non-profit (loi 1901) and is volunteer-run with a small staff of 1-10 people.

Product overview

AAEEA (Association des anciens élèves de l'École alsacienne) operates a membership-based alumni network platform built on the AlumnForce platform. The organization provides alumni directory services, professional networking features, event organization, job postings, and photo archives to its members. The platform's core functionality centers on facilitating connections among former students of École alsacienne through an online portal with features including account management, event registration, and communication tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RésEAutez!: Professional networking conferences organized 3 times per year with speakers and networking opportunities for alumni

Products and services

• Alumni Directory

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and significant.

• AlumnForcecoreTechnology or IntegrationAlumnForce is the technology platform provider that built and powers the AAEEA alumni network website. The platform provides member directory, event management, and communication tools for the association.
• École alsaciennecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe school with which the alumni association is affiliated. The AAEEA supports school projects including social diversity scholarships (Bourses Charcot), artistic residencies (Villa alsacienne), and other school initiatives.
• APEEA (Association des Parents d'Élèves de l'École Alsacienne)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent association that partners with AAEEA on joint initiatives including the annual Solidarity Evening (Soirée de Solidarité) and various school support programs.
• UNISAHELsignificantStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation founded in 1987 by Jacques Marsauches and Jean-Pierre Hammel (former director of École alsacienne). Supports educational projects in Sahelian countries through school twinning programs and infrastructure support. AAEEA promotes UNISAHEL activities and supports fundraising efforts.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• HEC Alumni: Official alumni network of HEC Paris, one of France's most prestigious grandes écoles. Directly comparable to AAEEA as a membership-based alumni association running events, directory services, mentoring, and professional development for former students - but at much larger scale.
• ESSEC Alumni: Alumni association of ESSEC Business School operating global networking, events, and career services for its graduates. Highly comparable business model (membership dues, donor-funded programs, event-driven engagement) serving a single institution's alumni - structurally identical to AAEEA.
• Association des anciens élèves de l'École polytechnique (AX): Alumni association of École polytechnique, one of France's oldest grandes écoles (founded 1794). Mirror image of AAEEA's mission: maintaining lifelong ties to a single prestigious French institution through directory, events, mentoring, and philanthropy.
• Association des anciens élèves de l'ENA (AAE-ENA): Alumni association for graduates of France's former elite public administration school. Directly comparable model - institutional alumni membership, events, directory - though smaller addressable population than grandes écoles.
• Sciences Po Alumni: Alumni network of Sciences Po, connecting graduates across policy, business, and civil society. Comparable to AAEEA as a French elite-institution alumni association providing directory access, events, and lifelong community programs funded by membership and patronage.

Emerging players

• Hivebrite: Global community-management SaaS platform serving alumni networks, associations, and member-based organizations. Conceptually comparable to AlumnForce (and thus to AAEEA's underlying tech) but operating at significantly broader scale and serving international clients.
• Graduway: Alumni-engagement and mentoring platform used by educational institutions and associations worldwide. Comparable to the technology layer AAEEA relies on for directory, events, and networking features - representing an alternative vendor option.

Others

• AlumnForce: French SaaS vendor providing the alumni-network platform (directory, events, communications) that powers aaeea.com. Indirectly comparable as the enabling technology layer for associations like AAEEA, and a key vendor dependency.
• Blackbaud (K-12 / Education solutions): Enterprise software provider for educational institutions, including alumni-management and donor-management modules. Comparable as the broader ecosystem of institutional software that AAEEA's operational stack sits within, though at a much larger and more diversified scale.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: The dominant general-purpose professional networking platform with directory, messaging, and event functionality that competes for AAEEA members' time and attention. Not a membership association but a structural substitute for many of AAEEA's networking use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/anciens_ea

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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