What Tech Valley does

Tech Valley, formally registered as TECH VALLEY SARL, is a French IT consulting and systems engineering firm headquartered at 120 Rue James Watt in Tecnosud, Perpignan, with a national footprint of 14 agency offices across France (Toulouse, Nantes, Rennes, Lyon, Grenoble, Annecy, Perpignan, Montpellier, Aix-Marseille, Nice, Paris, Bordeaux, Lille) and dedicated service centers in Toulouse and Perpignan. The company delivers three core service lines: Prestation In Situ (on-site consulting that embeds Tech Valley consultants into client teams), Prestation à Distance (remote consulting delivered from its service centers under a one-consultant-per-engagement rule), and Fixed Price Service (managed fixed-price engagements via its Software Factory for software development, maintenance, TMA outsourcing, and R&D). Technical competencies span web and mobile development (JAVA/J2EE, .NET, PHP, JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue, Node.js, iOS, Android), BI (Power BI, Qlik, Talend, Informatica), Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB, Elastic), SAP (ABAP, HANA), mainframe (AS400/COBOL, MVS/CICS), DevOps (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, OpenShift), and cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack).

Tech Valley serves both Grands Comptes (large enterprises) and PME (small and medium enterprises) across vertical industries including banking/finance, telecom, manufacturing, agro-food, energy and utilities, aerospace and defense, medical research, and environment. Revenue is generated primarily through professional services billing (time-and-materials for consulting days and hours) and through managed fixed-price service contracts, with all engagements quoted individually rather than on published rate cards. A differentiator in the French market is the MESRI-accredited R&D laboratory (accredited June 2019), which enables Tech Valley to participate as subcontractor or co-contractor in client projects eligible for the Crédit Impôt Recherche (CIR) tax credit across all technology domains; this is paired with a strategic R&D partnership with Perpignan-based Visis on an IT-ophthalmology initiative.

The company is structured as a private SARL (Société à Responsabilité Limitée) with a registered share capital of €300,000 and SIREN 799 107 073. Ownership and management are concentrated with gérant Marc Gaillard, with no disclosed external investors, parent entities, subsidiaries, or funding rounds. Headcount is disclosed at 51-100 employees, and the firm maintains active nationwide recruitment of developers, infrastructure engineers, project managers, SAP consultants, BI/data engineers, and digitalization consultants. Notable corporate milestones include establishment of a CSE (Comité Social et Economique) in May 2019, a gender-pay-equality index score of 91/100 in 2019 (falling to 35/45 in 2022 due in part to incalculable small-workforce criteria), and ECOVADIS Silver RSE certification in 2024. No proprietary AI product, research publication, or patent portfolio is disclosed, and AI/ML is referenced only as part of the general service portfolio.

Name

Tech Valley

Legal name

TECH VALLEY SARL

Website

https://techvalley.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Tech Valley is a French IT consulting and systems engineering firm (TECH VALLEY SARL) headquartered in Perpignan, delivering on-site, remote, and managed fixed-price consulting through 14 agency offices across France for large accounts and SMEs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Consulting Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital & Technology Transformation Consulting (BPAHACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Business Process & Digital Transformation Consulting (BPAEAAAD)

Keywords

• IT consulting services
• Systems engineering
• Digital transformation
• Software development
• IT outsourcing

Headquarters

HQ city

Perpignan

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. On-site Consulting Services (Prestation In Situ): Tech Valley provides expert IT consultants who are embedded directly into client teams at the client's site. Consultants are placed across France through 14 local agency offices. Revenue is generated through billable consulting days/hours at contracted rates. This is the primary revenue stream.
2. Remote Consulting Services (Prestation à distance): Remote consulting engagements delivered from Tech Valley's service centers in Toulouse and Perpignan, providing access to expert consultants nationwide. Follows the same contractual conditions as on-site services, adapted for secure remote delivery. Revenue generated through billable consulting hours/days.
3. Fixed Price / Managed Services (Fixed Price Service): Managed fixed-price engagements delivered through the Software Factory in Perpignan, covering software development and maintenance, TMA outsourcing, and R&D projects. Revenue recognized upon delivery of defined project milestones or managed service periods.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Tech Valley is an IT systems engineering and digital consulting firm that provides expert IT consultants and managed software development services to enterprise clients and SMEs in France. Its offering spans on-site consulting delivered through a network of 14 agency offices, remote consulting from service centers in Toulouse and Perpignan, and managed fixed-price software development, maintenance, and R&D services through its Software Factory.

Product overview

Tech Valley is an IT consulting and engineering services company offering a portfolio of three core service delivery models: Prestation In Situ (on-site consulting through a national network of agencies), Prestation à Distance (remote consulting from dedicated service centers), and Fixed Price Service (managed software development via the Software Factory). The company operates a Software Factory in Perpignan for software development, maintenance, and R&D with MESRI/CIR accreditation, supporting web and mobile technologies including JAVA JEE, PHP, C#, and ASP.NET. Services span consulting, digital transformation, and system integration across industries including banking, aerospace, telecom, energy, and healthcare.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 91/100 on the Index de l'égalité salariale Femmes-Hommes (2019, first year of calculation)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• VisiscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2019Tech Valley works in partnership with the Perpignan-based company Visis on a Research & Development project combining IT and ophthalmology fields. This collaboration represents a flagship strategic partnership focused on developing an innovative project at the intersection of digital technology and healthcare, supported by the MESRI-accredited R&D structure.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SQLI: French digital services company specializing in digital experience, e-commerce, and enterprise application consulting—closely parallel to Tech Valley's Software Factory digital transformation and integration practice serving mid-market and enterprise clients.
• Devoteam: French-headquartered digital transformation and IT consulting firm operating across Europe with a similar multi-stack technology consulting model (cloud, data, cybersecurity, AI) and a comparable-sized French workforce. Directly comparable to Tech Valley's positioning as a mid-sized French digital consulting specialist serving Grands Comptes and mid-market.
• Hardis Group: French IT consulting and services firm of comparable size headquartered outside Paris, providing digital transformation, software development, and managed services to enterprise clients—closely comparable to Tech Valley's Software Factory and on-site consulting model with multi-stack technical competence.
• Inetum: French-origin digital services and IT solutions company focused on digital transformation, application services, and consulting across public and private-sector verticals—directly comparable to Tech Valley's full-service digital transformation consulting delivery.
• Aubay: French IT services and consulting firm of similar scale focused on technical consulting, software development, and systems integration across banking, insurance, telecom, and industry—directly mirroring Tech Valley's vertical mix and on-site plus nearshore delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• Atos: Historic French IT services incumbent offering consulting, systems integration, and managed services to large enterprises and the public sector—directly comparable activities to Tech Valley's offerings but at multi-billion-euro scale.
• Sopra Steria: One of France's largest ESNs offering digital transformation, IT consulting, and systems integration across all of Tech Valley's served verticals, but at much greater scale, a broader European footprint, and a significantly larger bench of consultants.
• Capgemini: Global IT services leader with deep French roots providing strategy, consulting, technology, and engineering services across all the same verticals Tech Valley serves—at vastly greater scale and with a globally integrated delivery model.
• ALTEN: Major French-headquartered technology consulting and engineering services firm serving Grands Comptes across industry, telecom, finance, and life sciences—overlapping with Tech Valley's vertical mix but operating at substantially larger scale across Europe.

Regional players

• CGI: Canadian global IT consulting firm's French operations delivering IT consulting, systems integration, and managed services to large French enterprises—an adjacent peer operating a similar consulting-and-integration model in the same French market from a foreign base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TechValley66
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tech-valley-tvy

Compliance3 records

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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