Le Compte Personnel Formation

What Le Compte Personnel Formation does

Le Compte Personnel Formation (le-compte-personnel-formation.com) is a French informational portal and training directory operated by ICI FORMATIONS SAS, a private corporation (RCS PARIS 477 795 314 00012) headquartered at 11 rue Galvani, 75017 Paris with a share capital of 48,400 euros. Since May 2017, ICI FORMATIONS SAS has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stepstone Group, a European leader in online job boards and employment platforms. The portal serves as a guidance resource for France's government-mandated CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation) professional training account program, which was established by law in 2014 and entered into force on January 1, 2015, replacing the prior DIF system. It helps individual users understand CPF eligibility rules (24 hours per year for full-time employees, capped at 150 hours; DIF conversions at 15 euros/hour; CPF coverage up to 5,000 euros), locate Qualiopi-certified training providers, and navigate related career services including VAE (Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience) and Bilan de Compétences.

The portal's core product is a training directory indexing approximately 75,000 referenced programs across 22 professional domains — including IT, languages, management, healthcare, construction, and transport — supplemented by SEO-optimized editorial content covering CPF regulations, reforms, FAQs, and procedural guides. Distribution is built on organic search authority around CPF-related terms and a network of sister portals covering VAE (diplome-vae.fr), Bilan de Compétences (le-bilan-de-competences.com), career orientation (imaginetonfutur.com, portail-orientation.fr), outplacement, job matching (adequaJOB.fr), and retirement planning (meilleure-epargne-retraite.fr). The site integrates with the official government Mon Compte Formation application (moncompteformation.gouv.fr), which has reached over 13 million users and processed more than 1 million training enrollments since launch, while ICI FORMATIONS SAS itself draws approximately 500,000 monthly visitors and transmits roughly 10,000 leads per month to 1,000+ training provider clients.

The business model is lead generation and directory monetization for training providers, rather than transactional intermediation of CPF funding (which the government platform handles directly). Revenue is implicitly derived from referral and lead-transmission arrangements with training organizations, schools, and consulting firms, supported by advertising, email newsletters, and partnership traffic from the Stepstone network. The operation runs with a lean structure of approximately 12 employees, consistent with a content-and-SEO-led cost model, and is integrated within Stepstone Group's broader European employment services portfolio rather than operating as a standalone venture-backed business.

Name

Le Compte Personnel Formation

Legal name

ICI FORMATIONS SAS

Website

https://le-compte-personnel-formation.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Le Compte Personnel Formation (le-compte-personnel-formation.com) is a French informational portal and training directory operated by ICI FORMATIONS SAS, a Stepstone Group subsidiary. It guides employees and job seekers through the government-mandated CPF professional training system and delivers leads to 1,000+ training providers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Training Information Services

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Project, Process & Quality Certification Prep (PMP, PRINCE2, Lean Six Sigma, ITIL) (EDANAIAE)

Keywords

• Professional training directory
• Vocational training portal
• Career development resources
• CPF funding guidance
• Training course search

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Le Compte Personnel Formation operates an informational portal and directory platform for the French government's CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation) professional training account system. The website helps employees and job seekers understand CPF eligibility, find eligible training courses across 22 professional domains, access guidance on skills assessments (Bilan de compétences), VAE (validation of acquired experience), and business creation, and connects users to the official Mon Compte Formation government application for account management and enrollment.

Product overview

Le Compte Personnel Formation operates a unified informational portal that serves as a comprehensive resource for the French professional training account (CPF) system. The platform combines a training course directory, eligibility guides, and educational resources to help employees and job seekers navigate professional development. Key offerings include the main CPF information portal, a training search directory covering 22 professional domains, VAE (validation of acquired experience) support services, skills assessment (Bilan de compétences) guidance, and integration with the official government Mon Compte Formation application. The site is operated by ICI Formation, which became part of the European job board group Stepstone in May 2017.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CPF Information Portal
• Training Course Directory
• VAE (Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience) Support Information
• Skills Assessment (Bilan de Compétences) Information Service

Quantifiable outcome

• 41% of job seeker training entries in Q1 2021 were funded through CPF Autonome (145,000 formations)
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Stepstone GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2017Since May 2017, ICI Formation (parent company of le-compte-personnel-formation.com) has been part of the Stepstone Group, Europe's leading job websites network. This acquisition provides significant distribution advantage and integration into a major European employment platform ecosystem.
• ICI Formation (iciformation.fr)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent company and umbrella brand. ICI Formation is the national directory of professional training, skills assessments, VAE, outplacement, and business creation support. It operates le-compte-personnel-formation.com as part of its network of career and training information portals. Since May 2017, ICI Formation is part of the Stepstone Group, Europe's leading job website network.
• Diplome-vae.frcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial guide for Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience (VAE). Provides step-by-step guidance on VAE process, financing options, and allows users to find VAE experts near their location.
• Imaginetonfutur.comminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCareer orientation partner offering 600+ job profiles, free orientation tests, practical information on degrees and training paths, professional testimonials, and personalized career advice for students and job seekers.
• Portail-Orientation.frminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool orientation portal for parents concerned about their children's educational trajectory. Provides professional answers to questions about Baccalaureate failures, grande école admissions, and alternating training programs.
• Le-bilan-de-competences.comcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerReference website for skills assessments (Bilan de compétences). Features testimonials, programs, and national directory of skills assessment centers in cities including Paris, Lyon, and Marseille with 48-hour quote turnaround.
• Outplacement-et-reclassement.comminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCareer reclassification and outplacement portal offering articles, beneficiary testimonials, and national directory of outplacement consulting firms. Allows comparison of services and 48-hour quote requests.
• AdequaJOB.frminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJob search facilitation platform that matches job offers to user profiles. Rewards job seekers with recruitment bonuses of 100-500 euros when hired.
• Meilleure-Epargne-Retraite.frminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRetirement planning information website for employees, business owners, self-employed, and traders. Offers free online retirement simulations and personalized retirement diagnostics.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Coursera: Coursera is a large global MOOC and professional certificate platform; it serves the same broader demand for credentialed professional training, though at far greater scale and global reach than the French-focused CPF portal.
• Skillsoft: Skillsoft is a global corporate learning and talent development platform; relevant as a broader incumbent serving enterprise demand for credentialed professional training, parallel to the individual-CPF pathway the portal targets.
• Udemy: Udemy is a global online learning marketplace with thousands of courses in business, IT, and languages; relevant as a broader incumbent in the same professional upskilling category, including courses that may be CPF-eligible in France.
• LinkedIn Learning: LinkedIn Learning is a global online professional learning platform offering video courses across business, creative, and technology — a broader incumbent operating in the same professional upskilling category that the French CPF-eligible training ecosystem serves.

Others

• France Travail: France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi) is the French government agency that funds job-seeker training, including CPF pathways; an institutional ecosystem participant whose policy and funding decisions directly shape the portal's addressable market.
• Stepstone: Stepstone is the parent group's main European job-board platform; it shares the same employment and career-development ecosystem and contributes distribution to Le Compte Personnel Formation rather than directly competing in CPF training discovery.

Emerging players

• OpenClassrooms: OpenClassrooms is a France-based online education platform offering state-recognized diplomas and career-transition programs; comparable as a French-language professional training provider with pathways that overlap with CPF eligibility.

Direct peers

• Diplomeo: Diplomeo is a French education and training orientation portal that helps users find schools, diplomas, and training programs — closely comparable in serving the discovery and orientation needs of French learners.
• Mon Compte Formation: The official French government platform for CPF account management and training enrollment; tied to the same CPF workflow and user base that Le Compte Personnel Formation serves, overlapping in user intent even though complementary in role.
• Kelformation: Kelformation is a leading French professional training directory covering CPF-eligible courses; it shares Le Compte Personnel Formation's core function of helping French workers discover and compare CPF-funded training options.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ICI-Formation-970466379701022
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/le-compte-personnel-formation

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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