Ville de Cachan

What Ville de Cachan does

Ville de Cachan is a French municipal government entity (commune) located 2 km south of Paris in the Val-de-Marne department, serving approximately 31,000 residents as part of the Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre Établissement Public Territorial. The commune is governed by Mayor Hélène de Comarmond and an elected municipal council, and operates as a statutory provider of local public services including civil registry, urban planning, elections, education, cultural programming, sports, waste management, public health, and social services. The city maintains a workforce of approximately 112 employees and holds three recognized labels: Ville Amie des Ainés, Villes et Villages Fleuris, and Ville Internet.

The commune's technology and product surface is built around ville-cachan.fr, a WordPress 6.8 / PHP 8.3.20 website hosted on OVH infrastructure and developed by We Are Public. The website integrates a portfolio of citizen-facing digital services including the Portail Famille (family services), Portail Stationnement (parking), the Parlons ensemble civic participation platform (parlonsensemble-cachan.fr), an Open Data portal (cachan.opendatasoft.com), and the Cachan Proxi'Ville mobile application launched in February 2025 for iOS and Android. The site achieves 96.55% RGAA 4.1.2 accessibility compliance with a 97.6% mean compliance rate on a 17-page audit sample. Physical distribution includes the Hôtel de Ville at 8 rue Camille-Desmoulins and a network of cultural venues (cinéma La Pléiade, Théâtre Jacques Carat, médiathèques, conservatory) and sports facilities.

The business model is non-commercial public-sector funding: revenue derives from local taxation, state dotations, and fees for specific services such as school meals (restauration scolaire) and parking permits, with no publicly listed pricing tiers for core municipal services. The commune pursues strategic expansion through three major infrastructure projects — Campus Cachan (student campus), the Écoquartier de la gare (eco-neighborhood), and the arrival of Grand Paris Express Line 15 — supplemented by environmental programs including 9 shared composting sites (managed by the ComposTerre collective since 2019) and a 2025 program distributing 6,000 rainwater recovery kits in partnership with Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre.

Name

Ville de Cachan

Legal name

Ville de Cachan

Website

https://ville-cachan.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Ville de Cachan is a French municipal government (commune) in Val-de-Marne, 2 km south of Paris, serving approximately 31,000 residents through the Hôtel de Ville, the ville-cachan.fr website, the Cachan Proxi'Ville mobile app, and a network of cultural, sports, and administrative facilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

City Clerk/Records, Elections & Civic Engagement (BPAIACAB), Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities) (BPAIANAJ), Digital Inclusion & Civic Tech (Connectivity, GovTech for Social Good) (BPAGALAK)

Keywords

• Municipal government services
• Administrative procedures
• Public service delivery
• Civic participation platforms
• Local waste management

Headquarters

HQ city

Cachan

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ville de Cachan is the municipal government (commune) of Cachan, serving approximately 31,000 residents located 2 km south of Paris in Val-de-Marne. It delivers administrative services (civil status, identity papers, elections), cultural and sports facilities (cinéma La Pléiade, théâtre Jacques Carat, médiathèques, conservatory), family/childcare and school meal services, environmental services (waste collection, recycling, composting), healthcare (Centre municipal de santé), and urban planning functions. The city operates a municipal website (ville-cachan.fr) and a civic participation mobile application (Cachan Proxi'Ville) as primary digital service channels, with services funded through municipal taxation and user fees for specific services.

Product overview

Ville de Cachan operates a comprehensive municipal services platform serving approximately 31,000 residents located 2 km south of Paris. The offering consists of a municipal government website (ville-cachan.fr) integrated with citizen-facing digital services including the Portail Famille for family services, the Cachan Proxi'Ville mobile application for civic issue reporting, and the RDV Déchets mobile application for waste collection scheduling. The city provides services across multiple domains: culture and leisure (mediathèques, cinema La Pléiade, conservatory, theatre), environmental services (waste collection, recycling, composting), administrative services (civil status, identity documents, elections), sports and youth facilities, senior care, health services, and urban planning. The platform also includes an Open Data portal and citizen participation mechanisms such as the Parlons ensemble de Cachan platform and participatory budgeting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ville-cachan.fr Municipal Website
• Cachan Proxi'Ville Mobile Application
• Portail Famille (Family Services Portal)
• Portail Stationnement (Parking Portal)
• Parlons ensemble de Cachan Civic Participation Platform
• RDV Déchets Waste Collection Mobile Application
• Portail Open Data (Open Data Portal)

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,500 citizen reports processed via contact forms since 2020, demonstrating high civic engagement and responsiveness.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre (EPT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrand-Orly Seine Bièvre is the Établissement Public Territorial that manages and organizes daily waste collection, bulky waste collection, and environmental services for Cachan by delegation of competencies. They also manage the déchèteries mobiles, distribute composters and mini-broyeurs, and handle the abri-bacs deployment for food waste collection.
• La Pièce Solidaire (Association)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation installed at Cachan since 2016 that collects clean, serviceable textiles (clothing, linens, shoes) for valorization, organizing distributions to the most disadvantaged Cachan residents. Part of the city's textile waste reduction and social solidarity strategy.
• ComposTerre (Collectif d'habitants)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResident collective managing 9 shared composting sites across Cachan (Marché, Millénaire, Eustache-Deschamps, Victor-Hugo, Hénouille, Herriot, Desmoulins, Carnot, Courbet) as part of the participatory budget initiative since 2019.
• ecosystem (Eco-organisme DEEE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco-organisme ecosystem handles free at-home collection of end-of-life large household appliances (washing machines, refrigerators, etc.) via jedonnemonelectromenager.fr, directing them to social economy structures for reuse or recycling.
• Ecotextile (Éco-organisme textile)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEco-organisme managing textile collection via 5 textile bins across Cachan (12 rue Mirabeau, avenue Delattre-de-Tassigny, 3 avenue de l'Europe). Intervenes within 48 hours in case of overflow. Contact: 0 810 118 835.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Ville d'Issy-les-Moulineaux: Larger (~70,000 residents) but nearby Paris-belt commune widely recognized as a French benchmark for smart-city and digital municipal services, offering a comparable functional mix (civic engagement, urban services, environmental programs) at greater scale and visibility.
• Ville de Montreuil: Large Seine-Saint-Denis commune (~110,000 residents) adjacent to the Val-de-Marne department, known for ambitious digital and participatory democracy programs and serving as a regional reference point for municipal civic engagement.

Direct peers

• Ville du Kremlin-Bicêtre: Adjacent Val-de-Marne commune of similar scale served by the same metropolitan authority (Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre), with comparable municipal service obligations and the same transit-orientation around RER B and future Line 15.
• Ville de Malakoff: Neighboring Hauts-de-Seine commune of similar scale (~30,000 residents) immediately adjacent to Cachan, sharing urban-suburban dynamics, similar resident demographics, and a comparable municipal service mandate.
• Ville de Gentilly: Neighboring commune of similar size in the Val-de-Marne department, facing the same Grand Paris urbanization pressures, dependent on the same Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre metropolitan authority, and serving a comparable ~18,000-20,000 resident population with a similar municipal service mandate.
• Ville de Montrouge: Paris-adjacent commune of comparable size (~50,000 residents) in the Hauts-de-Seine department, with similar civic digital infrastructure (city website, mobile app, participatory platforms) and similar demographic profile of urban professionals.

Emerging players

• Fluicity: French GovTech startup providing a citizen consultation and participatory-budgeting SaaS platform used by multiple French communes - directly comparable to the functionality Cachan delivers via Parlons ensemble and its in-house contact-form pipeline.
• Citizenlab: Belgian civic engagement SaaS platform serving 300+ local governments across Europe with participatory tools, representing the commercial alternative to municipalities building their own Parlons ensemble-style platforms.
• Décidim: Open-source participatory democracy platform used by hundreds of municipalities worldwide (Barcelona, Helsinki, etc.) that competes directly with Cachan's Parlons ensemble platform for citizen participation functionality, offering a reusable alternative to custom-built civic engagement infrastructure.

Regional players

• Ville de Villejuif: Larger Val-de-Marne neighbor (~55,000 residents) within the same metropolitan footprint, sharing the same territorial dynamics, Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre dependency, and Grand Paris Express Line 14/15 development trajectory as Cachan.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/villecachanofficiel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ville-de-cachan

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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