LION CAPITAL INVESTISSEMENT LCI

What LION CAPITAL INVESTISSEMENT LCI does

Societe.com is a Paris-based business-information platform operated by SOCIETE SAS, founded in 1999 under the impetus of Xavier Niel as a pioneer of free public access to official French company-registry data. The platform aggregates public-record data from French government sources including INSEE SIRENE, RCS/Greffes, INPI, BODACC, RNE, and ADEME, and presents it through a single searchable interface covering registrations, modifications, annual accounts, legal events, director information, and — more recently — carbon-balance-sheet data. It is headquartered at 10 rue de Penthièvre, 75008 Paris, and operates as part of SOCIETE GROUPE alongside sister brands IN France, IN Europe, and Impayes.com.

The product surface follows a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering is free public access to company and director lookups, supplemented by paid modules including Surveillance (real-time monitoring and alerts), Prospection (lead generation and qualification), Export (customized file downloads), Veille Sectorielle (sectoral and territorial intelligence), Enrichissement (database enrichment) and Sirétisation (SIREN/SIRET enrichment), Société Map (interactive geographic mapping), Director Cartography (visual director network mapping), Solvency Studies, and Financial Diagnosis. Enterprise customers integrate the data via API Pro (with Zapier and Make connectors) or via bulk file purchases through fichier.societe.com. An AI-powered intelligent response tool was launched in beta in 2024.

Monetization combines freemium acquisition with multiple paid layers: per-document transactional sales (annual accounts, statutes, BODACC announcements), monthly and annual subscriptions, multi-year enterprise API contracts (quote-based), customized file exports, and partner revenue-share arrangements with complementary service providers such as L-Expert-Comptable.com and Swapn. Customers span business professionals, sales and commercial teams, compliance and legal professionals, financial analysts, business-creation advisors, and the general public; named users include Swapn (legaltech), IN France (prospection intelligence), ITER Advisors (financial monitoring), and L-Expert-Comptable.com (accounting). The company is GDPR-compliant with EU-only data processing and a designated DPO.

Name

LION CAPITAL INVESTISSEMENT LCI

Website

https://societe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Societe.com is the leading French business-information platform, aggregating official registry data (INSEE, RCS, INPI, BODACC) into a freemium portal serving business professionals, sales teams, and legal/compliance specialists with company lookups, monitoring, document sales, and API access.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Private Equity Investment

NAICS

All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399), Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities (523999)

SIC

Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Venture Capital Fund-of-Funds (FSANAGAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Venture Capital Fund-of-Funds / Multi-Manager Platforms (FSANAAAJ)

Keywords

• Minority shareholding acquisitions
• Majority shareholding acquisitions
• Private equity investment
• Industrial company investments
• Commercial company investments

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Free Basic Information: Free access to foundational company information including registrations, basic financial data, and director information from government sources. Serves as the primary acquisition funnel and brand awareness driver.
2. Document Sales: A la carte purchase of official documents including annual accounts, statutes, legal acts, BODACC announcements, legal notices, and capital links. Revenue generated per transaction with variable pricing by document type.
3. Subscription Services: Recurring subscription plans providing ongoing access to premium features including advanced surveillance, bulk data exports, API access (API Pro), and comprehensive business intelligence tools. Billing options include monthly and annual cadences.
4. File/Data Export Services: Sale of customized business data files for targeted prospect lists, sector analyses, and strategic planning. Includes territorial and sectoral monitoring services.
5. Partner Service Revenue: Revenue share arrangements with partner companies offering complementary services (accounting software, legal tech platforms) integrated through the Societe.com ecosystem.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

LION CAPITAL INVESTISSEMENT LCI is a French private investment firm that acquires minority and majority shareholdings in industrial and commercial companies. The firm is headquartered in Paris and operates with 11-50 employees. The source data does not provide details on specific portfolio companies, investment sectors, ticket sizes, or transaction structures.

Product overview

Societe.com is a comprehensive business information platform offering a unified ecosystem of products centered around French company data. The core platform provides free access to official business registry information (RNCS/INSEE), supplemented by paid modules for professional use including real-time company monitoring (Surveillance), API integration (API Pro), prospection tools, file export services, sector monitoring, and data enrichment. The platform operates subsidiary brands including IN France and IN Europe for territorial impact measurement, and IMPayes.com for payment tracking. An AI-powered intelligent search tool is available in beta. The offering follows a platform-plus-modules architecture where the free core database is the foundation, with paid professional services and API access as premium add-ons.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Millions of monthly users accessing real-time economic information
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• L-Expert-Comptable.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with online accounting service platform. L-Expert-Comptable.com recommends Societe.com to its clients for verifying company information and fiscal compliance. The partnership provides referral traffic and brand reinforcement through co-marketing on the Societe.com homepage.
• Reverse VisioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic merger announced November 2025 to strengthen leadership in economic intelligence. The combination of Societe.com and Reverse Vision aims to create enhanced business intelligence capabilities and expanded market positioning.
• IN FrancecoreTechnology or IntegrationSister company under SOCIETE GROUPE providing territorial impact measurement. Operates as part of the integrated ecosystem offering complementary data on economic, social, fiscal, and environmental impact of businesses across French territories.
• IN EuropecoreTechnology or IntegrationSister company under SOCIETE GROUPE providing European territorial impact measurement. Enables cross-border business intelligence across France and Europe, expanding the group's geographic reach beyond domestic French operations.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Dun & Bradstreet: Global leader in business data and credit analytics with significant French coverage. Operates a much broader, paid-first model across multiple countries, competing with Societe.com on enterprise-grade data, API, and supply-chain risk use cases.
• Bureau van Dijk (Moody's): Global provider of corporate ownership/registry data (Orbis, Mint) used by enterprise customers for KYC and compliance. A scale player in the same data category as Societe.com's API Pro offering but with substantially broader multinational reach.
• Kompass: Global B2B directory and prospecting platform with a French presence. Overlaps with Societe.com's prospection, export, and territorial-monitoring modules, though historically more directory- than compliance-oriented.

Regional players

• Companies House (UK): Official UK companies registry; not a commercial peer but a structural reference point for the regulatory backbone Societe.com sits on top of, and the canonical example of free public registry access squeezing paid intermediates.
• North Data: German business information aggregator that pioneered free, structured access to Handelsregister data — a direct functional analogue of Societe.com in a different (DACH) geography, useful for benchmarking model and monetization.

Emerging players

• Creditsafe: European-headquartered business credit and company information provider with active presence in France. Competes most directly on the credit/solvency and screening modules (Impayes.com overlap) and on multi-country SMB subscription pricing.

Direct peers

• Manageo (Altares-D&B): French business directory and information platform targeted at SMBs and sales teams for prospection and screening — closely overlapping Societe.com's "Prospection" and "Export" modules both in product and audience.
• Pappers: Direct French competitor offering free company-lookup, financial data, and director information from official registries. Pappers mirrors Societe.com's freemium aggregation model and competes head-to-head for the same French SMB and professional user base.
• Verif.com (Altares): French business information provider owned by Altares offering company lookup, financial diagnostics, and compliance/KYC data. Targets a similar commercial-team and credit-risk user base with comparable subscription and document services.
• Infogreffe (Greffe des Tribunaux de Commerce): The official upstream source for French registry data (RCS/RNCS) and a competing dissemination platform for company documents and financial statements. Competes with Societe.com on document sales and certified registry lookups, and represents both the data supplier and a partial substitute.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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