Data Players

Name

Data Players

Legal name

DATA PLAYERS SCIC

Website

https://data-players.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Semantic Web & Knowledge Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDAEANAH

Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

SECONDARYHDAEANAJ

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Artificial Intelligence Platforms for Enterprise

SECONDARYHDAAACAF

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Foundation Models & Generative AI (LLMs, multimodal)

SECONDARYBPAEAHAB

Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services

Business & Public Services/IT & Digital Services (Managed Services, Systems Integration)/Data, Analytics & AI Services

Keywords

• Semantic web systems
• AI agent development
• Knowledge base platforms
• Data interoperability tools
• Open source ETL

Headquarters

HQ city

Nantes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SemApps Hosting & Development Subscriptions: Monthly subscription service for SemApps deployment, configuration, custom development, and maintenance. Priced from 150 € HT/month under annual contract commitment. Includes deployment, custom configuration, feature development, UI design, ontology creation, updates, maintenance, and dedicated technical support.
2. Grappe SaaS Platform: Cloud-based SaaS version of the Bus Sémantique, charged by volume. Offers 2000 free credits per month. Real-time collaborative data manipulation without installation.
3. Professional Services & Project Consulting: Custom project engagements for AI agent implementation, semantic cartography, information system interconnection, and knowledge base construction. Includes business immersion, needs formalization, agile project management (bi-weekly deliveries), MCO/maintenance, secure hosting, and technical support.
4. N8N Workflow Automation Services: N8N platform configuration and support services for clients. Data Players manages its own N8N instance for client projects. Can accompany clients in N8N installation and configuration on their own infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Data Players develops AI agents and semantic web systems that transform fragmented organizational data (documents, databases, files) into centralized, interoperable knowledge bases accessible via natural language queries. Core offerings include the SemApps open-source semantic web framework, Bus Sémantique open-source ETL, the Grappe SaaS platform, and Archipelago collaborative knowledge base management application. Customers subscribe to hosting and development packages or engage Data Players for custom AI agent implementations and semantic cartography projects.

Product overview

Data Players offers a portfolio of AI agents and interoperability tools centered on ethical, frugal, sovereign, and interoperable principles. Core offerings include AI Agents (conversational agents for knowledge valorization and system interaction) and SemApps (open-source framework for semantic web applications). The product family is complemented by data automation tools: Bus Sémantique (open-source ETL) and Grappe (its SaaS equivalent) for data pipeline construction; N8n for workflow orchestration; and Archipelago for collaborative knowledge base management. All solutions are built on open standards and open-source principles, with deployment on European sovereign infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SemApps: Open-source framework for creating highly cooperative, decentralized, and interoperable applications based on semantic web standards (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, LDP, ActivityPub, SOLID).
• Grappe
• Bus Sémantique
• Archipelago
• Agents IA

Products and services

• AI Agents (Agents IA) Conversational AI agents that transform organizational data (documents, databases, files) into centralized, exploitable knowledge bases accessible via natural language queries. Agents cite sources and can take actions on connected systems to automate tasks and generate reports, summaries, emails, and documents. Used by organizations such as Solagro's Portail de l'Alimentation Durable (making 8,000 sustainable food resources accessible).
• SemApps Open-source framework for building highly cooperative, decentralized, and interoperable applications based on semantic web standards. Enables creation of semantic cartographies, connected agendas, directories, CRMs, marketplaces, websites, decentralized social networks, and business applications. Built on a micro-services architecture with interoperability to Linked Open Data and the Fediverse.
• Bus Sémantique Open-source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool combined with a software bus and graph-oriented object processing. Enables data extraction, transformation, and loading from heterogeneous sources with a visual interface. Supports real-time multi-user collaboration on data workflows.
• Grappe Cloud SaaS version of Bus Sémantique accessible via browser without installation. Enables data manipulation, aggregation, and transformation with real-time shared screen collaboration. Offers 2,000 free credits per month with volume-based pricing beyond the free tier.
• Archipelago Collaborative semantic knowledge base management application built with SemApps. Designed for communities, collectives, associations, enterprises, and local authorities to create and consult interconnected knowledge bases. Can be deployed via GitHub repository (archipelago-run-dockerhub) for self-service deployment by technical teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1000x less energy than ChatGPT for AI queries
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ADEME (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021ADEME initiated a commons call in 2021 for territorial resilience. Data Players collaborated with Assemblée Virtuelle to structure and normalize classes and properties in the Resilience wiki, then created semantic cartography using SemApps and Flod.io. This project is a flagship reference demonstrating Data Players' capabilities at scale (thousands of actors connected).
• Prats'EnR (Société d'Économie Mixte)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Prats'EnR is a local energy SEM (mixed-economy company) working toward energy autonomy. Data Players developed a monitoring system and semantic web platform for tracking renewable energy production. The project demonstrates end-to-end data collection, semantic processing, alert management, and citizen-accessible visualization.
• TransiscopecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Transiscope is a collaborative map of citizen alternatives for ecological and social transition. Data Players built the platform using SemApps and Bus Sémantique. The project interconnects initiatives and actors of change, serving as both a customer reference and a strategic showcase for Data Players' semantic web capabilities.
• Assemblée VirtuellecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Assemblée Virtuelle is the cooperative that originally created and maintains the SemApps framework. Data Players uses, contributes to, and promotes SemApps as a core part of its offering. The relationship is collaborative and mutually beneficial, with shared governance and open-source contribution at its foundation.
• Data Food ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerData Food Consortium is an interoperability consortium for short food supply chains. Data Players participates as a contributor and ecosystem member, promoting open data standards and semantic interoperability in the food/agriculture sector.
• SolagrocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSolagro is the coordinator of the Portail de l'Alimentation Durable project. Data Players designed and built the AI agent that makes 8000 resources on sustainable food transition accessible in natural language. This project demonstrates Data Players' AI agent capabilities and serves as a major reference case.
• CoopTechminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoopTech is a cooperative technology ecosystem. Data Players participates as a member, contributing to and drawing legitimacy from the cooperative tech community.
• LaSuite.coopminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaSuite.coop is a suite of cooperative digital tools. Data Players is listed as a community member and contributor to this ecosystem.
• Flod.iocoreTechnology or IntegrationFlod.io provides the interactive graph visualization layer used in the ADEME Resilience and FabMob semantic cartography projects. Data Players integrates Flod.io as a visualization complement to its SemApps framework, enabling fluid navigation through semantic knowledge graphs.
• FABMOB (Fabrique des Mobilités)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFabMob is a collaborative movement for sustainable mobility. Data Players built a semantic cartography for FabMob's mobility commons using SemApps and Flod.io. The project demonstrates interoperability across the mobility data ecosystem.
• La ZoneminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa Zone is listed as one of Data Players' community ecosystems. The exact nature of the partnership is not detailed beyond community participation.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PoolParty Semantic AI: PoolParty is an enterprise semantic AI platform combining knowledge graphs, taxonomy management, and AI-powered content intelligence. It is a direct peer because both companies build semantic-web-based knowledge management and AI agent solutions for enterprise and government customers.
• Inrupt: Inrupt is the company commercializing Tim Berners-Lee's SOLID decentralized web technology, building Pods and apps for data sovereignty. It is a direct peer because Data Players builds ActivityPods on top of SOLID and ActivityPub, targeting the same decentralized, sovereign-data positioning.
• Neo4j: Neo4j is a leading graph database and knowledge graph platform used for connected data applications and GraphRAG-style AI. It is a direct peer because both Data Players and Neo4j target enterprise and government customers with graph-based knowledge representation that underpins AI agents and semantic search.
• Stardog: Stardog is an enterprise knowledge graph platform that uses RDF/SPARQL and semantic web standards to unify data and power AI applications. It is a direct peer to Data Players because both compete in semantic knowledge graph platforms for enterprise interoperability and AI-driven data access.
• Ontotext: Ontotext provides semantic graph databases (GraphDB) and knowledge graph solutions built on RDF/SPARQL standards. It is a direct peer because both companies serve enterprise and public-sector clients with semantic-web-based data integration and knowledge management, including AI and analytics applications.
• n8n: n8n is a workflow automation platform with a self-hostable, fair-code model. It is a direct peer because Data Players integrates, resells, and configures n8n as part of its AI agent stack, and both companies target similar mid-market and European customers with low-code automation tooling.

Broad incumbents

• Mistral AI: Mistral AI is a Paris-based open-source LLM provider. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with Data Players on European sovereign AI positioning, and is also a technology partner (Data Players uses Mistral models), making it both collaborator and adjacent competitor for AI budgets.
• Aleph Alpha: Aleph Alpha is a Heidelberg-based European sovereign AI provider offering foundation models and enterprise AI services. It is a broad incumbent that competes for the same European sovereign-AI budget, though at a much larger scale and across a broader portfolio than Data Players' niche semantic agent focus.

Others

• Meilisearch: Meilisearch is an open-source search engine that Data Players uses as a hybrid-RAG component. It is an adjacent technology partner rather than a competitor, but it is included because the Meilisearch vs. semantic graph trade-off influences how Data Players customers evaluate end-to-end AI agent architectures.

Emerging players

• Coda Brain: Coda Brain provides AI-powered knowledge management on top of structured documents within the Coda workspace. It is an emerging player that competes for the same enterprise 'AI on internal knowledge' use case Data Players targets, though it does so via a SaaS workspace rather than semantic graph technology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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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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