What FONCIERE DE L'ESTRAN does

Societe.com, operated by SOCIETE SAS (RCS Paris B 428 116 065, headquartered at 10 rue de Penthièvre, 75008 Paris), is a French business information platform founded in 1999 that aggregates and certifies data from official French government registries including INSEE SIRENE, INPI, Greffes des Tribunaux de Commerce, BODACC, and RNE. The platform covers 13.5 million active business records and 5.8 million business leader records with 25 years of historical archives, and serves B2B professionals, sales and marketing teams, legal and financial practitioners, and developers seeking verified French company intelligence.

The product surface is organized around three subscription tiers — Essentielle (free), Plus at €19.90/month, and Pro at €49.90/month — supported by a public Real-time Business Data API (credit-based, 1,000+ accounts, 150,000 daily calls, 2,000 calls/minute rate limit). Service modules include prospection, B2B data enrichment, sectoral and territorial monitoring across 36,000 French territories and 732 NAF codes, customized file exports, SIRET matching (Siretiseur), interactive mapping (Societe Maps), and administrative procedures (Societe Formalites). AI capabilities were introduced in 2024 via "Agent IA," a beta feature providing AI-powered search, document summarization, and conversational compliance queries.

Revenue is generated through recurring subscription fees, one-time document purchases, usage-based API credits, B2B data enrichment contracts, and file export/prospecting services. Distribution combines self-serve web subscription, API-first developer adoption, inside sales for enterprise accounts, and an integration ecosystem spanning Zapier, Make.com, Salesforce, HubSpot, Odoo, Zendesk, Sellsy, Axonaut, and Notion. Marketing relies on 25 years of SEO domain authority, an extensive business glossary and blog, partner referrals, and industry event presence. Guillaume Berthault serves as CEO.

Name

FONCIERE DE L'ESTRAN

Legal name

SOCIETE SAS

Website

https://societe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Societe.com, operated by SOCIETE SAS and founded in 1999, is France's leading business information platform aggregating official registry data on 13.5M companies and 5.8M directors for B2B professionals, sales teams, legal practitioners, and developers via subscriptions, API, and enrichment services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Baden

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Subscription Revenue: Three-tier subscription model: Essentielle (free), Plus (19.90€/month or 16.90€/month annually), and Pro (49.90€/month or 39.90€/month annually). Revenue generated from recurring monthly or annual subscriptions with automatic renewal.
2. Document Sales: Sale of official documents including annual accounts, statutes, acts, BODACC announcements, legal notices, capital links. Both one-time purchases and subscription available.
3. API Credits: Consumption-based API credits sold in packs: 5,000 (99€), 20,000 (290€), 75,000 (890€), 200,000 (1,990€), 600,000 (3,990€), 2,000,000 (8,890€). Credit costs vary by data type (existence: 0.2, legal info: 0.5, directors: 2, financials: 2 credits).
4. Data Enrichment Services: B2B services for enriching customer and supplier databases. Plus tier includes 500 API credits/month; Pro tier includes 2,500 API credits/month.
5. File Export and Prospecting Lists: Downloadable customized business prospect lists for commercial campaigns. Includes company data, director contact information, emails, and phone numbers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fonciere de l'Estran operates as a real estate merchant focused on acquiring and reselling properties in France. The company is privately held and based in Baden, with no detailed information available on specific portfolio segments, geographies targeted, or transaction types.

Product overview

Societe.com is a comprehensive French business information platform offering a tiered subscription model (Essentielle free, PLUS at 19.90 EUR/month, PRO at 49.90 EUR/month) plus API access. The platform aggregates public data from official French registries (INSEE, INPI, Greffes, BODACC) to provide company information, legal data, financial statements, director details, and business monitoring. Core offerings include AI-powered search (Agent IA), prospection tools, data enrichment, sectoral/territorial monitoring, file exports, SIRET verification, interactive mapping, and a public API with up to 2,000 calls/minute. The platform serves businesses seeking French company intelligence through both web interfaces and developer-friendly API integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 4x faster prospect research compared to other sites
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• L-Expert-Comptable.comminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccounting software partnership where Societe.com data is promoted to accounting professionals and small business owners seeking accounting services. Joint marketing arrangement on Societe.com homepage.
• ZapiercoreTechnology or IntegrationNo-code integration platform allowing users to connect Societe.com data to 7,000+ applications including Salesforce, HubSpot, Lemlist, and Zoho CRM for automated workflows.
• Make.comcoreTechnology or IntegrationNo-code automation platform (formerly Integromat) for workflow automation connecting Societe.com data to various business tools.
• OdoocoreTechnology or IntegrationERP integration allowing Odoo users to access Societe.com business data within their business management software.
• INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)coreOthersOfficial data source for SIRENE business registry providing company identification data (SIREN/SIRET), activity codes, and legal status for all French businesses.
• INPI (Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle)coreOthersOfficial data source for intellectual property information including trademarks, patents, and company registration documents from French commercial courts.
• GIE InfogreffecoreOthersDistribution partner for Registry of Commerce and Societies data from commercial courts, providing company registration and modification information.
• BODACC (Bulletin Officiel Des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales)coreOthersOfficial source for commercial announcements including company registrations, financial statements, and legal events published in the official bulletin.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Manageo: French B2B data platform providing company information, financial data, and prospecting tools aimed at sales and marketing teams. Directly competes with Societe.com for French business intelligence and lead generation customers.
• Verif.com: French business information directory providing company data, financials, and legal documents. Competes directly with Societe.com's free and paid tiers for prospects and compliance users in France.
• Pappers: French business information platform offering similar registry data, financials, director details, and document retrieval with a freemium model. Direct head-to-head competitor to Societe.com in the French SMB and enterprise market.

Emerging players

• Owler: Community-driven business information platform offering company profiles, revenue estimates, and competitor data. Competes in the broader free business information category, though with a different data collection model.
• Infogreffe: Official GIE distributing French commercial registry data (Greffes des Tribunaux de Commerce). Acts as both an upstream data source for Societe.com and a partial alternative channel for end users seeking registry documents.

Broad incumbents

• ZoomInfo: US-led B2B intelligence platform providing company and contact data for sales and marketing teams. Different geographic focus but competes for global enterprise data contracts and shares the same logic of monetizing structured company data via subscriptions and APIs.
• Moody's Analytics (Bureau van Dijk / Orbis): Provider of the Orbis global private company database and other business intelligence products. Competes for large enterprise and financial-institution contracts that require multi-country private company data.
• Creditsafe: Global provider of business credit reports and company information with a significant French customer base. Competes for the same enterprise use cases (supplier risk, KYC, credit decisions) that Societe.com addresses.
• Dun & Bradstreet: Global leader in business information and commercial data. Operates in France with broader geographic coverage and competes for enterprise business data and credit-related contracts that Societe.com serves through its enterprise sales motion.

Regional players

• Bisnode (now part of Dun & Bradstreet): European business information provider (now under D&B) covering Nordic and continental European markets. Comparable in offering to Societe.com but operating across multiple European geographies rather than France alone.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Societe_com

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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