SGAFB

What SGAFB does

Societe.com is a French business information platform operated by SOCIETE SAS, founded in 1999 by Xavier Niel and headquartered at 10 rue de Penthièvre, 75008 Paris. The company aggregates official business registry data from INSEE (SIRENE), INPI, BODACC, and Infogreffe, providing searchable information on 13.5 million active French businesses and 5.8 million executives, with 25 years of archival coverage. CEO Guillaume Berthault leads the company, which currently operates as a private entity.

The platform is offered through a 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) — complemented by API access, a Siretisation service (Siretiseur), Societe Maps, a bulk file export product (Fichier Entreprises), a Data Enrichment service, and Veille sectorielle/territoriale monitoring across 36,000 territories and 732 NAF codes. In 2024 the company launched Agent IA, an AI-powered natural language search and document summarization tool. Revenue streams include recurring subscriptions, usage-based API credit packs (€99 to €8,890), one-time document sales, and batch Siretisation services.

Societe.com employs a hybrid go-to-market: product-led growth via freemium self-service on the web platform, an API-first distribution model with native integrations into Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Odoo, Axonaut, and Sellsy, and no-code reach through Zapier and Make into 7,000+ applications. The platform serves millions of monthly users, processes approximately 150,000 daily API calls across 1,000+ API accounts, and counts enterprise customers including Generali, SwissLife, Zeiss, Monoprix, Docaposte, Mondial Relay, Feu Vert, AD, and UFC Que Choisir. Marketing relies on organic SEO across its indexed database, a 100+ term business glossary, email alerts, and a referral partnership with L-Expert-Comptable.com.

Name

SGAFB

Legal name

SOCIETE SAS

Website

https://societe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Societe.com is a French business information platform aggregating official registry data (INSEE, INPI, BODACC) on 13.5 million companies and 5.8 million executives, sold via freemium subscriptions, API access, and AI-powered search to SMBs, enterprises, and developers across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Information Services

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Directory and Mailing List Publishers (51314), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Q&A and Knowledge Discovery Platforms (BPAMAAAF)

Keywords

• French business registry data
• Company information lookup
• Business data API
• Corporate intelligence platform
• SIREN SIRET lookup

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans: Three-tier subscription model: ESSENTIELLE (free with basic features), PLUS (19.90 EUR/month or 16.90 EUR/month with 12-month commitment), and PRO (49.90 EUR/month). Paid tiers provide increasing access to surveillance alerts, API credits, solvability studies, and official documents.
2. API Credits: Usage-based API access sold in credit packs (5,000 credits for 99 EUR up to 2,000,000 credits for 8,890 EUR). Different data types cost different credits (existence check: 0.2, legal info: 0.5, executives: 2, financials: 2 credits). PLUS and PRO subscribers receive 500 and 2,500 monthly API credits respectively.
3. Document Sales: Sale of official documents including annual accounts, statutes, acts, BODACC announcements, legal announcements, and capital links. Documents available as one-time purchases or included in higher-tier subscriptions.
4. Siretisation Service: Service for enriching and verifying customer and supplier files by matching missing SIRET numbers from company names and addresses. Revenue generated from API credits or specific service fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Societe.com provides online access to French business registry data including RCS registrations, SIREN/SIRET identifiers, financial statements (bilans), executive and shareholder information, statutes, legal announcements, and official documents, aggregated from official government sources such as INSEE, INPI, BODACC, and Infogreffe. The platform operates as a freemium SaaS offering with three subscription tiers (Essentielle free, Plus, Pro), a REST API for automated data integration, and supplementary services for data enrichment, SIRET matching, sector/territorial monitoring, bulk file export, and an AI-powered search agent (Agent IA).

Product overview

Societe.com is a business information platform offering a tiered subscription model with three product tiers: Essentielle (free), Plus (€19.90/month), and Pro (€49.90/month). The platform aggregates data from official French government registries (INSEE, RCS, BODACC, INPI) and provides company information including legal status, financials, executives, and official documents. Core products include the web platform with AI-powered search (Agent IA), an API for programmatic access, Siretiseur for SIRET matching, Societe Maps for geographic visualization, Fichier for bulk data export, Data Enrichment for CRM cleaning, and Veille for sector/territory monitoring. All tiers include document access and executive information, with higher tiers offering more API credits, surveillance capacity, and advanced features like solvency studies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Siretiseur: A SIRET matching and enrichment service that helps businesses verify and enrich their client and supplier files with official company data.

Products and services

• Societe.com Essentielle Free tier subscription providing basic French company information search capabilities including 30 AI searches per month, 10 AI document summaries per month, 10 executive compliance checks per month, 1 sector/territorial monitoring, 25 monitored companies/executives with customizable alerts, unlimited free official documents (PDF acts, statutes), executive mapping, and their companies.
• Societe.com Plus Paid subscription at €19.90/month or €16.90/month (annual commitment) including all Essentielle features plus unlimited AI searches, unlimited AI document summaries, unlimited executive compliance, free updated Kbis extract, 5 sector/territorial monitoring, 500 monitored companies/executives with alerts, 500 API credits/month, solvability studies on 5 companies, and clear phone numbers.
• Societe.com Pro Premium subscription at €49.90/month (€39.90/month annual) including all Plus features plus 15 free company Kbis extracts, 2,000 monitored companies/executives with alerts, 2,500 API credits/month, unlimited solvability studies, and unlimited official reports and shareholder lists in PDF.
• API Societe.com REST API enabling automated access to French company data including existence checks (0.2 credit), legal information (0.5 credit), executives (2 credits), beneficial owners, financials (2 credits), establishments (0.5 credit), collective procedures, events, scoring (0.5 credit), search (0.1 credit), mapping (2 credits), contact (0.5 credit), trademarks (0.5 credit), and documents (5 credits per download). Rate limits of up to 2,000 calls/min, with 200 free credits on signup. Credit packs range from 5,000 credits (€99) to 2,000,000 credits (€8,890).
• Siretiseur (Siretisation Service) SIRET matching and enrichment service that matches missing SIRET numbers from company names and addresses, then populates files with official data including VAT numbers, legal names, activity codes, and executive information. Available via API or web interface for batch file upload processing.
• Societe Maps

Quantifiable outcome

• 4x faster prospecting compared to other websites
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• L-Expert-Comptable.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with accounting service provider L-Expert-Comptable.com. Platform promoted to new business owners and entrepreneurs through L-Expert-Comptable.com's user base, driving user acquisition for Societe.com's free and paid tiers.
• ZapiercoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Zapier no-code automation platform. Enables users to connect Societe.com data to 7,000+ applications without coding, including Salesforce, HubSpot, and other business tools.
• Make (formerly Integromat)coreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Make.com no-code automation platform. Enables users to create complex workflows connecting Societe.com data with other business applications.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or IntegrationNative CRM connector enabling bidirectional sync between Societe.com business data and Salesforce customer records.
• HubSpotcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative CRM connector enabling bidirectional sync between Societe.com business data and HubSpot marketing/sales platforms.
• INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)coreOthersOfficial data source for SIRENE business registry containing company identification, activity codes, and establishment information for all French businesses.
• INPI (Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle)coreOthersOfficial source for trademark registrations, patent information, and business registration data from French commercial courts.
• BODACC (Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales)coreOthersOfficial source for company announcements including registrations, modifications, and legal notices published in the French commercial bulletin.
• InfogreffecoreOthersOfficial source for commercial court registry data including company registrations, amendments, and dissolution notices from French trade registries.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Endole: UK company information and credit reporting platform with freemium and subscription tiers. Closely comparable to Societe.com's structure of providing free company lookups and paid deeper data via Plus/Pro equivalents.
• Company Check: UK business directory and credit data service offering director searches, company reports and monitoring. Comparable freemium-to-paid directory/data model with API access targeting UK SMBs and compliance teams.
• Creditsafe: Global business credit report and company information provider with multi-country coverage and subscription tiers. Closely comparable to Societe.com Plus/Pro in offering company reports, monitoring alerts and API-based data access.
• Infogreffe: Official portal of French commercial court registries aggregating the same underlying data Societe.com resurfaces. Direct comparator in delivering French company filings and legal documents, though operated by the greffes themselves.
• Kompass: International B2B directory and company information provider with strong European coverage. Comparable business model of compiling structured company data and offering prospecting, marketing lists and database licensing across countries.
• Manageo: French corporate data platform offering company lookups, financial scoring and prospect targeting for B2B users. Overlaps directly with Societe.com's data enrichment and prospection use cases for French SMBs.
• North Data: German business information platform providing free and premium access to company data, financials and executives. Closely comparable model to Societe.com in a different European market — useful analog for cross-border expansion potential.
• Pappers: French business information platform providing free and paid access to company registry data, financial statements and executives. Closest direct competitor to Societe.com in the French market with similar AI search and document summarization features.

Broad incumbents

• Dun & Bradstreet: Global leader in business credit, compliance and data analytics serving enterprise customers. Operates at greater scale and breadth than Societe.com but overlaps on company data, executive information and API-based enrichment services.
• Moody's Orbis (Bureau van Dijk): Premium global company information database covering hundreds of millions of companies. Overlaps with Societe.com's data licensing/API proposition but targets large enterprise/financial institution customers with deeper cross-border coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Societe_com

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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