What KATHRIN SUSAN GROSSE-WALLFARTH does

Societe.com (legal entity SOCIETE SAS, RCS Paris B 428 116 065) is a French business-information platform founded in 1999 by Xavier Niel that aggregates and distributes official registry data on French companies. The platform ingests data from authoritative French government sources including the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS/RNCS), INSEE's SIRENE database, INPI, BODACC, and other official registries, providing searchable information on company registration, directors, financial statements, legal documents, capital links, and administrative filings. The platform is headquartered in Paris (10 rue de Penthièvre, 75008), is GDPR/RGPD compliant with a designated Data Protection Officer, and operates wholly-owned subsidiaries IN France and IN Europe focused on measuring territorial economic, social, fiscal, and environmental impact of businesses. Guillaume Berthault, appointed CEO in 2024, leads the company, which in November 2025 announced a strategic merger with Reverse Vision to consolidate its position in French economic intelligence. Note: the supplied record is filed under the name "KATHRIN SUSAN GROSSE-WALLFARTH" and includes a German firmographics header describing a greeting-cards/baby-products/jewelry e-commerce business; all substantive operational, financial, technical, and customer data describe Societe.com and are inconsistent with that header.

Name

KATHRIN SUSAN GROSSE-WALLFARTH

Legal name

SOCIETE SAS

Website

https://societe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Societe.com (SOCIETE SAS) is a French business-information platform that aggregates official registry data (RCS, INSEE, INPI, BODACC) on French companies, serving business professionals, sales teams, compliance officers, and legal professionals via a freemium model with subscriptions, document sales, and API access.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Information Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Directory and Mailing List Publishers (51314), Information (51)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Data Quality, Profiling & Cleansing (HDAEADAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

CRM Data Quality, Enrichment & CDP-Adjacent CRM (HDAEAFAJ), Marketing Database & Contact Data Providers (B2B/B2C Lists) (BPAFAKAF), Data Extraction & Structuring (Invoices, POs, Receipts, KYC) (BPAAAKAF), Data Virtualization & Federation (HDAEACAH)

Keywords

• Business information services
• Company registry data
• Business intelligence platform
• Company monitoring alerts
• Business data API

Headquarters

HQ city

Bendestorf

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Free Basic Services: Free access to basic company information including registration data, director names, company status, and general company details from public registries. This serves as the primary acquisition channel for paid services.
2. Document Sales: Sale of official documents including annual accounts, statutes, acts, BODACC announcements, legal notices, capital links, and other filings. Documents are available as one-time purchases or through subscriptions.
3. Subscription Services: Premium subscriptions providing ongoing access to surveillance services, advanced search capabilities, bulk data exports, API access, and preferential pricing on documents. Includes corporate account management.
4. API and Data File Sales: Sale of data files in various formats and API access for business intelligence systems, CRM integration, and automated data workflows. Targets B2B customers requiring bulk company data.
5. Specialized Services: Additional paid services including director mapping (cartographie des dirigeants), solvency studies, financial diagnostics, legal announcement publications, and company sales file generation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Societe.com aggregates official French business registry data (RCS/RNCS, INSEE SIRENE, INPI, BODACC) and resurfaces it through a free public search platform alongside paid document sales (actes, statuts, comptes annuels), professional subscription plans, monitoring/alerts, data enrichment (Sirétisation), bulk data file exports, geographic visualization, and an enterprise API for CRM and BI integration. It also provides carbon footprint (bilan carbone) data and partners with legaltech and accounting platforms for embedded distribution.

Product overview

Societe.com is a unified platform offering free and paid services for accessing French business registry information. The core free platform provides search and retrieval of company data, directors, financial statements, and legal documents from official government sources (RNCS, INSEE, INPI, BODACC). Premium services include API Pro for programmatic data access, Fichier d'entreprises for bulk data exports, Société Map for geographic visualization, and various monitoring/enrichment modules (Surveillance, Sirétisation, Enrichissement, Veille sectorielle) that build upon the core database to serve B2B sales, compliance, and business intelligence use cases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Societe.com Platform Flagship freemium web platform giving individuals and businesses free access to French company registration, director, status, and general information drawn from official registries (RNCS, INSEE, INPI, BODACC), with paid premium features layered on top.
• API Pro Programmatic data access service for developers and businesses that need to integrate and automate retrieval of French company data (SIREN, SIRET, director, financial, and legal information) into their own applications, CRM, and BI workflows.
• Fichier d'entreprises (Enterprise Files) Bulk data file export service allowing users to download customized lists of French businesses for commercial prospecting, market analysis, and business intelligence purposes.
• Société Map Interactive map visualization tool that displays French company data geographically, allowing users to explore businesses by location and territorial zones.
• Surveillance (Company and Director Monitoring) Personalized monitoring and alerting service that tracks companies and directors and notifies users of new appointments, financial events, legal modifications, and other major changes affecting watched entities.
• Sirétisation Data enrichment service that validates and enriches existing business databases by appending SIREN, SIRET, and VAT registration numbers to improve data quality and regulatory compliance.
• Enrichissement (Data Enrichment) Database enrichment service that enhances existing business records with reliable and current administrative and financial information, eliminating duplicates and correcting errors to support more accurate marketing campaigns and data quality initiatives.
• Veille sectorielle et territoriale (Sector and Territorial Monitoring) Sectoral and territorial monitoring service that alerts users to business events occurring within their chosen geographic or industry perimeter.
• Bilan Carbone (Carbon Footprint) Carbon footprint assessment service for French businesses, leveraging environmental data from ADEME to provide sustainability metrics alongside traditional business intelligence.

Quantifiable outcome

• Save equivalent of one week of commercial operations per month through efficient prospecting

Named customers4 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

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• L-Expert-Comptable.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with online accounting service providing referral traffic and joint marketing. L-Expert-Comptable.com promotes Societe.com services to their entrepreneur clients as part of business creation and management support.
• SwapnminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLegaltech company using Societe.com data for business creation services. Swapn integrates Societe.com for instant verification of administrative and financial company information for their clients.
• Reverse VisioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic merger announced November 2025 to strengthen leadership in economic intelligence. This fusion combines capabilities to enhance business intelligence offerings.
• GIE InfogreffecoreTechnology or IntegrationDistribution partnership with GIE Infogreffe (Groupement d'Intérêt Économique des Greffes des Tribunaux de Commerce) for official RCS document distribution. Provides access to official filings and registrations.
• INSEEcoreTechnology or IntegrationData partnership with INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques) accessing the SIRENE database for company registration information on entities not registered with RCS.
• INPIcoreTechnology or IntegrationData partnership with INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) accessing intellectual property and company registration data for Tribunal d'Instances and Tribunaux mixtes de Commerce.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Kompass: Global B2B directory and company database provider with comparable company-search, prospecting, and business-intelligence offerings. Comparable in product category and B2B sales-motion, but operates at broader international scale than Societe.com.
• Infogreffe: Official portal of the French commercial court registries (GIE Infogreffe), the primary upstream data source for Societe.com. Provides official document distribution and registry access; overlaps Societe.com's document-sales and lookup capabilities from the source-registrar position.
• Dun & Bradstreet: Global leader in business credit reports, company data, and B2B decisioning data. Overlaps Societe.com's enterprise data, enrichment, and risk-management use cases, but operates at vastly larger scale across global markets.

Direct peers

• Pappers: French business information platform providing free access to company data from official registries (RCS, INPI, INSEE). Closely comparable to Societe.com in product, target audience, and freemium business model, and a key direct competitor in the French market.
• Verif.com: French company information and financial data platform offering lookups, financial statements, and prospect data. Comparable product offering and customer base for SMB and sales-team use cases in the French market.
• SocieteInfo: French B2B data platform offering company prospecting, data enrichment, and API access. Directly comparable to Societe.com's prospect list exports, API/data file monetization, and French sales-prospecting use cases.
• OpenCorporates: Open database of company information from official registries globally, including France. Comparable as a registry-aggregator and API-accessible business data source, with a similar open-data orientation.
• Creditsafe: Provider of business credit reports and company information across multiple European markets. Directly comparable subscription/API/data-file revenue model and target customer base for risk management and sales prospecting.
• Manageo: French B2B data platform offering company financial information, prospect databases, and compliance tools. Directly comparable to Societe.com's data-file sales, enrichment, and prospect-targeting use cases for B2B sales teams.

Emerging players

• Kompany: Provider of global KYC and business-registry data with API access for compliance and verification workflows. Compares to Societe.com's API/data-file enterprise business and regulatory-compliance use cases, though focused more on cross-border KYC than domestic French data.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Societe_com

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

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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