What CABSPS does

data.gouv.fr is the official national open data platform of the French Republic, operated by the Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM), a government digital agency under the Prime Minister's office. The platform serves a two-sided market: approximately 6,000 French government ministries, agencies, and public organizations publish datasets, APIs, and reusable content, while a registered community of 79,000 users — including citizens, researchers, journalists, developers, and businesses — downloads and reuses the data. The platform was established in 2011 and is legally mandated under the loi pour une République numérique (decrees n°2019-1088 and n°2019-1089) as France's central open data portal, hosting 75,000+ datasets and APIs and 388,000 files across the catalog.

The platform's technical foundation is open source. It is built on udata (version 17.1.0), an open-source catalog engine, with a separate frontend component called cdata (version 7ad44f4); both repositories are published on GitHub. The product portfolio extends beyond the core portal to six thematic sub-portals — ecologie.data.gouv.fr, transport.data.gouv.fr, meteo.data.gouv.fr, culture.data.gouv.fr, logistique.data.gouv.fr, and simplifions.data.gouv.fr — co-developed with the relevant ministries (Ministry of Ecological Transition, DGITM, Météo-France, Ministry of Culture) and with Etalab. Two interactive data explorers — the DVF property values explorer and the Annuaire des Entreprises business directory — translate the raw catalog into user-facing decision tools. The platform exposes its catalog and tabular data through a REST API (api-tabulaire-data-gouv-fr-beta), is hosted on OVH SAS cloud infrastructure, and runs Matomo in CNIL-exempt mode for analytics.

The business model is government-funded public service: data.gouv.fr generates no commercial revenue, charges no fees to producers or consumers, and is funded directly through the French state budget as part of the national open data policy. All content is published under the Open Licence 2.0 unless otherwise indicated. The go-to-market motion is community-led and self-serve: government publishers register and contribute datasets, and any user can register, browse, download, and document reuses. Distribution is entirely digital — through the data.gouv.fr web portal, thematic sub-portals, APIs, and integration with the European data portal at data.europa.eu. Director of Publication: Madame Stéphanie Schaer (Director of DINUM).

Name

CABSPS

Legal name

Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM)

Website

https://data.gouv.fr

Company type

Public

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Short description

data.gouv.fr is the French national open data platform operated by DINUM. The government-funded portal centralizes 75,000+ public datasets and APIs from 6,000+ French public organizations, serving citizens, researchers, journalists, developers, and government agencies under a legally mandated mission.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Open Data Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Sharing, Data Exchange & Data Marketplace Platforms (HDAEABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Lake Platforms (HDAEABAC), Data Platform (Unified Data & Analytics) Suites (HDAEABAD)

Keywords

• Government open data
• Public data platform
• Open source data portal
• Civic data repository
• Open data APIs

Headquarters

HQ city

Héricy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Government-funded Public Service: Operated by DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du Numérique), a French government digital agency. The platform is free for all users and provides its services at no cost, funded through government预算. No commercial revenue generation; the platform exists to fulfill the public mission of open data transparency and accessibility.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

data.gouv.fr is the French national open data platform, operated by DINUM, that centralizes publication, discovery, and download of French public datasets, APIs, and reusable content. It supports data producers (government agencies and ministries) in publishing structured open data and provides data exploiters (citizens, researchers, journalists, developers, businesses) with free access through a unified catalog, thematic vertical portals, interactive data explorers, and REST APIs.

Product overview

data.gouv.fr is a unified national open data platform operated by DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du Numérique). The platform serves as France's central hub for open public data, offering the core data.gouv.fr portal alongside multiple thematic vertical platforms (ecology, transport, meteorology, culture, logistics, and administrative simplification). The ecosystem includes data exploration tools such as the DVF property values explorer and the Annuaire des Entreprises business directory. The platform is built on open-source software components (udata and cdata) and provides API access to its catalog and tabular datasets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ecologie.data.gouv.fr: Thematic platform for ecological transition data
• transport.data.gouv.fr
• meteo.data.gouv.fr
• culture.data.gouv.fr
• logistique.data.gouv.fr
• simplifions.data.gouv.fr

Products and services

• data.gouv.fr Platform The core national open data platform of the French Republic that centralizes and structures open public-interest data, serving data producers, data exploiters, and citizens seeking to discover or find government information.
• ecologie.data.gouv.fr Thematic platform for ecological transition data, co-managed with the Ministère de la Transition écologique et de la Cohésion des territoires.
• transport.data.gouv.fr Mobility data platform operated in partnership with the Direction Générale des Infrastructures, des Transports et des Mobilités (DGITM).
• meteo.data.gouv.fr Public meteorological and climatological data platform produced by Météo-France.
• culture.data.gouv.fr Public cultural data platform for France, operated in partnership with the Ministère de la Culture.
• logistique.data.gouv.fr Logistics data platform operated in partnership with the Direction Générale des Infrastructures, des Transports et des Mobilités.
• simplifions.data.gouv.fr Data platform organized by use cases to help administrations implement the 'Dites-le nous une fois' (Tell us once) administrative simplification initiative.
• DVF Explorer (Explorateur de données de valeurs foncières) Interactive real estate price explorer that tracks the evolution of property prices and provides historical property sale prices in France.
• Annuaire des Entreprises Business directory for verifying public legal information about companies, associations, and public services in France.
• API Tabulaire data.gouv.fr (beta) REST API enabling programmatic querying of tabular datasets referenced on the data.gouv.fr platform, with documentation available at guides.data.gouv.fr.
• udata Open-source search engine and core platform component underlying data.gouv.fr, currently at version 17.1.0, publicly available on GitHub.
• cdata User-interface component of data.gouv.fr, currently at version 7ad44f4, publicly available on GitHub.

Quantifiable outcome

• 79,000 registered users on the platform
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OVH SAScoreTechnology or IntegrationOVH SAS provides cloud hosting services for data.gouv.fr infrastructure. Located at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France. OVH is a major European cloud infrastructure provider.
• Ministère de la Transition écologique et de la Cohésion des territoirescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment ministry that co-manages ecologie.data.gouv.fr, the thematic portal for ecological transition data. Major partner for environmental open data.
• Direction Générale des Infrastructures, des Transports et des Mobilités (DGITM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment directorate partnering on transport.data.gouv.fr and logistique.data.gouv.fr, providing mobility and logistics public data.
• Météo-FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench national meteorological service that produces the meteo.data.gouv.fr portal for public weather and climate data.
• Ministère de la CulturecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench Ministry of Culture partnering on culture.data.gouv.fr, providing cultural heritage and arts public data.
• EtalabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment mission responsible for open data policy implementation in France, including license homologation processes for specialized data licenses.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• OpenDataSoft: A commercial SaaS platform for open data portals used by cities and agencies (e.g., Nantes, Paris). Comparable as a technology layer for publishing and visualizing open data, though data.gouv.fr is custom-built and government-operated.
• CKAN / Open Knowledge Foundation: The open-source data management system behind many national open data portals (including data.gov.uk). Technically comparable as the underlying data catalog engine, though data.gouv.fr uses udata rather than CKAN.
• data.world: A commercial data catalog and collaboration platform for enterprises. Comparable in the data-catalog and reuse dimension, with some overlap in target users (developers, analysts), though data.world is private-data focused rather than public-sector.

Broad incumbents

• Kaggle Datasets: A large public dataset repository operated by Google. Comparable as a discovery and download hub for open public datasets, though its community (data scientists) and dataset curation model differ from a government transparency mandate.
• Socrata (Tyler Technologies): A commercial open-data and data-as-a-service platform acquired by Tyler Technologies. Comparable as an enterprise-grade open data publishing and analytics platform serving government clients; broad incumbent offering multiple adjacent government services.

Direct peers

• Data.gov (United States): The U.S. federal open data portal, hosted by the GSA. Same mandate of publishing government data for public reuse, with similar dataset catalog, API access, and community features. The most established national open data peer globally.
• data.europa.eu (European Data Portal): The official EU-wide open data portal aggregating national open data across member states. Directly comparable to data.gouv.fr in mission, catalog structure, and reuse features, but operating pan-European rather than at the national level.
• Data.gov.uk: The UK government's open data portal, also built on CKAN technology. Directly comparable in function and target audience (UK citizens, researchers, developers), with thematic sub-portals and APIs.

Regional players

• opendata.swiss: Switzerland's federal open data portal. Comparable in scope and mission (national open government data) but smaller in scale and serving a non-EU, German/French/Italian multilingual context.
• Govdata.de (Germany's Open Data Portal): The German federal/state open data portal (GovData). Same national open data mission and similar catalog model, but operates in a different jurisdiction (Germany) and primarily serves German public sector data.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/opendatateam/udata

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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