Captain - Reprendre Pour Mieux Entreprendre

Name

Captain - Reprendre Pour Mieux Entreprendre

Legal name

CAPTAIN SAS

Website

https://captain.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Success Fees - Sellers (Cédants): Captain charges success fees as a percentage of the final sale price, payable only upon successful transaction completion. Additionally, a modest engagement fee of 499€ HT is charged at mandate signature to initiate work on the seller's dossier. This aligns the company's incentives with the seller's outcome.
2. Offre Sourcing - Acquirers (Repreneurs): Sourcing service with a mandatory 3-month launch pack at 1,800€ TTC (1,500€ HT), followed by optional monthly continuation at 600€ TTC/month (500€ HT/month). If the acquirer identifies a target through sourcing and activates full accompaniment, a 3,000€ TTC startup fee plus 8% TTC success fee on the acquisition price is charged.
3. Repreneur Accompaniment - Success Fees: Full acquisition accompaniment service for repreneurs who find targets through the platform. Charges a 3,000€ TTC startup fee and 8% TTC success fee on the acquisition price, payable only at closing.
4. Digital Platform Access: Free account creation allows browsing of anonymized business listings. Premium features include full dossier access, data room access, and dedicated agent support for a fee.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Captain is a French agency and digital platform specialized in business transfer (transmission d'entreprise). It aggregates verified business listings, runs proprietary valuation and transmissibility diagnostic tools, and delivers full-service accompaniment for business sellers (cédants) and acquirers (repreneurs) from initial valuation through closing. The platform combines a free marketplace with paid advisory and success-fee-based services, and operates La Fabrique du Reprenariat, a 350 m² physical hub in Paris dedicated to business acquisition.

Product overview

Captain is a unified digital platform for business transfer (transmission d'entreprise) in France, combining a marketplace of verified business listings with a full suite of advisory modules. The platform operates as a core product (the Captain platform/app) supported by discrete add-on services: valuation tools (Valorisation), seller support (Accompagnement Cédants), buyer support (Accompagnement Repreneurs), off-market sourcing campaigns (Offre Sourcing), free diagnostic tools (Diagnostic de Transmissibilité, Simulateur fiscal, Simulateur de financement), a physical brand (La Fabrique du Reprenariat), and a listings marketplace (Annonces). The company earns success-based fees on completed transactions and charges subscription/mission fees for its sourcing and advisory modules.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• La Fabrique du Reprenariat: The first place in France entirely dedicated to business acquisition: formations, events and meetings between sellers, acquirers and experts, located at 350 m² in Paris 17th arrondissement.

Products and services

• Plateforme Captain (Plateforme de transmission d'entreprise)

Quantifiable outcome

• 4 to 9 months average time from listing to signing for sellers
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• CCI (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOfficial partnership with Chambers of Commerce and Industry for directing business owners and acquirers to Captain's services. CCI promotes Captain's platform to their member network of business owners considering transfer.
• CPME Paris (Confédération des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises)secondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with Paris SME employers' confederation for promoting business transfer services to CPME members. CPME directs its network of small and medium business owners to Captain.
• WilcosecondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerAccelerator partner promoting Captain's business transfer services to startups and growing companies within the Wilco ecosystem.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Transentreprise: Online SMB business transfer platform operating across France with listings, advisory services and deal facilitation — directly comparable online transmission marketplace competing for the same user segments.
• Fusacq: Leading French online SMB M&A marketplace offering business listings, matching, valuation tools and advisory for cédants and repreneurs — Captain's closest direct competitor in the French SMB transmission space.
• CessionPME: French online platform dedicated to SME/business transfer, offering listings, valuation tools and lead generation for cédants and repreneurs — operates in the same hybrid digital + advisory category as Captain.
• CRA (Cédants & Repreneurs d'Affaires): National French franchise network of business transfer advisors combining local relationship-based advisory with a shared brand and listings infrastructure — directly competes for the same cédant and repreneur mandates.

Emerging players

• Cession Commerce: French platform specialized in retail/commerce business transfers — narrower focus on a sub-segment of Captain's broader SMB transmission addressable market.
• Agence des Praticiens de la Transmission (APRES): French professional network of certified business transmission practitioners offering advisory services to cédants and repreneurs — a partial-overlap, relationship-driven peer focused on professionalization of the category.

Broad incumbents

• KPMG France: Big Four advisory firm with a Corporate Finance practice covering mid-market M&A, including SMB transmission — broader incumbent targeting the upper end of the same repreneur market.
• In Extenso: Major French accounting and advisory network with a dedicated transmission/transmission d'entreprise practice serving cédants across regions — broader incumbent offering transmission as part of a wider portfolio.
• Bpifrance: French public investment bank that operates transmission/cession advisory services alongside its broader financing mandate — a strategic partner of Captain but also an incumbent in the same end market with broader resources.

Others

• BFM Business / Les Echos: Major French business media that has repeatedly covered Captain and the transmission market — adjacent ecosystem participant shaping category awareness and indirectly distributing Captain's inbound demand.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agencecaptain

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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