What KHAPEO does

KHAPEO is a privately held French company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Aix-en-Provence that operates the ProStagesPermis (prostagespermis.fr) online marketplace for prefecture-approved driving licence point recovery courses. The platform aggregates approved driving schools and training centres across all French departments and lets individual drivers search, compare, and book 14-hour point recovery sessions held over two consecutive days to recover up to four points on their driving licence. KHAPEO is not itself a course provider; it functions as a commission-based booking intermediary, with prices set by the listed centres and dynamic per-seat pricing in the €272–€329 band. The technical stack is a standard transactional web platform with SSL-encrypted 3D Secure payments (Up2Pay by Crédit Agricole), a customer self-service portal (Espace Stagiaire), a partner onboarding portal (Espace Partenaire) for approved centres, and a separate instructor portal (Espace Animateur). Revenue is generated from marketplace commissions on each booking plus an optional Garantie Sérénité cancellation insurance add-on priced at +€268 per booking. The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, relying primarily on organic SEO across high-intent French keywords (stage recuperation de points, lettre 48N, infractions), supplemented by content marketing on a knowledge base covering contraventions, point balances, and recovery procedures.

Name

KHAPEO

Legal name

Khapeo

Website

https://prostagespermis.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

KHAPEO operates ProStagesPermis, a French online marketplace that aggregates prefecture-approved driving licence point recovery courses and lets individual drivers compare and book sessions across all French departments for a commission.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Aix-en-provence

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Transaction Commission on Course Bookings: ProStagesPermis acts as a booking marketplace, charging commission on each stage booking. Prices are set by individual approved training centers; ProStagesPermis takes a share of each transaction. Additional optional services include Garantie Sérénité (satisfaction guarantee insurance) priced at +€268 per booking.
2. Optional Add-on: Garantie Sérénité: An optional supplementary insurance product offered during booking that provides a credit note in case of cancellation due to force majeure events (illness, accident, bereavement) within 24 hours of the stage start.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

KHAPEO operates ProStagesPermis, an online booking marketplace that aggregates prefecture-approved driving license point recovery courses (stages de récupération de points) from certified training centers across France. Drivers can search by department, compare prices and dates, book and pay online, and manage enrollment through a personal customer portal. The 14-hour course, delivered over two consecutive days by certified instructors, allows drivers to recover up to 4 points on their license.

Product overview

KHAPEO operates ProStagesPermis as a booking aggregation platform for prefecture-approved driving license point recovery courses in France. The platform connects drivers seeking to recover points with authorized training centers across the country, offering multiple course types including voluntary recovery courses, mandatory courses for probationary drivers (lettre 48N), and court-ordered courses (alternatives to prosecution, penal composition, complementary penalties). The service suite includes three complementary portals: the Espace Stagiaire (customer portal) for managing registrations and documents, the Espace Partenaire (partner portal) for training centers to manage their offerings, and the Espace Animateur (instructor portal) for trainers to access schedules and materials. The company functions as an intermediary platform, not as the course provider itself, and does not appear on prefecture approval lists as a course organizer.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ProStagesPermis Booking Platform Online booking marketplace that aggregates and facilitates reservations for state-approved driving license point recovery courses across France, connecting drivers with authorized training centers. Customers search by department, compare dates and prices, book, and pay online.
• Stage de Récupération de Points (Point Recovery Course) A 14-hour road safety awareness course delivered over two consecutive days, enabling drivers to recover up to 4 points on their French driving license. Organized by prefecture-approved centers and facilitated through the ProStagesPermis platform.
• Stage Obligatoire (Mandatory Point Recovery Course) Mandatory point recovery courses required in specific legal contexts: during the probatory period (lettre 48N), as alternative to judicial prosecution or penal composition, or as a complementary penalty. The platform facilitates booking for these court-ordered stages.
• Stage Permis Probatoire (Probationary License Course) Specialized point recovery course designed for drivers in their probationary period who have received the lettre 48N notification, required by law for young drivers.
• Stage Volontaire (Voluntary Point Recovery Course) Voluntary road safety awareness course for confirmed drivers who wish to proactively recover points before reaching critical levels, available to drivers with 8 points or fewer.
• Garantie Sérénité (Optional Cancellation Insurance Add-on) Optional supplementary insurance product offered during booking that provides a credit note in case of cancellation due to force majeure events (illness, accident, bereavement) within 24 hours of the stage start. Priced at +€268 per booking.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 4 points recovered in 48 hours
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Prefecture-approved Training Centers and Driving SchoolscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorProStagesPermis partners with prefecture-approved driving schools and training organizations that organize and deliver the actual point recovery courses. These partners list their sessions on the ProStagesPermis platform, pay a commission on bookings, and use the platform's customer acquisition and enrollment management tools. All partners must provide valid prefecture approval numbers before listing. The partnership is managed via the Espace Partenaire portal, with new partner onboarding completed within 24 hours by the ProStagesPermis team.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Doctolib: Leading French online booking marketplace for healthcare appointments. Operates in a different vertical, but shares the same fundamental DNA as KHAPEO: aggregator of regulated professionals, low-friction self-serve booking, integrated payment, and consumer trust built on verified-provider listings. A useful business-model benchmark rather than a direct competitor.
• Auto-École.net: Long-standing French driving-school directory and information platform with national coverage of auto-écoles. Operates in the adjacent driver-education vertical with similar SEO-driven, content-led acquisition, making it a comparable incumbent for online driver-services aggregation.

Direct peers

• Ornikar: French digital driving-education platform that offers driving lessons and broader driver-related services. While broader in scope than KHAPEO, Ornikar represents the most analogous French DTC platform serving drivers with digital-first training and licensing services, and is a credible potential entrant into the point-recovery aggregation niche.

Others

• Vroomly: French online marketplace for booking automotive maintenance and repair services with approved garages. Not a direct competitor to KHAPEO, but an excellent comparably-structured French marketplace/booking platform with a similar regulatory-partner-verification model (approved partners) and SEO-driven consumer acquisition.

Emerging players

• En Voiture Simone: French driving school focused on women learners, operating with a strong digital booking and customer-experience model. Comparable to KHAPEO in the French driving-education vertical with a similar emphasis on user-friendly digital workflows and consumer brand-building.
• Code de la Route (codedelaroute.fr): French online platform for the highway code (code de la route) exam preparation. Targets the same driver-licensing vertical through a digital, content-led model and competes for the same audience of French drivers seeking licensing compliance — a credible adjacent competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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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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