SCGP ILLIRAC

What SCGP ILLIRAC does

Societe.com, operated by SOCIETE SAS (RCS Paris B 428 116 065), is a French business information platform founded in 1999 by Xavier Niel and currently led by CEO Guillaume Berthault. The company aggregates official corporate data from French public registries — INSEE/SIRENE, INPI, GIE Infogreffe/RCS, and BODACC — covering approximately 13.5 million active French businesses and 5.8 million directors, with 25 years of historical archives and daily updates. Its product surface combines a tiered subscription platform (ESSENTIELLE free, PLUS at €19.90/month, PRO at €49.90/month) with specialized modules including SIRET matching (Siretiseur), interactive mapping (Société Map), sectorial and territorial monitoring across 732 NAF codes and 36,000 municipalities, file export services, and business formalities assistance. The platform adds an AI-powered search and document summarization layer (with Agent IA in beta launched in 2024) on top of the underlying registry data.

The technology stack centers on continuous ingestion and normalization of official French registry feeds, a proprietary document repository (statutes, annual accounts, acts, legal announcements), and an API supporting up to 2,000 calls per minute across 13+ data types priced on a credit basis (0.1–5 credits per request). Societe.com monetizes through three reinforcing revenue streams: (1) recurring subscription revenue from individuals, SMBs, and professionals (PLUS/PRO tiers), (2) usage-based API and credit-pack revenue from developers and SaaS integrators (1,000+ API accounts, ~150,000 daily calls), and (3) custom enterprise data enrichment contracts with named customers including Generali, SwissLife, Monoprix, Feu Vert, Mondial Relay, Zeiss, Docaposte, and UFC Que Choisir. Distribution is multi-modal: a self-serve website funnel, an API and no-code integration marketplace (Zapier, Make.com), native CRM/ERP connectors (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Odoo, Sellsy, Axonaut, Notion), and referral partnerships (notably L-Expert-Comptable.com for accounting services). The company is GDPR-compliant, serves a primarily French customer base, and operates as a privately held independent entity.

Note on entity identification: the firmographic label "SCGP ILLIRAC" (Reyrieux, France, real estate asset administration, founded 2014, 11–50 employees) does not correspond to the substantive data, which describes Societe.com (Paris, France, business information SaaS, founded 1999). This analysis is grounded in the Societe.com data set.

Name

SCGP ILLIRAC

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 operates a French business information platform aggregating official registry data on 13.5 million companies and 5.8 million directors, serving SMBs, professionals, developers, and enterprises via subscriptions, API access, and data enrichment services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Reyrieux

HQ country

France

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, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Subscription Revenue: Tiered subscription model with three plans: ESSENTIELLE (free), PLUS (19.90€/month or 16.90€/month annual), and PRO (49.90€/month or 39.90€/month annual). Premium tiers offer increased AI searches, document limits, surveillance capacity, API credits, and access to premium features like Kbis updates and solvency studies.
2. Document Sales: One-time purchases of official documents including annual accounts, statutes, acts, BODACC announcements, legal announcements, and capital links. Available as individual purchases or subscriptions.
3. API Credits: Usage-based API access sold in credit packs (5,000 to 2,000,000 credits). Different credit costs per data type: Existence (0.2), Legal info (0.5), Directors (2), Financial statements (2), Procedures (2), etc.
4. Data Enrichment Services: Enterprise data enrichment solutions for cleaning, deduplicating, and enhancing customer databases. Sold via custom enterprise agreements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Societe.com operates a French business information platform that aggregates official registry data from INSEE/SIRENE, INPI, RCS (via Infogreffe), and BODACC to provide company verification, financial statements, director information, legal announcements, trademarks, and document access. The company offers tiered subscriptions (ESSENTIELLE free, PLUS at 19.90€/month, PRO at 49.90€/month), usage-based API credit packs, and add-on modules (Siretiseur, Societe Maps, Data Enrichment, Sectorial/Territorial Watch, File Export, Prospecting, Societe Formalités), covering 13.5 million active French businesses and 5.8 million directors.

Product overview

Societe.com operates as a comprehensive French business information platform offering a tiered subscription model (ESSENTIELLE free, PLUS at 16.90-19.90€HT/month, and PRO at 39.90-49.90€HT/month) alongside specialized modules including Siretiseur for SIRET matching, Societe Maps for geographic visualization, Data Enrichment, Sectorial/Territorial Watch, File Export, Prospecting, and Societe Formalités. The platform integrates AI capabilities through an Agent IA beta feature for intelligent responses and document summarization, while the Societe.com API enables programmatic access to data. The company aggregates information from official French registries (INSEE, INPI, RCS, BODACC) and commercial sources to provide company verification, financial data, director information, and legal documentation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Siretiseur: A SIRET matching and enrichment service for client and supplier databases
• Société Map
• Société Formalités

Products and services

• Societe.com ESSENTIELLE Free tier subscription providing basic access to French company information including limited AI searches, AI-summarized documents, compliance checks, sector/territorial watch, monitoring of up to 25 entities, and free official documents (PDF acts, statutes). Targeted at individuals, freelancers, and SMBs needing occasional company lookups.
• Societe.com PLUS Professional subscription tier at 19.90€ HT/month (or 16.90€ HT/month annual) offering unlimited AI searches and document summaries, unlimited compliance checks, free updated Kbis, 5 sector/territorial watches, 500 monitored entities, 500 API credits/month, solvency studies on 5 companies, and clear phone numbers. Designed for B2B professionals with active monitoring needs.
• Societe.com PRO Premium enterprise subscription tier at 49.90€ HT/month (or 39.90€ HT/month annual) including all PLUS features plus 15 free Kbis extracts, 2,000 monitored entities, 2,500 API credits/month, unlimited solvency reports, and unlimited official PDF reports and shareholder lists. Targets high-volume professional users and small enterprises.
• Siretiseur

Quantifiable outcome

• 4x faster than other sites for identifying companies and directors in France

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GIE InfogreffecoreTechnology or IntegrationDistribution partnership for Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS) data. Infogreffe distributes company registration data collected by Greffes des Tribunaux de Commerce and INPI for Tribunal d'Instances and Tribunaux mixtes de Commerce.
• INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)coreTechnology or IntegrationPrimary data source for companies not registered with RCS. INSEE distributes SIRENE data covering all legal entities exercising economic activity in metropolitan France and overseas territories, updated monthly.
• INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle)coreTechnology or IntegrationData source for intellectual property information including trademarks, patents, and designs registered in France.
• BODACC (Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales)coreTechnology or IntegrationOfficial source for legal announcements including company registrations, account deposits, and establishment creations published in the French Official Gazette.
• L-Expert-Comptable.comminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMarketing partnership with online accounting service, offering integrated accounting and business information solutions for entrepreneurs.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Manageo (Altares group): French business information and credit risk services provider, part of the Altares group. Competes with Societe.com across company information, monitoring, and data enrichment for sales and compliance use cases.
• Societe.info: French business information site providing access to company registry and director data; competes with Societe.com for French SMB and professional users seeking company information and prospection data.
• Pappers: French business information platform offering free and paid access to company registry data, financial statements, and director information. Direct competitor to Societe.com in the French B2B business intelligence market with similar freemium/paid tiers.
• Verif.com (Infogreffe): French business verification and credit information portal operated by the official Infogreffe network, the same distributor of RCS data Societe.com partners with. Overlap is high on company registration, financial, and director information in France.

Regional players

• Companies House (UK): UK government registry providing free public access to UK company information. Not a commercial competitor but a structural analogue that illustrates the open-data risk for Societe.com if France adopts a similar free direct-access model.

Broad incumbents

• Bureau van Dijk (Moody's): Global corporate information provider within Moody's, aggregating company data from registries worldwide for compliance, KYC, and procurement use cases. Comparable to the enterprise data enrichment tier of Societe.com, with far broader international coverage.
• Creditsafe: International business credit reports and data provider covering company information and monitoring across multiple jurisdictions. Operates a similar subscription and per-report monetization model to Societe.com but at broader geographic scale.
• Infogreffe: Official GIE that distributes French Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS) data and related formalities services; both a key data supplier and a partial competitor to Societe.com in French business information delivery.
• Dun & Bradstreet: Global B2B data and analytics provider offering company information, credit risk, and sales/marketing intelligence at scale. Comparable to Societe.com's enterprise data enrichment proposition but with global scope rather than France-only.

Others

• SIREN/SIRET Lookup via Annuaire des Entreprises: French government's open-data portal providing free company identification via SIREN/SIRET. Represents the official, free alternative that competes at the low end with Societe.com's freemium search experience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

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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