graces community

Name

graces community

Legal name

GRACEScommunity SARL

Website

https://graces.community

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GRACES.community is a French two-sided marketplace and professional community connecting compliance (GRC) professionals with corporate employers, operating a niche recruitment platform alongside salary benchmarking, regulatory media, training directories, and software listings for the French compliance market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA)

Keywords

• Compliance recruitment platform
• GRC professional network
• Regulatory job board
• Salary benchmarking tool
• Compliance community

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recruitment Placement Fees: Success-based fees charged when a recruiter hires a candidate or contracts with a consultant proposed by GRACES. Standard fees are 19% of negotiated annual gross salary. With guarantee option, fees are 22%. For CDDs, fees are prorated. For independent consultants, fees are 19% of daily rate multiplied by total days of engagement. Internships/alternance placements are free, but €5,000 HT if hired afterward.
2. Optional Guarantee Add-on: 3% additional fee (bringing total to 22%) provides replacement search if contract terminates during trial period, subject to conditions

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

GRACES.community operates a specialized recruitment platform and professional community connecting compliance officers, risk managers, and GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) professionals with employers in the French-speaking market. The platform combines exclusive job offers, a 10,413-profile candidate database, internal messaging, salary benchmarking from 3,000+ responses, regulatory media content, an events calendar, a training organization directory, and a software tools directory. Revenue is generated through success-based placement fees of 19% of negotiated annual gross salary (22% with guarantee add-on).

Product overview

GRACES.community is a unified professional community platform for GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) and ethics professionals, comprising a recruitment platform with matching system, candidate database, and recruiter dashboard, complemented by a media section with regulatory news and intelligence, events calendar, training directory, software directory, and compensation benchmarking tool. The core offering is the recruitment platform connecting compliance officers with hiring companies, supported by salary studies based on 3,000+ responses, while the media, events, formations and logiciels modules serve as complementary resources for the professional community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plateforme de recrutement GRACES Recruitment platform with candidate-matching system connecting compliance, risk, and control professionals with hiring companies. Features exclusive job offers, CV submission, and candidate tracking for the GRC sector.
• Viviers de profils (Candidate Database) Database of 10,413 compliance professional profiles that recruiters can access to find candidates matching their specific regulatory expertise needs in governance, risk, and compliance roles.
• Étude des rémunérations (Salary Benchmark) Compensation benchmarking tool based on over 3,000 continuously updated responses, providing salary ranges for compliance profiles similar to the user's background in the French GRC market.
• Média GRACES (Media & Regulatory Intelligence) Media section containing articles, news, interviews and daily regulatory watch covering GRC topics, compliance industry developments, AMF, CNIL, AMLA, and other regulatory bodies.
• Événements (Events Calendar) Calendar of regulatory events including webinars, conferences, AMF sanction sessions and compliance training sessions for the GRC community.
• Formations (Training Directory) Directory of 508 training organizations, universities and masters programs that train compliance and risk professionals, including Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, HEC Paris and ACAMS.
• Logiciels (Software Directory) Directory of 104 compliance and GRC software tools used by compliance professionals, covering AML, KYC, sanctions screening, internal control and regulatory reporting categories.
• Lexique (Regulatory Glossary) Compliance glossary defining governance, risk and compliance acronyms and concepts, with 24 entries covering regulatory framework and institutional authorities.
• Espace Recruteur (Recruiter Dashboard) Recruiter portal providing access to short-listed candidates, job posting management, candidate communication and interview tracking throughout the recruitment process.
• Messagerie interne (Internal Messaging) Internal messaging system for candidate-recruiter communication, enabling scheduling of interviews and transparent application tracking with weekly updates.

Quantifiable outcome

• 200+ companies successfully placed compliance officers through the platform
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 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

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Indeed: Largest generalist job platform globally and in France. Comparable as the broad-incumbent alternative where recruiters post compliance roles and where candidates search, competing for the same employer-recruitment budgets.
• LinkedIn: The dominant professional network and a broad incumbent recruiting channel. Comparable because it is the primary alternative channel where compliance candidates and recruiters already meet, and its scale dwarfs GRACES' 10,413-profile pool.
• Manpower: Global staffing and recruitment major with a French operation covering professional and finance roles. Comparable as a broad incumbent that overlaps with GRACES' recruiter client base, though its core model is more generalist staffing than specialist placement.
• Adecco: Global staffing leader with substantial French operations across professional and financial-services recruiting. Comparable as a broad incumbent competing for the same enterprise hiring budgets, though its depth in pure compliance is narrower than GRACES'.

Direct peers

• Robert Half: Specialist finance, accounting, and compliance recruiter with a global footprint. Comparable to GRACES in vertical specialization on compliance-adjacent roles and a similar transaction-based placement fee model.
• Robert Walters: International specialist recruiter active across compliance, risk, and legal functions in France. Comparable to GRACES in candidate profile, fee-based placement model, and enterprise-recruiter client base.
• Page Personnel: PageGroup's mid-market specialist recruitment brand, with significant finance and compliance coverage in France. Comparable because it shares GRACES' specialist placement model and serves the same compliance-officer hiring demand.
• Fed Finance: French specialist recruiter focused on finance, accounting, and compliance roles. A near-direct peer to GRACES because it competes for the same Paris-based compliance talent pool and similar regulated-firm clients.
• Michael Page: Specialist professional recruiter with dedicated financial-services and compliance coverage in France. Comparable because it recruits the same compliance and risk profiles, charges similar placement-style fees, and competes for the same enterprise recruiter clients.
• Hays: Global specialist recruiter with a strong finance, legal, and compliance practice, including a French operation. Directly comparable to GRACES because both monetize specialist recruitment in compliance and adjacent finance functions, though Hays is materially larger and broader.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gracescommunity

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

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