dfx

Name

dfx

Legal name

DFX SAS

Website

https://dfx.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Firminy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Web Development Services: Custom web application development using frameworks including Django, Symfony, Magento, and WordPress. Services include responsive web design, e-commerce solutions, and content management system implementations.
2. Web Hosting Services: Web hosting services including domain registration, SSL certificates, Exchange email, and managed hosting for Symfony, Magento, WordPress, and Django applications.
3. SEO and Digital Marketing: Search engine optimization services including natural referencing, positioning analysis, indexing analysis, and competitive monitoring.
4. Audit and Consulting: Web application audits including accessibility compliance (RGAA, WCAG), performance analysis, database modeling, and technical consulting for LAMP architecture with Debian.
5. Email and Messaging Services: Professional email hosting via Exchange, webmail, mailing lists, and mass email campaign services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

DFX is a French web agency that designs and develops custom websites, e-commerce shops, and web applications using Django, Symfony, Magento, and WordPress, and complements development with managed web hosting, SEO, Exchange email, SSL certificates, domain registration, LAMP/Debian server management, and RGAA/WCAG accessibility audits. Services are sold project-by-project with recurring hosting/email subscriptions and targeted primarily at SMBs and public-sector institutions in Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Île-de-France, and PACA.

Product overview

DFX is a web and communication agency based in Saint-Étienne, France, offering a comprehensive suite of digital services. The core offering centers on web development using multiple frameworks and platforms: Django (Python), Symfony (PHP), Magento (e-commerce), and WordPress (CMS). These are complemented by related services including web hosting with platform-specific solutions, SEO, professional email (Exchange), SSL certificates, domain name management, and LAMP server management. The portfolio is structured as a unified agency offering where development services integrate with hosting, security, and ongoing maintenance capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Web Development Services

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OVHcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2014Since 2014, DFX has been a certified partner of OVH, Europe's leading hosting provider. This partnership enables DFX to offer OVH hosting solutions and Exchange email licenses to their clients, with DFX providing management and consulting services around these products.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Smile Open Source: Smile is a French open-source web and digital agency offering custom development (Symfony, Drupal, e-commerce) and hosting-adjacent services. Highly comparable to DFX as a French open-source specialist with a similar multi-framework service stack, just at materially greater scale.
• Kaliop: Kaliop is a French digital agency specializing in CMS, e-commerce, and custom web application development with strong Symfony and eZ Platform expertise. Directly comparable to DFX's Django/Symfony/Magento development practice and similar SMB-to-mid-market client base.
• Clever Age: Clever Age is a French digital agency focused on e-commerce platforms, CMS implementations, and digital transformation projects. Closely comparable to DFX on the Magento/WordPress e-commerce and CMS service lines and the project-based professional services model.
• Alter Way: Alter Way is a French open-source services and hosting company combining managed hosting, web development, and consulting. Very directly comparable to DFX's blended hosting + development + consulting offering with similar SMB and institutional clients.
• Octopeek: Octopeek is a French web agency providing custom web development, hosting, SEO, and digital strategy services to SMBs. Operates with a similar full-service agency model and recurring hosting revenue stream as DFX.
• Fabernovel: Fabernovel is a French digital innovation and engineering agency covering web development, product design, and platform engineering. Comparable on the digital agency and custom web application development axis, though with a more enterprise/brand-led client base.

Broad incumbents

• Devoteam: Devoteam is a major French IT services and digital transformation firm covering custom development, cloud, and managed services. A broad incumbent that competes for many of the same French enterprise web/digital mandates DFX targets at the smaller end of the market.
• Capgemini Engineering: Capgemini is a global IT services leader with deep French roots offering custom software development, digital, and consulting at massive scale. A broad incumbent providing a ceiling reference for DFX's addressable market in France.

Others

• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is DFX's infrastructure partner and Europe's largest hosting provider, supplying the underlying hosting and Exchange email that DFX resells. Related as a key supplier/ecosystem participant rather than a competitor — directly shapes DFX's hosting economics.

Emerging players

• Shopify (Agency Partners): Shopify's agency partner program recruits integrators to build on its platform, competing with DFX's Magento e-commerce practice. Comparable as an emerging alternative distribution model for SMB e-commerce development, threatening DFX's Magento positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/dfx.fr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dfx

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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