Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Business intelligence and research firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 514 business intelligence and research firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 23,876 professional contacts across them, including 5,939 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers business intelligence and research firms headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest business intelligence and research firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 16,377 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 311 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a world pioneer in Data Economy, Altares mission is to enhance the value of its customers' Data capital by transforming their information assets into operational economic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vecteur Plus est le N°1 en France de la veille commerciale et stratégique (250 collaborateurs, 16 342 utilisateurs et plus de 5 d'opportunités détectées par an).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en sur cette idée radicalement innovante pour l’époque, OpinionWay a été précurseur dans le renouvellement des pratiques de la profession des études marketing et d’opinion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SIBYLONE helps its customers to extract the full value from their data assets, a major strategic lever for development and profitability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Infolegale processes and provides high value-added business information services including legal information, corporate group structures and financial information on companies and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Solutionec – Solution Excellence Center – is a Paris-based business intelligence and analytics consulting firm that delivers ambitious and innovative solutions for the leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2014, Actinvision strives to give you the means to analyze and generate value from your data, helping your organization adopt a data driven culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 2017, Elevate est un cabinet de conseil en Data & IA de 200 consultants, intégré au groupe Humanskills.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tired of delayed deliveries, tripled budgets, unused data applications, and unhappy business users?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1981, SAD Marketing is a research and consulting firm based in Villeneuve d'Ascq, in the Lille area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kantar Media est le leader reconnu des études et analyses médias, pour les données publicitaires de référence, le profilage et le ciblage des consommateurs avec TGI, et l’analyse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NellyRodi est une agence de conseil en intelligence business et créative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AVISO Conseil, la force d'une synergie de savoir-faire, tous axés vers le développement MARKETING et COMMERCIAL.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “URIOS is a strategic and financial information consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bluestone est une société de conseil et de services spécialisée dans les métiers de la Data Science.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brain Value is an independent research agency founded in 2003 by Nicolas Riou and based in Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nous accompagnons nos clients tout au long de leurs réflexions et projets de pilotage de la performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NRJBI est le résultat de 25 ans d’expérience dans le BI et l’informatique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Senior consultant team offering an advanced and accelerated approach, IENA vocation is to assist its clients in the improvement of their operational performance: - Endow…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AI & DATA est un cabinet de conseil spécialisé dans les sujets #Data et #IA depuis 50 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les consultants et les datascientists de DEMAIN accompagnent les acteurs de la distribution, du tourisme et des médias dans - la définition de leur entreprise de demain -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a team of passionate consultants who combine data expertise and business knowledge to accelerate marketing performances.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De nos jours, la Data est considérée comme un véritable actif, c’est pourquoi il est nécessaire, pour toute société ou administration, d'en extraire la valeur afin d'accroître la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lizeo extracts value from the data in your business ecosystem to create a direct impact!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: business intelligence and research firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names business intelligence and research firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business intelligence and research firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business intelligence and research firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Business intelligence and research firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 514 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business intelligence and research firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “business intelligence and research firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business intelligence and research firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business intelligence and research firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,939 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business intelligence and research firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many business intelligence and research firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 514 business intelligence and research firms headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
IPSOS, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most business intelligence and research firms?
Paris leads with 202 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (24) and Bordeaux (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,939 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 514 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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