Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Smart card manufacturers based in France
RevenueBase identified 45 smart card manufacturers headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 13,727 professional contacts across them, including 4,198 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers smart card manufacturers 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 30, 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 smart card manufacturers based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,609 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IDEMIA Secure Transactions (IST) is a leading provider of payment, connectivity, and cybersecurity solutions, serving billions of people worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 334 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IN Groupe is a global leader in secure identity solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paragon ID is a leader in identification solutions, in the e-ID, transport, smart cities, traceability & brand protection and payment sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SELP is a high-tech company with a 60 years experience in smart-cards production.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SPS is a main provider of secure and high added value components for card and document manufacturers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nearly three decades ago, inspired by the rich potential of holographic science, we began to design solutions to the world’s authentication challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ISRA est une entreprise française indépendante spécialisée dans la conception et la fabrication de cartes plastiques et d’objets communicants principalement dédiés au commerce, à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oberthur Technologies became "IDEMIA" on 28 September 2017 after merging with Safran Morpho.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CKsquare est une société d’ingénierie, d’étude et de conseil en gestion de projets spécialisée dans la conception de systèmes de paiements automatisés.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In a more connected world, citizen security needs, evolution of payment means and communication between people are constantly evolving.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GYSC est l’expert de la création et de la mise en place de cartes pour toutes les populations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chez Greenway, nous croyons que chaque dépense professionnelle est une opportunité de créer un impact positif.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MONETECH is a consultancy firm with a clear focus on innovative projects based on smart cards and secured transactions applied to payment, public transport and telecoms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Smart Consulting is an independent consulting company, specializing in Smart Card environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gmh Identification membre de la famille SOLUTYS Group, est spécialiste de l'identification industrielle depuis plus de 20 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MONECARTE est une société pionnière dans le domaine du paiement et de l’identification par carte multiservices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GSTAG is a French smartcard manufacturer created in 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La société OTIPASS est spécialisée dans la numérisation des Pass touristiques et Multiservices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forte de ses 30 ans d'expériences dans la production de cartes et systèmes électroniques,#Electronie est bien plus qu’une entreprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “deister electronic is a leading company in the development, production and sales of electronic Security and Identification solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BG Ingénierie is a specialist in small series of smart cards and small equipments for card production, card test or e-passport test and SMD, IC or eSIMs programming and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cardalis, entreprise basée sur Puget sur Argens dans le Var, est spécialiste en solutions d'impression sur cartes et badges plastiques et étiquettes depuis plus de 15 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spécialiste des systèmes et solutions informatiques de la sécurité et de l’identification dans le domaine de la carte plastique et des documents de sécurité au sens large -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TELIOS TECHNOLOGIES designs and produces solutions in the fields of identity management, biometric authentication and geographic information systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 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: smart card manufacturers. 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 smart card manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of smart card manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name smart card manufacturers. 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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Smart card manufacturers based in France at a glance
As of Sep 30, 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 45 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 smart card manufacturers, 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 “smart card manufacturers”. 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 smart card manufacturers), 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 smart card manufacturers, 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, 4,198 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 30, 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.
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 smart card manufacturers, 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 smart card manufacturers are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 45 smart card manufacturers 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?
Idemia, headquartered in Courbevoie, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most smart card manufacturers?
Paris leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Aix En Provence (2) and Chateaubourg (2).
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 4,198 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 45 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 30, 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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