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 Sopra Steria revenues reached €5,777 million in 2024, up 5.6% year-on-year. The Aeronautics, Space, 
Defence & Security vertical market accounted for 22% of revenue.
	
 In January 2025, Sopra Steria participated in the €100 million Series B funding round of French start-up 
Alice & Bob, which specialises in quantum computing.
	
 In May 2025, Sopra Steria completed the acquisition of Aurexia, a French consulting firm specialising in 
financial services. The group aims to develop its consulting activities so that this business represents 12% of 
its revenue in 2028 (compared to 9% in 2024). Aurexia posted revenues of nearly €20 million in 2024 (with  80% 
of turnover generated in France), and has 140 consultants.
	
 In December 2025, Sopra Steria completed the acquisition of the French company Neocase, in order 
to strengthen its range of digital solutions for human resources. Already a partner of the group, Neocase 
generated revenues of €16 million in 2024 and employs around 100 people.
Home market
	
 France is the group’s largest market (47% of revenues in 2024).	
	
 Sopra Steria has been working since February 2021 with the French defence procurement agency (DGA) and 
the French Aerospace Maintenance Agency (DMAé, Direction de la Maintenance Aéronautique) to implement 
a new single information system for aerospace MRO and in-service support, called Brasidas. This system 
aims to improve the availability of aircraft, helicopters and UAVs in service with the French Armed Forces by 
gathering all the information on maintenance activities of the various aircraft fleets in a single digital tool.
	
 Sopra Steria is one of the 13 French industrial and academic players involved in the Confiance.ai programme 
since July 2021. Led by the SystemX technological research institute and with a €45 million budget over the 
2021-2024 period, this programme aims to ensure the reliability of artificial intelligence algorithms used in 
critical industrial applications in various sectors (defence, aerospace, automotive, energy, maritime, etc.). 
Since completion of the research work at the end of 2024, the members wish to perpetuate and disseminate 
the methodology developed, then industrialise the programme’s results.
	
 Sopra Steria, through its subsidiary CS Group, is involved alongside Thales in the PARADE programme for the 
deployment of protection systems for military sites, major events and civilian infrastructures against micro and 
mini-UAVs weighing between 100 g and 25 kg. Notified in April 2022, the contract is worth €350 million over a 
period of 11 years. The first six systems were deployed during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
	
 In June 2025, Sopra Steria signed an agreement with the French Ministry of Armed Forces to support French 
mid-sized companies, SMEs and start-ups in accessing defence markets, in particular through specific 
support.
Export markets
	
 Sopra Steria generated 53% of its revenues from exports in 2024.	
	
	
 The group has a strong presence in the United Kingdom, in particular through its subsidiary Shared Services 
Connected Ltd (SSCL). In April 2025, SSCL received a contract extension worth more than £300 million 
(€351 million) to provide services to the British government for a further three years. The services cover various 
areas (finance/accounting, pension administration, payroll, procurement and contact centre support) and are 
intended for various government agencies.
Technology and Innovation
	
 The group’s self-financed R&D expenditure amounted to €122 million in 2023, representing 2.1% of revenues.
Sopra Steria aims to have next-generation technologies account for more than 60% of its revenue by 2028.
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