[1][2] The company was founded in 2013 by Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont, Nicolas Dupont and Yoav Kutner.

[3][4] It has worked with customers including Shop.com, Fossil, Midland Scientific, Air Liquide, Rexel, Babolat, LVMH and Auchan.

[5] Before founding Akeneo, Frédéric de Gombert, Benoit Jacquemont and Nicolas Dupont had worked together at the open source company, Smile.

They began developing a single product database to compete with Excel and brought Yoav Kutner onboard in founding Akeneo.

[11] Akeneo was a co-founder and partner of the Open Source School created by Smile and the École privée des sciences informatiques.

[18] In September 2023, it was announced Akeneo had acquired the Paris-headquartered AI data collection, cleansing, categorisation and enrichment platform, Unifai.