combit Software GmbH (Buecklestrasse 3-5, 78467 Konstanz, Germany) is a long-running independent German software vendor founded in 1989 by Peter Bertl with Christiane Bertl involved from the beginning. The company remains founder-owned and -led with current management by Björn Eggstein, Jochen Bartlau, and Brita Dannenmann. combit ships two flagship products: the List & Label reporting toolkit (widely embedded by other German software vendors) and combit CRM Relationship Manager, a flexible customer-relationship product with on-premise installation as a first-class deployment option alongside cloud.
For procurement-grade EU buyers combit has the strongest verified sovereignty signals in the category: German GmbH, founder-controlled, no external VC/PE, on-prem deployment available (full customer-controlled data sovereignty by construction), multi-decade operating history, no CLOUD Act exposure, and the kununu Top Company 2025-2026 employee-satisfaction signal. Pricing tiered across product editions; specific EUR amounts not captured at audit.