A single roll-up of ownership and CLOUD Act exposure.
Austrian headless CMS (Linz, est. 2017); ISO 27001, enterprise customers (Disney, Netflix); Brighton Park US-PE led Series C.
Storyblok, in the Headless CMS category, offers EU hosting with Germany as its hosting location, but a US parent or sub-processor leaves material CLOUD Act exposure.
Storyblok (Linz AT, founded 2017) is ISO 27001 certified with enterprise customer base (Disney, Netflix, Adidas, Renault); $47M Series B 2022 (Mubadala UAE + HV Capital DE + 3VC + firstminute) and $80M Series C led by Brighton Park Capital (US private equity): US-PE-led Series C flips signal to eu_hq_us_funded with material CLOUD Act exposure.
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act).
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
Storyblok (Linz, Austria, founded 2017) positions itself as the "#1 Enterprise Headless CMS" with a visual-editor differentiator (rather than pure-developer-tool positioning). Customers include Disney, Netflix, Oatly, Adidas, Renault, Marc O'Polo, Autodesk, Virgin Media O2. ISO 27001 certified, 99.99% uptime SLA, framework support for Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, React, Vue, Eleventy, Symfony. Funding history: $47M Series B in 2022 led by Mubadala Capital (UAE) and HV Capital (DE) with 3VC and firstminute; $80M Series C subsequently led by Brighton Park Capital (US private equity, Greenwich CT). The US-PE-led Series C is the procurement-grade caveat, flipping ownership_signal from eu_owned to eu_hq_us_funded.
Italian developer-friendly headless CMS (Milan); 25K+ businesses; bootstrapped feel, no US PE.
Norwegian headless/hybrid CMS (Oslo, est. 2000); founder-owned, ISO 27001 + 9001 certified; but managed Enonic Cloud runs on Google Cloud + Azure + Fastly.
Berlin GraphQL-native headless CMS (formerly GraphCMS, founded 2017); enterprise clients incl. Samsung, LEGO; mostly EU-funded.