DACH compliance-driven SMB
20-to-100-person Mittelstand with a Datenschutzbeauftragte on staff, NIS2 + DORA on the docket, and a procurement process that asks for the C5 testat before the trial starts.
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Cloud & hosting
STACKIT
German sovereign cloud built by Schwarz Digits (Lidl/Kaufland parent), 4 EU DCs, EU Cloud III €180M winner with SEAL-3 highest rating.
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IONOSDEEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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StackscaleESEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud)DEEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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Cloud & hosting
T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud)
Deutsche Telekom's OpenStack public cloud (T-Systems), Biere + Magdeburg DCs, ISO 27001 + BSI C5 + TISAX; rebranded from Open Telekom Cloud.
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CRM
centralstationCRM
Cologne-based German SMB CRM (42he GmbH), all-German hosting on Hetzner + Core-Backbone + Telekom, free tier for 3 users.
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CRM
combit CRM
Konstanz-based German CRM (combit Software, since 1989), founder-owned, on-prem + cloud, German Mittelstand vendor.
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Email marketing
Inxmail
Freiburg-based premium German enterprise email marketing platform with ISO 27001 (TÜV Rheinland) and EU-only hosting.
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Email marketing
Maileon
German enterprise email marketing (XQueue GmbH, Offenbach, 2002), ISO 27001, EU data centres, 3k+ customers, 10 offices worldwide.
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Project management
factro
German PM software (factro by Schuchert Managementberatung, Bochum), 100% Made in Germany, free tier for up to 10 users.
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Project management
Stackfield
Munich-based E2E-encrypted collaboration suite (Stackfield GmbH, 2012); ISO 27001 + BSI C5, DE data centres, AES-256 in browser.
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Docs & wikis
Nuclino
Munich-based founder-owned lightweight team wiki (Nuclino GmbH, 2015), all-German hosting, SOC 2 Type II, 12,000+ teams incl. NASA, MIT.
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Docs & wikis
HumHub
Munich-based AGPLv3 open-source enterprise social network + intranet (HumHub GmbH & Co. KG, 2015), 4,500+ organisations, self-hostable on EU infra.
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File sharing
luckycloud
Berlin-based German zero-knowledge cloud (luckycloud GmbH, 2015), own DCs in Berlin/Nuremberg/Frankfurt, ISO 27001 BSI.
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Proton DriveCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Card-free pay Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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TresoritCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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kDrive (Infomaniak)CHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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File sharing
Filen
German zero-knowledge E2E cloud (Filen Cloud Dienste UG, Recklinghausen, 2021), Tier IV ISO 27001 DCs, no US data, open source apps.
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Proton DriveCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Card-free pay Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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TresoritCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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kDrive (Infomaniak)CHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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Password managers
Psono
German Apache-2.0 open-source team password manager (esaqa GmbH), self-hostable on EU infrastructure, Cure53-audited 2026, free up to 10 users.
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Password managers
Passbolt
Luxembourg-incorporated AGPLv3 open-source team password manager (Passbolt SA), SOC 2 Type II, self-hostable, used by LU/FR government.
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Video conferencing
sipgate
Düsseldorf-based German VoIP + cloud-telephony operator (founded 2004, self-financed), 130 employees, all-German infrastructure.
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ThreemaCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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SimpleX ChatGBEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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kMeet (Infomaniak)CHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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Video conferencing
Tixeo
Montpellier-based French secure video conferencing (founded 2003), ANSSI CSPN-certified, SecNumCloud-qualified, defense + government grade.
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ThreemaCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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SimpleX ChatGBEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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kMeet (Infomaniak)CHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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E-signature
Skribble
Zurich-based Swiss e-signature platform with dual ZertES + eIDAS QES via Swisscom partnership; ISO 27001, 4,000+ DACH customers.
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Signaturit (Namirial)ESEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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YousignFREU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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UniversignFREU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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E-signature
Yousign
Caen/Paris-based French QTSP (eIDAS-qualified, ANSSI-supervised), B Corp, profitable, 30k+ customers; rebranding to Youtrust in 2026.
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Signaturit (Namirial)ESEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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SkribbleCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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UniversignFREU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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Sovereign AI
Aleph Alpha
Heidelberg-based sovereign-AI lab (Pharia platform); merger with Canadian Cohere announced April 2026: Aleph Alpha shareholders to receive ~10% of combined ~$20B entity.
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Sovereign AI
LightOn
Paris-based enterprise GenAI (Paradigm platform), Europe's first publicly-listed GenAI company on Euronext Growth Paris, on-premise-first.
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Infomaniak AI ToolsCHEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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Aleph AlphaDEEU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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Mistral AIFREU hosting EU operator No CLOUD Act Public DPA Sub-processors Open source Certified
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