Public sector

Aleph Alpha

Germany

Heidelberg lab building auditable, on-premise models for government and regulated industry.

Cleura

Sweden

Swedish OpenStack public cloud with a managed Kubernetes layer and no US parent company.

Elastx

Sweden

Stockholm OpenStack and managed platform services, run fossil-free by design.

Element

United KingdomOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Matrix collaboration that several European governments already run on their own infrastructure.

Fuga Cloud

Netherlands

Dutch OpenStack cloud that makes data residency the headline rather than the footnote.

LimeSurvey

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Hamburg survey engine with unlimited responses once you host it yourself.

Mistral AI

FranceFree tier, then $14.99/seat/moOpen source

Paris lab shipping both open-weight and frontier models, servable inside EU regions.

Nextcloud

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Files, calendar, contacts, chat and office on hardware you control — the default answer when the answer has to be self-hosted.

Olvid

FranceOpen source

French messenger with no server-side directory at all, certified by the national cyber agency.

Open Telekom Cloud

Germany

OpenStack operated by a German carrier under German contract law, aimed squarely at public-sector procurement.

ownCloud

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

The original German file-sync server, rebuilt as Infinite Scale for larger estates.

Piwik PRO

Poland

Wrocław analytics suite with consent management attached and a private-cloud option.

Qwant

France

French engine building its own index, with no behavioural profile behind the results.

Threema

SwitzerlandOpen source

Swiss messenger that needs no phone number and keeps no contact graph to hand over.

Wire

GermanyOpen source

Berlin-built encrypted messaging and conferencing on the MLS standard, deployed in regulated settings.