Best Data Center Infrastructure Companies in Germany
The 37 best Data Center Infrastructure companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: maincubes.
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Ranked: Best Data Center Infrastructure companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maincubes Platform offering data center colocation services 57News top 20%Funding top 22%Growth top 25%Tech top 35% All 7 signals ▾Newstop 20% Fundingtop 22% Growthtop 25% Techtop 35% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 29% News: 6 BI events in 12 mo (of 19 tracked, 6 types) · +200% YoY Funding: Raised $1.1B across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $1.1B | 35 mo ago | Late Stage | Oliver Menzel CEO | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 2 | Cloud&Heat Technologies Provider of cloud services, on-premises infrastructure, hardware, and energy solutions | $17M | 68 mo ago | Series B | Nicolas Rohrs Co-Founder & CEO | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 19 patents Thermal management solutions for computing hardware and data center modules | — |
| 3 | Datacenter One Datacenter development & operations service provider | $500K | 98 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2016 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+18 | — | — |
| 4 | NewTelco Data center colocation and managed services provider | $157K | 183 mo ago | Seed | Matthias Hartmann CEO & MD | 2005 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 5 | deeptune Provider of solutions for energy storage and power management in data centers | $17K | 97 mo ago | Deadpooled | Erik Heilmann Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Paessler Cloud based platform offering network performance monitoring solutions | — | 27 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 1997 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Ruby+23 | — | 7 job openings · 1 partnership |
| 7 | Rittal Platform offering modular data centers | — | 135 mo ago | Funding Raised | Markus Asch Co-CEO | 1961 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailZURB Foundation+23 | 2,092 patents Industrial enclosure cooling and power distribution for IT and switchgear systems | — |
| 8 | E-shelter data center solutions | — | 169 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2000 | — | — | — |
Top 8 Data Center Infrastructure companies in Germany
#1
Late Stage · Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse · founded 2012 · 31 employees$1.1Braised▾
Platform offering data center colocation services. The platform offers a data center supplied with green electricity and colocation services to enterprises. It also offers rack, cage, and suite solutions for colocation requirement, hosting solutions, cooling, and air conditioning, fire protection, and more.
- Sep 2023PE—
- Mar 2023Conventional Debt$1.1B
- Sep 2022PE—
#2
Series B · Dresden, Saxony · founded 2011 · 107 employees$16.7Mraised▾
Provider of cloud services, on-premises infrastructure, hardware, and energy solutions. The company delivers infrastructure-as-a-service, managed Kubernetes, and cloud consulting. It offers on-premises cloud infrastructure, tailored solutions, and appliances. The company provides hardware procurement, liquid cooled servers, and energy efficiency solutions.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$524K
- Sep 2018Series B$11.6M
- May 2017Series A—
- Dec 2016Series A—
#3
Acquired · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2016 · 64 employees$500Kraised▾
Datacenter One provides services for planning, building, and operating data center infrastructure. Provides colocation and data center monitoring services as well. The company has also developed its own data center connectivity solution called ColoConnect, an optical fiber Ethernet technology. Datacenter One has been featured in Financial Times' FT 1000: Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.
- Jun 2018Seed$500K
#4
Seed · Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse · founded 2005 · 38 employees$156.6Kraised▾
New Telco provides data center colocation services. Its colocation services include power, cooling, security, fire protection, and building management. Solutions include colocation per unit, half rack colocation, full rack colocation, and dedicated cage. Its data center in Frankfurt am Main claims to have access to over 450 network operators, ISPs content providers, and other telcos. Other data centers are located in Ukraine, South Africa, and Georgia.
#5
Late Stage · Nuremberg, Bavaria · founded 1997 · 245 employees—raised▾
Cloud based platform offering network performance monitoring solutions. It provides monitoring solutions for network monitoring and testing solutions. It offers features that include server performance monitoring, server room equipment monitoring, alerts, capacity planning, application server monitoring configuration, and more.
- May 2024PE—
#6
Deadpooled · Leipzig, Saxony · founded 2018$17.4Kraised▾
Provider of solutions for energy storage and power management in data centers. The solution is capable of altering the flow of electrons to a more uniform and efficient pattern. Thereby it helps members in reducing the energy required by data centers or data transmission networks.
- Aug 2018Grant (prize money)$6.9K
#7
Funding Raised · Herborn, State of Hessen · founded 1961 · 727 employees—raised▾
Platform offering modular data centers. It is a provider of system solutions for industrial applications and IT infrastructure, offering a range of products and services including enclosures, power distribution, climate control, and IT infrastructure solutions.The company serves industries functioning in IT, Infrastructure, mechanical engineering, process, and transport technology.
#8
Acqui-Hired · Frankfurt, State of Hessen · founded 2000 · 347 employees—raised▾
E-Shelter develops and operates highly secure data centers. It operates 90,000 square meters data center space in locations such as Vienna, Zurich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich. It serves Financial Services, telecommunications, media & internet, cloud & IT, health service, Public administration and Corporate Business sectors. The company's services include colocation, networks & carrier, connectivity, and business continuity.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Data Center Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cloud Computing is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,631 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.129
- Leipzig University110
- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research88
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München87
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology83
- Scalability1→53
- Workflow1→52
- Operating system4→34
- Software deployment2→32
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→27
- Satellite3→34
- Aerosol3→34
- Point cloud1→21
- Meteorology5→24
- Operating system2→20
- Aerosol5→25
- Satellite1→14
- Key (lock)3→15
- Climate model3→14
- Precipitation3→14
Where cloud computing is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing cloud computing patents in Germany
Germany cloud computing patent filing is accelerating — 291 filings from 166 assignees (2016–2025), led by Siemens, SAP SE, SAP; annual filings 19→25.
- Siemens120
- SAP SE93
- SAP33
- IBM28
- Deutsche Telekom22
- IBM Deutschland13
- Software Defined Automation10
- Unify & KG9
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.