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Best Enterprise Infrastructure Companies in Cologne, Germany

The 38 best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SoSafe.

38companies tracked
$192.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
7have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE × COLOGNE

Our analysis of 50 Enterprise Infrastructure companies

$2.9b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2023.

50companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2023funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2020median founding year
135kcombined LinkedIn audience
60%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1SoSafe
Cloud based platform offering cyber security training for employee awareness
$73M56 mo agoSeries BFelix Schurholz
Co-Founder
2018WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+291 launch
2ArangoDB
Provider of multi model NoSQL database solutions
$59M59 mo agoSeries BClaudius Weinberger
Co-Founder
2014WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36—
3Sastrify
AI-powered platform designed for IT teams to manage software
72Funding top 31%Talent top 38%Global top 39%Moat top 39%
All 9 signals ▾
Fundingtop 31%
Talenttop 38%
Globaltop 39%
Moattop 39%
Techtop 41%
Markettop 43%
Growthtop 45%
AItop 45%
Newsbottom 22%
Funding: Raised $45.3M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 6 yrs (0.8/yr)
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100
$45M33 mo agoAcquiredSven Lackinger
Co-Founder & CEO
2020WebflowMemberStackSentry+34—
4Baobab
Provider of cyber risk and vulnerability assessment solutions
27Moat top 39%Funding top 43%Market bottom 43%Global bottom 39%
All 5 signals ▾
Moattop 39%
Fundingtop 43%
Marketbottom 43%
Globalbottom 39%
Newsbottom 21%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Funding: Raised $9.6M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100
$10M15 mo agoSeries A—2015—1 launch
5mogenius
Provider of Kubernetes management platform streamlining workflows and cloud-native operations
32Talent top 38%Growth top 45%Tech top 45%Funding top 50%
All 7 signals ▾
Talenttop 38%
Growthtop 45%
Techtop 45%
Fundingtop 50%
Globalbottom 37%
Marketbottom 24%
Newsbottom 18%
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 50,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100
$3M17 mo agoSeedJan Lepsky
Co-Founder | CPO
2020Webflow EcommerceWebflowGSAP+18—
64Stop
Provider of on-demand KYC solutions
$2M88 mo agoAcquiredIngo Ernst
Founder & CEO
2012——
7Lavaboom
PGP encryption & zero privacy based secure email service
$38K146 mo agoDeadpooledFelix Müller-Irion
Founder & CEO
2014——
8Abby
Open source based feature flag management platform
——UnfundedTim Raderschad
Founder
2022——

Top 7 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne

#1
Series A · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2015 · 37 employees
$9.6Mraised
▾

Provider of cyber risk and vulnerability assessment solutions. It provides a cyber security platform that assesses cyber risks for protecting businesses against cyber attacks. It also provides solutions such as security assessment, digital purchase management, active risk reduction, etc.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 27how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 39%
Funding
top 43%
Market
bottom 43%
Global
bottom 39%
News
bottom 21%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Funding: Raised $9.6M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series A (Jun 2025)
Market: 37 employees
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers — 2.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2025Series A$13.7M
  • Apr 2023Conventional Debt—
  • Jan 2023Seed$5.4M
  • Jan 2022Seed$4.2M
Investors
Augmentum Fintech, Discovery Ventures, La Famiglia, Project A, IBB, Viola FinTech
#2
Seed · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2020 · 13 employees
$3.1Mraised
▾

Provider of Kubernetes management platform streamlining workflows and cloud-native operations. The platform integrates Kubernetes dashboards and infrastructure-as-code components. It facilitates the setup, operation, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters. The platform offers workspaces, data visualization, and troubleshooting insights. It supports DevOps engineers with Kubernetes expertise and a platform requiring minimal support. The platform helps organizations leverage Kubernetes best practices.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 32how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 38%
Growth
top 45%
Tech
top 45%
Funding
top 50%
Global
bottom 37%
Market
bottom 24%
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 50,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 27 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Devops: Nginx
Audience (LinkedIn): 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2025Seed$328K
  • Jul 2024Seed$2.7M
  • Aug 2022Seed—
Founders & team
Jan LepskyCo-Founder | CPOGerrit SchumannCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
STS Ventures, Smart Infrastructure Ventures, Inovexus, D11Z.Ventures, Seedandspeed, Conceptum
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare TurnstileGsapHubspotJqueryLightbox
#3
Acquired · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2020 · 155 employees
$45.3Mraised
▾

AI-powered platform designed for IT teams to manage software. The solutions help in managing procurement spending and planning renewals and negotiations, assessing risks, and automating documentation. Its features include automated supplier negotiation, contract management, customized tag filters, document activities, and more.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 72how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 31%
Talent
top 38%
Global
top 39%
Moat
top 39%
Tech
top 41%
Market
top 43%
Funding: Raised $45.3M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 6 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series B (Dec 2023)
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Global: Serving 3 countries incl. Netherlands, Ireland, Germany · Legal entities in 3 countries: Germany, South Korea, United States · Investors from 4 countries beyond Germany
Audience (LinkedIn): 36k LinkedIn followers — 26.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Llanes & Planes) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series B—
  • May 2023Conventional Debt$10M
  • May 2023Series B$22M
  • Jan 2022Series A$15M
Founders & team
Sven LackingerCo-Founder & CEOMaximilian MessingCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
HV Capital, Endeit Capital, Simon Capital, FirstMark, TriplePoint Capital, TS Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCdnjsClearbit RevealCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebot
#4
Series B · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2014 · 25 employees
$58.6Mraised
▾

A distributed free and open source database with a multi data model for documents, graphs, and key values. Arango enables developers to build high performance applications on top of ArangoDB using a convenient SQL like query language named AQL. Arango contributes to the project by providing architects, developers, etc. For its enterprise users, ArangoDB GmbH offers subscriptions, support as part of development, training and consulting.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 14k LinkedIn followers — 10.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2021Series B$27.8M
  • Mar 2019Series A$10M
  • Dec 2017Series A$11.6M
  • Jun 2017Series A$4.8M
Founders & team
Claudius WeinbergerCo-Founder
Investors
Bow Capital, Target Partners, New Forge, IRIS
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpAddtoany Share ButtonsYoast Seo PremiumYoast Seo
#5
Series B · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2018 · 370 employees
$73Mraised
▾

Cloud based platform offering cyber security training for employee awareness. It offers employees that engages training programs on cyber security and data protection with a lasting impact.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 30k LinkedIn followers — 22.0% of this cohort's audience · 35 engagements/post (3.0× cohort median)
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2022Series B$73M
Founders & team
Felix SchurholzCo-Founder Lukas SchaeferCo-Founder Niklas HellemannCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Highland Europe, Acton Capital, Global Founders Capital, La Famiglia, Rocket Internet
Tech stack
AmplitudeApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebotCore-Js
#6
Acquired · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2012 · 4 employees
$2.5Mraised
▾

Provider of on-demand KYC solutions. It offers an API that enables businesses to access KYC databases. The API enables businesses to validate the authenticity of customers, validate payment cards, and perform email checks, address checks, and bank account checks. It also enables businesses to scan watchlists and generate detailed person summary reports.

Funding rounds
  • May 2019Series A$2.5M
Founders & team
Ingo ErnstFounder & CEOAlvaro KurthCo-Founder | CRODaniel AlvaradoCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Ventech
Tech stack
BootstrapApache Http ServerTwitterJqueryCookiebotAddthis
#7
Deadpooled · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2014
$38.1Kraised
▾

Lavaboom provided zero knowledge privacy based secure email service employing PGP encryption security. User required to implicitly use Lavaboom's email client to access mails and didn't provide password recovery service. Metadata including subject lines, sender, sending time and receiver email addresses were still unencrypted; however it replaced all the IP addresses with Lavaboom’s IP addresses in mails. In Aug, 2015, company declared bankruptcy and closed operations. It's also rumored to be acquihired by Invmail in Sept, 2015.

Funding rounds
  • 2014Seed$38.1K
Founders & team
Felix Müller-IrionFounder & CEO
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpGeneratepressWp RocketElementor

Funding & investor landscape

$192.1Mtotal disclosed funding
7companies funded
19disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Discovery Ventures3 rounds
La Famiglia2 rounds
New Forge2 rounds
Acton Capital1 rounds
Augmentum Fintech1 rounds
Booom1 rounds
Bow Capital1 rounds
BoxGroup1 rounds
Conceptum1 rounds
D11Z.Ventures1 rounds

Notable founders

Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder | CPO · mogenius
Gerrit Schumann
Co-Founder & CEO · mogenius
Sven Lackinger
Co-Founder & CEO · Sastrify
Maximilian Messing
Co-Founder & CTO · Sastrify
Claudius Weinberger
Co-Founder · ArangoDB
Felix Schurholz
Co-Founder · SoSafe
Lukas Schaefer
Co-Founder · SoSafe
Ingo Ernst
Founder & CEO · 4Stop
Alvaro Kurth
Co-Founder | CRO · 4Stop
Felix Müller-Irion
Founder & CEO · Lavaboom
Prism market signals · Germany · country-scoped Prism corpus, 152,542 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Enterprise Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH IN COLOGNE · Networking & Security

How research on Cloud Computing in Cologne is moving

A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing in Cologne — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 41 papers.

41 papers · stance +0.30 · 48% breakthrough · 28% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • University of Cologne41
leading researchers
Claudia Acquistapace · Mario Mech · Fiona M. Paulus · Lu, Xing · Sabrina Schnitt · Susanne Crewell
prism intelligence · tone & topics
83% positive · 2% critical tone
EnvironmentWeatherPhysicsArtificial IntelligenceAgricultureClimate Science
▲ Breakthroughs12 · 29%
▲ 0%→30% share
0 median citations100% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→30% of field), led by Radar.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Radar5
  • Arctic4
  • Lidar4
  • Profiling (computer programming)3
  • Satellite3
Newly emergingRadar 0→5 · Arctic 0→4 · Lidar 0→4
◆ Advancements6 · 15%
▲ 0%→15% share
0 median citations100% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→15% of field), led by Satellite.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Satellite3
  • Mesoscale meteorology2
  • Arctic2
  • Mesoscale convective system2
  • Subsidence2
Newly emergingSatellite 0→3
▼ Concerns7 · 17%
▲ 0%→15% share
0 median citations86% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→15% of field), led by Remote sensing.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Remote sensing2
  • Numerical weather prediction2
  • Joint (building)1
  • Climate model1
  • Radiation1
Landmark Determinant Factors of Cloud-Sourcing Decisions: Reflecting on the IT Outsourcing Literature in the Era of Cloud Computi · 244 cites

Common questions

How many Enterprise Infrastructure companies are there in Cologne, Germany?
Radar tracks 38 indexable Enterprise Infrastructure companies headquartered in Cologne, Germany that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne, Germany?
The Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne, Germany on this list have raised a combined $192.1M in disclosed equity funding across 7 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Enterprise Infrastructure company in Cologne, Germany?
SoSafe is the highest-funded Enterprise Infrastructure company in Cologne, Germany, with $73M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne, Germany are funded?
7 of the 38 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne, Germany on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Enterprise Infrastructure unicorns are there in Cologne, Germany?
None of the Enterprise Infrastructure companies in Cologne, Germany on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Cologne, Germany Enterprise Infrastructure companies?
The most active investors in Cologne, Germany Enterprise Infrastructure companies on this list include Discovery Ventures, La Famiglia, New Forge, Acton Capital, Augmentum Fintech.
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