Best Enterprise Infrastructure Companies in State of Hessen, Germany
The 48 best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in State of Hessen, Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Link11.
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.
Ranked: Best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in State of Hessen
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link11 DDoS protection and CDN solutions provider 40Talent top 28%Growth top 42%Funding top 45%Tech top 45% All 10 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 42% Fundingtop 45% Techtop 45% Moattop 45% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 37% Patentsbottom 34% Innovationbottom 31% Newsbottom 22% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record Growth: 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $29M | 31 mo ago | Series B | Karsten Desler Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2005 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+24 | 3 patents Network intrusion detection/prevention and host-based security systems | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 2 | Cobion Web and spam content filtering employing network layer appliance | $13M | 278 mo ago | Acquired | Rene Seeber Co-Founder & CTO | 1997 | — | 2 patents Database-driven visual image retrieval and similarity comparison systems | — |
| 3 | equipme Cloud based platform offering asset management solutions | $4M | 39 mo ago | Seed | Alexandre Seifert Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2021 | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+9 | — | — |
| 4 | Vagabond Blockchain-based operating system | — | 55 mo ago | Seed | Navid Larijani Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ngena International network services provider | — | 125 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Rittal Platform offering modular data centers | — | 133 mo ago | Funding Raised | Markus Asch Co-CEO | 1961 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailZURB Foundation+23 | 2,092 patents Advanced liquid‑cooled switchgear enclosures and automated manufacturing systems for power electronics | — |
| 7 | E-shelter data center solutions | — | 168 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 8 | AirTraffic Remote configuration for mobile applications | — | — | Deadpooled | Bjorn Wolf Founder | 2015 | — | — | — |
Top 7 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in State of Hessen
#1
Series B · Frankfurt, State of Hessen · founded 2005 · 38 employees$29Mraised▾
Link11 offers DDoS protection and CDN solutions. Offers Link11 DDoS Protection Cloud for DDoS attack protection and Link11 CDN for content delivery. CDN uses SSD flash memory, and supports Anycast for data distribution. It uses the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) technology. Also provides network optimisation features through load balancing and caching. SSL management is another offering by the company. Has received awards including German Data Center Award and Eco-Internet Award 2012.
- Dec 2023Series B$29M
#2
Seed · Frankfurt, State of Hessen · founded 2021 · 13 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Cloud based platform offering asset management solutions. It provides a platform that facilitates asset and cost management by delivering digital connections to IT providers and B2B suppliers to rent devices, software, and equipment flexibly as a service. It offers features like custom email templates, customer self service, and more.
- Apr 2023Seed$3.8M
#3
Acquired · Kassel, State of Hessen · founded 1997$13.1Mraised▾
Cobion (formerly Only Solutions) provided spam and web content filtering based security solution to the enterprise. Products included OrangeBox Web for Web filtering, OrangeBox Mail for e-mail and spam filter and OrangeBox LAN for intranet filtering. Became one of the Europe's largest DB for web filtering. Acquired by Internet Security Systems (ISS Inc) in 2004 for its intelligent content analysis technology. Currently, the solution is part of IBM X-Force, after the acquisition of ISS Inc in 2006.
- Jun 2003Series B$7.1M
- Oct 2002Series A$6M
#4
Seed · Frankfurt, State of Hessen · founded 2020 · 45 employees—raised▾
Blockchain-based operating system. It enables users to create decentralized applications for businesses and individuals. It also provides faster deployments on a fully managed open technology platform. It stores data in a decentralised environment and compliance support.
- Dec 2021Seed—
#5
Late Stage · Eschborn, State of Hessen · founded 2016 · 72 employees—raised▾
Ngena (Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance) is an alliance between CenturyLink, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio, SK Telecom to launch international network services for the MNCs which want to connect to their multiple locations across countries. It will be an independent company and provide services through a partnership model. The alliance partners will provide access to the regional networks in their markets, which will be interconnected to a single global network via the global Ngena platform on the basis of the Cisco Cloud and virtualization technologies. Management owns 51% and Telekom Capital owns rest 49%. It is expected to start operations in 2017. It will not own network resources but will lease network connections and data centers and provide access to regional markets with 20 to 25 data center connection points.
- Feb 2016PE—
#6
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.
#7
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.
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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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
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