DevTools · Cloud & Infrastructure · 200–1000 · Europe #b016_10

Context

We are an independent cloud company offering hosting, email, storage, collaboration and public cloud services to individuals, businesses and public organisations, run on our own infrastructure.

Industry

DevTools & Software · Cloud & Infrastructure

Size

200–1000 employees

Region

Europe

Tools budget

$5K–20K per month

Needs

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 automation. We maintain an information security certification and want renewals to rely on continuous evidence rather than annual scrambles.

Today: a staff-owned firm keeping a few certifications and planning a card-payment one · Urgency: this year

Privacy & data protection (GDPR/HIPAA). We host large volumes of personal data and must show strict privacy handling to both consumers and business clients.

Today: a hosting-in-one-jurisdiction promise as the core privacy control · Urgency: this year

Technical hiring. We hire steadily across engineering and support and need a smoother way to screen technical candidates.

Today: recruiting engineers through campus career forums and its own jobs page · Urgency: this year

Who decides

cto · founder led

Expects from suppliers

Self-hostable or regionally hosted deployment; Strong privacy defaults; Multilingual interface

Not a fit

Vendors processing data outside our region; Ad-supported or data-mining business models

Stack

on-prem / private cloud, Kubernetes, compliance tooling in place

Buying triggers

upcoming audit or certification, rapid team growth