Infomaniak
Verified“Genuinely sovereign cloud — but Swiss-sovereign, not EU.”
- Customers
- 1M+
- Employees
- ~221
- Founded
- 1994
- Ownership
- Foundation + staff
66 = midpoint of Control 58 & Data 74
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 13 sourced facts across 8 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 82% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
55
Cleanly incorporated and operated in Switzerland with no US/EU legal entity, but Switzerland is a non-EU third country, so direct EU legal jurisdiction does not apply — EU law reaches it only via adequacy and contract.
Why 55? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
The operating company is Infomaniak Network SA, registered in the Geneva commercial register under UID CHE-103.167.648 at rue Eugene-Marziano 25, Les Acacias.
Northdata / Swiss commercial register · as of 2026-04-09
Infomaniak states it has no legal entity outside Switzerland, placing it beyond the reach of the US CLOUD Act, which can compel US-linked companies to hand over data stored abroad.
Infomaniak (Understanding sovereign cloud) · as of 2026
Switzerland is not an EU member state, so Infomaniak is governed by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) rather than being directly subject to EU jurisdiction; it claims GDPR compliance as a service feature.
Infomaniak sovereign cloud · as of 2026
Control & Ownership
60
Both voting control and economic ownership sit in Switzerland (foundation plus employees), with no foreign or public-market control — extremely robust, but Swiss rather than EU-domiciled.
Why 60? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
On 13 May 2026 founder Boris Siegenthaler irrevocably transferred majority voting rights to the Infomaniak Foundation, a Swiss public-interest entity, via non-transferable shares with permanent blocking power.
Infomaniak (Foundation announcement) · as of 2026-05-13
Thirty-six employees were already shareholders holding about 25% of capital before the transfer and unanimously approved restructuring their voting rights.
Infomaniak (Foundation announcement) · as of 2026-05-13
The structure is designed to make a hostile takeover or a non-European acquisition legally impossible without the Foundation's approval; the company is privately held and not listed on any exchange.
Infomaniak (Understanding sovereign cloud) · as of 2026
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
70
Infomaniak designs and operates its own data centers in Switzerland on open-source OpenStack with no US hyperscaler dependency — best-in-class infra sovereignty, but physically located in Switzerland (Geneva, Winterthur), outside the EU.
Why 70? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Infomaniak designs and operates its own data centers in Switzerland rather than renting space, and states customer data is strictly stored in Switzerland and not subject to extraterritorial laws.
Infomaniak sovereign cloud · as of 2026
Its cloud runs on the open-source OpenStack platform and avoids dependence on American or Asian suppliers, positioning against AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Infomaniak sovereign cloud · as of 2026
In January 2025 Infomaniak inaugurated a Geneva data center recovering 100% of its electricity as heat (enough for ~6,000 homes); facilities are in Switzerland (Geneva and Winterthur area), Tier III+.
DataCenterDynamics · as of 2025-01
Infomaniak is certified ISO 27001 (since June 2018), ISO 14001, ISO 50001 and ISO 9001, covering security, environment, energy and quality.
Infomaniak certifications · as of 2026
Operations & People
80
Workforce, leadership and reporting are entirely Switzerland-based (Geneva and Zurich) with 100% of staff in-country — fully Swiss-centered, which is European but not EU.
Why 80? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Infomaniak states 100% of its team is in Switzerland, operating from Geneva and Zurich.
Infomaniak (data centers / independence) · as of 2026
The company employs roughly 221 people and serves more than one million customers, about 30% of them in France and Belgium.
Wikipedia (Infomaniak) · as of 2025
Founded in 1994 in Geneva, Infomaniak reports revenue in Swiss francs (CHF 26 million in 2020) and is described as Switzerland's largest cloud computing company.
Wikipedia (Infomaniak) · as of 2020
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
Exact current revenue and customer count — public figures (CHF 26M revenue, 2020; 1M+ customers) are dated or rounded.
Limits precision on scale; does not change the sovereignty profile, which rests on jurisdiction and ownership.
- ?
Whether any customer-facing data ever touches infrastructure outside Switzerland (e.g. CDN, anti-spam, payment processors).
Could create indirect foreign-law exposure that would qualify the otherwise clean infra sovereignty score.
- ?
The precise post-transfer cap table — exact percentage of economic ownership held by the Foundation vs employees vs founder after 13 May 2026.
Affects how durable economic (not just voting) control is, though voting blocking-power is confirmed.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL) certifies EU cloud providers; Infomaniak is Swiss (non-EU), so this is an analogous sovereignty mapping, not an EU certification, and several criteria assume EU jurisdiction it sits outside of.
Strategic
Independent, founder-and-employee origin now locked under a public-interest foundation; explicit long-term sovereignty mission, not VC-driven.
Legal & jurisdictional
No US/EU legal entity and outside CLOUD Act reach — but governed by Swiss FADP, not EU law; Switzerland is a third country for GDPR purposes.
Data & AI
Data stored exclusively in Switzerland; open-source stacks (OpenStack); claims no extraterritorial-law exposure.
Operational
100% of staff, leadership and data centers in Switzerland; self-operated, no foreign outsourcing.
Supply chain
Prefers European hardware (Meyer-Burger panels, European SSDs) and avoids US/Asian platform suppliers, but full hardware supply chain (chips) remains globally dependent.
Technological
In-house cloud platforms and software on auditable open source; owns and builds its own data centers.
Security & compliance
ISO 27001 certified since 2018, plus ISO 14001/50001/9001; Tier III+ facilities.
Environmental sustainability
100% renewable energy, 100% heat-recovery data center (Jan 2025), hardware lifecycles extended up to 15 years.
EU alternatives
Itself a top-tier sovereign cloud — but Swiss, so European yet outside EU jurisdiction. The right pick if Swiss data residency is acceptable.
EU-incorporated (France), publicly listed, EU-jurisdiction cloud with SecNumCloud-qualified offerings — the in-EU equivalent for those who need EU law to apply directly.
French cloud (Iliad group), EU-incorporated and EU-operated, with sovereign/SecNumCloud-track offerings; a direct EU alternative.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
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- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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Verified 2026-06-12 · Human + AI joint review (sources independently checked) · Methodology