About us
Make complex cloud technology easily available
Our Vision
We love to solve problems and strive to offer our customers the best possible user experience every day by making complex cloud technology easily and quickly available through our cutting-edge IaaS and PaaS cloud platform.
How we achieve this
With more than 15 years of experience in international managed hosting and the cooperation with many DAX and Fortune 500 companies we know that the requirements for IT projects and the infrastructure behind are constantly increasing. Companies need to be able to adapt quickly. From the very beginning, data security, 100% availability, high performance, flexible resources and transparent billing have been our top priorities in everything we do and love. We are your infrastructure and platform services provider who understands what you want to achieve and works with you on eye level.
Corporate culture
Our corporate culture creates space for creative ideas and extraordinary people. We give our employees the freedom they need to develop and most importantly: We listen to every idea! We do not have strict structures and hierarchies and are open to one another. Every employee is part of gridscale and every employee shapes the history and future of gridscale.
Our values
We solve problems for our users with our technology
We believe in non-stop automation
We are a sparring partner for our users and understand their goals
We create WOW moments for our users by delivering quality, stability, flexibility and the best UX in the market
2021
September 2021
gridscale Kubernetes wins Platinum at the Service Provider Summit 2021
August 2021
Strategic Partnership with Thomas-Krenn AG
May 2021
Launched:
gridscale Virtual Locations
March 2021
Launched:
gridscale Rocket Storage
2020
November 2020
Implementation of the gridscale cloud technology at the Swiss Internet service provider hosttech
October 2020
Additional growth capital for further business expansion
June 2020
gridscale got certified with
ISO 27001
June 2020
gridscale got certified with
ISO 27018
June 2020
Launch: gridscale Marketplace 2.0
April 2020
Tripling the cologne workspace area up to 1.300 sqm
March 2020
Jitsi Meet for home office & remote work available in marketplace
January 2020
gridscale expands portfolio with Managed Kubernetes
2019
December 2019
Much more intuitive:
The new Reseller Partner Panel
November 2019
gridscale becomes a Trusted Cloud certified provider
September 2019
gridscale becomes a member of EuroCloud and eco e.V.
August 2019
Launch: Managed Kubernetes Labs
May 2019
Product Launch: Georedundant Multi Location
April 2019
We are still growing: extension of our office space
March 2019
gridscale receives €7 million from Series-A funding round
2018
November 2018
Nominated as "Innovator" in the Crisp Vendor Universe 2018
October 2018
Finalist EIT Digital Challenge
October 2018
Finalist Tech Tour
August 2018
Product Launch: New Marketplace
July 2018
Redesign Website gridscale.io
April 2018
Product Launch: PaaS
March 2018
Redesign API Documentation
February 2018
gridscale joins the
Open Source Business Alliance
2017
September 2017
Moving to our office in
Cologne-Ehrenfeld
March 2017
Price Winner of Initiative Mittelstand
2016
September 2016
VC Roadshow in New York
September 2016
Seed round with HTGF and BLSW (managed by EnjoyVenture)
September 2016
Starting another availability zone with interxion, Frankfurt (Germany)
August 2016
Moving into our new office at Mediapark in Cologne, Germany
March 2016
Product launch of our Loadbalancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS)
2015
October 2015
Finishing our closed beta & started gridscale officially at gridscale.io
July 2015
gridscale is now RIPE-member (Réseaux IP Européens)
June 2015
Carsten and Marc Dittmann joined as shareholders
May 2015
Launching our 2nd prototype
February 2015
Developing our 2nd prototype
January 2015
1st prototype done Getting feedback from potential customers
2014
September 2014
Developing our 1st prototype
August 2014
Michael Balser, Torsten Urbas and Henrik Hasenkamp establish gridscale GmbH
June 2014
The concept and business plan is made
April 2014
Coming up with idea and drafting first concept
Why we founded gridscale
During the last 15 years we have been able to gather lots of experience in the hosting and cloud market. We did create many products and services, most of which are still successful today. In 2014 it became apparent to us how complex and complicated most cloud products are from a user perspective, let alone the pricing models. They are far away from being transparent and are hard to understand. Our partners, customers and employees enjoyed using these products less every single day, driven by their non-intuitive interfaces and the excessive need for training . We realized that the positive development of the IaaS and PaaS market is a great chance to make our vision of an easy-to-use, intuitive, highly available and flexible cloud service become reality. We knew that we could build cutting-edge technology. It is important for us to have users who love using gridscale and we are very pleased about the great feedback we get from our users every single day.
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