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How Nextcloud is funded

origin
EU
host
Nextcloud GmbH (Stuttgart)
host type
company
licence
AGPL-3.0
ChannelFindingLabelEv.
employer developersNextcloud GmbH employees dominate commitsinferenceB
foundation budgetn/afactB
public grantscomponent of openDesk, procured via ZenDiS (openDesk budget ~€10M in 2025, all components)factC
corporate sponsorshipn/afactC
commercial modelenterprise support subscriptions (no feature-gated open core)factB
donationsnot significantinferenceC

dominant channel: commercial subscriptions (Nextcloud GmbH)

top funder: Nextcloud GmbH

top funder share: ~all core

funder nationality: DE

public money: true

evidence: B

Sources

  1. https://nextcloud.com/ (accessed 2026-11-03)
  2. https://www.opendesk.eu/ (accessed 2026-11-03)