EU Sovereignty Score

Updates from October 13, 2026 to October 14, 2026

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235 open-source packages from government catalogues

From the free-software lists that the French and Swedish governments recommend or use (SILL, Comptoir du Libre, offentligkod.se), 235 packages were added, from VLC, Audacity, Zotero and Koha to French local-government software such as Pastell and openADS. Each one shows who maintains it and where. The catalogue now lists 8,431 vendors.

Added

  • 235 open-source packages, each with sources and an introduction in four languages; 177 are maintained in Europe.
  • European packages appear as an alternative to non-European vendors in the same category.

125 European vendors from security and quality-label registers

Public registers for IT security and quality labels, such as TeleTrusT, Spain's CPSTIC catalogue and ANSSI, led to 125 European software vendors, each checked individually. Most are in security, identity, compliance and electronic signatures, from Germany, Spain, France and eight other European countries. The catalogue now lists 8,196 vendors.

Added

  • 125 new European vendors, each with sources and an introduction in four languages.
  • Where they do the same job, they appear as a European alternative to non-European vendors in the same category.

Fixed

  • Cryptshare: the Dutch majority owner of parent company Pointsharp has been added.

Fifth correction round: IFS, JetBrains, ArangoDB and Kanidm

The headquarters country of several vendors was wrong. IFS is Swedish, JetBrains Dutch, ArangoDB American and Kanidm a community project led from Australia. 3GTMS is now called Descartes 3G TMS.

Fixed

  • Headquarters corrected for IFS (Sweden), five JetBrains products (Netherlands), ArangoDB (United States) and Kanidm (Australia), with sources.
  • ArangoDB and Kanidm no longer appear among the European alternatives.

Own European alternatives for 286 well-known vendors

286 well-known non-European vendors, from Akamai to FullStory and HashiCorp Vault, now have their own list of European alternatives that do the same job. Previously the tool picked one vendor from the same category automatically. 33 European vendors were also added.

Added

  • Own lists of European alternatives for 286 non-European vendors, fully European-owned first.
  • 33 new European vendors, each with sources and an introduction in four languages.

SugarCRM is now SugarAI, Artlist reclassified and three new vendors

SugarCRM was renamed SugarAI in April 2026; the listing has been updated and the old page redirects automatically. Artlist now sits under photo and video and under AI instead of music streaming. New: Naise AI, Resurf and Hyperfocus.

Added

  • Naise AI (marketing): AI assistant for social media, influencer campaigns and PR, from Singapore.
  • Resurf (notes and tasks): local-first personal library for Mac, iPhone and iPad, from Canada. Your data stays on your own device.
  • Hyperfocus (notes and tasks): local-first macOS planner that plans from goals, from Georgia.

Changed

  • SugarAI (formerly SugarCRM): new name, website and description; the UK has been added as a hosting region next to the US, Germany and Australia. Re-verified via SugarAI's press release and legal pages.
  • Artlist: moved from music streaming to photo and video, with a second listing under AI for its AI tools. Description and sources renewed; Artlist now describes GDPR rights and has an EU representative.

Owner corrected for 13 vendors

For 13 vendors the owner was recorded as the country where a holding company is registered, or as an owner without a majority. A registered seat in Delaware or Luxembourg does not say who is in control; control sits where the controlling shareholder is. No score changes; five badges do.

Changed

  • No separate owner, because nobody holds control or the owner sits in the same country: Canva, Trustpilot, WEDOS, Younited, Colt, Granola, Hushmail and Dante Labs.
  • Different owner: Virgilio Mail (Egypt), Simple.ERP (Canada), TestRail and Xray (Switzerland, Partners Group) and Flourish (Australia, Canva).
  • Badges: Simple.ERP and Virgilio Mail now show 'foreign-owned'; TestRail, Xray and Trustpilot now show 'sovereign EU'.

Timeline extended: 112 more ownership changes

The ownership history now covers 395 vendors with 416 events; in 169 cases control moved from Europe to outside Europe. Only deals shown to be completed were added.

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Added

  • 112 events for 106 vendors, each with public sources and a second, independent check of date, buyer, country and completion.

What the report looks like

Next to the report on the home page you now see a preview of what it looks like: score, dimensions, heatmap, board questions and migration path. One click opens the full sample report.

Added

  • Report preview on the home page, built from the same demo stack as the card at the top.

The report in the new house style

The paid report and the sample report now share the site's design. Page 1 is a summary for the board, the report prints cleanly on A4 with page numbers, and each vendor lists its three best European alternatives in full.

Changed

  • Summary on page 1: total score, scores per dimension, top risk drivers and heatmap.
  • More compact: further alternatives as one line of names, evidence per vendor in an appendix.

Fixed

  • The report now also shows its own typeface when viewed online.

Visma in the timeline: Hg raises its stake to 63%

The UK investor Hg, already Visma's largest shareholder, increased its stake to about 63% in May 2019. That step is now in the timelines of Visma, e-conomic and Dinero, together with Visma's acquisition of e-conomic (2015) and Dinero (2016). For the other Visma companies we first establish when they joined Visma.

Fourth correction round: group.one, MFE, Forterro and a Visma company

Fourteen records updated. The rule stays the same: an investor only counts as owner with a proven majority, and a registered seat in another country does not by itself make a company foreign.

Changed

  • group.one brands (one.com, Dogado, Checkdomain, Profihost, Uniweb, Termly and Shore): owner group.one (Sweden). Cinven and Ontario Teachers' share control, with no proven majority for either. Shore was listed as UK-owned and is labelled 'sovereign EU' again.
  • Forterro, the owner of Jeeves, PROFFIX and Ranorex, belongs to Switzerland's Partners Group. Jeeves and Ranorex are labelled 'sovereign EU' again.
  • A registered seat is not the owner: Mediaset Infinity España belongs to MFE, run from Italy (Fininvest); Oneplay belongs to the Czech PPF; Ceneo has no foreign owner.
  • Buchhaltungsbutler is a Visma company and therefore gets the British investor Hg as ultimate owner.

Timeline extended: 87 more ownership changes

The ownership history now covers 286 vendors with 299 events; in 141 cases control moved from Europe to outside Europe. This round covered European vendors with a foreign owner; only deals shown to be completed were added.

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Added

  • 87 events for 85 vendors, each with public sources and a second, independent check of date, buyer, country and completion.

Catalogue stamp on the home page

The home page now shows a stamp in the top-right corner with the current number of scored vendors and the date of the latest check. The figure and date update themselves; a click takes you to the method.

Added

  • Stamp with the vendor count, the 0–100 score and the check date, linked to the methodology page.

Third correction round: team.blue brands and five owners

All brands of the hosting group team.blue are now listed the same way: with team.blue (Belgium) as owner. The London investor Hg is team.blue's largest shareholder, but a majority has not been shown; we will update this once it is. Five other owners or headquarters were also corrected.

Changed

  • team.blue brands (including TransIP, Vimexx, Nominalia, Register.it, Webnode, Zitcom and SimplyBook.me): owner team.blue (Belgium). TransIP and SimplyBook.me were listed as UK-owned and are labelled 'sovereign EU' again.
  • One Identity: headquarters in the US (Aliso Viejo); the announced move to Cork has not been completed. The score drops from 71 to 37.
  • US owner: Signaturit (Namirial, owned by Bain Capital) and Men&Mice (BlueCat, owned by Audax). Writefull belongs via Digital Science to Germany's Holtzbrinck and is labelled 'sovereign EU' again; Signaturit is now labelled 'foreign-owned'. Dokobit belongs via Signicat to Sweden's Nordic Capital.

Timeline extended: 74 more ownership changes

The ownership history now covers 201 vendors with 212 events; in 100 cases control moved from Europe to outside Europe. Only deals shown to be completed were added: an announced deal counts once its completion is sourced.

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Added

  • 74 events for 74 vendors, each with public sources and a second, independent check of date, buyer, country and completion.

Report: ownership changes in your stack

The report now lists which vendors in your selection were acquired or changed owner in the twelve months before the report date, and flags the cases where control moved outside Europe.

Added

  • New section 'Ownership changes in the last 12 months' per block, with date, direction (for example Sweden → United States) and a short summary. Absent when nothing changed.

New: all ownership changes on one page, also as a feed

The Ownership changes page lists every acquisition, ownership change and headquarters move in the knowledge base, newest first. At the top are the 66 cases where control moved from Europe to outside Europe. With the Atom feed you can follow new changes in your feed reader, without an account or email address.

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Added

  • Ownership changes page with 138 changes, grouped by year, with a separate overview of what left Europe. Linked from the footer and below every timeline.
  • Atom feed per language, for example /en/changes/feed.xml.

New: an ownership timeline per vendor

Vendor pages now show when a vendor was acquired or changed owner, with the date and the public sources. We start with 138 events for 127 foreign-owned vendors that are often recommended as European alternatives.

Added

  • A 'Timeline' block under 'Details and sources': for each event the date, the kind of change, a short summary and the sources. If only the month is public, we show only the month.
  • Every event was checked against its sources in a second, independent pass. Anything that could not be confirmed was left out.
  • Vendor pages now link to the entries in this changelog that are about that vendor.

19 more vendors corrected: owner and headquarters

A second check round, again per record with public sources. Mostly investment funds outside Europe that control a vendor through a European holding, and MariaDB, now run from the US.

Changed

  • MariaDB: headquarters in the US, owned by the US investor K1; the score drops from 94 to 71.
  • US owner: Sellsy (Hellman & Friedman via TeamSystem), sevDesk (Silver Lake via Cegid) and Whiteboard.fi (Kahoot!, now owned by a Goldman Sachs-led consortium).
  • British owner: Nmbrs, Rompslomp, Teamleader, WeFact and Yuki (Visma, majority-owned by Hg), Shore and SimplyBook.me, and Domainnameshop (Perwyn).
  • Other owner: abas ERP (Partners Group, Switzerland), amazee.io (Mirantis, now owned by IREN, Australia), Joyn (MFE, run from Italy) and easybell (Dstny, French investor).

Fixed

  • Datatrans, Stormshield and Carestream Health: no foreign owner is listed any more. No single foreign party controls Datatrans or Stormshield, and Carestream's former owner has left.

27 vendors corrected: who is really in control

While building ownership histories, 27 records turned out to carry an outdated or wrong owner or headquarters. Each record was re-checked against public sources, which are listed on the vendor page.

Changed

  • Visma and 21 Visma companies (incl. e-conomic, Silverfin, SpeedLedger, Holded, AccountView, Youforce): the ultimate owner is now Great Britain. Visma is based in Oslo, but the London investor Hg and co-investors hold over 70%. Their label becomes 'foreign-owned' and they move down in the lists of European alternatives; the score itself is unchanged.
  • Redwood RunMyJobs: headquarters in the US (Frisco, Texas) instead of the Netherlands; the score drops from 59 to 27.
  • Tails: part of the US-based Tor Project since September 2024; the score drops from 94 to 71.
  • INEA: the ultimate owner is an Australian Macquarie fund, not the Luxembourg holding company. The sale to Deutsche Telekom has been signed but not yet completed.

Fixed

  • Adverity and the MariaDB Foundation: a foreign owner could not be backed by sources and has been removed.