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Fundament: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Fundament is a web application for managing grant and funding applications, developed by Fundament Technologies GmbH in Basel. Foundations, public authorities and education and research institutions use it to receive applications through a multilingual portal, review them in a central case file and record decisions. The software offers configurable multi-step forms, status workflows, automations, email templates, team roles, votes among decision-makers and exports to PDF, CSV and Excel. Applicants sign in without a password. The vendor also provides AI features and a service for setting up AI applications.

Fundament Technologies is a Swiss company headquartered in Basel, and its website names no foreign parent company. According to the vendor, all data stays in Switzerland: the infrastructure runs with Infomaniak, a Swiss provider with data centres in Switzerland, and the AI functions use models hosted in Switzerland. The vendor states that customer data is not used to train models. Switzerland is not an EU member, but it is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. The service is delivered as SaaS; a self-hosted option is not mentioned.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
BPM & Workflow
Type
Product
Website
fundament-app.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Fundament

The European alternatives to Fundament come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Fundament

Fundament is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Fundament hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Fundament is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Fundament together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Fundament?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Fundament include Albato, ARIS and Automatisch. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Fundament?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Fundament include Automatisch, Ofelia (Bonita) and CIB seven. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Fundament GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Fundament is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Fundament an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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