EU-hosted, non-EU parentRecruitment & ATSHeadquarters: NL

Homerun: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Homerun is a Dutch provider of HR software with two products: an applicant tracking system (ATS) for hiring and an HR tool for managing a team. The ATS offers a pipeline dashboard to track candidates and feedback, email templates, interview scheduling automation, job posts and career-page content, candidate profiles, structured hiring to reduce bias, and hiring insights. The HR tool handles holiday and sick-leave tracking with an absence calendar, a shared team calendar, private employee profiles, reports, and document storage with expiry reminders. Both products are offered online.

Homerun B.V. is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In January 2024 Homerun was acquired by Invincible Software Holdings (ISH), a holding company that also owns Jobtoolz and HireHive and is backed by Belgium's Strada Partners. According to its Slack marketplace listing, customer data is stored in an AWS data centre in Ireland, within the EU; its privacy policy names Amazon Web Services and Webflow for web hosting and notes that some third parties are located outside the EEA. The product is not open source and has no self-hosted option.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
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 4, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	GBVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category	Recruitment & ATS
Type	Product
Website	homerun.co ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Homerun

The European alternatives to Homerun come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Homerun

Homerun is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in GB. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Homerun scores best on data residency.

Homerun 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 Homerun 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 Homerun?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Homerun include Adeptiq, Altamira Recruiting and Beetween. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Homerun?

Our list of EU alternatives to Homerun is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

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

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

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 4, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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