Deeploi, a Germany-based startup that’s constructing an IT-as-a-Service platform, right this moment introduced that it has raised a €3 million seed funding spherical led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures, with participation from a bunch of angels that features the founders of Taktile, Moss, Vay and sennder.
The corporate was based by Julian Luebke and Philipp Hoffmann. Luebke received his begin at Rocket Web after which later joined actual property startup McMakler as its first worker, specializing in operations. Hoffmann, in the meantime, based an IT firm ten years in the past, which began out as a standard IT service supplier after which moved towards turning into a managed service supplier with a give attention to Apple’s platforms. For that, Hoffmann additionally created the corporate’s personal cell system administration system (MDM).
“I assumed it is perhaps a really cool factor to attach every thing — to have every thing in a single platform and automate every thing,” Hoffmann defined. “Then I met Julian and I spotted that this might work very, very effectively. I had the thought. I had the experience — and we’ve got Julian for scaling the enterprise.”
The founders, who began the corporate late final 12 months, describe Deeploi as an all-in-one IT platform that mixes commonplace IT features and the corporate’s premium assist with IT brokers to reply assist calls. The group will cowl every thing from onboarding, assist, endpoint administration, community administration and offboarding. For its safety providing, Deeploi will accomplice with a cybersecurity firm.
“The primary distinction to plenty of the prevailing enterprise fashions is that we provide the businesses IT as a service,” defined Luebke. “The businesses don’t must construct up an IT division by themselves. We are able to take these features over utterly — or we are able to enhance present setups if they really have already arrange an IT division. They will use our platform they usually may use our premium assist, for instance, and we are able to take over straightforward, repetitive, redundant duties for them.”
As a result of Deeploi can pull in information from present techniques (say HR) after which combine this into its platform, it may additionally assist companies automate plenty of features. When a brand new worker will get onboarded in an HR system, for instance, the corporate can then routinely ship out a brand new Macbook to them and arrange entry to sure SaaS instruments.
Luebke famous that fashionable, cloud-native firms with fashionable tech stacks are Deeploi’s ideally suited clients, together with model businesses, advertising corporations and D2C firms. In the interim, the corporate plans to give attention to the Western European market, the place it’s now beginning to check its service with a choose variety of customers. The plan is to launch the platform to a wider viewers in June.
“As soon as we’ve got established market dominance in Western Europe and have actually constructed out our product then we don’t actually see any limiting elements of going to the US,” mentioned Luebke.
