The German software company Nextcloud has presented his Sovereignty 2030 investment programwhich aims to make its open source platform more widely available to businesses and organizations. To this end, the company plans invest more than 250 million euros in digital sovereignty until 2030.
This plan foresees that the company will fundamentally focus on R&D, attracting partners, public education and community projects, in order to promote digital sovereignty in Europe.
Nextcloud’s Sovereignty 2030 investment program will focus on different priority areas: people and intellectual capacity, sovereign ecosystem, educate and inform, and empower the community. The company, which has increased its reserves between 50% and 70% each year, intends to achieve its growth without venture capital support or other external financing.
Over the next five years, Nextcloud aims to multiply your staff by seven to expand its product and advance collaboration technology. In addition, the company will deploy various innovations in security and regulatory compliance.
Additionally, it will invest in AI research programs, improve product scalability and performance, and develop new features to increase the productivity of teams working with the platform.
As we have mentioned, Nextcloud wants to expand its global ecosystem of partners and reinforce the collaborations it already has in the sector to facilitate access to sovereign solutions. As an example, his entry as a founding member of the Eurostack Foundation, a step he announced a few days ago.
To educate and inform, Nextcloud will strengthen its collaboration with partners and civil society organizations to educate and make the public aware of information related to privacy, security and digital sovereignty. It will also advance its role in the open source community by promoting transparency, open standards and open source.
Nextcloud also intends, in addition to growing, to support the open source community in general, providing them with resources ranging from advice, training and documentation to travel support. To this end, they seek to bring together collaborators from around the world to advance digital sovereignty, decentralization and federation.
Founded in 2016, Nextcloud has developed a comprehensive collaboration platform that includes chat, video conferencing, office, groupware (mail, calendar, contacts), a process automation system and an AI assistant, starting from an enterprise file synchronization and sharing solution.
The open source platform software has a modular design and can be expanded with other applications. It can run locally, in a private cloud or through a cloud provider.
Founder Carlik Carlischekhas highlighted that «Since the beginning of the year, interest in Nextcloud has tripled. Potential clients have also made it very clear that they consider dependence on large technology companies to be a risk. We show that sovereign alternatives to big tech are not only possible, but are already available”.
