Custodea provides European SMEs with a private, EU-hosted data lake that automatically syncs data from business tools like Exact Online, HubSpot, and Personio. The platform gives companies full ownership and control of their data, with direct connections to BI tools like Power BI and Excel, without requiring a data team or US cloud infrastructure.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
€350K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
European SMEs rely on multiple disconnected business tools, leaving their data scattered across different systems and outside their control. Many are forced to choose between using US-based cloud services that subject their data to foreign jurisdiction or maintaining complex, manual export processes that delay insights and create compliance risks.
Solution
Custodea provides a private, EU-hosted data lake that automatically copies records from the business tools SMEs already use, such as Exact Online, HubSpot, and Personio. The platform uses OAuth or encrypted access keys to continuously sync data on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, delivering new records to the customer's data lake within minutes. Users connect their existing BI tools like Power BI, Excel, or Looker directly to the data lake, eliminating the need for exports or spreadsheets. Custodea operates on dedicated EU infrastructure in Germany and Finland, with no US sub-processors, and gives customers full ownership of their data, including the ability to revoke access at any time.
Target Audience
Primary customers are European SMEs, particularly in the Netherlands and Germany, who use tools like Exact Online, Personio, or DATEV and need a sovereign, EU-compliant data infrastructure without hiring a dedicated data team.
Features
- Automated data connectors for Dutch and German SME tools including Exact Online, AFAS, Nmbrs, SnelStart, DATEV, Personio, Lexware, and Carerix
- Read-only access to source systems, ensuring no data can be corrupted or modified in the original applications
- Direct BI tool connectivity to the data lake via S3-compatible object storage and open standards like JSONL
- Customer-controlled access credentials that can be minted and revoked at any time, with scoped permissions per entity
- Continuous sync schedules (hourly, daily, weekly) with built-in audit logging and automatic adaptation to field changes
- EU-only infrastructure hosted in Falkenstein, Germany with encrypted backups in Helsinki, Finland, with no US cloud providers involved