Datenkompetenzzentrum Städte und Regionen GmbH – Europe's Sovereign Data & AI Infrastructure for Connected Government

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#Sovereign Data Infrastructure

#Urban Data Paltform

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Gründung: 26.02.2021

Geschäftszweck: DKSR develops and operates CIVORA - the modular, sovereign Data Hub Platform for public-sector organizations. We enable municipalities, regions, agencies, and public enterprises to integrate, govern, and operationalize their data - based on open standards, with regulatory compliance (NIS2, EU Data Act), and without vendor lock-in.

Unternehmenssitz: Berlin

Kontakt: info@dksr.city

Gründer:

Dr. Alanus Von Radecki

https://www.dksr.city

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Problem

Three forces are converging to make public-sector data infrastructure a mandatory spend.

Regulatory compulsion: NIS2, the EU Data and AI Acts and Germany's and Europe's Pusch for open, sovereign multi-tenant infrastructure as a procurement standard. Non-compliance becomes a governance failure.

Workforce collapse: Over 30% of public-sector IT leadership will retire within five years. Municipalities are losing institutional knowledge faster than they can recruit. The response is structural consolidation around shared, managed infrastructure - not more in-house build.

AI deployment pressure: Governments face mounting political pressure to deploy AI in public services - but cannot do so without governed, structured, auditable data foundations. CIVORA is the AI-readiness layer.

The EUR 215.7B municipal investment backlog in Germany is the financial expression of this pressure. What has been discretionary for years now becomes legally binding.

Lösung

CIVORA is the sovereign data backbone for connected governments. The strategic answer to fragmented, non-compliant public IT is not another proprietary platform — it is open, sovereign infrastructure delivered as a professional managed service.

CIVORA runs as multi-tenant managed SaaS: a single operational instance serves an entire region with dozens of municipalities simultaneously — eliminating the cost of in-house infrastructure teams and the procurement barrier of conventional enterprise software. One framework agreement. Dozens of municipalities. One governed data layer.

Built on piveau, open-source technology from Fraunhofer FOKUS, CIVORA is NIS2-ready, EU Data Act-compliant, and sovereign-cloud-compatible. It does not create dependency — it eliminates it.

Backed by five Fraunhofer Institutes and Deutsche Telekom as equity shareholders, CIVORA carries the institutional trust that procurement committees require for critical digital infrastructure.

Produkt

CIVORA is a modular, open-source, multi-tenant platform structured across three layers:

Data Hub — Integration of 180+ third-party systems with unique data-level access control. Real-time processing of 100+ million data points per day, automated reporting, and BI dashboards.

Application Suite — Domain-specific modules for energy management, climate adaptation, civil protection, and infrastructure resilience. Commercial launch: H2 2027.

Semantic AI (in development) — Ontology-Augmented Generation (OAG): deterministic, fully traceable AI reasoning on structured government data. Designed for EU AI Act compliance, where probabilistic RAG systems cannot operate. Production-ready target: H2 2028.

Today: 42 active deployments across 7 German federal states, covering 7.2 million people and 150+ organizations. Operationally proven in ~23 cities across 11+ countries via EU Horizon projects (ASCEND, Climaborough, BIPED, Twins4Resilience).

Alleinstellung

DKSR's position rests on a combination no competitor can quickly replicate.
Institutional depth: The only company worldwide with five Fraunhofer Institutes as equity shareholders — unmatched expertise in energy, urban planning, and emergency response. Deutsche Telekom (23.7%) adds distribution at scale.
Technical sovereignty: CIVORA combines open-source sovereignty, multi-tenant managed-service delivery, and built-in compliance (NIS2, EU Data Act, KRITIS roadmap active).
Sovereign AI readiness: CIVORA's ontology-based architecture is purpose-built for Ontology-Augmented Generation (OAG) — deterministic, auditable AI on governed data. Probabilistic RAG cannot meet EU AI Act standards in public-sector deployments. DKSR holds the only combination of governed data infrastructure, Fraunhofer domain ontologies, and deployment trust to make sovereign AI work in practice.
Replication cost: Years of compliance work, procurement experience, and institutional trust.

Geschäftsmodell

DKSR sells sovereign data infrastructure as a subscription. Public institutions pay 12–48-month SaaS contracts per CIVORA instance, with domain application modules and professional services on top.

The scaling mechanic is asymmetric: one state-level framework agreement activates 20–80 municipalities on a single shared instance. Acquisition cost is paid once.

Revenue compounds as municipalities onboard — without re-running procurement.

ARR reached ~€1.1M in 2026, growing at 41% CAGR. The Series A accelerates three layers:
-> framework agreements (step-change ARR),
-> Application Suite cross-sell on the existing 42-deployment base,
-> and Semantic AI upsell from 2029.

By 2031, DKSR targets 77% recurring revenue. The investor thesis: capital converts a proven services business (2–4x ARR) into a vertical SaaS infrastructure platform (8–12x ARR).

Traction / Highlights

42 active deployments. 150+ organizations. 7.2 million people covered. 7 German federal states. 100+ million data points processed daily.+++ARR: ~EUR 1.1M (2026), growing at 41% CAGR (2023-2026).
Region Kiel – State Capital + 2 counties on single CIVORA instance (multi-tenant proof)
District Hof (Bavaria) – 27 municipalities on shared CIVORA infrastructure City of Augsburg – Intelligent traffic management on CIVORA
City of Wiesbaden – Active CIVORA deployment
City of Aarhus (Denmark) – Digital Twin for Positive Energy Districts (BIPED EU Project)
Open Data Portal Bavaria – State-level operation and development
Open Data Portal Brandenburg – State-level operation and development
EU Project ASCEND – CO₂-neutral distrrict data backbone in Munich, Prague, Lyon, Porto, Budapest, Stockholm .Early US engagement – Regional data space Norwalk, Connecticut+++Pipeline includes state-level framework opportunities (18 - 20 M EUR)

Kunde / Markt

CIVORA addresses the Connected Government market: municipalities, regions, state and federal agencies, public enterprises, and critical infrastructure operators. In Germany alone: 11,000 municipalities, 400+ districts, 16 federal states - all subject to NIS2 and EU Data Act compliance obligations.
Market pressure is structural: €215.7B municipal investment backlog, legally binding cybersecurity mandates, and political endorsement of open, multi-tenant infrastructure by Germany's Digital Ministerial Conference.

2026-2028 roadmap: Conversion of EU Horizon relationships into commercial ARR. Primary markets: France, Netherlands/Belgium, Italy, Denmark.
Longer term: DACH consolidation, FITKO/GovDigital-listed expansion, and US (early engagement: Regional Data Space, Norwalk Connecticut).

Team

DKSR is led by an experienced management team with deep roots in GovTech, data infrastructure, and public-sector transformation:

Dr. Alanus von Radecki (CEO) – GovTech entrepreneur, market architect, investor relations

Nicolas Breitfeld (CFO) – Financial management, investor reporting

Tim Cleffmann (CBDO) – Strategic partnerships, business development

Fynn Mazurkiewicz (Lead Product Architect) – CIVORA platform architecture

Katharina Schlüter (Director Public Sector Transformation)

Laura Dieguez (Head of Customer Delivery)

35 FTE total | Founded 2021, Berlin

Shareholders: Fraunhofer Society (23.7%) | Deutsche Telekom (23.7%) | UTG (5.2%) | two SME shareholders (secondary candidates)

Advisory Board: Brigitte Zypries (former Federal Minister) | Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bauer (Fraunhofer IAO) | Torsten Koß (Dataport AöR) | Prof. Dr. Joern Noennig (HafenCity University)

Invest in Europe's Sovereign Data & AI Infrastructure for Connected Governments

Your Investment: €7M primary + ~€3.8M secondary (total ~€10.8M) at €6–8M pre-money — ~6x 2026 ARR entry.

Primary capital funds five sequential inflection points: (a) state framework agreements (2–3 states by Q4 2027), (b) T-Systems channel activation (11,000 municipalities addressable), (c) Application Suite launch (H2 2027), (d) EU Horizon commercial conversions (2028), and (e) Semantic AI upsell (2029).

Target:
ARR >€6M end-2028.
EBITDA break-even Q3/Q4 2028.
Exit EV ~€150M by 2031at 8–12x ARR.

Close: Q4 2026 | Backed by Fraunhofer Society (5 institutes) & Deutsche Telekom.

We seek investors who bring more than capital: public-sector procurement network, GovTech or infrastructure SaaS experience.

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Europe's Sovereign Data & AI Infrastructure for Connected Government