Corpex

What Corpex does

Corpex Internet GmbH is a privately held Hamburg-based company operating LaunchGate, a self-serve cloud application deployment platform targeting developers, indie hackers, and AI builders. The company was incorporated in 2001 but has repositioned around the newly launched LaunchGate product, moving from its legacy full-service hosting origins to a modern, usage-based PaaS offering. Managing Director Patrick Birkholz leads a team of 1-10 employees under a private GmbH structure (HRB 78752, VAT ID DE213001412), with no external investors, parent company, or funding rounds disclosed.

LaunchGate enables zero-setup deployment from git repositories or any container registry and provides instant compatibility with Node.js, Next.js, React, Rails, Spring, Django, Laravel, and LangChain, plus custom Dockerfiles for arbitrary frameworks. The platform automates infrastructure, runtimes, networking, security patching, and horizontal/vertical scaling, and offers production-grade features including one-click instant rollbacks, zero-downtime deploys with traffic splitting and blue/green switching, built-in observability and log analysis, dedicated static IPs, and a native MCP integration with the Cursor AI coding editor. The architecture is serverless with auto-scale-to-zero and pay-only-for-what-you-use economics, designed to cover both prototype and production workloads.

The business model is product-led growth with no sales team, channel partners, or enterprise motion referenced. Distribution is entirely self-serve via corpex.de on a global basis. Pricing starts at €10/month on a pay-as-you-grow basis, and a Limited Early Access program offers €100 in free credits alongside discounted future plans, private community access, and private beta access to seed adoption. The primary customer segments are individual developers, indie hackers, and AI builders/vibe coders, with experienced development teams positioned as a secondary segment for production-grade workloads.

Name

Corpex

Legal name

Corpex Internet GmbH

Website

https://corpex.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Corpex Internet GmbH operates LaunchGate, a self-serve cloud deployment platform enabling developers, indie hackers, and AI builders to ship applications via git or container images with serverless scaling, starting at €10 per month from Hamburg, Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Application Deployment

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise PaaS (App Runtime & Managed Application Platforms) (HDAEAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cloud-Native Application Development (Containers/Kubernetes/Serverless) (BPAEAFAE)

Keywords

• Cloud deployment platform
• Application hosting
• Container orchestration
• Devops automation
• Serverless infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Cloud Infrastructure Usage: Pay-as-you-grow model where users pay for infrastructure consumption based on usage. Starts at €10/month for entry tier with elastic scaling as applications grow. True serverless model auto-scales to zero when idle, optimizing costs for varying workloads.
2. Subscription Plans: Tiered subscription pricing starting at €10/month for base deployment capabilities. Scales with additional resources, features, and usage requirements. Annual billing likely available for cost savings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Corpex provides LaunchGate, a cloud application deployment platform that enables developers to deploy web applications directly from git repositories via push/pull or from container images such as Docker. The platform runs applications on serverless infrastructure with automatic scale-to-zero, includes built-in security and observability, and offers Model Context Protocol integration for AI-assisted development tools.

Product overview

Corpex offers a single unified product called LaunchGate — a cloud application deployment platform. LaunchGate provides instant compatibility with leading web frameworks (Node.js, Next.js, React, Rails, Spring, Django, Laravel) and supports custom frameworks via Dockerfiles. The platform automates infrastructure, runtimes, networking, security patches, and scaling, enabling developers to deploy code or container images with zero friction and scale from prototypes to production workloads.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LaunchGate: A platform for rapidly deploying, building, and scaling applications. Supports various web frameworks including Node.js, Next.js, React, Rails, Spring, Django, Laravel, and LangChain. Offers instant deployment, automatic infrastructure management, scaling, and pricing starting at €10/month.

Products and services

• LaunchGate LaunchGate is a cloud-based application deployment platform that allows developers to deploy web applications directly from git repositories (via push/pull) or from container images such as Docker. It runs on serverless infrastructure with automatic scale-to-zero, provides built-in security and real-time observability, and integrates with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor. It is designed for developers, indie hackers, AI builders, and experienced development teams building and deploying web applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Deploy in under 60 seconds
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability3 records

Feature8 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Vercel: Vercel is the leading deployment platform for frontend frameworks like Next.js and React, offering similar zero-config git-based deploys, serverless functions, preview environments, and edge infrastructure. Direct competitor targeting the same developer persona with substantially greater scale and funding.
• Netlify: Netlify pioneered the Jamstack deployment model with git-based deploys, serverless functions, and edge handlers. Competes directly with LaunchGate for web framework deployment workloads targeting developers and small teams.
• Render: Render provides unified cloud hosting for web services, APIs, databases, and static sites with git-based deploys and automatic scaling. Directly comparable feature set including rollbacks, preview environments, and managed infrastructure targeting developers.
• Railway: Railway offers an opinionated cloud platform for deploying applications from git repositories or containers with usage-based pricing. Strong overlap with LaunchGate's developer-focused deployment experience and indie hacker target market.
• Fly.io: Fly.io runs application servers close to users through a global distributed infrastructure with Docker-based deployment. Competes with LaunchGate for full-stack application deployment with a focus on geographic distribution and performance.

Broad incumbents

• DigitalOcean App Platform: DigitalOcean's App Platform is a PaaS offering for deploying code from git repositories with automatic scaling, competing in the same developer-focused hosting space as part of DigitalOcean's broader cloud infrastructure portfolio targeting SMBs and developers.
• Heroku: Heroku pioneered the PaaS category with git-based deploys and managed application runtime. Now owned by Salesforce, it competes for the same developer persona seeking simplified cloud deployment, though it targets a more enterprise-leaning customer base.
• AWS App Runner: AWS App Runner provides container-based auto-scaling web application deployment as part of the broader AWS ecosystem. Represents the hyperscaler alternative that competes on price, scale, and integration with the full AWS platform.
• Google Cloud Run: Google Cloud Run offers serverless container execution with automatic scaling from zero, directly mirroring LaunchGate's core value proposition as part of the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Deta: Deta is a cloud platform offering zero-config deployment for developers with a focus on personal apps and prototypes. Comparable indie-hacker-friendly positioning with similar ease-of-use philosophy, though with a more limited scope of frameworks and use cases.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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