What Ecritel does

Ecritel is a French independent managed cloud hosting provider founded in 1985, headquartered in Clichy with registered offices in Arradon (Brittany). The company delivers fully managed public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, web hosting, and a portfolio of regulated-industry solutions including HDS-certified health-data hosting, PCI DSS-compliant payment environments, CDN, Kubernetes orchestration, business continuity/disaster recovery (PCA/PRA), and — as of May 2026 — a 100% open-source sovereign cloud platform, Ecritel Proxmox Cloud (EPC), based on Proxmox/KVM/LXC and hosted entirely in France. It operates 12 data centers across 4 continents (facilities in Digital Realty and Telehouse), manages 10,000+ physical and virtual servers across 1,600 sqm of clean-room space, and runs a follow-the-sun 24/7 support model anchored by its Tahiti operations subsidiary. Customer-facing commitments include 99.99% guaranteed availability, 4h/15min standard GTR/GTI, and 1h/5min critical-period GTR/GTI SLAs. Certifications comprise ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISAE 3402 SOC2, HDS, PCI DSS, GDPR, and SecNumCloud (in progress); the company also self-assesses against the RGESN eco-design framework.

Ecritel serves roughly 800 customers across healthcare, e-commerce/retail, public sector (via the Oxyd sub-brand), and enterprise verticals with critical web platforms. Pricing is quote-based on annual subscriptions tied to SLA tier, compliance scope, and infrastructure specification; the company does not publish rates. Distribution is direct enterprise field sales, supplemented by regional sub-brands — Ecritel Breizh, Ecritel Sud-Ouest, Hiléo by Ecritel (PACA SMEs), and Ecritel Polynésie (Pacific) — plus CEO-level engagement with the Club Entrepreneurs Challenges / Montefiore Investment ecosystem. Ecritel is privately held by Euro Asian Equities Group, with no venture or private-equity funding rounds disclosed in the available sources.

The business model is classic managed-services infrastructure: long-duration contracts, high switching costs driven by re-certification overhead in regulated workloads, and recurring revenue tied to SLA performance. Differentiators versus hyperscalers and generic hosting providers are concentrated in (i) French sovereign positioning for public-sector and regulated buyers, (ii) the depth of compliance certifications (HDS, PCI DSS, ISAE 3402, SecNumCloud pursuit), and (iii) an open-source cloud stack that reduces vendor lock-in and total cost of ownership at a moment when the company reports 80% of inbound demand is shifting toward sovereign and open-source migrations.

Name

Ecritel

Legal name

Ecritel

Website

https://ecritel.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Ecritel is a French independent managed cloud hosting provider founded in 1985, delivering fully managed public, private, and hybrid cloud, sovereign Proxmox-based infrastructure, and compliance-certified hosting (HDS, PCI DSS, ISO 27001) to ~800 enterprise, healthcare, e-commerce, and public-sector customers across 4 continents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Managed Cloud Hosting

NAICS

Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud & Infrastructure Support (Servers, Storage, Virtualization) (BPAAACAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI), Cloud-Native/Kubernetes Observability (HDABAJAF)

Keywords

• Managed cloud hosting
• Web hosting services
• PCI DSS hosting
• HDS health data hosting
• Disaster recovery services

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Managed Cloud Services: Full managed services for cloud infrastructure including public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. Services include infrastructure management, monitoring, security, and 24/7 support.
2. Web Hosting and IS Infrastructure: Managed hosting services for web applications and information systems with guaranteed availability and performance SLAs.
3. CDN Services: Content delivery network services with global presence for performance optimization.
4. Compliance and Security Services: Specialized hosting for regulated environments including HDS (health data), PCI DSS (payment card industry), with audit and certification support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ecritel provides fully managed cloud infrastructure and web hosting services, including public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, with strong emphasis on regulatory compliance hosting (HDS for health data, PCI DSS for payment data). The company delivers 24/7 managed services with guaranteed 99.99% availability SLAs, business continuity/disaster recovery, CDN, Kubernetes orchestration, and sovereign French cloud infrastructure based on 100% open-source Proxmox virtualization.

Product overview

Ecritel is a French independent cloud hosting and managed services provider offering a comprehensive portfolio centered on its Managed Cloud platform. The core offering includes public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure with full management. The product suite spans specialized vertical solutions (Medical Hosting/HDS, PCI DSS Security, E-commerce Hosting), technology-specific offerings (Kubernetes, Proxmox Cloud for sovereign open-source infrastructure), and value-added services (CDN, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Network, Security, Messaging, Consulting). The company operates across four continents with 12 data centers, serving over 800 customers in sectors including healthcare, retail, government, and enterprise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hiléo by Ecritel: Eco-responsible cloud hosting, managed services, and support subsidiary serving SMEs in the PACA region of France, with ISO 27001 certification and access to Ecritel's broader certifications (ISO 9001, ISAE 3402 SOC2, HDS, PCI-DSS).
• Oxyd
• Ecritel Polynésie
• Ecritel Breizh
• Ecritel Sud-Ouest

Products and services

• Managed Cloud

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.99% guaranteed availability SLA
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Digital RealtycoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital Realty provides data center infrastructure for Ecritel. Ecritel operates in Digital Realty PAR3 and PAR5 facilities in Paris, utilizing their certified green data centers with ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certifications. Digital Realty has SBTi validated targets and publishes ESG reports.
• TelehousecoreTechnology or IntegrationTelehouse provides data center space at Telehouse 3 in Magny-les-Hameaux. The facility operates with 100% renewable electricity and has ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certifications as part of European Data Centre Code of Conduct.
• Club Entrepreneurs Challenges / Montefiore InvestmentminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCEO Audrey Louail coprésides and participates in Club Entrepreneurs Challenges, a business network providing visibility and partnership opportunities with Montefiore Investment ecosystem.
• HiléocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHiléo, a Var-based company specializing in eco-responsible cloud hosting created in 2014, was recently integrated into the Ecritel Group. Hiléo serves as a regional subsidiary in PACA with ISO 27001 certification and support from Ecritel certifications.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Ikoula: Ikoula is a French managed hosting and cloud provider offering dedicated servers, public cloud, and managed services with HDS certification, serving the same French SME and enterprise customer base as Ecritel.
• Gandi: Gandi is a French hosting and domain registrar providing managed cloud servers, web hosting, and infrastructure services, comparable to Ecritel in serving French SMEs and small enterprises requiring managed hosting with European data residency.
• Clever Cloud: Clever Cloud is a French Platform-as-a-Service provider offering managed cloud application hosting and Kubernetes orchestration, competing with Ecritel's Kubernetes and managed cloud solutions for European digital-native and enterprise customers.
• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is the largest European cloud provider and a direct competitor to Ecritel, offering sovereign public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, and hosted private cloud services with HDS and PCI DSS certifications across the same French and European customer base.
• Scaleway: Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering public cloud instances, managed Kubernetes, and bare metal infrastructure, competing with Ecritel in the sovereign French cloud market for SMEs, developers, and enterprises needing GDPR-compliant infrastructure.
• Outscale: Outscale (a Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) provides sovereign cloud services with SecNumCloud qualification in France, directly competing with Ecritel's managed cloud and sovereign cloud offerings for regulated French enterprise and public sector workloads.

Others

• Worldline: Worldline is a French payment services company that competes indirectly with Ecritel in PCI DSS-compliant infrastructure space, providing managed payment services that occasionally overlap with Ecritel's PCI DSS hosting but with a payment processor rather than host focus.
• Digital Realty: Digital Realty is a global data center operator that provides the colocation infrastructure (PAR3, PAR5 Paris facilities) used by Ecritel, making it an ecosystem infrastructure provider rather than a direct competitor but closely tied to Ecritel's service delivery.

Broad incumbents

• Hetzner: Hetzner is a German hosting and dedicated server provider offering cloud and managed hosting across Europe, comparable to Ecritel's infrastructure offerings but with a different geographic focus and lower positioning in French sovereign/regulated cloud.
• IONOS: IONOS (United Internet subsidiary) is a major European web hosting and cloud provider competing broadly with Ecritel across shared hosting, managed servers, cloud, and SaaS solutions, with significantly larger scale but less specialization in French sovereign/regulated workloads.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Xx.com/ecritel_france

Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

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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