What Vivento does

Vivento is a wholly-owned business unit (Betrieb) of Deutsche Telekom AG, headquartered at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140 in Bonn, Germany, operating since 2003 as the company’s exclusive personnel services arm for the German public sector. Its core product is Personaldienstleistungen — the placement of qualified administrative professionals, finance specialists, and IT experts into federal (Bund), state (Länder), and municipal (Kommunen) government bodies nationwide. The company leverages its Postnachfolgeunternehmen status — inherited from Deutsche Telekom’s own history as a former government agency — to second civil servants (Beamtinnen und Beamte) into sovereign (hoheitliche) roles, a capability not available to ordinary commercial staffing firms. Service delivery is supported by regional offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Koblenz, and Leinfelden-Echterdingen, with dedicated account managers for each government tier.

The business model is professional services: revenue is generated on a contract basis through direct placement of personnel and project consulting engagements, with pricing negotiated per engagement rather than disclosed publicly. Vivento employs a sales-led, relationship-driven go-to-market motion targeting public-sector procurement directly, supplemented by a content presence via its corporate website. It does not operate a proprietary technology platform — its value proposition rests on access to a vetted talent pool with administrative experience and direct exposure to large-scale organizational modernization, rather than on software or automation. Revenue is not separately reported because Vivento is consolidated within Deutsche Telekom AG, a publicly listed company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

The customer base is entirely the German public sector, with no commercial or private-sector revenue stream disclosed. Vivento positions itself as a structural answer to three compounding pressures on German government employers: demographic change (demografischer Wandel), skilled labor shortages (Fachkräftemangel), and the simultaneous demand for digital transformation of administration under rising cost pressure. Leadership has been refreshed across 2022–2023, with Olaf Salm as Spokesman of the Management Board, Dr. Heinrich Heindl heading Sales/Marketing/Consulting, Sven Wilhelm Frauenheim leading Internal Placement & Business Projects, Christian Lepsien heading HR, and Wolfgang Kocybik heading Finance.

Name

Vivento

Legal name

Vivento, Deutsche Telekom AG

Website

https://vivento.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Vivento is a Deutsche Telekom AG business unit that places administrative, finance, and IT professionals — including civil servants — into German federal, state, and municipal government bodies, leveraging a unique post-successor company status.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bonn

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Staffing and Personnel Placement Services: Vivento generates revenue by providing qualified personnel to the German public sector. The company places experienced administrative professionals, finance specialists, and IT experts from Deutsche Telekom into government roles. Additionally, the company offers project consulting services and can temporarily assign civil servants to public sector organizations with the goal of later transfer.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Vivento is the exclusive personnel services division of Deutsche Telekom AG, providing qualified administrative professionals, finance specialists, and IT experts to the German public sector (Bund, Länder, and Kommunen). As a post-successor company (Postnachfolgeunternehmen), Vivento can assign civil servants to sovereign (hoheitliche) tasks nationwide, initially on a temporary basis with the goal of later permanent transfer.

Product overview

Vivento operates as a single, unified personnel services offering under Deutsche Telekom AG. The core product is Personal Services (Personaldienstleistungen), which provides qualified staffing solutions to the German public sector. The service specializes in placing administrative professionals, finance specialists, and IT experts—including civil servants able to assume sovereign duties—across federal, state, and municipal government bodies. Vivento has supported public administration modernization since 2003, positioning itself as a strategic partner for staffing challenges related to demographic change, skilled labor shortages, and digital transformation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Personal Services (Personaldienstleistungen)

Named customers3 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Deutsche Telekom AGcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003Vivento is an exclusive staffing service provider (exklusiver Personaldienstleister) of Deutsche Telekom AG. The company leverages employees from Deutsche Telekom to provide qualified personnel to the public sector. As a post-successor company (Postnachfolgeunternehmen), Vivento has a unique status enabling it to assign civil servants for sovereign tasks.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Hays plc: Specialized professional staffing firm with strong German operations focusing on qualified white-collar, finance, IT, and public-sector placements. Highly comparable to Vivento in the type of specialist talent and institutional client mix.
• Amadeus FiRe AG: German-based professional staffing firm specializing in placement of commercial and finance specialists. Closest direct peer to Vivento in terms of placing qualified white-collar professionals into institutional clients across Germany, though without Vivento's public-sector specialization.
• Robert Half International: Global specialized staffing firm with German operations focused on finance, accounting, IT, and administrative professionals. Directly comparable target talent profile to Vivento, particularly in finance and IT specialist placement.
• PageGroup: Global professional staffing firm operating Page Personnel and Michael Page brands in Germany, placing qualified white-collar professionals. Comparable candidate pool and institutional client base to Vivento.
• DIS AG (Adecco Germany): Major German professional staffing brand (part of Adecco Group) placing specialists in finance, IT, and administration — directly overlapping with Vivento's core placement categories and serving similar institutional clients.

Emerging players

• GULP (Randstad Technologies): German IT and project staffing specialist (part of Randstad), placing freelance and contract IT professionals into enterprise and government clients. Comparable to Vivento's IT-expert placement line of business.
• Brunel International: Technical and professional staffing specialist with German roots, placing engineers, IT, and project specialists. Comparable in placing qualified technical talent, though more focused on engineering/IT than Vivento's administrative and sovereign roles.

Broad incumbents

• Randstad Deutschland: Large generalist staffing incumbent in Germany across administrative, IT, and professional segments. Overlaps with Vivento's administrative and IT placement offerings, but operates across private and public sectors at much larger scale.
• ManpowerGroup Deutschland: Global staffing incumbent operating in Germany with administrative, professional, and IT placement. Similar staffing-services model to Vivento at much larger scale, but without Vivento's specialized civil-servant secondment capability.
• Adecco Germany: Global staffing leader's German operations, providing generalist and specialist staffing including administrative roles. Comparable business model with broader sector exposure than Vivento's public-sector focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vivento-deutsche-telekom-ag

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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