Connect4Video

What Connect4Video does

Connect4Video GmbH was a German B2B video conferencing and telecommunications service provider headquartered in Rüsselsheim and incorporated in 2014 under HRB 87548 at Amtsgericht Darmstadt. The company operated exclusively in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and built its entire product portfolio on top of Zoom technology, with its flagship easymeet24 product offering video conferencing infrastructure hosted on proprietary Zoom meeting servers located in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This DACH-hosted architecture was the company's central differentiator, marketed as a GDPR-compliant alternative to US-hosted video services for European customers concerned about data sovereignty.

The product portfolio extended beyond easymeet24 to include Crypt4Video (encrypted video communication), fragmentiX as a Service (frXaaS) — a high-availability and spy-proof data backup offering co-marketed with fragmentiX Storage Solutions GmbH — and easyfon24, a cloud VoIP telephony service based on Zoom Phone. On top of this stack, Connect4Video sold three professional services: an Event-Service for digital and hybrid event planning, streaming, and recording; a Premium Support managed-account offering covering user, group, and quality administration; and customized training programs for Zoom, MS Teams, Jitsi, and TIXEO. Distribution was consultation-driven B2B sales to enterprise customers and German municipalities, supported by content marketing, a needs-assessment questionnaire, an AI chatbot, and selective event presence such as the BVMW Cybersicherheitskongress. The company achieved Zoom Platinum Partner status (the highest tier) in March 2024 and received Zoom's 2023 EMEA Most Valuable Partner award, while easymeet24 obtained gpaNRW certification in September 2023 for digital and hybrid municipal council sessions.

Connect4Video operated as a privately held GmbH managed by Michael Retagne and Jürgen Stierhof, with no disclosed outside funding and no subsidiaries. As of August 2025, insolvency proceedings (Insolvenzverfahren) were opened over the company's assets and services were being discontinued, with the company actively redirecting its customer base to WTG — described as the largest Zoom partner in Germany — for ongoing service.

Name

Connect4Video

Legal name

Connect4Video GmbH

Website

https://connect4video.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Connect4Video was a German B2B video conferencing service provider operating in the DACH region, reselling Zoom technology as easymeet24 via proprietary DACH-hosted servers for European data sovereignty. The company entered insolvency proceedings in August 2025, with services discontinued and customers redirected to WTG.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Video Conferencing as a Service (VCaaS)

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Telephone Interconnect Systems (7385), Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAMAMAB

Video Conferencing & Webinars

Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/Collaboration, Productivity & Work Platforms

SECONDARYHDAIAHAI

Video Conferencing & Meetings

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Telecommunications & Network Services/Unified Communications & Voice Services (VoIP, UCaaS)

SECONDARYBPAMACAD

Video Conferencing & Meetings

Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/Messaging, Voice/Video & Communication Apps

Keywords

• Video conferencing services
• Cloud telephony services
• Enterprise collaboration tools
• Video event management
• Secure data backup

Headquarters

HQ city

Rüsselsheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Video Conferencing as a Service (VCaaS): Connect4Video generates revenue primarily through subscription-based video conferencing services, acting as an access intermediary for Zoom. Customers pay recurring fees for access to video conferencing infrastructure hosted in DACH data centers.
2. Zoom Phone Services: Cloud VoIP telephone services via Zoom Phone, enabling customers to make calls through public telephone networks using internet connectivity.
3. Event Services: Professional services for planning, execution, streaming, and recording of digital and hybrid events, including needs assessment, on-site support, moderation control, and post-event editing.
4. Premium Support: Managed account services including user management, group management, chat configurations, account management, and quality management for enterprise customers.
5. Training Services: Customized training programs for video conferencing platforms (Zoom, MS Teams, Jitsi, TIXEO), covering admin training, user training, webinar tutor training, and IT admin training for 1-25 participants.
6. Hardware Sales: Sale of hardware equipment for video conferencing and meeting room setups, subject to separate contract terms and conditions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Connect4Video operates as a Video Conferencing as a Service (VCaaS) provider and Zoom Platinum Partner, offering DACH-hosted Zoom-based video conferencing under the easymeet24 brand, complemented by encrypted video communications (Crypt4Video), cloud VoIP telephony (easyfon24 via Zoom Phone), and secure data backup (fragmentiX as a Service). Services are sold exclusively to business customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with revenue primarily generated through annual subscription contracts supplemented by professional services such as event management, premium account support, and customized training.

Product overview

Connect4Video is a Video Conferencing as a Service (VCaaS) provider offering a portfolio of four interconnected products built primarily on Zoom technology. The core product, easymeet24, is a DACH-hosted Zoom solution providing secure video conferencing with local servers. This is complemented by Crypt4Video for encrypted video communications, fragmentiX as a Service (frXaaS) for spy-proof data backup in partnership with fragmentiX Storage Solutions, and easyfon24 (Zoom Phone) for cloud VoIP telephony. On top of the product suite, Connect4Video offers three professional services: Event-Service for hybrid/digital event management, Premium Support for full account administration, and customized Trainings. The company acts as an independent intermediary and Platinum Zoom partner, providing consulting and needs analysis as an added value service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• easymeet24: DACH-hosted Zoom video conferencing solution for businesses.
• Crypt4Video
• fragmentiX
• easyfon24

Products and services

• easymeet24 A Video Conferencing as a Service (VCaaS) product built on Zoom technology, with dedicated meeting servers hosted in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Provides secure video meetings, webinars, and audio/video encryption with GDPR-compliant data handling. Certified by gpaNRW for digital and hybrid municipal council sessions in North Rhine-Westphalia. Targets business customers in the DACH region.
• Crypt4Video Secure video communication product focused on encrypted video calls and data protection for sensitive business communications, offered by Connect4Video.
• fragmentiX as a Service (frXaaS) High-availability and spy-proof data backup solution offered in collaboration with fragmentiX Storage Solutions GmbH. Uses storage clustering technology to provide secure corporate data protection as a managed service.
• easyfon24 Cloud VoIP telephone service based on Zoom Phone technology, enabling cloud-based business telephony including connectivity to the public telephone network. Offered as a bundled or standalone service to business customers.
• Event-Service Professional service for planning, conducting, managing, recording, and streaming online or hybrid events. Includes needs assessment, on-site execution, moderation control, video editing, and multi-platform streaming to YouTube, Vimeo, and proprietary platforms.
• Premium Support Managed account administration service handling master accounts, user management, group management, chat configurations, account management, quality management, and individual invoicing to branch offices for enterprise customers.
• Trainings Customized video conferencing training programs covering Zoom, MS Teams, Jitsi, and TIXEO platforms, including admin training, user training, and webinar tutor training for 1–25 participants, tailored to specific use cases such as webinars, events, and feature adoption.
• Needs Analysis / Consultation Service Independent telecommunications and video conferencing consulting service that evaluates customer infrastructure, creates tailored solutions, and provides a checklist of required video conferencing features scored independently across multiple platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webex, Jitsi, etc.).

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Zoom Video Communications, Inc.coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 March 2024Connect4Video is a Zoom Platinum Partner, the highest tier in Zoom's Up Partnerprogramm. The company has marketed DACH-hosted Zoom solutions under the easymeet24 brand for 10 years. As Platinum Partner, Connect4Video is authorized to market all Zoom products including Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone, Zoom Contact Center, and Zoom Spaces. The partnership has generated significant joint business results, earning Connect4Video the Zoom 2023 EMEA Most Valuable Partner award.
• WTG (WTG.com)minorOthersWTG is recommended by Connect4Video as a transition partner for customers following the company's insolvency proceedings announcement. WTG is described as the largest Zoom partner in Germany with comprehensive expertise and qualified service for Zoom solutions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Lifesize: Lifesize is a US-headquartered video conferencing and meeting room solutions provider offering cloud video conferencing, hardware, and managed services comparable to Connect4Video's subscription VCaaS plus hardware sales model.
• eyeson: eyeson is an Austrian single-tenant video conferencing API/SDK provider with European data residency, directly comparable to Connect4Video's DACH-hosted Zoom model in target market, security positioning, and EU-sovereignty narrative.
• WTG (Wiesemann & Theis Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Datenverarbeitung mbH): WTG is a Germany-based Zoom partner (described by Connect4Video itself as the largest Zoom partner in Germany) and is the explicitly named transition destination for Connect4Video customers following insolvency. It competes head-to-head as a Zoom reseller, UCaaS provider, and managed Zoom service vendor in the DACH market.
• Tixeo: Tixeo is a French provider of secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing software with strong European data sovereignty positioning, directly comparable to Connect4Video's Crypt4Video and easymeet24 secure-meetings offering for regulated European customers.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Microsoft Teams): Microsoft Teams is the dominant competing UCaaS platform in the European enterprise and public sector market. Connect4Video's training catalog explicitly covers Teams alongside Zoom, and it competes for the same DACH B2B collaboration budget pool.
• Cisco (Webex): Cisco Webex is a global incumbent UCaaS/video conferencing suite competing in the same enterprise and public-sector segments as Connect4Video in Europe, with comparable needs-analysis consultative sales motions.
• Zoom Video Communications: Zoom is the underlying platform vendor whose technology Connect4Video resells and wraps with DACH hosting. As the principal, it sets partner economics, certification tiers, and product direction that fundamentally shape Connect4Video's commercial ceiling.

Regional players

• Cancom: Cancom is a major German-headquartered IT services and solutions provider that resells and integrates UCaaS/collaboration platforms (including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco) into enterprise and public-sector customers in DACH, directly comparable to Connect4Video's enterprise channel role.
• Bechtle: Bechtle is a leading German IT systems integrator and reseller serving enterprise and public-sector customers across DACH with collaboration, UC, and meeting-room solutions, comparable to Connect4Video's direct enterprise sales and needs-analysis motion.

Emerging players

• Pexip: Pexip provides self-hosted and sovereign video conferencing infrastructure used by European governments and regulated enterprises. Its sovereign/sovereign-cloud positioning overlaps with Connect4Video's DACH-hosted value proposition for public-sector buyers.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Connect4Video
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/connect4video

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 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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