Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide

What Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide does

Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide is a comprehensive school (Gesamtschule) located in Köln, Germany, operating under the German public school system with 16 listed staff on its primary web property at igs-holweide.de. The entity is a public educational institution rather than a commercial enterprise, and the input data contains no disclosed revenue, funding, or monetisation signals.

The bulk of the operational data attached to this record pertains to Schoolpages.de, a website platform operated by uponity media & event (owner: Danny Gerhard) that provides simple, affordable school homepages in Germany. The platform offers a core product ("Die einfache Schulhomepage"), specialised templates for Grundschule (elementary) and Realschule (secondary) institutions, and a consolidated feature set, alongside a German-language editorial magazine covering school life, enrollment, and parenting topics. Schoolpages serves the DACH market and is positioned as a low-cost, easy-to-deploy web presence for schools.

Because the underlying entity is a publicly funded school, the typical PE/VC/M&A commercial lens (revenue model, pricing, GTM, headcount scaling, unit economics) is not meaningfully applicable. The associated platform vendor operates as a small private business with no disclosed pricing, customer list, funding rounds, or financial metrics, limiting any further triangulation.

Name

Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide

Legal name

uponity - media & event

Website

https://igs-holweide.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide is a public comprehensive school (Gesamtschule) in Köln, Germany, with 16 listed staff and a web presence hosted via the Schoolpages.de school-website platform operated by uponity media & event.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide is a public comprehensive school (Integrierte Gesamtschule) located in the Holweide district of Cologne, Germany. It provides K-12 education to local students through the German state school system, operating with approximately 16 employees. The institution is part of the publicly funded school network of North Rhine-Westphalia and serves the local Cologne-Holweide community.

Product overview

Schoolpages is a single unified website platform for schools, providing simple and affordable web solutions. The core product is 'Die einfache Schulhomepage' (The simple school homepage), supplemented by specialized templates for specific school types including 'Homepage Grundschule' (elementary schools) and 'Homepage Realschule' (secondary schools), along with an aggregated feature set covering the platform's capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• Sdui: Sdui is a German school communication and organization platform that has scaled rapidly across DACH schools. It represents an emerging competitor capturing school IT spend that could otherwise fund site-focused platforms like Schoolpages.
• Itslearning: Itslearning is a European learning management system used in DACH schools. It overlaps with Schoolpages at the intersection of school digital infrastructure, particularly for schools seeking a unified online presence.
• EduPage: EduPage is an electronic gradebook and school management system deployed across European schools including Germany. It is an emerging adjacent competitor for school digital tooling budgets.

Broad incumbents

• Logineo NRW: Logineo NRW is a state-provided digital platform for schools in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a comparable free/standardized alternative that competes with paid offerings like Schoolpages for school digital presence in the same geography.
• WordPress.com: WordPress.com is a global website builder hosting a large share of German school websites on free or low-cost plans. It is the default free alternative against which paid Schoolpages templates must justify their value.
• Jimdo: Jimdo is a Hamburg-based website builder that is a common general-purpose alternative for German schools building their own homepages. It is broader in scope but competes head-to-head at the entry-level for school customers.
• Strato: Strato is a major German web hosting and site builder provider used by many small organizations including schools. It competes as a low-cost infrastructure alternative to dedicated school platforms.

Direct peers

• IServ: IServ is a German school communication and administration platform widely used by German schools. It overlaps directly with Schoolpages in serving German K-12 digital infrastructure, though IServ leans more toward internal administration (messaging, timetables) versus public-facing websites.
• Schoolfox: Schoolfox is a parent-teacher communication app widely adopted by German-speaking schools. It addresses an adjacent K-12 digital workflow and competes for the same school IT budgets as Schoolpages.
• Foxeducation (Foxschool): Foxschool is a German school website builder and communication platform targeting primary and secondary schools. It is a direct competitor in the same niche — building and operating websites for German schools.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gesamtschule-k%C3%B6ln-holweide

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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