Being founded, in the open
Edano is not a finished platform. It is a cooperative in formation, and this is where it stands today.
What the name says
Edano is short for European Digital Autonomy Network. European, because that is where the members and the technology are. Digital autonomy, because choosing your own supplier is exactly what got lost. Network, because this is not one new company but the ones already doing the work.
A foundation above the cooperative
Edano is incorporated under Dutch law as a coöperatie U.A. Above it sits a foundation with an independent board that guards the mission.
Not yet adopted. There are no articles of association yet. The members and the notary adopt them at incorporation.
Guardian
The foundation
An independent board, not the founders and not the members. It guards the mission.
Ownership
The cooperative
A coöperatie U.A., owned by its members: the companies that do the work. The U.A. means members are not liable for its debts.
Buying together
Bought centrally, not one by one.
Selling together
One contract towards the client.
One contract
Edano signs with the client and takes the dull half: paperwork, invoicing, tender forms.
A network behind it
Everyone delivers their own part, from their own company. Nobody pretends to do all of it.
Where we stand
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Confirmation
Vendors that fit record their intent before we incorporate.
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Foundation
Founding members put Edano on paper, then incorporate. From that moment Edano is a legal entity and open for business.
This is where we are
Q1 2027
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First clients
We start where demand already is, and build references.
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Scale
On to larger contracts, tenders and the rest of Europe.
Who is building it
Edano is being founded by companies that already do this work, with guidance from parties securing the legal structure. This list grows with every signature.
Founders
- BB Open Bram
- Rogue-IT Niels, Geert, Pepijn
Partners
- Startuprecht Legal counsel
More intent has been signed than there are names here. A name goes up once the party agrees to it. If you want to be on this list, register.
Market concentration
70%
of the European cloud market sits with three American companies
Amazon, Microsoft and Google together hold seventy per cent of the European cloud market. The share held by European providers fell from 29 per cent in 2017 to 15 per cent in 2022, and has stayed around that level since. The largest European players, SAP and Deutsche Telekom, sit at two per cent each.
That is not a reason to be against anything. It is the reason a European alternative has to be assembled from the companies that are already here, because no single one of them is going to close that gap alone.
Synergy Research Group, European cloud market share, 2025
Take part while it is still being shaped
Edano is being founded now. Whoever comes forward in this phase helps decide what it looks like. A conversation first, paperwork later.
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