Jamespot sits in the “intranet” category, while Jalios is placed in the “digital workplace.” NumSpot is categorized under “IaaS,” whereas Scaleway falls under “cloud storage,” and Cloud Temple… under “cloud.”
This is how it stands in the EU Tech 300. The ranking surfaced in June, backed by a nonprofit association that had formed a year earlier: YSIABS (Yellow Sparks In A Blue Sky).
Olivier Rohou, founder of eLamp (skills management; sold to 360Learning in 2023), emerges as the principal driver behind this organization, which he presents as a “reactionary movement against techno-fascism.”
The firm Advaes prefers to proceed with more caution. “It is a citizen movement whose objective is to defend a united, strong, and independent Tech within the European Union,” he had explained a few weeks earlier as he joined the EU Score supervisory committee.
A “Tech Nutri-Score” spotted by the CIANum…
Launched nearly a year ago, the EU Score was the first project of YSIABS, which presents it as “the Nutri-Score of European tech.” It is essentially based on criteria related to presence in Europe (employees, investors, suppliers, servers). Added to that are the observance of ESG and DEI values. The result is a score out of 700 and a grade ranging from AAA to C.
YSIABS has begun to incorporate two aspects that it does not yet factor into the scoring: the origin of the source code and its availability as open source.
The EU Score is cited as an “inspiring example” in the digital sovereignty report published by CIANum in May. Equally, though, the Digital Resilience Index is referenced. The latter is attributed to aDRI (Association for Digital Resilience Initiative), an organization whose founders include David Djaïz (senior civil servant and, among other roles, former general rapporteur of the National Council for the Refounding), Yann Lechelle (formerly CEO of Scaleway), and Arno Pons (general delegate of the think tank Digital New Deal).
… and a ranking with a distinctive methodology
The EU Score underpins the EU Tech 300 ranking. This ranking is organized by domains (often called “competencies”). For each domain, up to five providers with headquarters in the EU are highlighted.
The nomenclature is intentionally broad and inclusive: B2C and B2B are merged, spanning 189 domains. Thus, for example, “cybersecurity” is one of them… but so are categories such as CTI, PAM, EDR, WAAP, VPN, IAM, etc. In parallel, each provider can be associated with only one domain—the one where it faces the strongest competition within the EU.
Consequently, many companies end up as sole or near sole players in a given category. Among them, ESET in CTI (while Sekoia, also active in this segment, is categorized under cybersecurity) and Stormshield in EDR (even though ESET also has an EDR offering).
In choosing the solutions that determine which domain a provider belongs to, priority is given to proprietary codes—the ones under direct control.
Wimi in “project management”, Oodrive in “cyber resilience”
The same phenomenon is observable in B2C markets as well. OsmAnd is listed in the “maps” category, while Cartes.app sits under “GPS.” In that same category, komoot appears, while Wikiloc is categorized under “walking routes.”
Despite the label EU Tech 300, the latest tally shows 473 listed providers.
| Scaleway and Cloud Temple, the “top students” of the EU Score |
| Both reach 685 points. Cloud Temple, for its entire offering. Scaleway as well, particularly for its TEM (transactional emails) and its managed Kubernetes (Kapsule). |
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