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Top SaaS companies in Germany

Software-as-a-service vendors selling subscription cloud software to other businesses. Filtered to companies headquartered in Germany.

Built from a search like: “Top SaaS companies in Germany”

Ranked by current headcount across SaaS companies headquartered in Germany. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Bosch· Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • non equity assistance
    • 162.6k employees
  2. 2
    SAP· Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 141.2k employees
    • Founded 1972
  3. 3
    Delivery Hero· Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • post ipo secondary
    • 40.8k employees
    • Founded 2011
  4. 4
    Springer Nature
    • 13k employees
    • Founded 2015
  5. 5
    GfK - An NIQ Company· Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
    • 10.9k employees
    • Founded 1923
  6. 6
    DATEV eG· Germany
    • 5k employees
    • Founded 1966
  7. 7
    AUTO1 Group· Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 4.8k employees
    • Founded 2012
  8. 8
    CARIAD· Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
    • 4.6k employees
    • Founded 2020
  9. 9
    Nemetschek Group· Munich, Bavaria, Germany
    • 4.4k employees
    • Founded 1963
  10. 10
    CHECK24 Vergleichsportal GmbH· Munich, Bavaria, Germany
    • Series unknown
    • 4.1k employees
    • Founded 1999
  11. 11
    DHL IT Services· Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • 4k employees
    • Founded 1997
  12. 12
    Freiberufler· Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
    • 3.9k employees
  13. 13
    SEP AG· Holzkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
    • 3.7k employees
    • Founded 1992
  14. 14
    The Stepstone Group· Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • 2.9k employees
    • Founded 1996
  15. 15
    VECTOR Informatik· Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • 2.9k employees
    • Founded 1988
  16. 16
    TeamViewer· Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • Series unknown
    • 2.7k employees
    • Founded 2005
  17. 17
    SUSE· Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
    • 2.7k employees
    • Founded 1992
  18. 18
    Flink· Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Series unknown
    • 2.6k employees
    • Founded 2020
  19. 19
    Flix· Munich, Bavaria, Germany
    • Private equity
    • 2.6k employees
    • Founded 2011
  20. 20
    AUTODOC· Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Private equity
    • 2.6k employees
    • Founded 2008
  21. 21
    SAP Ariba· Waldorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
    • Series unknown
    • 2.5k employees
    • Founded 1999
  22. 22
    Diconium· Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • 2.4k employees
    • Founded 1995
  23. 23
    Elektrobit· Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
    • 2.3k employees
    • Founded 1988
  24. 24
    Ich AG· Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • 2.1k employees
  25. 25
    AVIV Group· Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Seed
    • 2k employees
    • Founded 2018

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Germany has long been a hub for SaaS, and the list above ranks the largest SaaS companies headquartered there by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 5,293 matching companies in our index, this is a good map of where the SaaS talent in Germanylives — useful whether you’re recruiting, partnering, or sizing a market.

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Refolk pulled SaaS companies headquartered in Germany from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 10 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

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