deeploia Germany-based startup building an IT platform as a service, announced today that it has raised a €3 million seed funding round led by Berlin’s cherry companieswith the participation of a group of angels that includes the founders of Taktile, Moss, Vay and sender.
The company was founded by Julian Luebke and Philipp Hoffmann. Luebke started at Rocket Internet and later joined real estate startup McMakler as their first employee, focusing on operations. Meanwhile, Hoffmann founded an IT company ten years ago, which started as a traditional IT service provider and later evolved into a managed service provider with a focus on Apple platforms. To do this, Hoffmann also created the company’s own mobile device management (MDM) system.
“I thought it would be cool to connect everything, have everything on one platform and automate everything,” Hoffmann explained. “Then I met Julian and realized that this could work very, very well. I had the idea. He had the experience, and we counted on Julian to scale the business.”
The founders, who started the company late last year, describe Deeploi as an all-in-one IT platform that combines standard IT features and the company’s premium support with IT agents to answer support calls. The team will cover everything from onboarding, support, endpoint management, network management, and downgrade. For its security offering, Deeploi will partner with a cybersecurity company.
“The main difference with many of the existing business models is that we offer companies IT as a service,” Luebke explained. “Businesses don’t have to create an IT department themselves. We can take over these roles entirely, or we can push existing setups if they actually have already established an IT department. They can use our platform and they can also use our premium support, for example, and we can take care of simple, repetitive and redundant tasks for them.”
Because Deeploi can pull data from existing systems (eg HR) and then integrate it into your platform, it can also help businesses automate many functions. When a new employee joins an HR system, for example, the company can automatically send them a new Macbook and set up access to certain SaaS tools.
Luebke noted that modern cloud-native businesses with modern technology stacks are ideal customers for Deeploi, including brand agencies, marketing firms, and D2C companies. For now, the company plans to focus on the Western European market, where it is already beginning to test its service with a select number of users. The plan is to launch the platform to a wider audience in June.
“Once we’ve established market dominance in Western Europe and really built our product, then we don’t really see any limiting factors in going to the US,” Luebke said.
