kDrive (Infomaniak)

kDrive is the cloud-storage and collaboration product of **Infomaniak Group SA**, the independent Swiss technology company founded in Geneva in 1994 by **Boris Siegenthaler** and **Fabian Lucchi** (growing out of a 1990 user group). Infomaniak is one of the longest-running independent European hosting companies — privately held, founder-led, with no venture-capital or private-equity investors anywhere on the cap table. The company designs, builds, and fully operates **its own Swiss data centres** with all customer infrastructure and servers under its direct control, and ships an integrated ecosystem of products: kDrive (cloud storage and sync), kMail / Mail, kSuite (office and collaboration), Public Cloud (compute), Web Hosting, Streaming, Newsletter, kMeet (video conferencing), and more. For an EU-sovereignty audit Infomaniak is among the most defensible Swiss listings in this directory. The compliance footprint is unusually broad: **ISO/IEC 27001** since June 2018, **ISO 9001** (quality), **ISO 14001** (environmental), **ISO 50001** (energy), plus **B Corp certification in 2025** — the international label that recognises strong social, environmental, governance, and transparency standards. Switzerland holds an EU adequacy decision under Art. 45 GDPR, so transfers EU↔CH are SCC-free. All customer data is stored exclusively on Swiss-located infrastructure operated by Infomaniak itself; the latest data centre is built into the basement of a participatory housing cooperative and recycles 100% of consumed electricity as heat into the local district-heating network warming approximately 6,000 homes per year — among the most genuinely sustainable hosting operations in Europe. kDrive pricing in EUR: Solo kDrive ~€4.42/month for 3 TB; my kSuite tiers bundle Drive with Mail / Documents / Meet / Spreadsheets / Presentation for from ~€7/month; business and Pro tiers above scale by users and storage. Best fit: every Swiss-jurisdiction-aware EU procurement-grade buyer; particularly compelling for environmentally-conscious organisations, public-sector procurement, and any team wanting an independent founder-led Swiss vendor with broad-stack collaboration (Drive + Mail + Docs + Meet) under a single provider. Together with Proton Drive and Tresorit, kDrive completes the directory's three-pillar Swiss-sovereignty file-sharing shortlist.