High performance technology
The firm is known in the market for its technology edge, high performance, customer support and competitive pricing.
Arthur Mornington
Managing Partner
Contabo
Key facts
Europe, US and APAC
32
‘lean and green’ data centres
Customers
450k+
worldwide
Acquisitions
2
bolt-ons
Contabo is a cloud hosting platform used by developers, entrepreneurs and SMEs for webhosting, development and storage.
Our investment
Fund IV first invested in Contabo in 2019 alongside proven hosting entrepreneurs Thomas Strohe, Jochen Berger and Thomas Vollrath who introduced the opportunity to Oakley.
Our deep expertise and track record in the hosting sector is helping to further professionalise the business and maintain its strong growth trajectory. In 2020, we added Czech hosting business VSHosting to expand Contabo’s international footprint, followed by G-Portal in 2021, a rapidly growing ‘platform-as-a-service’ provider in the gaming space.
In 2022, Fund IV reached in agreement to sell its stake in Contabo and as part of the transaction, Fund V acquired a minority stake alongside majority investor KKR.
Oakley and their co-investors have a deep understanding of the hosting industry and will help us in our ambitions to accelerate growth.
Thomas Noglik
CEO — Contabo
Market dynamics
Contabo’s target market segment is growing at double digit rates, driven by developers and SMEs that are digitising their market presence and leading to increased demand for cloud infrastructure solutions to deploy applications. Within the hosting market, the business operates in an attractive and sustainable niche and has a loyal, tech-savvy, and global customer base of developers, entrepreneurs and SMEs.
Our origination network helps us source investments others cannot. Often, we are the first institutional investor in our portfolio companies.
