About VNC

One vendor.
Total accountability.

VNClagoon is engineered, financed, and maintained by VNC AG — the single point of entry, and the final point of responsibility, for the entire sovereign workplace stack.

Since 2010  Building sovereign software20+  Integrated modulesCH · DE  Engineered in Europe
Mission

Give every organisation the tools to communicate and collaborate — without surrendering control.

VNC was founded on a simple belief: organisations that handle sensitive work need sovereign alternatives to hyperscaler suites. Not only for compliance — because control over your own data is a right. Since 2010 we've built that alternative from the ground up: open source, transparent, accountable.

What we believe

Six convictions the platform is built on.

01

Sovereignty is a right, not a feature

No organisation should have to surrender control of its data to hold a conversation or run its business.

02

Open source is the only honest foundation

Code you can inspect is the only code you can trust. Verified by community and regular audit — not by vendor promise.

03

Privacy is the precondition for innovation

Security and privacy aren't a tax on progress. They're what let people and businesses create freely.

04

Autonomy means owning the whole stack

Software code, hosting, identity, encryption — control belongs to the user, not the platform beneath them.

05

No provider belongs between people and their information

Communication should be free and uncensored — shared securely and privately within a global community.

06

The future of business software is open

Closed, monopolised suites are the past. Sovereign and open source is the direction the market is already moving.

Our strategy

How we deliver on it.

01

Share the source

Major components of the VNClagoon stack are shared, source-open, with key customers and partners.

02

Support it for the long term

The stack ships as a long-term supported (LTS) release on a fairly priced subscription model.

03

Run it anywhere

Support and managed services to deploy, customise, integrate and operate VNClagoon in any cloud — private, public, customer, partner, or VNC-operated.

04

Build community

Support communities that share knowledge and exchange experience securely, with modern collaborative software.

Principles

How we build.

Open source

The VNClagoon core is built on open-source foundations. Every major component is inspectable and auditable — no black boxes, no hidden call-homes.

Sovereign by design

Sovereignty isn't a deployment option — it's the architecture. VNClagoon keeps all data, keys, and compute inside your perimeter.

Single-vendor accountability

One company. One stack. One point of contact. VNC AG designs, maintains, and warrants the entire suite — so you never negotiate between three vendors when something breaks.

No lock-in

Standard protocols — IMAP, XMPP, CalDAV, CardDAV, S3, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes. Migrate in, migrate out. The data is yours, in formats every tool understands.

The group

Two entities, one mission.

VNC AG

Zug · Switzerland

Parent company, R&D headquarters, and IP owner.

VNC GmbH

Germany

European operations, enterprise sales, and DACH support.

Open source

Auditable to the last line.

VNClagoon is built on — and contributes back to — the open-source ecosystem. The core communication and collaboration components are fully auditable, and the infrastructure layer runs on proven open technology. You can verify every layer of the stack.

Open-source basedFully auditableApachePostgreSQLKubernetesWireGuardArgoCD
How we work

The ethics we hold each other to.

A fair and rewarding place to work is a commitment, not a perk. Six, held company-wide.

Transparent
Open source, open roadmap, honest about what isn't done yet.
Direct
No spin, no filler. We state the value and move on.
Inventive
Hard problems are solvable. We solve them properly, not by reinventing the wheel.
Cooperative
The stack is integrated because the team is.
Focused
We finish what matters before starting what's next.
Human
Approachable by default. We build for people, and treat each other as people.

Talk to the people who built it.

No account executives, no SDRs. Our engineers and product architects take the first call — so you spend the time understanding the stack, not filling out contact forms.