About meshcloud

Momentum to the Cloud

meshcloud is a Cloud Foundation thought leader, empowering enterprise organizations to transform to the cloud in record time.

Our Mission

We enable cloud-native organizations.

meshcloud enables organizations to harness the infinite possibilities of the cloud while protecting their digital freedom. With easy and secure access to various cloud technologies for software developers, we accelerate enterprise cloud transformation. At the same time, we offer IT decision-makers maximum control and transparency for a secure and cost-effective cloud strategy.

For this idea, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has supported the founders with the EXIST grant. In the “Founder Competition – Digital Innovation 2017”, meshcloud won a grand prize. In 2018, meshcloud took second place in the Frankfurt Founder Award and participated in the “German Accelerator”. In 2019, meshcloud won the “edw Maleki Venture Award for Cyber” at the first European Digital Week. In 2020, meshcloud received funding from the StartupSecure program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for innovative startups in the field of IT security.

Our Vision

Empower humans to build a better future.

Our cloud foundation platform meshStack is the foundation for cloud transformation in leading enterprises today. Our solution reduces cloud complexity. We simplify highly complex organizational and technical processes and give every user the freedom they need to make the most of the cloud.

As an innovator, meshcloud has the ambitious goal of revolutionizing the cloud transformation of Global 2000 companies, thereby reducing workloads through process optimization, self-service and automation. A successful cloud transformation allows our customers to focus on their core business.

Founding Story

From the TU Darmstadt to the multiple award-winning ScaleUp company

The meshcloud founders Jörg Gottschlich, Christina Kraus and Johannes Rudolph are united by their enthusiasm for new technologies – since the joint founding of meshcloud in 2017, the three multi-cloud experts have been using their complementary skills and competencies to accelerate the digital transformation of companies and enable organizations to work cloud-natively with meshcloud.

Dr. Jörg Gottschlich | CEO

Dr. Jörg Gottschlich is co-founder and managing director of meshcloud. During his Ph.D. at the Department of Electronic Markets at the TU Darmstadt, he deepened his cloud computing expertise and successfully completed research on cloud brokerage and benchmarking. In addition, he has also gained several years of professional experience in strategic consulting for large enterprises within Germany and throughout Europe. Prior to that, he studied Business Informatics at the University of Bamberg.

Christina Kraus | CRO

Christina Kraus is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer responsible for marketing, sales and customer success at meshcloud. Before founding the company, she worked at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where she promoted the networking of international smart data initiatives. Christina studied Business Informatics at the TU Darmstadt and graduated with an international master’s degree at the TU Berlin as well as in France (UFRT) and Belgium (ULB). During this time she founded and managed a web development agency.

Johannes Rudolph | CTO

Johannes Rudolph is co-founder of meshcloud and, as Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for product development up to the successful implementation of the cloud journey at the customer. His deep technical expertise is based on almost ten years of experience as a software developer and three years of entrepreneurial experience as founder and managing director of the IoT company In Motion Software & Sports Technology GmbH. Johannes holds a Master’s degree in Business Informatics from the TU Darmstadt.