Sanity
Headless CMS founded in Oslo in 2018. Data stored by default in Belgium (EU) on Google Cloud. Norwegian-founded, now co-headquartered in San Francisco after raising $173M.
Quick facts
Why does it score 63?
Sanity was founded in Oslo and offers EU data residency by default, though it is now co-headquartered in San Francisco.
Sanity has raised $173M in total funding, including an $85M Series C in 2025 led by Bullhound Capital, and now operates primarily out of the US.
Sanity stores data in Belgium (Google Cloud eu-west1) by default.
Sanity's frontend Studio is open source; its Content Lake backend is proprietary.
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