Register No. 029
Is Element European?
No. Element is controlled from the United Kingdom.
Element's parent company is registered and headquartered in the United Kingdom, which this site counts as outside Europe. No single investor controls it. Its German and French companies are subsidiaries of the UK parent.
Latest
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- Controlled by
- Element Creations Limited (UK parent, no single controlling shareholder)
- Control sits in
- United Kingdom
- Legal entity
- Element Creations Limited (formerly New Vector Limited)
- Company register
- Companies House (England and Wales) · 10873661
- Seat
London, United Kingdom- Founded
- 2017
- Last checked
About Element
Element is a secure messaging and collaboration app built on Matrix, an open standard that lets separate servers talk to each other. Governments and large organisations run it on their own servers, and individuals can use the free app. The company was founded by the creators of Matrix.
Ownership
Element Creations Limited, a London company renamed from New Vector Limited in October 2025, is the group parent and directly owns Element Software GmbH (Germany), Element Software SARL (France) and Element Software Inc (US). Its accounts to June 2025 say there is no single ultimate controlling party, and Companies House has listed no person with significant control since 2019. Three of its four directors live in the UK and one in the US.
Evidence 4
- Companies House: Element Creations Limited overview and name changefind-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗
- Companies House: persons with significant controlfind-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗
- Companies House filing history: group accounts to 30 June 2025 (note 27, controlling party; subsidiaries)find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗
- Element: About (regional legal entities, UK headquarters)element.io ↗
Sources were opened and read on the date of the check. Registers and websites change; if one of these no longer says what we cite it for, tell us.
Products 2
Element
element.io ↗Open source team chat built on Matrix
Element is an open source app for team communication built on the open Matrix protocol. Conversations are end to end encrypted, and because Matrix is decentralised, Element can talk to other Matrix servers and to people using entirely different Matrix clients.
- Instead of
- Microsoft Teams, Slack and WhatsApp
- Pricing
- The app and the community server software are free. Business hosting and support are priced per user per month on request.
- Suits
- Teams and communities that want federated, encrypted chat
Free planSelf-hostable
Element Call
call.element.io ↗Encrypted Matrix video calls you can self-host
Element Call is an open source voice and video conferencing application built on MatrixRTC. It supports encrypted group calls, screen sharing and a standalone web experience as well as calls embedded in Matrix clients.
- Pricing
- The community software is free and open source. Hosting and operating the required infrastructure are separate costs.
- Suits
- Organisations already using Matrix or needing sovereign calls
Self-hostable