Register No. 077
Is rapidmail European?
Yes. rapidmail is under verified European control.
Positive Group's investor EMZ identifies Mathieu Tarnus as the majority shareholder. The German operating company belongs to that French group; the European-control verdict concerns ownership, not every infrastructure supplier.
Latest
Nothing new on file since the check on 14 September 2026. Seen news about rapidmail? Send it with a source.
- Controlled by
- Mathieu Tarnus via Positive Group; operator Positive Group Deutschland GmbH
- Control sits in
- France
- Seat
Germany- Last checked
About rapidmail
rapidmail provides newsletter campaigns, contact management, automation and transactional email from Germany. Its editor and templates suit small businesses, associations and shops that need marketing messages alongside order confirmations and notifications.
Evidence 4
- rapidmail legal notice: Positive Group Deutschland GmbHrapidmail.com ↗
- Positive Group history and rapidmail brandpositivegroup.com ↗
- EMZ: Mathieu Tarnus remains majority shareholder after investmentemzpartners.com ↗
- Positive refinancing announcement, September 2026positivegroup.com ↗
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.
Product
rapidmail
rapidmail.com ↗Email marketing from Germany
The operator is Positive Group Deutschland GmbH. Its French parent, Positive Group, is controlled by founder Mathieu Tarnus. rapidmail documents service servers and encrypted backups in Germany; business and website tools include additional suppliers.
- Instead of
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Mailchimp, Mailchimp Transactional Email and Postmark
- Pricing
- Free sending is available for up to 10 contacts, plus a first mailing to up to 2,000 contacts. Published German pricing starts at 15 EUR/month for Essential with 500 contacts, or 20 EUR for one mailing to 500 contacts. Pricing varies by volume and plan.
- Suits
- Small businesses sending newsletters from the EU
Free plan
Operations
Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 14 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.
| Part | Provider | Provider control | What we saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core hosting | Undisclosed data-centre operator · Germany | Unknown | rapidmail documents German service servers and daily encrypted backups in Germany; the public website ASN does not identify the full service infrastructure. [1] |
| Supporting service | HubSpot · International transfers disclosed | Not European | Business and website tooling listed in the privacy policy; separate from subscriber-list hosting. [1] |
| Public website | uvensys | Unknown | A 37.208.111.6, 37.208.111.7 · AS58010 [1] [2] |
| Incoming email | mail.rapidmail.de | Unknown | MX 10 mail.rapidmail.de [1] |
| Outgoing email | Help Scout | Not European | Business-domain rapidmail.com SPF helpscoutemail.com; authorization does not prove customer email uses this sender. [1] |
| Outgoing email | Google Workspace | Not European | Business-domain rapidmail.com SPF _spf.google.com; authorization does not prove customer email uses this sender. [1] |
| Outgoing email | _spf.mail03-userengage.com | Unknown | Business-domain rapidmail.com SPF _spf.mail03-userengage.com; authorization does not prove customer email uses this sender. [1] |
German service hosting and backups are documented, but the data-centre operator is not named in the reviewed source. The public website uses the uvensys network. The .com business MX is mail.rapidmail.de, not the separate mail.de service; the .de domain uses Google Workspace. Corporate SPF and website tools do not establish the customer email delivery path.
Badge
rapidmail can show its verified European ownership with a badge that links back to this page. If the verdict ever changes, the badge stops working.
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