In an innovative team we develop solutions, to connect people.
Our platform enables intuitive and structured communication for communities. This is how we make it easy to belong. Because when people meet, prejudices disappear and a community is created.
Our story...
... begins in 2014 in a small café in the heart of Würzburg. The question: How do we get people excited about our community.
The realization: Personal contact and friendships are the basis of community. This potential is currently only accessible to a small proportion of people.
The idea: We create a digital platform where people can share their activities and information and interested parties can easily join.
Lukas finally had the idea of developing his own app if we couldn’t find a suitable platform.
A few hundred hours and many cups of coffee (and bottles of mate) later, the prototype of our own app went online.
The original idea became a "digital bulletin board". And WOW, a lot is happening in our community: people go out to eat together, meet up to play sports, swap and give things away, sell houses and find apartments. The community is growing and not just by people who are interested in our community.
Initial inquiries about whether the platform could be used for other communities presented the small team of two people with a difficult decision: start a business out of the voluntary project and put it on a solid footing, or let the project slowly die out.
It's no big secret how the decision was made. Today there are over 700 communities with their own Communi app and the number is growing every day.
We have long dreamed of involving people who share our vision. In 2022, our small idea will finally become a Public limited company with 49 shareholders.
If you want, follow us on our journey to connect people and make the world a better place!
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Get to know
Sebastian, Julian and Lukas met at a community retreat at CityChurch Würzburg
Development of the idea
We wanted to do something to make activities transparent and integrate new ones - the idea of the digital bulletin board was born
Launch of the CityChurch app
Around 1000 volunteer hours later, the CityChurch app is here. The app spread quickly and other churches also expressed interest
Company foundation
Due to the high demand, we decided in 2017 to reduce our jobs and found Communi - with the aim of connecting people
Willow Leadership Conference
At Willow 2018 we presented our baby to the public for the first time. After countless good conversations we were pretty sure: Communi has a future
The first 10,000 installations
By October 2018, Communi apps were already installed on 10,000 mobile phones
First framework agreement
The first major framework agreement. Over 500 communities now have an easy way to create their own app.
Our first employee starts
Our first employee is now joining our team ♥
One hundred paying customers
We are delivering our hundredth app, strengthening the community and making it easy to be part of it
Moving to new office
The small team gets a new office in the heart of Würzburg
first volume framework agreement with 100 licenses
the SJK of the EMK equips all districts with their own app
AG foundation
Communi will become a public limited company in the course of 2022
AG founding party
Communi officially becomes Communi AG
Moving into new office
Our team is growing and needs and is looking forward to new spaces
Release shared groups
Communi apps can now be connected via shared groups
thirteen employees
The team now consists of 13 people
Come Together
After our second Annual General Meeting, we will bring our vision to life at a Come Together
Worth reading
The latest posts on social media and our blog. Perfect for you to stay up to date.
People talk about us here
An excerpt from the publications on Communi
As part of the Church Day, ZDF is reporting on Communi. Things get exciting from 11:35 min 😎
An interview with the founder magazine Mainfranken about the creation of Communi
The EKD presents its new project - its app for district exchange
An interview with Dr. Jörg Dechert at the Gott@Digital conference
A report on the app of the Evangelical Church of Gütersloh