Major milestones along the way

finnlabs has been in business for over a decade. Founded as a start-up for educational content and web services in the dot-com heyday, we soon offered software development to a distinct group of clients. Today, finnlabs offers a broad range of services and products – and is more fun than ever.

Follow the company's history along some major milestones and achievements.

2012

  • The finnlabs team is continuously growing. All of finnlabs´ engineers have one thing in common: The passion about open source.

2011

  • finnlabs founder Thies launches his newest project: the first high-quality price index for internet domain names (IDNX).

  • congstar chooses finnlabs to run its enterprise collaboration software.

  • Congratulations, Doctor!

2010

  • finnlabs attracts highly qualified software engineers and business consultants who want to build high-end software systems.

  • SiN/Finn GmbH celebrates its 10th birthday!

2009

  • The ever-growing Finn GmbH moves to Mitte, Berlin.

  • Deutsche Telekom becomes a client of finnlabs.

2008

  • Siemens AG becomes a client of the new finnlabs.

  • The company is renamed after the fourth brother, Finn.

  • The company moves to a new office in Friedrichshain, Berlin.

2002

  • Wieland graduates from high school. The founders decide to invest in their own education and enrol at university. The business carries on, even though the brothers study on different continents - in Hong Kong, Moscow and Atlanta.

2001

  • The company builds software for publishing house PONS, a leading European dictionary brand.

  • The company moves from the "garage" to a new office in Herborn, Germany.

  • The team acquires international broadcaster RTL as a client for software development.

2000

  • In its first year, the portal becomes Yahoo's website of the year.

  • SIN GmbH is founded by three brothers, Thies, Niels and Wieland Lindenthal. The company starts as a provider of educational content and web services.