The story behind Columbus Leasing
We are a small team based in Ravensburg who spend our days thinking, reading, and writing about technology leasing and IT lifecycle financing. Here is how our perspective on this subject came together over time.
A team shaped by watching equipment strategy from the inside
Long before Columbus Leasing existed as a name, our founding team spent years sitting inside IT departments, finance teams, and procurement committees, watching the same conversation repeat itself: how should we pay for this equipment, and what happens to it once we're done? We noticed that the answers were rarely written down anywhere accessible, so we started writing them down ourselves.
Today, we describe ourselves simply as an informational resource. We do not lease equipment, broker financing, or manage assets on anyone's behalf through this site — instead, we curate what we've learned into a single, calmly organised place.
Our history, one chapter at a time
The milestones below trace how our thinking on technology leasing and lifecycle financing has evolved — from an informal reading group to the resource you see today.
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2009 — A shared curiosity
A handful of colleagues working in IT procurement began comparing notes over informal lunches about how differently their organisations approached equipment financing. What started as curiosity slowly turned into a habit of writing things down.
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2013 — Formalising our notes
As our internal library of observations grew, we began organising it into structured notes on leasing models, refresh cycles, and depreciation patterns — the earliest seeds of the content you find on this site today.
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2016 — Columbus Leasing GmbH is founded
We formally established Columbus Leasing GmbH in Ravensburg, giving our growing body of knowledge a permanent home and a name that reflected the sense of exploration we felt when mapping out this subject for the first time.
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2019 — Widening our lens to asset lifecycle
We noticed that leasing was only one part of a larger story, so we expanded our focus to cover the entire equipment lifecycle — including responsible retirement, data handling, and circular reuse considerations.
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2022 — Rebuilding our resource for a wider audience
We restructured our written material into the site you see today, organised so that anyone — not just specialists — could follow our thinking on IT financing and lifecycle management.
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Today — Still learning, still writing
We continue to revisit and refine what we publish here, informed by ongoing conversations with peers across the industry. Our commitment remains the same as it was at the very beginning: to make this subject easier to understand.
Want to know more about what we cover?
Visit our expertise page to see the specific areas we spend the most time thinking about.