RegTech AI company Certivity receives € 13.3 million

Munich — Certi­vity has raised 13.3 million euros in a Series A finan­cing round. The Munich-based RegTech company is deve­lo­ping the first struc­tu­red, AI-supported plat­form for mana­ging tech­ni­cal compli­ance. The round was led by Almaz Capi­tal and UVC Part­ners, with rene­wed parti­ci­pa­tion from exis­ting inves­tors Early­bird X, High-Tech Grün­der­fonds (HTGF) and Plug and Play. The fresh capi­tal will be used to acce­le­rate the market launch stra­tegy, drive forward product deve­lo­p­ment and enable expan­sion into new sectors and inter­na­tio­nal markets.

Foun­ded in 2021 by Nico Waegerle, Bogdan Bereczki, Jörg Ulmer and Sami Vaara­ni­emi, Certi­vity addres­ses one of the most unde­re­sti­ma­ted but crucial problems in modern engi­nee­ring: regu­la­tory compli­ance. Engi­neers often spend 30 to 50 percent of their time working through frag­men­ted legal and regu­la­tory docu­ments to ensure that their products comply with appli­ca­ble regu­la­ti­ons and stan­dards. Errors in this process lead to product recalls, safety issues and billi­ons of dollars in fines. — Certi­vity will funda­men­tally change this. 

The company offers a struc­tu­red, AI-native SaaS plat­form that trans­forms complex regu­la­tory docu­ments into struc­tu­red, machine-reada­­ble compli­ance infor­ma­tion. It auto­ma­tes the entire process — from reques­t­ing and conti­nuously updating regu­la­tory content to inte­gra­ting it into the process. Certi­vity enables compa­nies to deve­lop products faster while incre­asing secu­rity and compli­ance with all manda­tory regulations. 

“With this funding, we are scaling our plat­form to become the leading solu­tion in tech­ni­cal compli­ance — start­ing with the auto­mo­tive indus­try. Addi­tio­nally, we are scaling into other sectors such as rail, medi­cal devices, consu­mer goods, defense, aero­space and more,” says Nico Waegerle, CEO and co-foun­­der of Certi­vity. “We are expan­ding our regu­la­tory coverage, impro­ving our AI and deepe­ning inte­gra­tion with common tools. This is how we trans­form compli­ance from a costly manda­tory requi­re­ment into a compe­ti­tive advan­tage for our customers.” 

“Certi­vity has funda­men­tally chan­ged our approach to regu­la­tory compli­ance. Our deve­lo­p­ment proces­ses are much more effi­ci­ent and we save a signi­fi­cant amount of manual effort,” says Nico­las Maurin, Mana­ger Regu­la­tion & Stan­dards at Aptiv.

How the plat­form works: trans­forming regu­la­tory comple­xity into struc­tu­red knowledge

Certi­vi­ty’s plat­form digi­ti­zes and struc­tures regu­la­tory content from over 50 juris­dic­tions using a proprie­tary digi­tiza­tion pipe­line and regu­la­tory know­ledge graph. This gives engi­nee­ring and compli­ance teams full tracea­bi­lity and real-time insight into regu­la­tory chan­ges. AI-based modu­les conso­li­date chan­ges to diffe­rent versi­ons of regu­la­ti­ons and clas­sify, extract and gene­rate tech­ni­cal requi­re­ments from unstruc­tu­red legal texts. 

Instead of mana­ging compli­ance in isola­ted docu­ments or Excel spreadsheets, teams can now orga­nize regu­la­tory requi­re­ments, inter­pre­ta­ti­ons, appr­ovals and legal refe­ren­ces in a struc­tu­red way in product-speci­­fic compli­ance projects. Through deep inte­gra­tion with requi­re­ments manage­ment tools such as Jama, Pola­rion, DOORS and others, compli­ance infor­ma­tion flows seam­lessly into the deve­lo­p­ment process — crea­ting an inte­gra­ted, networked, audi­ta­ble and scalable process. 

Laying the foun­da­tion for compli­ance on an indus­trial scale

“Certi­vity is setting a new stan­dard for how compli­ance is inte­gra­ted into product deve­lo­p­ment,” says Amanda Birken­holz, Prin­ci­pal at UVC Part­ners. “They solve a huge and cumber­some problem for any orga­niza­tion with regu­la­tory requi­re­ments. Compli­ance chal­lenges are no longer the excep­tion — they are the rule. The ques­tion today is no longer: Which products are subject to regu­la­tory requi­re­ments? It is: Which are not?” 

About Certi­vity

Certi­vity is a RegTech company that trans­la­tes regu­la­tory comple­xity into clarity and speed. With the help of modern AI tech­no­logy and Large Language Models (LLMs), we trans­form globally appli­ca­ble regu­la­ti­ons into struc­tu­red, machine-reada­­ble data. This crea­tes a new form of compli­ance intel­li­gence that enables digi­tal and end-to-end work processes. 

Our plat­form supports deve­lo­p­ment and compli­ance teams in under­stan­ding regu­la­tory requi­re­ments more quickly, imple­men­ting them effi­ci­ently and inte­gra­ting them seam­lessly into exis­ting deve­lo­p­ment proces­ses. This lowers costs, redu­ces risks, impro­ves colla­bo­ra­tion — and acce­le­ra­tes the market launch of new products. 

About UVC Partners

UVC Part­ners is a Munich and Berlin-based early-stage venture capi­tal firm that invests in Euro­pean B2B start­ups in the fields of enter­prise soft­ware, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, deep tech, climate tech and mobi­lity. With more than €600 million in assets under manage­ment, the fund typi­cally invests between €1 million and €10 million initi­ally and up to €30 million in total per company. UVC Part­ners’ invest­ments include Flix, Isar Aero­space, planqc, Proxima Fusion, Reverion, Tacto, TWAICE, Deep­Drive and STABL. The port­fo­lio compa­nies bene­fit from the team’s exten­sive invest­ment and exit expe­ri­ence as well as from the close coope­ra­tion with Unter­neh­mer­TUM, Euro­pe’s leading center for inno­va­tion and entre­pre­neur­ship, in parti­cu­lar to acce­le­rate market entry.