In a Series A financing round, Certivity received €13.3 million. The round was led by Almaz Capital and UVC Partners. Existing investors such as Earlybird X, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), and Plug and Play participated again. With the fresh capital, Certivity plans to further develop its AI-powered compliance platform and accelerate market entry. Additionally, the team is planning expansion into new industries and international markets.
Certivity was founded in 2021 by Nico Wägerle, Bogdan Bereczki, Jörg Ulmer, and Sami Vaaraniemi. The regtech company addresses a central problem in engineering: complying with regulatory requirements consumes a lot of engineers’ time – often in the form of manual research and fragmented documentation.
Certivity’s solution: a structured, AI-native SaaS platform that automatically analyzes regulatory documents, interprets them, and translates them into product-relevant requirements. The platform helps companies develop their products faster and in compliance with regulations.
Certivity: platform for structured compliance processes
“With this financing, we are scaling our platform to become the leading solution in the field of technical compliance – starting with the automotive industry. Additionally, we are scaling into further areas such as railways, medical devices, consumer goods, defense, aerospace, and more”,
says Nico Wägerle, CEO and co-founder of Certivity, and adds:
“We are expanding our regulatory coverage, improving our AI, and deepening integration with common tools. In doing so, we are transforming compliance from a cost-intensive mandatory requirement into a competitive advantage for our customers.”
The platform processes content from over 50 legal jurisdictions using its own digitization pipeline and a regulatory knowledge graph. AI modules analyze various versions of regulatory texts, extract technical requirements, and provide them in structured form. Deep integration with other tools enables a seamless and auditable compliance process.
Goal: scaling industrial compliance
“Certivity is setting new standards for how compliance is integrated into product development. They solve a major and tedious problem for every company with regulatory requirements”,
explains Amanda Birkenholz, Principal at UVC Partners.
Aniruddha Nazre, General Partner at Almaz Capital, says:
“With some of the largest and most innovative OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers as customers, Certivity has established itself as a leading provider of regulatory compliance in the automotive industry. The goal of this financing is now to expand in two dimensions: 1. In addition to regulatory compliance, coverage of technical specifications and industry standards should be achieved; 2. expansion into different sectors such as general mechanical engineering and plant engineering, aerospace, defense, and in the long term also medical technology.”
Beyond technical development, Certivity is investing in training, onboarding, and customer retention – and is continuing to expand its teams in engineering, product, and sales.
