Certivity has raised €13.3 million in Series A funding. The Munich-based RegTech company is developing the first structured, AI-powered platform for managing technical compliance. The round was led by Almaz Capital and UVC Partners, with participation from existing investors Earlybird X, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), and Plug and Play. The fresh capital will be used to accelerate the go-to market strategy, drive product development, and expand into new industries and international markets.
Founded in 2021 by Nico Waegerle, Bogdan Bereczki, Jörg Ulmer, and Sami Vaaraniemi, Certivity is tackling one of the most overlooked but critical problems in modern engineering: regulatory compliance. Engineers often spend 30–50 percent of their time navigating fragmented legal and regulatory documents to ensure products meet legal and regulatory standards. Mistakes lead to product recalls, safety failures, and billions in fines. Certivity is on a mission to change that.
The company offers a structured, AI-native SaaS platform that transforms complex regulatory documents into structured, machine-readable compliance intelligence, automating everything from requirement extraction to regulatory updates and the native integration into the engineering process. Certivity enables companies to build products faster while increasing the security to ensure compliance with all mandatory regulations.
“With this funding, we’re scaling our platform to become the category leader in technical compliance – starting in automotive and expanding into heavy machinery, consumer goods, defense, aerospace, and beyond,” says Nico Waegerle, CEO and Co-Founder of Certivity. “We’re broadening regulation coverage, enhancing AI, and deepening tool integrations. Thus, we are turning compliance from a mandatory requirement into a competitive advantage for our customers.”
“Certivity has fundamentally changed how we handle regulatory compliance. Our internal development processes have become significantly more efficient, eliminating substantial amounts of manual effort.” says Nicolas Maurin, Regulations & Standards Manager, Aptiv.
How the platform works: Turning regulatory complexity into structured knowledge
Certivity’s platform digitizes and structures regulatory content from over 50 jurisdictions using a proprietary ingestion pipeline and regulatory knowledge graph.
This provides engineering and compliance teams with full traceability and real-time visibility into legal changes.
AI-driven modules consolidate amendments across different regulatory versions with high precision and classify, extract, generate, and test technical and regulatory requirements from unstructured legal texts.
Instead of managing compliance in disconnected documents or spreadsheets, teams can now organize interpretations, approvals, and legal references into product-specific compliance projects. With deep integrations into requirements management tools like Jama, Polarion, DOORS, and others, Certivity enables compliance to flow seamlessly into engineering workflows, creating a connected, auditable, and scalable process.
Laying the groundwork for industry-scale compliance
“Certivity is setting a new standard for how compliance is integrated into product development,” says Amanda Birkenholz, Principal at UVC Partners. “They solve a large and tedious problem for any company with regulatory requirements. Compliance challenges are no longer the exception – they are the norm. Instead of asking which products are subject to regulation, it's nowadays more accurate to ask: which products aren’t?”
“With some of the largest and most innovative OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers as customers, Certivity has established itself as the leader in the automotive industry for regulatory compliance. With this funding the goal is to expand in two dimensions - 1) in addition to regulatory compliance, Certivity also wants to cover technical specifications and industry standards; and 2) enlarge footprint to a diverse set of industries such as heavy machinery, aerospace and defense and eventually medtech. We are very excited about this growth prospect” says Aniruddha Nazre, General Partner at Almaz Capital.
To support its customers at scale, the company is also investing in onboarding, training, and customer success while growing its team across engineering, product, and go-to-market functions.