Certivity raises €13.3M in Series A to shape the future of technical compliance 

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. 

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About Certivity 
Certivity is a RegTech company that transforms regulatory complexity into clarity and speed. By converting regulatory documents into structured, machine-readable compliance intelligence, we empower engineering and compliance teams to work more efficiently and seamlessly. Our platform uses large language models (LLMs) and domain-specific AI to generate “law as data” from global sources, enabling fully digital workflows. Certivity helps customers digitize and streamline their compliance processes, reduce costs, mitigate risks, improve collaboration, and accelerate product development. 
More information on: https://www.certivity.io/  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/certivity  

About Almaz Capital 
Almaz Capital is a leading early-stage VC fund headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices also in Berlin. Almaz is investing out of its third fund and is backed by major institutional investors including the EIF, EBRD and Cisco. Almaz invests in enterprise software companies at seed and series A stages. Almaz has over 50 active portfolio companies and has had over 10 successful exits over the last 17 years. 

Find out more at https://www.almazcapital.com 

About UVC Partners 
UVC Partners is a leading venture capital firm that invests in European B2B tech startups and has offices in Munich and Berlin. With more than €600 million in assets under management, the VC typically invests between €1 to €10 million initially and up to €30 million per startup in the areas of DeepTech, ClimateTech, Mobility, and Software/AI. As an independent partner of UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s leading startup hub, UVC Partners has unique access to proprietary deal flow, more than 1,000 corporates and SMEs, as well as to talents from the Technical University of Munich, which belongs to the best European technical universities. UVC Partners’ investment portfolio includes Flix, Isar Aerospace, planqc, Proxima Fusion, Reverion, Tacto, TWAICE, DeepDrive, STABL, and many more. All portfolio companies and founders benefit from the team’s extensive investment and exit experience, their ability to build sustainable category leaders, and the network of UnternehmerTUM enabling them to speed up market entry. 

Learn more at www.uvcpartners.com. 

About Earlybird 
Founded in 1997, Earlybird identifies and backs exceptional early-stage companies on a pan-European basis – supporting them through their growth and development phases and providing financial resources, strategic support, plus access to an international network and capital markets. Through two separate strategies, Earlybird focuses on tech-enabled businesses in fintech/ insurtech, enterprise software, and deep tech (energy, food, and space) while Earlybird Health focuses on improving patient outcomes. Earlybird additionally has a Growth Opportunity Fund for follow-on investments, and a pro-bono impact initiative, Vision Lab. With EUR 2.5 billion under management across fund streams and a history of 9 IPOs and 35 trade sales, Earlybird is among Europe’s most established and active venture capital firms. 

More information on www.earlybird.com, LinkedIn, and X.  

About HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds  
HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing startups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports startups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more than 780 startups and achieved almost 200 successful exits.

HTGF has a fund volume of over 2 billion euros. Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, KfW Capital as well as 45 companies and family offices.   

For more information, please visit HTGF.de or follow us on LinkedIn. 

About Plug and Play Tech Center 
Plug and Play Tech Center is a leading innovation platform and one of the most active early-stage VC firms globally with multiple success stories and 30+ unicorns in the portfolio, including PayPal, Honey, N26 and Einride. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Plug and Play invests across more than 20 industries. Their German offices are located in Stuttgart, Munich, and Hamburg, each focusing on collaboration between industry partners and startups in their respective fields — Mobility in Stuttgart, InsurTech, Brand & Retail in Munich, and Supply Chain & Logistics in Hamburg. 

For more information, visit: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/venture-capital