Kertos Raises €14 Million to Build Europe’s Compliance Desk

Kertos, the platform to automate compliance standards, led by Dr. Kilian Schmidt, Johannes Hussak, and Alexander Prams, has raised €14 million in Series A. 

Compliance started as a necessity, not a passion; endless GDPR requests, audits, and admin-created frustration shared by many. In Munich, Johannes and Alex were leading tech innovation when the founding team came together, combining legal insight, product vision, and engineering power. That spark led to Kertos, first automating the most painful GDPR workflow: Data Subject Requests. No more spreadsheets or emails, Kertos managed it end-to-end. The success raised a bigger question: what if compliance as a whole could run like this?

Kertos is an all-in-one compliance suite for European SMEs and scaleups, covering GDPR, ISO, NIS2, DORA, and TISAX. AI agents automate the heavy lifting, so compliance scales seamlessly as companies grow.

Kertos is lawyer-founded and EU-native, built to navigate Europe’s complex regulatory maze. With an automation-first approach, it streamlines everything from evidence collection to policy drafting. Its Peer-to-Peer Trust Graph lets companies reuse verified controls with customers and suppliers, turning trust into a shared asset. More than just another SaaS tool, Kertos serves as your Compliance Desk.

Europe’s regulatory wave, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act, is accelerating. SMEs don’t need paperwork or fragmented tools; they need a partner that keeps compliance running in the background so they can focus on growth.