Secjur receives 5.5 million euros in seed financing round

The Hamburg-based start-up has so far financed itself out of its own pocket. Secjur intends to use the capital to further develop its compliance platform and tap into new markets.

Secjur has received prominent support in its seed financing round: Footballer Mario Götze and racing driver Nico Rosberg, among others, invested in the Hamburg-based start-up. The Visionaries Club led the round, with Cocoa Ventures, SB21, Topi co-founders Estelle Merle and Charlotte Pallua and Personio co-founder Ignaz Forstmeier also participating. A total of 5.5 million euros flowed into Secjur.

The start-up by Niklas Hanitsch, Manuel Stahl, Simon Pentzien and Sven Moritz has developed software that automates corporate compliance with the help of artificial intelligence. The software covers the areas of data protection, information security, anti-money laundering and whistleblowing. Its customers include Mercedes Benz, Samsung, 1Komma5°, Mediamarkt Saturn and Tomorrow Bank. Until now, the founders have financed Secjur out of their own pockets. They want to use the capital from the financing round to further develop the platform and open up German-speaking countries and other markets.

"Unfortunately, compliance has become a major problem for companies of all sizes, as managing it is manual, repetitive and expensive," says Robert Lacher from Visionaries Club. "Secjur solves this problem by automating this very compliance for organizations of all sizes, allowing them to manage everything with a single software."