Certa
Techstars '13Saratoga, US · 12 known investors
Certa provides a no-code platform for third-party vendor management, helping organizations onboard vendors and manage their risk, compliance, and ESG profiles. The platform streamlines vendor lifecycle management and enables companies to partner with certified vendors that align with their values.
Also known as Certa (getcerta.com) · Certa.ai
Founders & leadership
Investors · 12
Also in the syndicate · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$35M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2023
- $35MSeries BSep 2023 · 5 sources
Fin Capital (lead), Vertex Ventures (lead), Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (lead), Aglae Ventures, BDMI, BDMI (Bertelsmann Investments), GOAT Capital, Mantis VC, Point72 Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Certa is an enterprise third-party management platform covering third-party risk management (TPRM), compliance, procurement, legal and ESG use cases. The product orchestrates the full third-party lifecycle — intake, onboarding, screening, due diligence, remediation and approval before contract, then continuous monitoring, alerting, performance management, periodic assessment and offboarding after contract — across vendors, suppliers, customers and other counterparty types, at the service, product or relationship level.
Risk domains addressed include operational and resilience, information security and cyber, compliance and legal, financial and credit, reputational, geopolitical and location-based, and ESG and ethical risk. Compliance functionality spans sanctions, politically exposed person and adverse media screening, ultimate beneficial ownership, KYC/KYB and anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, and supply chain risk areas such as forced labor, trade compliance and diversion risk, sub-tier mapping, and supply chain allocation and tariff management, supported by configurable business rules and audit trails for defensibility.
Certa also markets an ESG module for private markets, including a TCFD workflow that lets limited partners and general partners collect climate-related financial data across a portfolio and generate reports, plus dashboards and exportable visualizations. Personalization is handled through Certa Studio, a no-code drag-and-drop workflow builder.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Jag Lamba, a Wharton alumnus who spent ten years at McKinsey, said he was prompted to start Certa after encountering difficulties with procurement teams working with new, unvetted third parties.
Business model
Certa sells an enterprise software platform to large organizations that manage large third-party ecosystems. The platform is modular and configurable through a no-code studio, with an open architecture and more than 120 ready-made integrations, positioning it as a system of record and orchestration layer rather than a point solution.
Sources indicate enterprise software sales to corporate clients; a third-party business directory places revenue in a $10–50M range.
Traction
At the time of its Series B, Certa reported roughly 200 employees and about 170,000 users, and said it had helped clients onboard and monitor millions of companies across 120 countries in 41 languages. Customer-cited outcomes include Box reducing cycle times by over 78% and Uber reducing operating costs by 50% year over year while raising on-time payments from about 40% to 95%. The company's website cites more than 10 million third parties managed for clients, roughly 50,000 sales hours saved annually and onboarding cycle times reduced threefold in case studies. Forbes listed 500 employees as of March 2026.
Latest developments
The company's site promotes its position as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools and states that more than 10 million third parties are managed for its clients. Recent items on its press page include GOLT STAR certification across ten core capabilities (November 2025) and a partnership with Xapien for automated due diligence (August 2026).
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Certa competes in enterprise third-party risk, compliance and governance software; TechCrunch named Hyperproof, Cypago and Kompliant as competitors and cited a projection that the global enterprise risk management market will be worth $6.38 billion by 2027. Certa has been recognized by Spend Matters and named in Gartner research on third-party risk management, and its site claims Leader placement in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools.
Certa positions itself as a comprehensive, all-in-one platform rather than a set of point solutions that must be integrated and that leave third-party data siloed across systems, spreadsheets and email. Stated differentiators are AI-first automation, adaptability to regulatory and policy changes, enterprise-ready modular design, no-code personalization via Certa Studio, and an open architecture with 120+ prebuilt integrations.
Technology
The platform is built around an orchestration engine that brings stakeholders in a risk-exposed business process onto a shared system where third parties submit data and internalize the buyer's compliance and risk policies. Capabilities include risk scoring reports, templates and modules, third-party validations and questionnaires, configurable business rules, audit trails, automatic updates to global regulatory requirements, and reporting integrations. Certa Studio provides no-code, drag-and-drop workflow creation, and the company has said it is applying generative AI and AI-powered controls to third-party processes.
Go-to-market
Certa markets directly to enterprise buyers through demo requests and contact forms on its website, supported by case studies, whitepapers, solution overviews and analyst recognition. Partnerships with providers such as ID-Pal and Xapien extend onboarding and due diligence capabilities. Proceeds from the 2023 Series B were designated in part for strengthening the go-to-market engine and entering new high-growth markets.
Large global enterprises, including Fortune 500 firms, and their procurement, compliance, legal, risk and ESG teams; named customers include Box and Uber. The ESG module also targets limited partners and general partners in private markets.
Geography
Headquartered in Saratoga, California, with the Series B release datelined San Francisco. Certa has said it has helped clients onboard and monitor millions of companies across 120 countries with support for 41 languages, and identified Europe as a target expansion market following its 2023 Series B.
History
Forbes lists the company as founded in 2019 and headquartered in Saratoga, California. By 2022 Certa had been named a Top 50 Procurement Provider to Watch by Spend Matters and a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2022 Market Guide for Third Party Risk Management Solutions and IT Vendor Risk Management Solutions. In March 2023 it announced a partnership with ID-Pal for third-party onboarding, and in September 2023 it closed a $35 million Series B that brought total institutional funding to just over $50 million. Later milestones referenced on its press page include GOLT STAR certification across 10 core capabilities in November 2025 and a partnership with Xapien for automated due diligence in August 2026. The company's site cites recognition as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 7
launches, deals, and filingsCerta announced an oversubscribed $35 million Series B, bringing total institutional investment to just over $50 million. Funds earmarked for go-to-market expansion, new technology deployment and entry into markets such as Europe.
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Certa launched an environmental, social and governance suite for supply chain-related ESG requirements and a no-code drag-and-drop 'studio' for personalizing risk-exposed business processes.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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- Certagetcerta.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Certa do?
- Certa is an enterprise platform for third-party risk management, compliance, procurement and ESG across the vendor lifecycle.
- Who founded Certa?
- Certa was founded by Jagmeet Lamba.
- Who are Certa's investors?
- Certa's investors include Mantis Capital, Point72 Ventures, Techstars, Vertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd., Aglae Ventures, BDMI, Fin Capital, Goat Capital and 2 more.
- How much funding has Certa raised?
- Certa has disclosed $35M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Certa headquartered?
- Certa is headquartered in Saratoga, US.