Certa

Certa is a third-party management platform that consolidates procurement, compliance, risk management, ESG and legal workflows for enterprises. Its orchestration engine brings the stakeholders involved in a risk-exposed business process onto a single platform, where vendors, partners and clients can share data and where a customer's compliance rules and policies are applied. Capabilities include risk scoring reports, templates and modules, third-party validations and questionnaires, and reporting integrations.

The product spans the full third-party lifecycle, from intake, screening, due diligence, remediation, approval and onboarding through continuous monitoring, alerting, performance management, periodic assessment and offboarding. Risk domains covered 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 orchestration covers sanctions, PEP, adverse media and UBO screening, KYC/KYB and AML, 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, with configurable business rules and audit trails intended to support evidentiary defensibility.

The company positions its automation as AI-first, and in 2023 said it was applying generative AI to third-party ecosystem workflows. It has also released an ESG suite for supply chain ESG requirements and a no-code studio with a drag-and-drop interface for personalizing risk-exposed processes.

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 problems with procurement teams working with new, unvetted third parties.

Business model

Certa sells an enterprise software platform for third-party management, marketed primarily to large organizations including Fortune 500 firms. The platform is modular and configurable through a no-code studio and an open architecture with more than 120 ready-made integrations, allowing customers to adapt workflows to their own policies and to changing regulations.

Sales of its enterprise third-party management platform to corporate customers.

Traction

As of September 2023 Certa reported around 200 employees and roughly 170,000 users, with clients having onboarded and monitored millions of companies across 120 countries in 41 languages. Customer-reported outcomes include a stated 78 percent reduction in cycle times at Box and, at Uber, a 50 percent year-over-year reduction in operating costs with on-time payments rising from about 40 percent to 95 percent. The company's site cites more than 10 million third parties managed for clients and case studies claiming approximately 50,000 sales hours saved annually and onboarding cycle times reduced threefold.

Latest developments

Certa states it is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools for Assurance Leaders and reports more than 10 million third parties managed for its clients. It announced GOLT STAR Certification across 10 core capabilities in November 2025 and a partnership with Xapien for automated due diligence in August 2026.