Certa

Market position

Certa is described on its site as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Tools, and was earlier named a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2022 Market Guide for Third Party Risk Management Solutions and IT Vendor Risk Management Solutions and one of Spend Matters' Top 50 Procurement Providers to Watch in 2022. Press coverage of its 2023 Series B placed it in a crowded compliance and risk management software market alongside Hyperproof, Cypago and Kompliant, with the global enterprise risk management market cited at an estimated $6.38 billion by 2027.

Certa positions itself on AI-first automation, adaptability to regulatory and policy change, and enterprise-ready modular design, contrasting its single unified platform with point solutions that are hard to integrate and leave third-party data siloed. The no-code studio is presented as allowing customers to keep their existing processes rather than adapt to the software, and natural-language Vibe Configuration is offered as a way for business users to build and edit workflows without code.

Technology

Certa AI is described as a connected set of agents embedded across the third-party lifecycle: a Design Agent using the company's "Vibe Configuration" to translate policy text into workflows through natural language, a Data Agent that aggregates live web data and federated data from brokers such as D&B, Moody's and Equifax and pre-populates questionnaire answers from uploaded documents, a Risk Agent that runs assessments across due diligence questionnaires and control frameworks such as SOC 2 and extracts metadata from contracts (clauses, expiration dates, jurisdictions), and an Adjudicate Agent that removes false positives, automates low-risk approvals and produces rationales and citations for decisions. The underlying core provides a dynamic data model, centralized audit logs, real-time dashboards, an open API and RPA framework, and handling of millions of records.

Go-to-market

Certa sells directly to enterprises via a contact-sales motion on its website and supplements this with partnerships (for example with Xapien for automated due diligence and ID-Pal for third-party onboarding), analyst recognition, certifications and customer case studies. Proceeds from the 2023 Series B were earmarked for strengthening the go-to-market engine and expanding into new high-growth markets such as Europe.

Large global organizations, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 firms, whose procurement, compliance, ESG, legal and information security teams manage large ecosystems of vendors, suppliers, partners and customers. Named customers include Box and Uber.

Geography

Headquartered in San Francisco, with leadership roles covering North America and EMEA. The platform is used across 120+ countries and supports 50+ languages; Europe was named as a target expansion market following the 2023 Series B.

History

Certa partnered with ID-Pal on third-party onboarding in March 2023 and announced an oversubscribed $35 million Series B in September 2023 led by Fin Capital and Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, bringing total institutional investment to just over $50 million. Around that time the company launched an ESG suite for supply chain ESG requirements and a no-code studio for configuring risk-exposed business processes. It subsequently added AI agents and Vibe Configuration to the platform, achieved GOLT STAR certification across ten core capabilities in November 2025, and announced a due diligence partnership with Xapien in August 2026.

Risks & controversies

Press coverage of the 2023 Series B noted a crowded competitive field of funded compliance and risk management vendors and a difficult economic environment; the company declined to disclose its valuation or burn rate, stating only that the round provided several years of runway.