Secjur

secjur (SECJUR, legal entities secjur GmbH and SECJUR AG) is a Hamburg-headquartered compliance automation company. Its core product, the Digital Compliance Office (DCO), is a software platform that combines automation and AI with access to certified experts so that companies can implement regulatory and security requirements without deep prior in-house expertise. The platform bundles data privacy, information security, whistleblowing, anti-money laundering and AI management into a single environment, with out-of-the-box content for more than ten compliance and security frameworks, cross-mapping between frameworks and the ability to build custom frameworks.

Supported regulations and certifications include NIS2, DORA, the Austrian NISG, GDPR, the EU AI Act, whistleblower legislation, anti-money-laundering rules, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, TISAX, SOC 2, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018. Step-by-step wizards enable self-service compliance, and the company states coverage of 57 industries, over 60 API integrations into customers' existing tech stacks for partially automated audits and automatically generated recommendations, hosting in Germany and GDPR compliance. Where customers prefer guided delivery, secjur assigns data privacy officers, information security experts and consultants, and also offers data-protection-as-a-service style packages.

The company markets to startups, scaleups, mid-market firms and large enterprises across software and IT consulting, financial services, energy, food and beverages, healthcare, industry and manufacturing, logistics, aerospace and defence, non-profits and critical infrastructure (KRITIS). Internally it is organised into Product & Engineering (including a dedicated AI function), Operations Experts, Sales, Business Functions, Leadership, People & Culture, and Marketing & Growth teams.

Founding story

Lawyer Niklas Hanitsch founded the company in Q1 2018 as a data protection consultancy called "Datenschutz hoch 4" ahead of the GDPR taking effect, with the intention of building a legal tech company. Co-founder Manuel Stahl met Hanitsch on a trip to Japan, and the two developed the business idea; before founding the company they travelled to Silicon Valley to study other companies and shape their culture. Simon Pentzien and Sven Moritz joined to complete the founding team in 2021.

Business model

B2B software-as-a-service: customers subscribe to the Digital Compliance Office platform for one or multiple compliance frameworks, optionally combined with services from secjur's certified experts, external data protection officers and consultants. The company positions this as a substitute for hourly-billed consulting, claiming roughly 50% lower cost and 80% faster time to compliance.

Platform-based recurring subscriptions for compliance frameworks and modules (data privacy, information security, whistleblowing, anti-money laundering, AI management), supplemented by expert/consulting packages such as data-protection-as-a-service; promotional terms have included starting immediately and receiving the first invoice in January.

Traction

The website cites more than 500 industry leaders as customers and the company timeline states more than 700 international clients in 2026. The Digital Compliance Office went live in Q1 2022 with a rollout across 22 countries for Yunex Traffic, a Siemens carve-out. Team size was reported at almost fifty employees around the 2022 seed round, while the careers page lists 30+ team members, an average age of 35, 40% women and 9+ languages spoken. The company won first place in the cybersecurity category of the German Startup Cup.

Latest developments

In 2025 secjur opened its Lisbon office and launched two additional frameworks, the EU AI Act and ISO 9001, adding AI management and quality management to its offering. The company reports more than 700 international clients in 2026. It is also supported by an investment from Alea Innovation One – Fundo de Capital de Risco Fechado, managed by Alea Capital Partners, SCR, S.A., partially subscribed by the Fundo de Capitalização e Resiliência managed by Banco Português de Fomento and financed by the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan (NextGenerationEU), earmarked for R&D and growth of the Portuguese operations.