Today, we're celebrating a major milestone for the heyData community: we've closed a Series A funding round of $16.5 million — led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC).
For us, this is about much more than growth. It's about delivering on our core promise: we believe compliance shouldn't be a complex insider topic reserved for experts. It has to be intuitive, automated, and above all, simple for everyone involved.
Real Compliance for Real Teams
In many companies, compliance is still a "black box" — something expensive and intimidating, handled in unnecessary spreadsheets. We solved that problem a long time ago. And now, this investment is flowing directly into your everyday tools to make your work even easier.
Miloš Djurdjević puts it this way:
"We're building heyData for the reality of modern businesses. This round gives us the momentum we need to bring IT security and compliance together in one place — so you have less to coordinate and finally get full control back."
Why Now?
We had actually planned this step for later in 2026. But the world moves fast, and we want to stay at the forefront of the pace of innovation. Between new EU regulations and increasingly complex digital threats, businesses need one thing above all right now: simplicity.
Daniel Deutsch explains our focus for the time ahead:
"Our goal is for compliance to stop feeling like a tedious side project and start feeling like a smooth, natural process. We're investing this capital to remove roadblocks: more automation and more clarity — from initial setup all the way through to the audit."
What Does This Mean for You?
The fresh capital flows directly into three areas that will noticeably make your everyday work easier:
- Security & compliance, united: We're significantly expanding heyData's IT security features. By bringing security and compliance together on one modular platform, we're finally giving you the All-in-One Compliance Solution 2.0.
- More frameworks, less manual work: We're adding more compliance frameworks and deeper integrations. Our goal is simple: everything that can be automated, will be automated.
- Simplicity across Europe: We're taking our proven model from the DACH region and rolling it out across Europe. This helps even more businesses grow without the usual compliance overhead.
Martin Bastius emphasizes why this matters so much to you:
"Compliance is proof of trust. We want to make sure you can demonstrate that trust to your customers at all times — with a system that grows just as fast as your business."
A Big Thank You to Our Community
To our customers: thank you for your honest feedback, which keeps us grounded. Please don't stop telling us where things fall short and what we can do better.
To our partners and investors: thank you for believing in a future where compliance is simply a normal, easy part of doing business.
We couldn't be more excited about what's next.
— Your heyData Team
