A Home for Compliance

A place where values and trust are lived, and compliance is more than just a concept.

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Our Values

Our vision and mission inspire us to shape the future of effortless compliance, and our values reflect this drive.

We are driven by a growth-mindset.

We take initiative and act with purpose, driving projects forward independently. Our ambition pushes us to tackle challenges head-on and seize every opportunity to grow.

We strive for excellence.

We set high standards for ourselves and strive to outperform expectations internally and externally. Committed to quality and impact, we deliver work that sets the benchmark for success.

We are courageous explorers.

We take bold steps into the unknown, confidently exploring new ideas and possibilities. We experiment, fail fast, and iterate, knowing that innovation is built through curiosity and action.

We live radical candor.

We believe in caring personally while challenging directly. By balancing honest and open communication with empathy, we foster a team culture where trust thrives, and everyone feels empowered to grow.

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A future of effortless compliance operations

Our vision is to transform compliance from a challenge into a given. With Kertos, we're creating a world where companies can implement compliance effortlessly, cost-effectively, and stress-free. Our platform sets new standards: it combines seamless integration, automation, and absolute security, so that regulatory requirements are not only met but can be easily implemented – and in record time. Kertos represents a future in which data protection is not an obstacle, but an integral part of successful business processes.

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Kertos at a Glance

Kertos is the no-code solution for intuitive compliance. We help fast-growing companies like Enpal, Blacklane, and Flink automate their data privacy and information security processes, saving them hundreds of hours of manual work.

2 offices

With offices in Berlin and Munich, we’re driving Kertos forward at the heart of innovation.

>45 Team Members

Over 45 talented colleagues are shaping the future of compliance with us.

~30% women

We’re proud of our team’s diversity but know there’s still room to grow.

15 nationalities

Our team combines perspectives from 15 nationalities, fueling our success.

CEO

Dr. Kilian Schmidt

Kilian had an early and strong focus on legal processes and began his career at Home24 as Senior Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer for the Home24 Group. After a stint at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, he moved to TIER Mobility, where, as General Counsel, he grew the company's legal and public policy departments from one to 65 cities and from 50 to 800 employees. Driven by the lack of technology in the legal sector, and confirmed by his consulting work at Gorillas Technologies, he decided to found Kertos to develop the next generation of data protection technology – made in Europe.

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Johannes Hussak

Kertos is already Johannes' third founding venture. Following his two master's degrees (Mechanical Engineering and International Management) from the Technical University of Munich, as well as the UnternehmerTUM entrepreneur program "Manage&More," he founded his first e-commerce company. Johannes then joined a Munich-based research and development company, where he led the innovation department for more than two years. In 2020, Johannes founded Aitaro GmbH, a development and consulting company focusing on data-driven innovation, before taking on the challenge of developing the next generation of data protection solutions – Kertos. Johannes is passionate about product development and operations, elevating Kertos to a new level.

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Alexander Prams

Alexander holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich. He started programming at the age of 11, contributed to the development of a game engine at 16, and published two apps in the App Store during his bachelor's studies, gaining initial entrepreneurial experience. He worked for more than five years at a Munich-based research and development company, where he headed the artificial intelligence and computer vision department. In 2020, Alex co-founded Aitaro GmbH with Johannes. Today, he is driven by the desire to take the burden of data protection off the shoulders of engineers and to create the easiest-to-integrate no-code solution for implementing data protection.

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Interested in a new challenge in the compliance and tech sphere?

We are always looking for ambitious new colleagues. Apply now!

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