Best GRC Services Companies in Germany
The 100 best GRC Services companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: heyData.
Germany's GRC Services sector doesn't have the funding spectacle you'd expect from a market sized at $41.0B globally with an 18.5% CAGR. Our directory tracks 100 companies here, and total disclosed funding lands at just $4M. No unicorns. So where's the money? Concentrated, mostly: heyData pulled $3M of that pool, with TUV Nord Group a distant second at roughly $751K. DEKRA and Mayer Brown show up with zero disclosed funding, which tells you something about how established players in this space operate, quietly, on revenue rather than venture rounds.
And yet the sector's moving. Demand drivers like system integration, consulting, and compliance support are pulling companies in, and coverage across the 100 tracked firms is genuinely rising this quarter. I'd flag heyData as the one to watch given its funding lead, though the presence of names like DQS and DEKRA signals that legacy certification and audit players still anchor the German market. The most active investors backing this space, Europa, 10vc, and Anker Capital among them, are placing small but deliberate bets. It's a sector that rewards patience, not flash.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
Ranked: Best GRC Services companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heyData Provider of data protection audit & consulting services | $3M | 4 mo ago | Series A | Martin Bastius Co-Founder & CLO | 2019 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+12 | — |
| 2 | TUV NORD GROUP Provider of business consulting services 21Global bottom 45%Product bottom 43%Fin. health bottom 40%Talent bottom 40% All 8 signals ▾Globalbottom 45% Productbottom 43% Fin. healthbottom 40% Talentbottom 40% Marketbottom 38% Newsbottom 37% Techbottom 36% Fundingbottom 34% Global: Legal entities in 7 countries: Croatia, Germany, India, Latvia Product: 0 product launch events in 12 mo · 2 published apps (9.0k installs) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 21/100 | $751K | 31 mo ago | Funding Raised | Dirk Stenkamp CEO | 1987 | TYPO3 CMSApple iCloud MailPHP+11 | 1 partnership |
| 3 | DQS Online learning platform | $88K | 40 mo ago | Acquired | Ingo Rubenach CEO & MD | 1985 | VarnishPlatform.shHubSpot Chat+18 | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 4 | DEKRA Provider of automotive services, including claims processing, inspection, and business consulting | — | 32 mo ago | Funding Raised | Stan Zurkiewicz Chairman of the Management Board | 1925 | Apple iCloud MailZohoLeaflet+16 | — |
| 5 | Mayer Brown Provider of legal advisory services | — | 132 mo ago | Funding Raised | Dominic Griffiths Managing Partner | 1881 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Node.js+14 | 1 award |
| 6 | 360 Digitale Transformation Provider of information security consulting, penetration testing, and compliance services | — | — | Unfunded | Anton Kramm Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 7 | 42DBS Cloud-based platform for workflow automation and compliance management | — | — | Unfunded | Jan Baksa Lesjak CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 8 | ADVISORI Provider of IT consulting for risk management, security, and compliance | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2014 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+10 | 1 partnership |
Top 5 GRC Services companies in Germany
#1
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2019 · 33 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of data protection audit & consulting services
- Jan 2026Series A$16.5M
- Jun 2025Seed—
- Sep 2022Seed$3.3M
#2
Funding Raised · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 1987 · 338 employees$751Kraised▾
Provider of business consulting services
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$154K
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$47.4K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$79K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$43.5K
#3
Acquired · Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse · founded 1985 · 5 employees$88Kraised▾
Online learning platform. It provides certification courses on topics such as management, IT, automobiles, food and consumer, sustainability, and more.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$38.3K
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$49.7K
#4
Funding Raised · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 1925 · 6829 employees—raised▾
Provider of automotive services, including claims processing, inspection, and business consulting. Its services include industrial and building inspections, audit, safety consultancy. Also provides testing and certification of products, systems, as well as training courses and temporary work.
#5
Funding Raised · Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse · founded 1881—raised▾
Provider of legal advisory services
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of GRC Services coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.