Security compliance is a needed yet painful experience for most startups. This week’s startup makes it easy for your startup to complete compliance and audits.
⚾️ The Elevator Pitch:
Laika is one of the first unified compliance-as-a-service platforms, helping bring compliance transparency and automation to its customers. It makes the complex process easy, and helps companies obtain security certificates and build trust with their customers.
Laika replaces the outdated compliance workflow with an end-to-end solution optimized for speed. It ultimately reduces frustration, boosts confidence & trust amongst customers, and builds their clients’ brand value.
👇 The Drop Down
🌱 Site: https://heylaika.com/
🚀 Founded: 2019
🍄 Stage: Seed
🤖 Tech trend: compliance and software
📈 Traction: Achieved 4.5x ARR growth YOY, including 3.9x YOY customer growth, raised $35M Series B to Help Companies Ace Security Audits
😊 Team - Austin Ogilvie (co-founder & co-CEO), Eva Pittas (co-founder & COO), Sam Li (co-founder & co- CEO)
🔍 Why we like it?
🦾 Strong infosec (information security) monitoring
Laika can build a program for any standard in minutes. It guides clients via workflows for standards like ISO 27001, SOC2, and HIPAA and also helps businesses quickly connect essential services, instantly create policy documents from templates, and onboard every user, device, and vendor.
👣 They prioritized streamlining (i.e. vertical integration)
It has an integrated and a well structured model for every audit without any guesswork. Laika’s features provide smart programmatically coordinated audits so clients can track progress in a single dashboard. There are auto recommend the next step in the audit process and makes a seamless hand off to a third-party service provider.