The young company has designed a solution allowing companies to accelerate the deployment of their products internationally.
Certo, start-up French, which has developed a solution to automate product compliance for companies in the food and beauty sector, announced on May 26 that it had raised $3.5 million. Daphni, Entrepreneurs First, Motier Ventures and Transpose Platform participated in the funding round. The operation is completed by a loan of $500,000, bringing the total financing to $4 million.
The young French shoots which automate product compliance seem to have the wind at their back since barely a month ago, it was Cleo Labs which announced its first fundraising. A dynamic driven by a simple observation: “Regulatory compliance constitutes the critical path of each product launch, but the process has not changed for decades”, summarizes Bastien Deliège-Coste, CEO and co-founder of Certo.
Founded in 2025, the start-up ensures that it covers the entire product compliance cycle through five modules: approval of raw materials and ingredients, formula compliance, verification of claims, labeling control and market access documentation. “We use AI agents to cross-reference products with the regulations of each market which are continuously updated, the company’s internal standards and the specific requirements of distributors,” indicates the manager. “The goal is to help companies launch products internationally faster and maintain them for as long as possible, either to generate additional revenue or to avoid fines.”
About ten customers
Certo is aimed at several types of players: “We equip manufacturers, brands who buy a finished product before affixing their logo or even distributors”. The start-up specializes in the food sector (including food supplements and petfood) and cosmetics. It has around ten clients in Europe and the United States, “some of whom generate more than a billion euros in turnover”. Note that Certo’s business model is based on two sources of revenue: a SaaS subscription and regulatory services provided by its teams to clients.
There fundraisingthe second after a funding round of $250,000 in 2025, should notably enable the start-up to recruit regulatory experts and accelerate into the American market. “There are currently six of us. There should be around ten of us by the end of the year,” concludes Bastien Deliège-Coste.
