Osapiens

There was a precise moment when sustainability stopped being a narrative and started becoming a legal obligation. For thousands of European companies, that moment coincided with the entry into force of the Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz — the German supply chain due diligence act, known as LkSG — in 2023. Those who could not demonstrate monitoring of their suppliers on human rights and environmental issues faced significant penalties. And monitoring could not be done with Excel spreadsheets and paper questionnaires: it required digital infrastructure. Osapiens had seen this coming before others. Founded in 2018 in Mannheim by Alberto Zamora, Matthias Jungblut, and Stefan Wawrzinek, the company had already built the foundational building blocks of its enterprise platform when the first regulatory wave hit the European continent. The idea behind osapiens was not to sell sustainability as a story to communicate, but as an operational process to manage: verifiable audit trails, ERP integration, digital supplier onboarding, data collection and validation along the entire value chain. Today the osapiens HUB platform offers over 25 modular enterprise solutions, each designed to address a specific regulatory obligation or operational process: from CSRD reporting — the European corporate sustainability directive that extends non-financial reporting obligations to tens of thousands of companies — to compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), from the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to the German LkSG, through to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Customers activate the modules they need, pay based on user count and active features, and obtain a system that evolves automatically with the regulatory framework. The most eloquent proof of the model's robustness is the quality of clients acquired: osapiens serves over 2,400 companies worldwide, including giants such as Coca-Cola North America, Lidl, Carrefour, Otto, and the Acciona-Nordex Group. Multinationals with supply chains spanning dozens of countries and hundreds of suppliers — exactly the kind of organization for which manual compliance is impossible and an integrated platform becomes critical infrastructure. Financial recognition arrived unambiguously at the start of 2026, when osapiens closed a $100 million Series C round led by Decarbonization Partners — the joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek focused on the energy transition — reaching a valuation exceeding one billion dollars and becoming Germany's first unicorn of 2026. The round follows a $120 million Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in 2024, for total funding that places osapiens among the most capitalized European scaleups in the ESG tech segment. The constructive irony of osapiens' story is that its rise is fueled by what many companies perceive as a burden: regulation. Every new European directive, every national supply chain law, every non-financial reporting obligation is, for osapiens, a commercial event. And the European regulatory calendar for the coming years — with the progressive entry into force of CSRD, CSDDD, and EUDR — is packed with such events. Osapiens has built something rare in the European tech landscape: a company whose competitive advantage grows in proportion to the regulatory complexity surrounding the market. With 550 employees distributed across Europe and the United States and over 2,400 customers relying on the platform for audit-ready processes, osapiens is not selling compliance as a product: it is selling operational peace of mind, to those who cannot afford to get it wrong.