heyData has closed a $16.5 million Series A funding round led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, positioning the company to accelerate product development and expand its footprint across Europe. The company framed the raise as a commitment to making compliance and IT security more intuitive and automated for everyday business teams, rather than a specialized, expert-only function managed through spreadsheets and ad hoc processes.
The company said it is advancing a product vision centered on “real world compliance for real world teams,” arguing that compliance is too often treated as a costly, intimidating black box. With the new capital, heyData plans to build workflow-native tools that reduce administrative burden and help organizations manage security and compliance requirements as part of routine operations rather than separate projects.
HeyData also indicated the round was brought forward from a later 2026 timeline, citing faster-moving European regulatory requirements and growing complexity in digital threats as catalysts for increased investment and pace.
The company outlined three core focus areas for the funding. First, heyData plans to expand its IT security capabilities and more tightly merge security and compliance into a single modular platform, which it described as an “all in one compliance solution 2.0.” Second, it intends to add more compliance frameworks and deepen integrations, with an emphasis on automating as many tasks as possible. Third, heyData plans to scale beyond its established base in the DACH region and expand across Europe, targeting companies seeking to grow without traditional compliance overhead.
heyData concluded by crediting customers, partners, and investors for feedback and support, and said it is focused on helping organizations treat compliance not only as a requirement, but as an ongoing trust signal they can demonstrate continuously.
KEY QUOTES
“We’re building heyData for the reality of modern business. This round gives us the fuel to bring IT security and compliance together in one place, so you can stop coordinating tasks and start feeling in control.”
Miloš Djurdjević, Co-Founder
“Our goal is for compliance to stop feeling like an ‘extra’ project and start feeling like a clean, natural process. We’re investing this capital into reducing friction – more automation and more clarity, from your first setup all the way to the audit.”
Daniel Deutsch
“Compliance is a badge of trust. We want to ensure you can prove that trust to your customers at any time, with a system that grows as fast as you do.”
Martin Bastius
