Resilient supply chains are a fundamental part, not only of a single company’s success, but also of overall national security and economic prosperity.

For procurement teams across the globe, it feels like they can’t catch a break. Despite the apparent benefits of globalization, vast, interconnected supply systems have made it challenging for businesses to adapt to the new normal.

Working with suppliers in or near unstable countries creates significant risk for companies, as business continuity becomes less and less assured as risk increases. The same holds true for a supplier’s own supply chain (what we call subsuppliers). For most companies, it’s impossible to identify all the subcontractors and subsuppliers connected to them across multiple degrees of separation.

Particularly when it comes to working across suppliers and partners who make up your supply chain, there are so many volatile situations and variables associated with them that you can’t account for, so it’s important to prepare for the things you can.

Beyond the most obvious reasons for organizations to pursue real sustainability, recent years have shown that prioritizing ESG can be a competitive differentiator. Those that ignore it do so at their own peril.

Certa’s Studio 2.0 is the next generation of Certa’s no-code platform, allowing users greater flexibility with new modules, clear visibility into process dependencies, and a more responsive, drag-and-drop interface that all business users can navigate to significantly reduce the timeline and level of effort required to create a customized solution.

Amid ongoing globalization challenges, record inflation, and a looming recession, procurement teams need speed and flexibility to adapt to market changes. Studio 2.0 equips businesses with exactly that -- enabling procurement to rapidly onboard new suppliers, optimize compliance, and manage risk in a more flexible manner, without any IT bottlenecks.

Choosing the right supplier partners and managing them well is perhaps the most impactful decision for a company when it comes to sustainability.

Supply chains have been hit hard in the past two years, and the challenges do not get easier with the Ukraine war, which will affect industries for years to come.

In an era when a business’s sustainability, ESG and sourcing activities are critical to employees, customers, regulators and investors alike, pursuing an integrated strategy could be a winning move.

Certa, a leading no-code automation platform for procurement and compliance, today announced its official Series A investment, totaling $15 million, led by Point72 Ventures with participation from tech visionary Justin Kan, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston, Mantis VC, and others.

A no-code startup that aims to ease a bottleneck in procurement has raised fresh funds in a round backed by cofounders from both Twitch and Dropbox.

Vendor and partner onboarding are among the most time-consuming, opaque, and arduous processes within an enterprise. Growing data security concerns, privacy regulations and a heightened emphasis on ESG add further complexity and burden. Certa reduces onboarding time, and increases overall transparency by automating the entire third-party lifecycle for enterprises.

Vendor and partner onboarding are among the most time-consuming, opaque, and arduous processes within an enterprise. Growing data security concerns, privacy regulations and a heightened emphasis on ESG add further complexity and burden. Certa reduces onboarding time, and increases overall transparency by automating the entire third-party lifecycle for enterprises.

Certa, a San Francisco startup that helps automate the procurement and compliance process, raised $15 million.

No-code automation platform Certa raised a $15M Series A round. The funding round was led by Point72 Ventures and saw participation from Mantis VC, Dropbox CEO, Drew Houston, Twitch founder Justin Kan, and a few other investors.

“When you combine all of these checks that are needed for companies to work together—and we haven’t even discussed the contract—it’s a lot,” said Jagmeet Lamba, CEO of Certa, which makes third-party risk management software.

Vendor and partner onboarding are among the most time-consuming, opaque, and arduous processes within an enterprise. Growing data security concerns, privacy regulations and a heightened emphasis on ESG add further complexity and burden. Certa reduces onboarding time, and increases overall transparency by automating the entire third-party lifecycle for enterprises.

“Three years ago, folks were concerned about making sure vendor wasn’t too risky and as long as they weren’t, it was good enough,” said Jag Lamba, CEO of Certa, which offers a third-party risk management platform. “Now, organizations are looking for vendors whose values area aligned with theirs in terms of social impact.”

Certa, the leading no-code platform for procurement, risk and compliance, and supplier.io, a pioneer in the field of supplier diversity solutions, announced a strategic partnership to bring Certa’s clients supplier.io’s best-in-class supplier diversity analytics.

No-code automation platform for procurement and compliance, Certa, has announced an official Series A investment, totaling $15 million, led by Point72 Ventures with participation from tech visionary Justin Kan, Dropbox co-founder and CEO, Drew Houston, Mantis VC, and others.

Certa, a San Francisco startup that helps automate the procurement and compliance process, raised $15 million. The company is led by CEO Jagmeet Lamba, who participated in Techstars Seattle in 2013.

Certa provides a cloud-based platform that enables companies to manage all the different steps involved in onboarding suppliers through a single interface. According to the startup, its platform can speed up onboarding by as much as 300%.

Vendor and partner onboarding are among the most time-consuming, opaque, and arduous processes within an enterprise. Growing data security concerns, privacy regulations and a heightened emphasis on ESG add further complexity and burden. Certa reduces onboarding time, and increases overall transparency by automating the entire third-party lifecycle for enterprises.

Certa, a leading no-code automation platform for procurement and compliance, announced its official Series A investment, totaling $15 million, led by Point72 Ventures with participation from tech visionary Justin Kan, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston, Mantis VC, and others.

Certa, a San Francisco startup that helps automate the procurement and compliance process, raised $15 million. The company is led by CEO Jagmeet Lamba, who participated in Techstars Seattle in 2013.

Certa, a San Francisco, CA-based leading no-code automation platform for procurement and compliance, announced its official Series A investment, totaling $15 million.

Today, the leading third-party risk management platform, Certa, announced its official partnership with the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, EcoVadis. The integration will allow Certa customers to see the EcoVadis ratings of their third-party suppliers at a glance within one integrated platform.

Saratoga-based Certa is an operational management platform that provides a fully integrated suite of products for third-party lifecycle management. Founded by Jagmeet Lamba in 2013, Certa has now raised a total of $15.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Drew Houston, Justin Kan, MANTIS Venture Capital, and Point72 Ventures.

The leading third-party risk management platform, Certa, announced its official partnership with the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, EcoVadis. The integration will allow Certa customers to see the EcoVadis ratings of their third-party suppliers at a glance within one integrated platform.

No-code software is the next evolution of SaaS. No-code is SaaS 2.0. With no-code software, users can create custom applications for both web and mobile and digitize entire complex business processes with a simple drag-and-drop function. The solutions use dynamic data models, workflows, and in-app reporting systems to provide flexibility that current SaaS point solutions can't compare to.

In 2022, we’re going to see a move toward no-code/low-code (NC/LC) startups and offerings, which will address portal fatigue as well as offer a better value proposition. NC/LC offerings are the clear next step for business functions as their flexibility, best practice templates, and ease of integration with current and future solutions make them compare quite favorably to the SaaS solutions that have begun to encumber all of our work machines.

Work harder: This one is obvious, but the hunger that immigrants bring to the world around us is not only fuel for success but also for big, positive changes in the industry- or world-wide.