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We build COBACK so compliance teams can decide instead of searching.
COBACK is end-to-end software for legal and compliance teams in companies. Human experts remain responsible for final regulatory decisions.

100+
Customer interviews
including DAX and MDAX groups
2024
Founded
in Dresden
€300k
Pre-seed
funding round
Funded and supported by


Why COBACK exists
Every week brings new laws, regulations and guidance from authorities, in the EU, in Germany and in the other countries where a company does business. For the people responsible, it comes down to one question: what of this affects us, and what do we have to do?
Today the answer takes a lot of manual work. Official journals are read, texts are checked against Excel lists, ownership is sorted out by email and decisions are recorded by hand.
COBACK is there to make that work smaller. It finds the changes, maps them to your company, assigns the tasks and keeps a record of decisions and history. Whether a rule applies to you is your decision. That will not change.
Étienne SchülerManaging Director
What we believe
Three principles we build COBACK by. Each of them shows in the product.
- Screening result01
People make the decision
Only a person marks a rule relevant or not relevant. COBACK prepares that decision.
- Reasoning02
Every assessment names its source
Every result comes with the original source, reasoning in plain words and the company facts it relies on.
- Open questions03
We say what we do not know
Where a fact is missing, COBACK asks. A missing fact never counts as a no, and a model estimate always carries its label.
The team
The team brings together experience in AI, electrical engineering and regulation.

Étienne Schüler
CEO, Product development and compliance

Benjamin Ernst
CFO, Finance and compliance

Pushpit Bhardwaj
CTO, AI and architecture
Where we come from
- 01
2024
Founded at TU Dresden and HTW Dresden.
- 02
Funding
Supported in Saxony by SBG, futureSAX, dresden|exists and HTW Dresden, among others.
- 03
Today
Supported by the UnternehmerTUM Incubator. COBACK now reads laws and publications by authorities in Europe, the Americas and Asia and by international bodies.