Skip to main content

Company / About us

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.

View across the rooftops of Munich old town in morning light, the towers of the Frauenkirche on the right
Munich
  • 100+

    Customer interviews

    including DAX and MDAX groups

  • 2024

    Founded

    in Dresden

  • €300k

    Pre-seed

    funding round

Funded and supported by

Die TechnikerUnternehmerTUM IncubatorUnternehmerTUMYETI DresdenboOst Startup Factory
Bundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungHTW DresdenSBG Sächsische BeteiligungsgesellschaftfutureSAXLegal Tech Verband DeutschlandSilicon Saxonydresden|exists
Meeting room in an old building with a tall arched window, a row of shell chairs and a flip chart, evening sun on the wooden floorboards

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.

  1. Screening result
    01

    People make the decision

    Only a person marks a rule relevant or not relevant. COBACK prepares that decision.

  2. Reasoning
    02

    Every assessment names its source

    Every result comes with the original source, reasoning in plain words and the company facts it relies on.

  3. Open questions
    03

    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

    Étienne Schüler

    CEO, Product development and compliance

  • Benjamin Ernst

    Benjamin Ernst

    CFO, Finance and compliance

  • Pushpit Bhardwaj

    Pushpit Bhardwaj

    CTO, AI and architecture

Where we come from

  1. 01

    2024

    Founded at TU Dresden and HTW Dresden.

  2. 02

    Funding

    Supported in Saxony by SBG, futureSAX, dresden|exists and HTW Dresden, among others.

  3. 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.