We've raised $3.2M to revolutionise regulatory compliance.

25 June 2026 · Pierre Ferran · 3 min read

25th June 2026: Barcelona, Spain - Kalipso, the regulatory technology platform built by lawyers and engineers to help organisations operationalise regulatory change, has raised $3.2 million in funding as it expands across key international markets and grows its team to meet rising global demand for scalable RegTech infrastructure.

The company already works with institutions including Groupe Caisse des Dépôts in France and Alma, and is seeing rising demand from enterprise compliance teams managing increasingly complex obligations across the markets in which they operate.

The round was led by Varsity with participation from Lanai, Plug and Play, Kima Ventures and Vento.

Compliance breaks at the seam where a legal obligation becomes an operational control. A new rule lands, someone has to interpret it, map it to the business, find the gap in existing policies, fix it, assign ownership and prove it later. Today that work is done by hand, across disconnected tools (if any), with no single system holding it together. Kalipso was built to own that seam.

At the centre of Kalipso’s offering is a unified platform that operationalises regulatory change. It continuously analyses regulatory developments, identifies which obligations apply to each organisation, surfaces gaps in existing frameworks, and generates implementation-ready fixes with full source traceability, ensuring every recommendation can be linked directly to the underlying regulatory requirement. By centralising monitoring, remediation, ownership and audit workflows into a single operational environment, Kalipso enables in-house legal and compliance teams to move beyond reactive compliance management towards continuous regulatory oversight. The platform tracks more than 100 regulatory sources across 40+ jurisdictions, processing more than 3,000 regulatory updates daily.

Complementing the core platform is Kalipso Regulatory Radar, the company’s real-time regulatory intelligence layer. Regulatory Radar provides worldwide coverage across the full regulatory lifecycle, from early-stage legislative developments and consultation papers to final rules, supervisory guidance and interpretive updates. Using agentic relevance matching, the system prioritises the developments most relevant to each organisation’s business model, jurisdictional exposure and operational footprint.

The timing reflects a broader shift. The European Commission is pushing an ambitious regulatory change agenda, intensifying the operational burden on in-house legal and compliance teams.

“Compliance teams have been stitching together disconnected tools for too long. Kalipso closes that gap, taking organisations from regulatory change to implementing policies, controls and procedures inside a single system. Teams don't need another alert feed or another long report. They need infrastructure that turns regulation into action, and the peace of mind of knowing they are compliant.”

- Virginia Debernardi, Co-Founder and COO of Kalipso.

“The hardest part of compliance is not interpreting the law. It's implementing it — and almost nobody building in this space has stood on both sides of it. I have. As a lawyer embedded in engineering at Klarna, I watched those handoffs fail in real time. Most tools on the market are built either by lawyers who can’t engineer or engineers who don’t understand the law. Kalipso is built by people who are both. We didn’t abstract this problem: we lived it, and we built the system we couldn’t buy.”

- Pierre Ferran, Co-Founder and CEO of Kalipso.

“I spent most of my career inside one of Europe’s largest banks, where compliance is still largely manual, fragmented and reactive. What convinced me about Kalipso is the team — founders who genuinely understand both the law and the engineering, building for a sector I know from the inside. This is infrastructure the industry will need.”

- Didier Valet, Board Member and investor, former Deputy CEO of Société Générale and co-founder of Varsity.

Co-founders Pierre Ferran (CEO) and Virginia Debernardi (COO) bring combined legal and operational experience from high-growth technology companies. Pierre previously held senior legal roles at Klarna and Philips and is also a software engineer (LL.M., Stanford); Virginia served as General Counsel at Productsup.

As organisations face growing regulatory complexity, Kalipso plans to expand its team significantly in 2026 while deepening its presence across key international markets, including the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the Benelux region.

About Kalipso

Kalipso is a regulatory compliance platform that automates how organisations monitor, interpret and act on regulatory change. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Barcelona, the company serves financial institutions and regulated businesses across Europe. The platform covers major regulatory frameworks including DORA, MiCAR, PSD2, the AI Act, GDPR and MiFID II. Kalipso is ISO 27001 certified and stores all data on European sovereign cloud infrastructure. For more information, visit kalipso.ai.

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