Personio

VERIFIZIERT

HR & Personalwesen · Germany

Founded 2015 · personio.com ↗

Munich-based HR flagship for European SMBs (founded 2015); ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + TISAX; ~$770M US-VC-funded.

Warum diese Bewertung?

Personio (Munich DE, founded 2015) is the European HR flagship — ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + TISAX, AWS Frankfurt hosting, ~14K customers — but $770M+ raised across 8 rounds led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (US), Index Ventures (US/UK), Accel (US), Greenoaks (US), giving US VCs durable control and CLOUD Act-relevant influence; ownership signal eu_hq_us_funded.

SCORE: 3.0/5
CLOUD ACT
OWNERSHIP
SUB-PROCS: — not disclosed

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About Personio

**Personio** (Munich, Germany, founded 2015) is the most-funded European HR-tech company — $770M+ across 8 rounds — and serves ~14,000 European SMBs (10-2,000 employees) with payroll, recruiting, time tracking, and people management. The compliance posture is strong: **ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + TISAX**, AWS Frankfurt hosting, EU-only data residency. The ownership-side caveat is straightforward: cap table is **US-VC-dominated** — Lightspeed Venture Partners (US) led Series C, with Index (UK/US), Accel (US), Greenoaks (US), and Lakestar (CH) all on the books. For DACH compliance buyers this is the canonical "German HR vendor, US capital" trade-off.

SUB-PROCESSORS

Unterauftragsverarbeiter-Karte · not disclosed

Vendor does not publish a sub-processors list. Schrems II compliance and CLOUD Act exposure cannot be independently verified without it.

CERTIFICATIONS

Rahmenwerke & Zertifizierungen

ISO/IEC 27001

ACTIVE

SOC 2

ACTIVE

Informational · US framework

FEATURES

Funktionsmatrix

INTEGRATION & ACCESS

REST API

SSO (SAML / OIDC)

COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE

Audit log

Self-host / on-prem option

PRICING

Preise & Tarife

KOSTENPFLICHTIG

Individuelle Preise

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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Öffentliche Dokumente

Vendor does not publish a public DPA. Without a publicly accessible Data Processing Addendum, small EU customers cannot self-serve the processor agreement — this caps the compliance score (see How we score).

Vendor does not publish a sub-processors list. Schrems II compliance and CLOUD Act exposure cannot be independently verified without it.

Data Processing Addendum (DPA)

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Sub-processors list

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