Malte Wagenbach

Malte Wagenbach is the founder and CEO of Matproof, a European compliance automation platform headquartered in Germany. He started Matproof after years of watching European SaaS and mid-market enterprises struggle with fragmented compliance tooling that assumed US hosting, US regulatory priorities, and US enterprise sales motions.

Matproof covers 11 frameworks in a single EU-hosted platform — NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 (Type 1 + Type 2), GDPR, EU AI Act, CSRD, TISAX, BSI C5, CRA, and DSGVO. The platform dual-maps controls across frameworks so a single evidence pipeline satisfies multiple regulatory regimes simultaneously — and is designed from the ground up for European data residency, DORA third-party obligations, and NIS2 supply-chain management.

Malte writes about practical European compliance — what actually works vs what regulators say should work, how NIS2 interacts with DORA, how European SaaS can achieve SOC 2 without moving to US tooling, and how mid-market organizations can run credible pentests, risk management, and AI governance programs without enterprise-scale budgets.

Before Matproof, Malte built and operated technology businesses across energy, robotics, AI infrastructure, and compliance. He is based in Germany and works primarily with DACH and broader European enterprises.