- This French RegTech enables companies to anticipate non-compliance risks by automating international product compliance, leveraging the analysis of over 25,000 regulatory authorities across 106 countries.
- The round is led by Larry Berger, with participation from Kima Ventures, Financière Saint-James, and several prominent figures from the tech ecosystem, alongside additional funding from Deel.
- Objective: accelerate technology development, structure European expansion, and prepare for entry into the U.S. market.
Paris, April 29, 2026 – Cleo Labs, a company specializing in product regulatory compliance, announces a €1.5 million funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-powered platform dedicated to international product compliance.
A growing challenge driven by global regulatory complexity
Every year, thousands of companies operating internationally face a complex and often underestimated challenge: navigating a fragmented, constantly evolving regulatory environment specific to each market.
For example, launching a simple connected bike helmet can involve more than a hundred regulations: material standards from the R&D phase, country-specific certifications and testing, labeling requirements, and export-related customs constraints—all essential steps before going to market.
The cost of non-compliance amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars (product recalls, fines, customs blockages). Yet many companies still rely on spreadsheets or inadequate tools.
In this context, the RegTech sector is rapidly accelerating, driven by the proliferation of regulations (Digital Product Passport, CSRD, ESG, etc.). Companies must manage increasing volumes of constraints without compromising competitiveness.
“Our ambition is to transform regulatory compliance—currently seen as a constraint—into a strategic lever for companies. Thanks to AI, it becomes possible to anticipate rather than react“, says Naomie Halioua, co-founder of Cleo Labs.
Cleo Labs: automating product compliance at a global scale
To address these challenges, Cleo Labs has developed an artificial intelligence platform that automates regulatory compliance for companies selling physical products internationally.
The platform is powered by MARIA (Multi-Agent Regulatory Intelligence Architecture), a proprietary multi-agent AI pipeline that continuously monitors over 25,000 regulatory authorities across 106 countries (agencies, regulators, and standardization bodies). Each analysis produced by MARIA is validated by legal experts through a human-in-the-loop approach, ensuring the reliability of recommendations.
It addresses two critical needs:
- Pre-launch mapping: generation of a comprehensive checklist of regulatory requirements per product and market
- Continuous monitoring: real-time alerts on regulatory changes, with business impact analysis As a result, teams can:
- process up to 10 times more regulations without additional hires
- significantly reduce compliance timelines
- anticipate risks before they impact product commercialization
Cleo Labs already counts Decathlon and Electrolux Professional among its clients, who use the platform to secure and accelerate their international product launches.
“Today, teams still spend considerable time manually analyzing complex and evolving regulations, often using spreadsheets or inadequate tools. With Cleo Comply, we enable them to gain speed, reliability, and processing capacity by automating these processes at scale“, explains Anaëlle Guez, co-founder of Cleo Labs.
A first round to structure growth
This first funding round is led by Larry Berger, alongside Kima Ventures and Financière Saint-James, as well as several tech ecosystem figures including Boris Paillard (Le Wagon), Ambre Soubiran (Kaiko), Stéphanie Zolesio (Casino), and Charles Sutton (Datascientest). The round also includes a scout ticket from Accel.
Cleo Labs also won The Pitch by Deel—one of the world’s largest startup competitions (over 35,000 applications)—ranking first in the regional final held at Station F. This achievement comes with funding from Deel and qualifies the company for the international final in Dubai.
This funding marks a key milestone for Cleo Labs, which aims to accelerate its technological development to strengthen platform capabilities and expand its feature set. It will also support commercial expansion in Europe – its primary strategic market – while laying the groundwork for international growth, particularly in the United States.
Founders at the intersection of tech and societal challenges
Cleo Labs was founded by Naomie Halioua, an engineer graduated from École polytechnique, and Anaelle Guez, a graduate of Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas University, who previously held the role of Chief Transformation Officer at Havas—bringing together deep expertise in both technology and legal/compliance.
About Cleo Labs : Cleo Labs develops an artificial intelligence platform dedicated to international product regulatory compliance. Its solution enables companies to map, automate, and manage their regulatory obligations across all markets, relying on more than 25,000 regulatory authorities in 106 countries. The platform covers two key needs: mapping regulatory requirements before product launch, and continuously monitoring regulatory changes with business impact analysis. It allows teams to significantly reduce compliance timelines, handle larger volumes of regulations, and anticipate risks before they affect commercialization. Already adopted by global companies such as Decathlon and Electrolux Professional, Cleo Labs is emerging as a key player in securing and accelerating physical product launches worldwide.
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