About Openlane | Open-Source Compliance Platform

We're building a compliance
solution that is simple, transparent,
and open for everyone.

Our story

As engineering and operations leaders, we've repeatedly felt the pain of underinvestment in tools, processes, and automation — especially when it comes to security and compliance. Our expertise building security and compliance programs across companies and industries has taught us that treating compliance as a seasonal effort leads to rushed tests, last-minute evidence gathering, and crossed fingers during audits. We know there is a better way!

That's why we built Openlane.

We bring clarity, control, and automation to modern compliance. Our passion is helping growing companies get compliant faster with fewer spreadsheets and less guesswork. We believe security and compliance should be accessible to all. Our vision is a future where individuals and enterprises collaborate to tackle endless cyber threats and manage risk — together.

Our ethos

Here’s what drives us at Openlane

Be Additive.

A rising tide lifts all boats. We create an environment that encourages and inspires growth, both for individuals and for the open source communities as a whole.

Be Hungry.

Builders don't wait. When we see a problem, we don't expect someone else to fix it or tell us what to do. Instead, we take initiative, find creative ways around it, and send a pull request to solve it.

Be Honest.

We share our context with transparency and have conversations in the open. We prefer to be intellectually honest instead of sugarcoating the truth to avoid potential conflict.

We infused our ethos into our product

Meet the team

We believe great software comes from curious people who enjoy solving hard problems together.
(We also take escape rooms a little too seriously.)

Kelsey Waters

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

I have spent my entire career in leadership, helping organizations build world-class operations and security teams. From my early days…

Sarah Funkhouser

Head of Engineering & Co-founder

I've spent most of my career building and improving tools for other engineers. I've always been drawn to the work behind the work: the…

Matt Anderson

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder

In every job I've had, I've had to touch compliance in one way or another - my first exposure to SOC 2 was in ~2011 where we wanted our…