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

Kelsey Waters

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

Sarah Funkhouser

Head of Engineering & Co-founder

Matt Anderson

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder