About Govrly

We're rebuilding governance, risk, and compliance from the ground up.

Govrly was founded on a simple belief: compliance shouldn't be a burden. It should be the operating system for trust — fast, structured, and audit-ready by default.

Our story

From bookshelves of binders to a single source of truth.

We started Govrly after spending years watching compliance teams drown in spreadsheets, screenshots, and email threads. Audits felt like a fire drill. Evidence lived everywhere. Risk reviews became guesswork.

So we built the platform we wished we had — one that treats governance as a living, breathing system rather than a once-a-year scramble. Govrly maps controls to frameworks, automates evidence collection, and turns every audit into a routine workflow.

Today, security and compliance leaders use Govrly to run NCA ECC, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and dozens of other frameworks side by side — with one unified posture, one risk register, and one set of evidence backing it all.

Compliance done right is just operations with a paper trail. That's the bet we're making — and it's working.
Lina Hassan, CEO & Co-founder
What drives us

Mission and vision.

Mission

Make compliance an operational advantage — not a bottleneck — for every organization that handles trust.

Vision

A world where every regulated business proves its posture in real time, and where evidence flows automatically from the systems that already run the work.

Our values

The principles behind every product decision.

These aren't slogans on a wall. They're the operating rules we use to ship — and the ones we hire, review, and promote against.

Trust is the product

We treat customer data, audit trails, and reliability as the actual feature set. Everything else is wrapping.

Speed with structure

Ship fast, but never ship sloppy. Compliance work is high-stakes — our defaults have to be safe.

Customer obsession

Every roadmap item starts with a real GRC team and a real audit cycle. No imagined personas.

Operate in the open

Internally and with customers — share progress, share trade-offs, share what isn't working yet.

Our journey

From a side project to the GRC platform of record.

  1. 2021

    Govrly is founded

    Three GRC veterans decide compliance teams deserve better tools — and start building.

  2. 2022

    First production customers

    Early design partners take Govrly into their NCA ECC and ISO 27001 programs.

  3. 2023

    Multi-framework engine

    Controls map across SOC 2, ISO 27001, NCA ECC, and PDPL — one posture, many frameworks.

  4. 2024

    Evidence automation

    Native connectors auto-collect evidence from cloud, identity, and ticketing systems.

  5. 2025

    AI co-pilot

    AI drafts policies, summarizes audits, and flags drift across hundreds of controls.

Leadership

The people behind the platform.

We're a small team of ex-compliance leads, security architects, and product engineers who have lived audit week from both sides.

LH

Lina Hassan

CEO & Co-founder

Former Head of Compliance at a regional bank. Believes auditors deserve clean data, not screenshots.

KT

Karim Tarek

CTO & Co-founder

Built evidence pipelines at a Fortune 100 fintech. Obsessed with making integrations boring on purpose.

SM

Sara Mostafa

VP Product

Led GRC product at a hyperscaler. Translates regulator memos into roadmap items.

OF

Omar Faruq

VP Engineering

Spent a decade scaling reliability platforms. Treats uptime as a compliance control.

Join the movement

Build the future of governance with us.

Whether you're an operator hunting for fewer audit headaches, an auditor tired of chasing evidence, or an engineer who wants to ship a meaningful product — there's a place for you in the Govrly story.

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