Compliance expertise, built for growing teams
Waivern was founded in 2025 to help startups and scale-ups navigate privacy, AI, and cybersecurity compliance - without the overhead of building an in-house team.
We're based in the UK and Norway, with team members across the world.
Our vision
“Make compliance feel like part of the team, not a burden on it.”
Traditional compliance tools were built for a different era. They moved spreadsheets and checklists into digital format, but still left you to figure out the hard parts alone.
We take a different approach. Our open-source framework automates risk discovery, evidence collection, and documentation drafting - and our compliance service pairs it with legal and technical expertise to keep you on track.
The result: compliance that actually works, without pulling your engineering team away from what they do best.
Founders
Vincent Nunan
Co-Founder and CEO
Vincent has over twenty years of product leadership experience in B2B in financial services and B2C digital services (online news and consumer marketplaces). He holds an Executive MBA with distinction from Imperial College, London, and AIGP and CIPP/E certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Technology in London.
Liwen Knight-Zhang
Co-Founder and CTO
Liwen is a technologist and digital product creator with deep experience across creative agencies, online advertising, e-commerce and media, designing and building large-scale solutions and leading teams and departments. He holds master's degrees in both Computer Science and Business Administration from Durham University and Imperial College London, respectively.
“AI-powered tools and dedicated experts, working together to make compliance something you can rely on - not worry about.”
The road so far
First clients and compliance service
Onboarded our first clients and launched the Waivern Compliance Service - a dedicated compliance team for growing organisations.
Public launch
We released our first public repos on GitHub. First public interest begins building in the Waivern platform.
First milestones
Decided to adopt an open source approach combined with premium support and regulatory analytics.
The journey begins
Waivern founded and starts developing our framework.