Company Profile · Compliance SaaS
Certemy.
Track, verify, and manage every professional license before it lapses - not after.
CERTEMY — the license-management platform built to replace the compliance spreadsheet.
Track, verify, and manage every professional license before it lapses - not after.
CERTEMY — the license-management platform built to replace the compliance spreadsheet.
Every regulated industry runs on the same quiet assumption: that the people doing the work are legally allowed to do it. A nurse's license is current. An electrician's certification hasn't lapsed. A telehealth provider is credentialed in the state where the patient actually lives. Certemy is the software that turns that assumption into something you can verify - continuously, automatically, and in one place.
Founded in 2017 and based in Costa Mesa, California, Certemy is a SaaS workforce-compliance platform. It lets enterprises and licensing boards track, verify, and manage the professional licenses and certifications of their workforce. Instead of a shared spreadsheet that someone updates once a year, Certemy provides automated renewal workflows, primary-source verification against issuing authorities, real-time dashboards, and integrations that pull employee data straight from the HR system.
The company's own line is blunt: "Drop the spreadsheets and use a tool meant for license management." Behind that is a broader ambition - to build an integrated ecosystem where boards, professionals, employers, education providers, and testing companies all exchange the same credential data without re-keying it four times.
Certemy's founding story is unusually literal. President and founder Oleg Shvarts is a board-certified urologist who grew tired of managing his own stack of medical certifications and licenses across jurisdictions. The problem he lived became the product he built.
He was joined by a founding team that had already been through the startup cycle. CEO and co-founder Zorik Gordon is a serial entrepreneur whose earlier ventures include ReachLocal (NASDAQ: RLOC), SERVIZ, and WorldWinner. COO and co-founder Shawn Cantor previously served as COO of WorkWave and held leadership roles at ReachLocal. Between them, the team describes more than a hundred combined years working with large credentialing organizations and scaling technology companies.
"Certemy enables enterprises to track, verify, and manage credentials across staff, equipment and facilities." — Certemy, company positioning
Nobody gets promoted for keeping licenses current. But an expired credential at the wrong moment can trigger an audit finding, a fine, or a stopped shift. These are the failure modes Certemy is built to catch.
A license expires unnoticed and a professional keeps working uncovered. Certemy sends automated reminders and flags status changes before the deadline.
Confirming a credential against the issuing board by hand is slow and error-prone. Certemy automates primary-source verification.
A national employer can face thousands of credential-jurisdiction combinations. Certemy turns that into a single dashboard.
When an auditor asks, "prove it," a spreadsheet rarely holds up. Certemy keeps an audit trail and centralized records.
Boards, employers, schools, and testing companies re-key the same data. Certemy connects them around one credential record.
Licensing boards drown in paper applications and renewals. Certemy's Credential Engine runs those workflows as software.
Certemy serves both the employers who hire licensed professionals and the boards who issue those licenses - the same credential data flowing to both.
Real-time tracking of licenses, certifications, permits, and registrations with automated renewal reminders and compliance dashboards.
Automated verification of credentials directly against issuing authorities, with alerts when a status changes.
An end-to-end SaaS platform for national and state boards to run initial application and renewal workflows.
Prebuilt connections to BambooHR, Paycor, Workday, and SAP SuccessFactors, plus single sign-on.
Tools for boards to publish verifiable public registries of credentialed professionals.
AI-assisted monitoring of workforce compliance and credential status across the organization.
Certemy's most common competitor isn't another vendor - it's the shared Excel file that "works fine" until an auditor asks a question. Generic HR systems store an employee record but don't verify a credential against its issuing board or run a licensing renewal workflow. That gap is the product.
| Capability | Spreadsheet | Generic HRIS | Certemy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated renewal reminders | Manual | Limited | Built-in |
| Primary-source verification | No | No | Yes |
| Board application & renewal workflows | No | No | Yes |
| Multi-state / multi-jurisdiction | Painful | Partial | Native |
| Audit trail & public registry | No | Partial | Yes |
| HRIS integrations & SSO | No | N/A | Yes |
Comparison reflects Certemy's stated feature set versus typical manual and HRIS-based tracking. Capabilities of other tools vary by vendor.
Certemy runs a B2B SaaS subscription model with two buyer types: enterprises that employ licensed and certified workforces, and the certification and licensing boards that issue those credentials. Revenue scales with the number of tracked professionals, jurisdictions, and integrations, and is complemented by a partner and reseller program.
Its customers span healthcare and telemedicine, field and home services, real estate and finance, and multi-state operations. Named organizations include AbleTo, Petco, the University of Cincinnati, NPMA, Anticimex, Truly Nolen, and Sunnova, alongside boards such as the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon - which reported that the software "paid for itself."
"The Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon reported the software paid for itself." — Customer testimonial cited by Certemy
Launched in Costa Mesa, California to automate professional license and certification management.
Expanded from employer compliance into an end-to-end SaaS platform for licensing and certification boards.
Released software to help employers comply with the OSHA COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Closed a round led by Numeta Capital and Apis Holdings to expand sales, marketing, and product.
Broadened offerings across license tracking, HRIS integrations, registry builder, and Monitor AI.
Certemy is a SaaS platform that helps enterprises and licensing boards track, verify, and manage professional licenses and certifications - automating renewals, primary-source verification, and compliance reporting.
Regulated employers and licensing/certification boards in healthcare, field and home services, real estate, finance, and multi-state operations. Customers include Petco, AbleTo, and the University of Cincinnati.
Certemy was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.
Certemy closed a $9.7M Series B in December 2022 led by Numeta Capital and Apis Holdings, part of a reported total of roughly $12.7M across rounds.
It adds automated primary-source verification, continuous monitoring, board-side credentialing workflows, and real-time compliance dashboards that manual tracking and generic HRIS tools don't provide.
Video interviews and product demos: none verified at a stable public URL at time of writing. Check Certemy's website and LinkedIn for the latest demo content.