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Personio

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HR & people · Germany
Founded 2015 · personio.com ↗

Munich-based HR flagship for European SMBs (founded 2015); ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + TISAX; ~$770M US-VC-funded.

In short

Personio, in the HR & people category, offers EU hosting with Germany as its hosting location, but a US parent or sub-processor leaves material CLOUD Act exposure.

Assessment notes

Personio (Munich DE, founded 2015) is the European HR flagship (ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + TISAX, AWS Frankfurt hosting, ~14K customers) but $770M+ raised across 8 rounds led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (US), Index Ventures (US/UK), Accel (US), Greenoaks (US), giving US VCs durable control and CLOUD Act-relevant influence; ownership signal eu_hq_us_funded.

CLOUD ACT
OWNERSHIP
SUB-PROCS
— not disclosed
Verified signals
Jurisdiction
  • EU / adequacy hosting
  • EU / adequacy operator
  • No US CLOUD Act exposure
Transparency
  • Public DPA
  • Sub-processors disclosed
  • Open-source clients
  • Third-party certification
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About Personio

Personio (Munich, Germany, founded 2015) is the most-funded European HR-tech company ($770M+ across 8 rounds) and serves ~14,000 European SMBs (10-2,000 employees) with payroll, recruiting, time tracking, and people management. The compliance posture is strong: ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + TISAX, AWS Frankfurt hosting, EU-only data residency. The ownership-side caveat is straightforward: cap table is US-VC-dominated: Lightspeed Venture Partners (US) led Series C, with Index (UK/US), Accel (US), Greenoaks (US), and Lakestar (CH) all on the books. For DACH compliance buyers this is the canonical "German HR vendor, US capital" trade-off.

SUB-PROCESSORS

Sub-processor map · not disclosed

Vendor does not publish a sub-processors list. Schrems II compliance and CLOUD Act exposure cannot be independently verified without it.
CERTIFICATIONS

Frameworks & certifications

ISO/IEC 27001
ACTIVE
SOC 2
ACTIVE
Informational · US framework
FEATURES

Capability matrix

Payroll Yes
Time tracking Yes
Employee records Yes
Time-off / leave Yes
Recruiting (ATS) Yes
Onboarding Yes
Performance reviews Yes
Org chart Yes
INTEGRATION & ACCESS
REST API Yes
SSO (SAML / OIDC) Yes
COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE
Audit log Yes
Self-host / on-prem option No
PRICING

Pricing & tiers

PAID
Custom pricing

Contact vendor for tier or volume pricing.

View pricing page ↗
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Public documents

Vendor does not publish a sub-processors list. Schrems II compliance and CLOUD Act exposure cannot be independently verified without it.
  • Data Processing Addendum (DPA)
    www.personio.com/terms…
    Open ↗
  • Sub-processors list
    — missing
    missing
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