Supply Chains Made Simple

Read this article to find out:

• Why Osapiens became Germany's first AI-driven supply chain unicorn
• How the Osapiens Hub helps companies navigate complex sustainability regulations
• Why businesses of all sizes are turning to the platform

On January 14 2026, Osapiens became a real life unicorn: Decarbonization Partners, the financial investor backed by asset managers BlackRock and Temasek, took a stake in the innovative German company pushing its valuation to over one billion US dollars. Osapiens had identified a genuine growth market and cornered it with a highly effective and targeted product.

The company's three co-founders – Alberto Zamora, Matthias Jungblut, and Stefan Wawczynek – know the sustainability solutions space back to front. They had previously worked in supply chain monitoring and sold their first company to the US industrial conglomerate Honeywell before setting their sights on a new challenge.

Their product, the ‘Osapiens Hub’, is designed to help companies navigate the thicket of sustainability regulations that have proliferated across all economic regions in recent years – particularly those governing relationships with suppliers. A prime example is the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

“The fundamental problem for many corporations is both trivial and critical,” explains Alberto Zamora, co-founder and CEO of Osapiens. “They know their direct suppliers, but have little or no visibility into the second, third, or fourth tier of the supply chain. Data is scattered across emails, delivery notes, and Excel spreadsheets. The Osapiens Hub brings this information together and creates the transparency companies need.”

The AI-driven platform combines internal company data with external sources – sanctions lists, ongoing news screening, and other information – and uses these inputs to calculate risk scores for individual suppliers. If, for example, a supplier appears in the news in connection with child labor, the system automatically raises an alarm. Companies gain not only a comprehensive overview of their supply chains, but also a clear set of priorities: Where are the risks most acute? Where do procurement managers need to look more closely?

One hub for all industries

At the beating heart of the business model is a consistent platform concept. Rather than developing a separate, standalone solution for each new regulatory requirement, Osapiens maps all sustainability and transparency topics onto a shared foundation. Once a company has properly recorded its supplier data, that information can be drawn upon repeatedly – for sustainability reports, risk analyses, and operational process optimization – without starting from scratch each time.

This is made possible with purpose-built, hyperscaling infrastructure, with data centers in Germany and France, that allows even computationally intensive tasks to be performed cost-effectively. One excellent use-case is the evaluation of satellite imagery in connection with the European Union’s deforestation regulation.

With its flexible, scalable, and reliable model, Osapiens has built a compelling success story, says Asha-Maria Sharma from Germany Trade & Invest. “The start-up's product helps companies make the application of regulations predictable and transparent – in a legally sound and efficient manner.”

The company now boasts more than 2,500 customers including major German retailers Edeka, Rewe, Metro, and the Schwarz Group, big fashion retailers including C&A, and industrial groups such as Bosch and Nordex. Internationally, Coca-Cola and large retailers such as Costco and Tesco also rely on the Osapiens Hub.

"Osapiens is an impressive German success story."

Asha-Maria Sharma, GTAI

A future-proof solution

Osapiens is not exclusively targeting large corporations: it wants to grow with its smaller customers too, for whom it has developed a streamlined onboarding program that makes sustainability requirements manageable even without a dedicated compliance department.

“"Even smaller companies with no legal reporting obligation are increasingly turning to our platform,” says Zamora. “For many of them, transparency is not merely a compliance matter – it has helped them to become more efficient and resilient.”

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Asha-Maria Sharma

GTAI’s Industry Expert Artificial Intelligence

asha-maria.sharma@gtai.de