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About Our Company

ContractZen is a Finnish cloud technology company founded in 2014. The all-in-one SaaS solution includes metadata-driven contract management, all-digital board portal, entity management, virtual data rooms (VDR), secure e-signatures, and more. Easy to use on any device, ContractZen improves corporate governance and business operations by reducing costs, accelerating processes and minimizing risks.

The company has customers in over 30 countries and is owned by leading Finnish and international lawyers and other private investors. Company is also funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, which has funded successes such as Supercell, Rovio and F-Secure. The company has offices in Helsinki and Palo Alto.

Management

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Markus Mikola
CEO, Founder
+358 40 533 4519
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Joona Kunnari
Product & Customer Success
+358 44 509 6607
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Jani Kilpelainen
Jani Kilpeläinen
Sales & Customer Success
+358 44 9991493
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Teemu Lahtinen
Chairman of the Board
CEO, Suuruspää Real Estate Development Company
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Lasse Laaksonen
Member of the Board
Partner, Head of IP & Commercial Practice, Borenius Attorneys Ltd
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Riitta Raesmaa
Co-founder
+358 40 9033 650
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Ib Drachmann
Member of the Board
Partner, Nordic Eye Venture Capital

Our Story

We, the founders of ContractZen, believe that the operational environment for companies around the world has changed profoundly. Fierce global competition, speed of business, digitalization and growing regulation put enormous pressure on organizational governance. More than 50% of small businesses fail in their first 4 years, and 52% of the Fortune 500 companies have disappeared in the past 15 years.

As a result of this more competitive and regulated environment, organizations have to protect themselves better from risks. At the same time they must be ready to react fast when opportunities arise, as more and more mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, financing rounds as well as different kinds of audits and other due diligence situations are happening around the world. 

There is one great analogy for this… Imagine a manufacturing company in the 1970s. At the time, managing inventory, production, and finances was chaotic — spread across disconnected spreadsheets, paper trails, and isolated systems. This inefficiency led to missed deadlines, wasted resources, and poor decision-making.

The solution? Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)—a revolutionary system that integrated business functions, streamlined operations, and provided real-time visibility across the entire company. Over time, ERP became the backbone of organizations worldwide, enhancing efficiency, productivity, and strategic decision-making.

Now, fast forward to today. While businesses have optimized their internal operations, many still struggle with governance, compliance, and legal oversight. The rapid pace of business and an increasingly complex regulatory landscape demand more comprehensive and agile governance mechanisms. Corporate and legal documents, financial records, compliance and regulatory data, and audit reports are not only stored across multiple disconnected systems, such as emails, cloud drives, and outdated databases, but are also managed through fragmented solutions, leading to scattered information, inefficiencies, and compliance risks.

Just as ERP transformed business operations by integrating finance, production, and supply chains into one system, the modern world demands a unified solution for compliance, governance, and legal oversight—not just for the largest corporations, but for companies and non-profits of all sizes that must navigate increasing complexity and regulatory demands.

ERP revolutionized business operations by driving efficiency, integration, and growth. Now, organizations of all sizes need the same transformation in governance. A modern AI-powered Governance Cloud doesn’t just enhance transparency and accountability, it empowers leaders to navigate complexity with confidence, turn compliance into a competitive advantage, and build a future-proof foundation for success.

ContractZen is created by entrepreneurs, lawyers and administrative professionals to make every organization ready for due diligence – everyday. We bring peace of mind to executives, investors, and Boards. That’s why our name is ContractZen.

Sincerely,
Markus & Riitta

Our Mission

Our mission is to build a technologically advanced enterprise-grade software solution to help organizations of all sizes to manage their contracts, meetings and GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) documents easier than ever before and to become more agile, more trustworthy and more valuable.

We focus on simplicity and bring previously separate software solutions into one digital hub for corporate governance. We help organizations throughout the world to be due diligence ready every day.

We bring peace of mind to executives, investors, and Boards. That’s why our name is ContractZen.

Our Vision

We believe that every organization around the world can be due diligence ready every day without excessive additional work and stress.

ContractZen will be known as the company that led the change and created a simple-to-use cloud service that helped tens of thousands of organizations become more agile, more trustworthy, and more valuable.

ContractZen will be the solution organizations around the world turn to for managing their critical documents. A solution that customers recommend to colleagues and friends, employees are proud of, and investors seek for long-term results.

Our Values

Trust

Trust is the belief and confidence in the integrity, reliability and fairness of a person or organization. We believe that trust is the foundation of relationships within our company, with our customers, owners and our community. We believe, that becoming a person of integrity requires a personal quest for truth in all areas of our life. And we believe that trust is the most powerful currency in business.

Continuous Improvement

We, as individuals and as a community, are committed to continuously improve our products, services, and processes, and to take full responsibility of our own work. And even more importantly, we are committed to continuously improve ourselves as professionals and human beings.

Kindness

We believe that kindness is a key element that shapes how an organization is perceived by employees, customers, and others. Kindness is critical to our ability as people to interact in positive and constructive ways, with confidence and support. And we know what the studies made by world's most trusted organizations (like PwC, Gallup and Deloitte) have found out: kindness fosters trust within an organization, assists in talent recruitment, heightens employee engagement and commitment, fuels learning and innovation, promotes high-quality service and brand loyalty and improves overall business performance.