“At the heart of Fides we’re lawyers and engineers passionate about the mission and company we’re building.”

Fides is a revolutionary way of taking corporate governance into the 21st century. With this company, which has aimed to make legal duties less painful, Fides enables seamless and digital management of corporate housekeeping across multiple entities. Whether you're from the legal department or anywhere else, Fides makes governance streamlined, with an accurate audit trail and reduced complexity of the kind that comes with manually handling repetitive tasks.

Fides has recognized that corporate housekeeping has become one of the biggest issues in the world for most businesses, thus developing an advanced AI-enabled platform to centralize, digitize, and automate governance workflows. The processes made faster, more transparent, and secure with the use of Fides mean clients are able to navigate governance tasks more effortlessly. Fides is here to transform how organizations approach corporate governance by working smarter, not harder.

Corporate Governance Solutions

Entity Management

Fides revolutionizes corporate governance by providing an all-in-one, centralized platform for managing entity-related information. It's goodbye to searching through outdated documents and spreadsheets as Fides offers a visualized, actionable approach to managing corporate housekeeping. The Entity Dashboard gives users a quick overview of each entity, showing important data, upcoming tasks, and real-time updates from local registers.

The interactive structure chart allows easy visualization of affiliated entities, their relationships, share percentages, and beneficial owners. Fides also provides a comprehensive entities List to administer all entity data, including tax IDs, legal representatives, and corporate documents.

Cap Table provides detailed views on share classes, voting rights, and shareholder percentages for precise shareholding management. Fides also simplifies committee management, enables secure collaboration, and improves the efficiency of decision-making through tracking committee members, deadlines, documents, and decisions. The solution is all-encompassing and makes corporate governance efficient, secure, and transparent.

Governance Workflows

Fides streamlines corporate decision-making by offering a comprehensive platform that ensures all governance-relevant decisions are executed and documented from draft to filing. With Fides, businesses can move away from informal communication channels like email or messaging apps and maintain a safe, auditable paper trail for all decisions. The platform easily enables the creation and management of resolutions, ensuring compliance with legal requirements to share shareholder and board resolutions.

Fides also streamlines approval workflows, allowing for fast and secure requests for Approvals (RfAs) with attached documents and tracking approvals with a single click. For efficient meeting management, Fides supports c-level meetings by automating invitations, agendas, and meeting minutes, including sign-offs. The platform includes task management features to monitor and assign duties and deadlines, ensuring no tasks are missed. Moreover, the document management system of Fides allows the user to write and manage documents to track and organize them for easy integration with workflow and deadlines. Fides ensures streamlined, compliant, and efficient governance.

Board Management

Fides is board management in a different way. A full suite of tools is brought together to simplify meetings, secure documents, and drive strategic decision-making. The Fides Committee Management feature means that board members can effectively and securely collaborate, managing committees responsible for decision-making: member, document, duty, deadlines, and decisions. Such workflows for urgent resolutions are further streamlined by digitizing, centralizing, and documenting resolution processes for quick and compliant executions.

Fides also streamlines board meeting efficiency through easy preparation, secure document sharing, on-time invitations, and automatically generated agendas and minutes for well-organized and productive meetings. To make things easier, the Fides iPad app provides an intuitive interface where board members can annotate documents, RSVP, and review meeting minutes. Fides also ensures maximum security with ISO 27001 certification. This provides a safe environment for sharing and storing sensitive information, eliminating the need for insecure email communications. Board management becomes more efficient, secure, and aligned with strategic goals with Fides.

Lisa Gradow - Founder & CEO

Lisa Gradow is the Founder & CEO of Fides. Ms. Lisa is a serial entrepreneur and recently was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Usercentrics, where she co-founded and led the company to seven-digit MRR and more than 150 employees. As an active angel investor, Lisa has supported 14 startups and one fund over the past three years. She is also a board member of the German Startup Association. With deep experience from both the management and shareholder perspectives, Lisa has personally encountered the challenges faced by Fides' users, giving her valuable insight into their needs and concerns.

“We set out to build the most advanced solution, which will finally enable corporates to digitize, centralize and automate their corporate governance workflows, globally.”