From Mannheim to Manhattan: osapiens deepens US Expansion with major New York Climate Week presence and new strategic announcements
New York, United States and Mannheim, Germany, September 24, 2026 – osapiens, the leading AI platform for compliance and supplier intelligence, today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance with ERM, the world’s leading sustainability consultancy, to provide a joint offering to their North American customers that includes osapiens’ category leading AI platform and ERM’s sustainability advisory expertise and delivery capabilities - the marquee announcement of a New York Climate Week (NYCW) that marked a defining moment in osapiens’ North American acceleration.
Under the slogan “From Mannheim to Manhattan,” osapiens carried its platform across dozens of flagship NYCW events this week, including highlights like the Concordia Annual Summit, Goals House, an Executive dialogue at Goldman Sachs SUSTAIN event, a Sustainability LIVE keynote, a Next Campus keynote, a roundtable at NYSE, an executive dinner with strategic customers and partners, and many more. At Sustainability LIVE, osapiens Chief Revenue Officer Stephan de Barse argued that the accelerating complexity of global regulation - from EUDR and CSRD to California’s climate disclosure laws - increasingly asks companies for the same underlying supplier and compliance data, and that businesses capturing it once, on one platform, turn a compliance burden into a competitive advantage rather than collecting it six times over. The week’s signature moment, “The Compliance-to-Capital Connection,” brought enterprise executives and institutional investors together at BlackRock’s New York headquarters on September 23 to discuss how regulatory compliance infrastructure is becoming an investable category in its own right. Opened by the Vice Chairman of BlackRock, Gary Shedlin, the event reflected a demand that is building from every direction. Consumers, customers and financial institutions alike are requiring more transparency than ever - where products are sourced, how they are produced, and how sustainably that happens. Companies that can answer those questions with verified data do not just gain better market access and more commercial opportunities; they increasingly secure better financing terms as well. osapiens Co-CEO Alberto Zamora, Co-CEO Matthias Jungblut and Chief Revenue Officer Stephan de Barse represented the company alongside its investor Decarbonization Partners, the joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek.
The week builds on osapiens’ strategic expansion into North America, accelerated by its acquisition of Nasdaq Metrio weeks ago, which strengthened the company’s U.S. footprint and deepened its non-financial reporting and carbon accounting expertise. Combined with a growing North American team, this marks a new high point in osapiens’ presence in North America - the company now serves more than 2,500 customers in over 60 countries.
ERM and osapiens form a Strategic Alliance
osapiens and ERM have formed a strategic alliance to provide a joint offering to their North American customers. Through this strategic partnership, osapiens and ERM are joining forces on the implementation and customer success for osapiens’ enterprise customers across North America, pairing ERM’s sustainability advisory expertise, delivery capabilities and long-standing client relationships with the osapiens HUB, the leading AI platform for compliance and supplier intelligence. The partnership enables North American enterprises to harness sustainability and supply chain data to enhance transparency, strengthen resilience and drive commercial value.
“ERM has spent decades earning the trust of the world’s largest enterprises on sustainability. Pairing that credibility with the osapiens HUB means every customer we bring into North America gets more than software - they get a partner who already understands the ground they’re standing on.”
Matthias Jungblut, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, osapiens
“Companies are looking for ways to navigate evolving sustainability requirements while creating value from the data they collect. By combining osapiens’ AI-powered platform with ERM’s sustainability expertise and implementation capabilities, we can help clients turn complex supply chain data into informed business decisions, operational improvements and measurable business value.”
Sabine Hoefnagel, Interim CEO, ERM
Product Momentum Across the Platform
Alongside its North American expansion, osapiens used the week to spotlight recent and upcoming milestones across the osapiens HUB:
- Supplier Intelligence: osapiens continues to extend its supplier intelligence deep into the procurement and business systems companies already run - bringing compliance evidence, risk monitoring, n-tier mapping, supplier performance data, carbon data and regulatory coverage to platforms that don’t have any of it built in natively.
- osapiens Agent Factory: With the osapiens HUB Agent Factory, osapiens gives customers a way to configure, instruct and monitor a rapidly growing fleet of purpose-built AI agents - all in one place, on the osapiens HUB. More than 20 ready-to-run agents already span all seven solution suites, letting teams orchestrate intelligent work across the platform, set guardrails, and put their own data to work. Customers stay in control. The agents do the repetitive work.
- osapiens HUB Store: osapiens also gave its North American customers a first look at the upcoming osapiens HUB Store, a marketplace bringing ready-to-go regulatory content and templates from specialist partners directly onto the osapiens HUB. The osapiens HUB Store will be launched officially soon - more details to follow.
Momentum Beyond New York
New York Climate Week also brought together the osapiens Executive Council, a group of global business leaders – among others, Ann Tracy, Chief Sustainability Officer of Colgate-Palmolive, David Slump, Executive Board Member of Marelli and former President & CEO of Marelli Holdings, Feike Sijbesma, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Philips, and former CEO of Royal DSM, Marc Engel, Vice Chair, Board of Directors of Maersk, and former Chief Supply Chain Officer of Unilever, Stefan Oschmann, Former CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA, and many more - that provide strategic counsel to osapiens as the company accelerates its growth and expansion.
“With the osapiens Executive Council, we set out to invite the people we most wanted in the room as osapiens enters its next chapter. Every member of this council chose to be here because they believe in where the market is heading and in what osapiens is building to get companies there. As the market further consolidates around one clear category leader, they want to help build that future with us. Their experience running and transforming global enterprises will directly inform how we grow in new markets like the U.S. and where we take the osapiens HIUB next and what agents we will accelerate on the AI Agent Factory.”
Stephan de Barse, CRO, osapiens
The Executive Council convened in New York during the week to discuss how AI reshapes the way how global enterprises manage risk and compliance, and how the osapiens HUB is solving a problem the industry has struggled with for years.
The week’s momentum builds on similar energy from the inaugural osapiens AI Pioneers Council, a strategic customer council held in Munich, Germany, earlier this month. Twenty-five customer leaders - from some of the largest and well-known organizations across many industries - spent two days shaping osapiens’ AI roadmap for compliance and supplier intelligence, prototyping new agents live on the Agent Factory and arriving at a shared conclusion: one platform, one data model, and AI doing the manual work so teams can focus on decisions.
About osapiens
osapiens is an AI platform for compliance and supplier intelligence that enables companies to manage risk and become more resilient. With osapiens’ solutions, companies can verify their products, know their suppliers, trace their goods, own their footprint, and report with confidence, all on a single AI platform.
The osapiens HUB, a multi-tenant platform designed to enable cross-company collaboration and AI automation, combines more than 25 solutions into seven product suites. These solutions enable companies to centrally manage and automate their supplier relationships, compliance requirements, and global supply chains, as well as optimize their maintenance, service, and distribution processes to improve operational performance and maximize global competitiveness.
Today, more than 2,500 customers worldwide entrust their most critical business processes to osapiens, from SMEs to global enterprises across industries. Headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, with offices across Europe and the United States, the company works with an international team of over 550 employees.
Visit us at osapiens.com.
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