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Eramba UK
71-75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H9JQ United Kingdom
Eramba Central Europe
Nekrasovova 5, 811 04 Bratislava - Staré Mesto, Slovak Republic
Our Story
When there is a problem, there is an opportunity
Back in 2007, GRC software was cryptically difficult to use, as well as monumentally expensive. They made things so difficult for GRC practitioners that we started building our own GRC tool and sharing it with colleagues, leading to the first version of eramba.
Crude, but very effective
The first version of eramba improved considerably based on the feedback of the community. While not particularly pretty or user friendly, it did the job and got all of us through different GRC certifications and business challenges. It seemed that GRC tools could be simple and still deliver.
The problem of scale
Eramba began growing in popularity, and with that came increased requests for support from small, large and mammoth size organizations. We also needed money to pay for developers, infrastructure, Etc. We made the radical decision of financing the project with a simple, honest, fixed and open pricing that would be enough to keep the project bills. No IPO in sight here.
Eramba goes full-time
Having run eramba for years as part timers and with hundreds of customers signed, we decided it was time to fully dedicate ourselves to the project. We quit our GRC jobs and well, here we are. Living the dream! Ha! Ha!
Trivia
No Sales or Marketing Teams
From the onset we decided to forgo San Francisco startup scene for small, friends run business. We have never needed sales or marketing funds and teams.
10 People
Thats the whole team that built and runs this project. Developers and GRC experts. Most of us are here from the beginning.
A Wikipedia Page
All Esteban (founder) wanted out of eramba in 2008. He never got one.
Don't you like money?
A VC analyst comment after we (politely) declined their offer to invest in eramba. We love our independence.
No Thanks
In the very early days, desperate for funding, we offered half eramba to a small US GRC consulting company for 7k. They declined. Visionaries.
The Competition is Too Bad
The reason to our success according to Esteban.
OMV Petrol Station
Our conference room was the cafeteria at this Petrol stations for a good many years!
You must be Joking!
The answer of a GRC "Strategist" after we told him Gartner will sooner or later acknowledge us. Gartner named us in 2020 and 2021.
e-r-a-m-b-a
Esteban Ri*, Adriana Mat*, Boris and Aida == Founder Name, Founder Wife Name, Founder First Son Name, Founder Second Son Name (in the end he was called Benjamin)
Frugality and Transparency
The key to our pricing and successful business model is that we never made grandiose expansion plans, took debt, accepted investments, Etc.