Felix Gerlach is Co-Founder of Platus, a Y Combinator backed legal tech platform delivering instant notarization, e-signing, and workflow automation for SMEs. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Finance honoree and studied at Technical University of Munich.

Felix previously co-founded and exited Passbase Inc., a KYC/AML B2B SaaS company acquired by Parallel Markets in 2023. He worked at Rocket Internet SE in Singapore and Bangkok, and held product roles in San Francisco and London.

Felix brings deep expertise in European compliance tech and has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Finance list in 2020. Platus is one of the five fastest-growing companies in Y Combinator Fall Batch 2024.

Platus raised over $2.6M in seed funding and is backed by Y Combinator, Combination VC, Flex Capital, and other top investors. The company pioneered online notarizations in Europe and serves international customers.

Platus delivers legal infrastructure as a no-code platform and API, providing the first Notary-as-a-Service API. The platform enables instant notarization within 1-24 hours and AI-driven document intelligence for businesses across Europe and the USA.