Regbase: Automating Corporate Compliance, Worldwide

Automating Corporate Compliance, Worldwide

Active Founders

Natalie Aresta-Katz

Founder

Prior to Regbase, Natalie was the founder of Saponify. Between the ages of 16 and 22, Natalie sold over $1M of soap base on Amazon. She was the first sustainable business major at NYU Stern, and has an MBA from Columbia. Natalie also spent 3 years as a regulatory researcher at the law firm Paul, Weiss, which is where she got the idea for Regbase.

Natalie Aresta-Katz

Founder

Prior to Regbase, Natalie was the founder of Saponify. Between the ages of 16 and 22, Natalie sold over $1M of soap base on Amazon. She was the first sustainable business major at NYU Stern, and has an MBA from Columbia. Natalie also spent 3 years as a regulatory researcher at the law firm Paul, Weiss, which is where she got the idea for Regbase.

Ethan Shea

Founder

Founder/CTO at Regbase- The data-layer for legal Previously I was a staff engineer at Vercel, where I built the observability backend and the first Vercel Agent. Before that I worked at Citadel where my team maintained the firm's master list of everything that can be traded. I grew up in Seattle and went to the University of Washington.

Ethan Shea

Founder

Founder/CTO at Regbase- The data-layer for legal Previously I was a staff engineer at Vercel, where I built the observability backend and the first Vercel Agent. Before that I worked at Citadel where my team maintained the firm's master list of everything that can be traded. I grew up in Seattle and went to the University of Washington.

Company Launches

Regbase: Al-native Legal Research

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Regbase helps companies track new laws across the world and at the local level.

Regbase is an AI-native research platform built to help legal teams, researchers, and government vendors monitor regulatory changes across countries, languages, and hard-to-find government sources.

https://youtu.be/lY1La0A4iaw

The problem:

Companies that need to track new laws still rely heavily on manual research. Many important updates are posted on obscure local websites, draft bill portals, consultation pages, social media, and other sources that may never get indexed by Google or picked up by LLMs.

If a law is not in English, not covered by the media, or it only applies at the local level, it can be impossible to find.

The solution:

Regbase finds these updates automatically, including draft bills, consultations, compliance requirements, and sales opportunities like grants. Then it analyzes them.

So far we have:

Found $400M in expiring school safety grants across the U.S. for a client selling protective equipment
Identified 80 requirements for greenhouse gas disclosure in 45 countries for a global manufacturer
Found dozens of obscure laws in non-English languages, posted only on LinkedIn, Facebook or X
Uncovered regulations hidden behind QR codes, and even one government website that required visitors to watch an ad!

Who we are:

Natalie Aresta-Katz, previously led a law firm practice research team at Paul, Weiss, tracking laws across dozens of countries and every state. Ethan Shea is a former Staff Engineer at Vercel with expertise building agentic infrastructure. They started the company after years of struggling with manual regulatory updates across jurisdictions and languages.

The ask:

We are eager to help lawyers and researchers in all areas, including employment, AI, climate/sustainability, and private equity. We also work with companies in regulated industries, and state and local government vendors.

Visit regbase.com or email us at [email protected] to book a time.

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