Chino.io

Chino.io is a data protection and regulatory compliance platform founded in 2015 in Rovereto, Italy, originally built around a secure data API for digital health and medtech application developers, with early development supported by an EU Horizon 2020 grant. The company has since broadened into a hybrid legal-and-technology compliance offering, combining an evidence-management software platform with outsourced Data Protection Officer (DPO) and HIPAA Privacy Officer services covering GDPR, HIPAA, the EU AI Act, NIS2, and standards such as ISO 27001 and C5. Chino.io was acquired by the Italian B2B software group Sicuro.it in March 2025, with its two co-founders joining the acquirer; Chino.io continues to operate under its own brand as Sicuro.it’s data-protection and compliance division.

Chino.io’s differentiation is its combination of licensed legal/compliance expertise with software tooling to document and demonstrate compliance posture on an ongoing basis, rather than offering a pure point-in-time audit or a purely automated GRC checklist product. Its historical focus on digital health and medtech gives it depth in HIPAA and medical-data-specific GDPR requirements that horizontal GRC platforms often treat generically.

Verifiable financial history is modest: public trackers show approximately $1.3-1.5 million in total funding, anchored by a Series A round in July 2018, before the 2025 acquisition. The acquisition itself is documented by Italian trade press (startupbusiness.it) and corroborated by aggregator profiles (PitchBook, Tracxn), though Chino.io’s own website does not disclose the change in ownership. Given the ownership change and the blended software/advisory delivery model, prospective customers should confirm the current product roadmap and independence of the DPO service post-acquisition.