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Cority sells cloud software that helps large companies track workplace safety, environmental compliance, and sustainability.
Cority makes the software that big companies use to keep their people safe and stay out of trouble with regulators. If a worker gets hurt at a factory, if a chemical spill needs reporting, or if a company has to prove to an inspector that it handled hazardous waste correctly, Cority's tools are where that gets logged, tracked, and turned into a report. Its customers are large organizations in heavily regulated industries — manufacturing, energy, mining, pharma, and the public sector — where a single compliance failure can mean fines, lawsuits, or worse.
The business is what people call EHSQ software, which stands for environment, health, safety, and quality. Add sustainability to the mix and you have the full picture: Cority helps a company measure its carbon footprint, manage audits and inspections, track incidents and near-misses, and keep the paperwork that proves it followed the rules. It sells this as cloud software on subscription, so customers pay every year rather than buying a license once. That recurring model is the prize here — once a company's safety data and workflows live inside Cority, ripping it out is painful, so customers tend to stay a long time. Cority started life as Medgate, founded in Toronto in 1985, and rebranded as Cority in 2017. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo bought the company in 2020, and another investor, Battery Ventures, took a stake in 2024. The rebrand and the ownership changes reflect a company pushing to grow beyond its roots into a broader platform. It now competes with other safety and compliance software vendors, and with the even more common alternative: spreadsheets and paper forms, which is still how a surprising number of companies manage this stuff.
The appeal for investors is the same as for customers: safety and environmental compliance is not optional, and the rules keep getting tighter, especially around sustainability reporting. That gives Cority a steady, sticky base of recurring revenue in a niche where the software is boring but essential. The risk is equally simple — it is a crowded field, sales cycles to big enterprises are slow, and the company has to keep adding features to stay ahead of rivals and of generic tools that do a little of the same job.
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