Our story

Built where data sovereignty isn't optional.

Kenmeet was founded on a simple observation: the teams with the strictest data rules were being served worst by the meeting tools they were forced to use. We set out to fix that — starting with the regions where it mattered most.

EU · Frankfurt region
UAE · Dubai region
Why we exist

Compliance shouldn't be an afterthought bolted onto video.

Most video platforms were built in one jurisdiction and expanded everywhere else by exception — routing calls through infrastructure that was never designed with GDPR, Saudi PDPL, or the UAE's federal data protection law in mind. For legal, healthcare, financial, and government teams across Europe and the Middle East, that's not a minor inconvenience. It's a blocker.

We kept hearing the same thing from CISOs and compliance leads: "We love the product, but we can't confirm where the data actually lives." So we built Kenmeet the other way around — data residency and encryption came first, and the meeting experience was designed around those constraints, not in spite of them.

That means in-region processing for EU customers, dedicated infrastructure for Gulf-based organizations navigating data localization requirements, and a security architecture that's auditable by design — not by exception.

Built for two of the world's strictest regions

The EU and the Middle East don't share a rulebook — so we didn't build one.

Europe's GDPR and the Gulf's newer, sovereignty-driven data laws differ in real ways. Rather than force a single compliance posture on both, we designed Kenmeet's infrastructure to meet each region on its own terms.

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European Union

GDPR set the global bar for consent, data-subject rights, and cross-border transfer accountability — with fines that have run into the billions for platforms that got it wrong.

  • In-region data processing for EU/EEA accounts
  • Data Processing Agreements available by default
  • Full data-subject access, export, and erasure tooling
  • No cross-border transfer without a documented legal basis
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Middle East

Saudi Arabia's PDPL and the UAE's federal data protection law are newer than GDPR, but often stricter on data localization — treating where data sits as a matter of national digital sovereignty, not just privacy.

  • Regional hosting options to satisfy localization requirements
  • Case-by-case data transfer controls, not blanket defaults
  • Support for in-region DPO and compliance documentation
  • Architecture built to be demonstrable, not just declared, compliant
How we build

Four principles that don't move, no matter which market we're in.

Encryption by default

256-bit AES encryption in transit and at rest, on every call, every plan — not reserved for Enterprise.

Data minimization

We only collect what a meeting needs to function. Nothing is retained "just in case."

Auditable infrastructure

Customers can ask exactly where their data sits and get a straight, documented answer — every time.

Regional first, not regional-only

Local hosting and compliance for EU and Gulf customers, without sacrificing a single global feature.

Our path

From a compliance problem to a company.

The problem

Enterprise deals stalled at the security review

Our founding team, working with clients across European finance and Gulf public sector projects, kept watching video vendor selection stall at the same stage: the data residency questionnaire.

The decision

Design infrastructure before interface

Instead of retrofitting compliance onto an existing product, we started with regional data architecture — EU and Middle East hosting, encryption, and access controls — and built the meeting experience on top.

Today

Kenmeet, built for teams who can't compromise

Legal, healthcare, financial services, and government teams across both regions now run their meetings on infrastructure they can actually explain to their own auditors.

Leadership

A team built across the regions we serve.

Security, compliance, and infrastructure leads based in Europe and the Gulf, working alongside our core product team.

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Amina R.

Co-Founder & CEO
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David K.

Co-Founder & CTO
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Layla H.

Head of Compliance, MENA
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Marcus B.

Head of Data Protection, EU

See the Infrastructure Behind the Interface

Talk to our team about data residency, compliance documentation, or a tailored security review.