What myRight does

myRight is a Hamburg-based German legal-technology company founded in 2016 by Dr. Sven Bode, Dr. Jan-Eike Andresen and Jens Hopfer, operating a no-win-no-fee consumer rights platform that aggregates individual claims into mass and class actions against large counterparties. The company's product surface covers diesel-emission claims (its founding franchise, with 7 class actions against VW/Audi covering 45,000+ claimants and €800M+ in claimed amounts), online casino and sports-betting loss recovery, paternity-leave compensation tied to Germany's delayed EU directive transposition, traffic fines, car and bicycle accidents, severance, and rent overcharges. Its underlying technology is a proprietary digital case management system, built in-house by CTO Jens Hopfer, that processes hundreds of cases per second and underpins a self-serve, product-led onboarding flow (2-minute registration, document upload via WhatsApp or photo).

myRight earns revenue purely on a success-fee basis, taking commissions of approximately 24.99% to 33% of recovered amounts depending on the case type, with no upfront cost to the claimant and integration with all major German legal-protection insurers. The go-to-market is digital and content-led, combining a topical online magazine, SEO around specific legal issues, an email newsletter and earned press coverage to drive self-serve registration; cases are executed through a network of vetted partner law firms (Hausfeld, Goldenstern & Partner) and litigation funders who bear court costs when cases are lost. The company operates through three legal entities (myRight Verbraucherrechte GmbH, financialright GmbH, Claim Enforcement GmbH), is founder-owned and reportedly bootstrapped with no disclosed institutional investment, and has secured landmark BGH and OLG Munich rulings confirming the admissibility of its class-action model in Germany.

The business is concentrated horizontally across consumer-protection use cases, with the diesel segment still dominant but declining as a share of new case inflow, and its strategic positioning rests on converting German and EU regulatory gaps (emission cheating, unlicensed gambling, EU directive non-transposition, rent brakes) into structured, technology-enabled mass-claim channels for individual consumers who would otherwise lack access to justice against large institutional defendants.

Name

myRight

Legal name

myRight Verbraucherrechte GmbH

Website

https://myright.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

myRight is a Hamburg-based German legal-tech platform that aggregates consumer claims — primarily VW diesel, online casino losses, severance, rent overcharge and traffic fines — into class actions and recovers money on a no-win-no-fee basis, using a proprietary in-house case management system and a network of partner law firms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Consumer Legal Services

NAICS

Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

Keywords

• Legal tech services
• Consumer rights enforcement
• Class action lawsuits
• No win no fee
• Diesel emission claims

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Success Commission - Online Casino: 24.99% of recovered amount for out-of-court claims; 30% minimum for court cases, depending on casino, partner law firm, and litigation funder
2. Success Commission - Severance Claims: 25% of profit (winnings) only charged upon successful recovery
3. Success Commission - Rent Overcharge: 33% of refund claim or 4-month savings achieved, whichever applies; aims to generate commission from refund rather than adding costs
4. Success Commission - Diesel Claims: Approximately 30% commission on successful diesel scandal claims

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

myRight is a German legal tech platform that helps consumers enforce legal claims against large corporations through a no-win-no-fee model. The company pursues cases across multiple consumer protection areas including VW diesel emissions class actions, online gambling loss recovery, traffic fine challenges, severance pay claims, car/bicycle accident claims, and rent overcharge recovery, charging success-based commissions only upon winning.

Product overview

myRight is a German legal services platform offering multiple consumer protection products under a unified no-win-no-fee model. The platform combines a digital-first approach with a network of contracted law firms to help consumers enforce their rights across seven core service areas: online casino/sports betting loss recovery, paternity leave compensation claims, traffic fine challenges, severance pay claims, car and bicycle accident claims, and rent overcharge recovery. The company operates on a success-fee basis, covering all legal costs upfront and receiving a percentage commission only upon successful case resolution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Online Casino Loss Recovery (Online-Casino) Legal service helping German consumers recover gambling losses from unlicensed online casinos operating before July 2021. Pursues claims against casino operators based on German gambling law violations with a 24.99% commission on out-of-court recovery and 30%+ for court proceedings.
• Paternity Leave Compensation (Vaterschaftsurlaub) Legal service for parents to claim compensation from the German state due to the EU Work-Life Balance Directive not being transposed into national law by the August 2, 2022 deadline. Targets parents whose children were born between August 2022 and the EU directive implementation date.
• Traffic Fine Challenge (Bußgeld) Legal service reviewing and challenging German traffic fines and penalty notices, particularly those with measurement errors or procedural defects. Addresses the fact that over 30% of traffic fines contain errors according to the German Traffic Court Day.
• Severance Pay Claims (Abfindung) Legal service helping German employees claim severance compensation after wrongful termination by employers, with a network of employment law specialists. Charges 25% of profit only upon successful recovery, addressing the 3-week legal deadline after termination.
• Car Accident Claims (Autounfall) Legal service helping German car accident victims pursue compensation claims against insurance companies, including vehicle damage and personal injury claims. Addresses situations where insurance companies unfairly reduce payouts to inexperienced accident victims.
• Bicycle Accident Claims (Fahrradunfall) Legal service for German bicycle accident victims to claim compensation from responsible parties and their insurance companies. Targets cyclists injured in accidents who need legal representation to pursue damages.
• Rent Price Brake Recovery (Mietpreisbremse) Legal service helping German tenants identify rent overcharges in 409 cities with rent price brake (Mietpreisbremse) regulations. Pursues rent reductions and refunds for tenants paying more than 10% above local comparison rent. Charges 33% of refund claim or 4 months of achieved monthly savings.
• Diesel Emissions Class Action (Abgasskandal) Legal service enabling German diesel vehicle owners affected by the VW/Audi/Mercedes/BMW/Fiat emission cheating software to pursue compensation claims. myRight has filed 7 class action lawsuits against VW and Audi, claiming over 800 million euros for more than 45,000 customers with a 95%+ success rate. Charges approximately 30% commission on successful recovery.
• Online Sports Betting Loss Recovery (Online Sportwetten) Legal service for German consumers to recover losses from unlicensed online sports betting operators. Pursues claims based on German gambling law violations against sports betting platforms operating without proper licensing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 95% success rate in diesel litigation cases
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• ZPS (Zveza potrošnikov Slovenije)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Slovenian consumer protection organization partnered with myRight to file class action for Slovenian diesel drivers at Landgericht Braunschweig.
• HausfeldcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2017US law firm Hausfeld led by Michael Hausfeld negotiated worldwide settlement for VW customers in the US, and collaborated with myRight for German proceedings. Hausfeld brought extensive experience from US diesel litigation to support myRight's German class action lawsuits.
• FRC (Fédération romande des consommateurs)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Swiss consumer protection organization partnered with myRight for Swiss VW diesel customers. Together they filed a class action at Landgericht Braunschweig for approximately 2,000 Swiss VW diesel owners.
• Goldenstern & PartnercoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2016Partner law firm handling individual legal cases. Successfully negotiated high settlement amounts in VW diesel cases while clients retained their vehicles.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• geblitzt.de: German LegalTech specializing in traffic-fine defense, sharing myRight's "Bußgeld" vertical directly with similar consumer self-serve intake and no-cost-risk pricing; competes head-to-head for the same traffic-fine recovery product.
• Flightright: Direct sibling LegalTech founded by the same CEO (Dr. Sven Bode) and Head of Legal (Jan-Eike Andresen) in 2010 for flight passenger rights. Operates an identical success-fee consumer-claims model, sharing DNA, leadership and brand history with myRight.
• Rightmart: German consumer-rights LegalTech offering no-win-no-fee services across multiple verticals—directly competing with myRight for the same German retail consumer and diesel/severance cases.
• EUclaim: Dutch flight compensation firm using the same success-based-fee model and digital intake pipeline that myRight applies to diesel and consumer claims. Closest Western European peer in underlying mechanics.
• AirHelp: European and US flight compensation leader operating a no-win-no-fee claims business similar to Flightright, with whom myRight shares target customer (consumer) and mechanism (commission-on-recovered amount). Direct functional twin in mass-market consumer legal claims.

Others

• Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband: Federal association of German consumer organizations that lobbies and litigates for consumer rights, including diesel emissions and rental caps. Adjacent rather than competing: provides public-interest legal action with no success-commission model.
• HomeAdvisor (consumer-rights variant): Adjacent lead-generation infrastructure for connecting consumers with vetted professional services, analogous in mechanism to myRight's lawyer-network routing model. Not a direct competitor but a marketplace reference.

Emerging players

• Legalstart: German LegalTech platform providing consumer and SMB access to legal services—adjacent model but broader (formation, contracts) and not pure success-fee recovery, making it a partial/emerging competitor.
• advocado: German LegalTech connecting consumers with lawyers for flat-fee legal services. Overlaps myRight's market at the consumer intake layer but uses a different pricing model (fixed fees vs. success commission), making it an emerging partial competitor.
• DoNotPay: AI-driven US/UK consumer legal chatbot pursuing no-win claims against corporations. Same category (consumer-rights automation), different geography and tech stack; useful as digital-first execution reference.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/myright_de

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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