Industries We Serve

We partner with growth-stage companies in high-stakes, regulated environments where decisions about data, compliance, and risk can’t be abstract and must be made with confidence. Our advisory is grounded in operational context, shaped by regulatory realities, and delivered with the speed and clarity that fast-moving leaders expect.

Each industry we support is experiencing a moment of structural change: increasing scrutiny, tightening regulation, and the pressure to scale responsibly. Elbery & Burns exists to help them move through it, not just safely, but confidently.

Healthcare

Navigating risk in a system built on trust.

You’re building platforms that deliver care across state lines, move PHI across APIs, and make clinicians’ lives easier. But none of that matters if you can’t prove security, compliance, and continuity to a payer, a regulator, or a partner.

We help healthtech companies and provider groups operationalize HIPAA, de-risk their third-party infrastructure, and align their internal policies to the realities of virtual care.

Digital health is now expected. Virtual care, AI diagnostics, and patient-centered platforms are redefining care delivery. But with that progress comes fragmented regulation, rising privacy expectations, and deep third-party exposure.

We support healthtech startups, provider networks, and healthcare SaaS firms facing:

  • HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and multi-jurisdictional data complexity
  • Payer, partner, and investor due diligence
  • Integration risk across EHRs, clearinghouses, and APIs

We operationalize compliance into the development cycle, reduce vendor risk across care delivery infrastructure, and help teams prepare for enterprise partnerships, audits, and exits. Our work helps founders, GRC leads, and CTOs turn healthcare-specific regulatory pressure into structured, defensible strategy.

Fintech & Insurtech

Building trust in systems built to move fast.

From embedded banking to usage-based underwriting, the fintech stack is growing faster than the controls that surround it. Whether you’re preparing for investor diligence, a SOC 2 Type II, or a bank partnership, the pressure to get governance right is real.

Fintech and insurtech companies live under overlapping scrutiny from regulators, partners, and customers. As embedded finance grows and consumer protections expand, startups can’t afford to treat compliance as a check-the-box function. It’s an enabler of scale, capital, and resilience.

We work with founders, CISOs, and risk leads to manage:

  • SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and GLBA-aligned control environments
  • Third-party risk exposure across core banking, payments, and underwriting APIs
  • Data classification, breach readiness, and vendor obligations

We align risk and control environments to growth models, streamline documentation for regulatory and capital events, and build tech-agnostic frameworks that evolve with product scope. Whether you’re in pre-seed or prepping for acquisition, we deliver programs that unlock scale and credibility.

SaaS & Data Platforms

Misaligned permissions, multi-tenant architecture, and vague policies become blockers when enterprise clients or regulators start asking questions.

Modern SaaS companies handle sensitive data by default such as PII, financials, IP, and other telemetry. What starts with lean, speed-oriented systems quickly becomes a tangle of permissions, access, and vendor risk. We help teams restore clarity.

We advise engineering, product, and security leadership on:

  • Cross-tenant data architecture and user segmentation
  • Identity, access, and entitlements strategy
  • Data governance programs aligned with SOC 2, ISO, or sector-specific needs

We design scalable control architectures that support product roadmaps, reduce audit friction, and protect data at every stage. Our work translates risk management into a capability instead of a compliance tax.

Regulated Enterprises

Stability during change. Strategy during scrutiny.

When risk or compliance programs break down, the cause is rarely technical, it’s transitional. New leadership, acquisitions, audit failures, or breach recovery all test whether your GRC strategy can evolve under pressure. That’s where we come in.

We partner with legal, compliance, and security leaders navigating:

  • Executive transitions or post-incident recovery
  • Regulatory inquiries and investor pressure
  • Misalignment between inherited controls and operational reality

We stabilize core functions, re-establish governance, and rebuild trust with boards, partners, and regulators. Whether we’re advising behind the scenes or leading program transformation, we ensure risk posture becomes a business enabler again and not a liability.

Let’s Talk

You don’t have to explain the basics. We’ve been in the room — and we know what’s expected. If you’re working in one of these sectors and risk is becoming real, let’s talk.