Dolby Family Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on building great technology companies. They partner with best-in-class innovators and strong investment syndicate partners at the seed stage of a company’s development. Unlike many seed investors, They intend to continue to invest across future rounds in our successful portfolio companies.

Dolby Family Ventures

NextGen Venture Partners invests $1-2M in seed-stage companies with the participation of 1,800+ Venture Partners. The firm specializes in the fields of private equity, business strategy, start-up acceleration, and fundraising.

NextGen Venture Partners

Clocktower Technology Ventures invests in the insurance, payments, personal finance, lending, credit, and asset management sectors. The firm’s expertise investing across financial services and its related ecosystem of global institutional allocators, policymakers, and hedge fund managers have created a community that offers a distinct value-add to portfolio companies. Since launching, Clocktower Technology Ventures has invested in 96 fintech companies in North America, Europe, and Latin America. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Clocktower Technology Ventures

Flyover Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies funds. We do one thing, and we do it well: We support people who are underestimated for no reason other than doing business in the Flyover region. When we invest, we do it early — and with great conviction. Then we get to work because your success is our success. We're here for you in the good times and especially the bad times, all to ensure you have the resources to be successful.

Flyover Capital

Mayo Clinic Ventures is dedicated to quickly bringing answers to the people who need them most: the patients living with diseases and conditions that threaten to limit or even end their lives. Our team works closely with Mayo physicians and scientists to mine inventions, ideas and discoveries that will truly transform health care. Their dedicated efforts bring significant financial support to Mayo's patient care, education and research efforts.

Mayo Clinic Ventures

Anorak Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm based in San Francisco. We invest early and dilute alongside founders, helping find smart capital for every stage of company growth. To date, 40 investments have been made with $250M raised in follow on funding resulting in an aggregate portfolio market capitalization of $1.8B.  ​

Anorak Ventures

Founded by Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund launched in 2016 as an initiative of KCRising, a long term vision for the greater Kansas City region to build capacity, bring existing businesses to scale, and fully realize the KC region’s potential. Decidedly for-profit, KCRise Fund is a traditional venture capital fund which invests side-by-side with other institutional VC investors in early stage companies based in Kansas and western half of Missouri. Our investors include corporations, university endowments, family offices and prominent business leaders in the region.  In 2019, KCRise launched KCRise Fund II, and KCRise currently has $70 million in committed capital under management.

KCRise Fund

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health is the leading U.S. early-stage (Seed and following on at the Series A) venture capital fund focused 100% on healthcare. Launched in 2018, Wavemaker 360 invested into the most promising healthcare startups in North America, with LPs from every sector of the US healthcare system.  We are SEEDING HEALTHCARE'S TOMORROW.  We invest in healthcare disruptors and entrepreneurs that see how the industry is transforming itself and want to make a big difference.

Wavemaker 360

Okta Ventures, is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, Okta is committed to being a catalyst for the industry. With Okta Ventures, Okta is playing a critical role in accelerating innovation throughout the identity ecosystem. We are investing in cutting edge technologies focusing on identity, security, and privacy.

Okta Ventures

Manresa Ventures invests in early stage teams developing simple products to solve important problems in FinTech, payments, small business formation, e-commerce enablement and data, privacy, identity, and fraud mitigation. Manresa Ventures is based in San Francisco, California.

Manresa Ventures

Operator Partners invests in early-stage technology companies and founders. The firm was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Operator Partners

Accenture Ventures partners with growth-stage startups that create innovative and disruptive enterprise technologies using an open innovation.

Accenture Ventures

Parity Responsible Technology Fund

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. The company provides ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success.

General Catalyst

Mayo Clinic, a not-for-profit medical group practice, provides medical care, research, and education services. It offers medical care services in various specialties, including diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, gynecology, cancer, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology, nephrology, urology, and cardiology and heart surgery.

Mayo Clinic

TripleBlind

TripleBlind has created the most complete and scalable solution for privacy enhancing computation. The TripleBlind solution is software-only and delivered via a simple API. It solves for a broad range of use cases, with current focus on healthcare and financial services. The company is backed by Accenture, General Catalyst and The Mayo Clinic. TripleBlind’s innovations build on well understood principles, such as federated learning and multi-party compute. Our innovations radically improve the practical use of privacy preserving technology, by adding true scalability and faster processing, with support for all data and algorithm types. TripleBlind natively supports major cloud platforms, including availability for download and purchase via cloud marketplaces. TripleBlind unlocks the intellectual property value of data, while preserving privacy and ensuring compliance with HIPAA and GDPR.  TripleBlind compares favorably with other privacy preserving technologies, such as homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, and tokenization and has documented use cases for more than two dozen mission critical business problems.

TripleBlind helps organizations process and collaborate using sensitive data in an encrypted space without compromising privacy. The company’s patented products encrypt data during the upload process while its digital rights management and auditing tools control and monitor data access, enabling enterprises to comply with privacy regulations such as GDPR and other industry-specific privacy requirements in the financial services and healthcare sectors.

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TripleBlind helps organizations process and collaborate using sensitive data in an encrypted space without compromising privacy. The company’s patented products encrypt data during the upload process while its digital rights management and auditing tools control and monitor data access, enabling enterprises to comply with privacy regulations such as GDPR and other industry-specific privacy requirements in the financial services and healthcare sectors.Key customers and partnershipsTripleBlind announced a partnership with the Mayo Clinic in January 2024 to strategically collaborate on digital healthcare solutions that would allow the Clinic to analyze data without sharing it and develop algorithms and test AI models.

OneTrust provides compliance solutions that leverage AI tools and automation across all areas of privacy compliance. The company’s AI-powered solution sees widespread use, providing automation in the areas of data discovery, data subject rights management, consent management (with a user-facing preference center for greater control), data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, incident response reporting, and monitoring.The company also provides regulatory research software that companies can use to train staff and even benchmark their own privacy programs. The company’s Government Records Request Automation solution helps government organizations intake requests, automate data discovery and redaction, and provide a secure two-way communication portal that demonstrates compliance with FOIA, PRR, and the Privacy Act. OneTrust’s products were backed by over 200 patents as of September 2024.OneTrust has strengthened its position in the digital privacy space through several acquisitions in recent years. In March 2021, OneTrust acquired DocuVision, an AI-powered data redaction platform to bolster its data subject rights capabilities through automatic redaction of non-relevant sensitive information. During the same month, OneTrust acquired Convercent to enhance its platform through advanced ethics and compliance capabilities, and helpline and disclosure management. OneTrust acquired the security assurance and certification platform Tugboat Logic in September 2021, to automate its InfoSec assurance and certification processes. Other notable acquisitions include Privacy Core e-learning, DataGuidance, and Integris Software.In March 2023, OneTrust announced the addition of certification automation to the OneTrust GRC and Security Assurance Cloud. This solution which combines automation, pre-built policies and controls spanning 29 industry frameworks, over 100 integrations, compliance content, and expert guidance enables customers to simplify and streamline compliance tasks according to OneTrust.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, OneTrust said it served over 14,000 active customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company claims it serves notable organizations from all industries, with Adobe, Walgreens, Samsung, and Mearsk among its customer base.OneTrust entered a partnership with Dow Jones Risk and Compliance in April 2023, to incorporate risk and compliance data into its third-party due diligence solution.

OneTrust

CENTRL provides automated risk management and privacy management solutions. Through its Privacy360 platform, the company provides solutions to identify compliance gaps, automate data discovery, manage data subject rights requests, consent management (with a user-facing preference center), carry out impact assessments, third-party risk management, monitoring, and reporting.

CENTRL

HighSide provides a secure communications platform for organizations, enterprise archiving solutions, data discovery, and supervision tools in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, etc. In 2019, the company announced the acquisition of Hotshot Technologies, a secure team messaging platform.

HighSide

SecuPI provides a patented platform enabling organizations to achieve compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform achieves this by providing multiple features to protect data such as pseudonymization, consent controls, audit logs, streamlining breach notifications, etc. SecuPI’s platform is deployed in organizations in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, and health industries.

SecuPi

JoinPrivacy is a B2C solution that allows users to manage their personal data from the websites they use, all from one place.

JoinPrivacy

Solutions to prevent the tracking and collection of the personal data of end-users.

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Tools to provide compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and carry out tasks such as data discovery, data governance, consent management, Data Subject Rights (DSR) management, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and managing incident response as mandated by these privacy regulations.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

Central management of data access and data privacy and security policies.

Uses AI/ML to automate workflows such as data discovery and data classification

Uses generative AI to provide conversational recommendations to users to remain compliant with privacy regulations

Solutions in this industry hub are offered under a B2B SaaS model

Privacy startup TripleBlind has launched an AI privacy platform that aims to protect data throughout the entire AI lifecycle. The platform, which uses patented technology called AI Blinding, offers privacy protection through Blind Statistics for analysis, Blind Learning for model training, and Blind Inferencing for remote model usage. TripleBlind has also appointed Prat Moghe, formerly of Cloudera, as its new CEO. Moghe will be responsible for expanding the company's team, customer base, and product offerings.

TripleBlind

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