TechOperators is a venture capital firm that invests in growth stage software companies. It also provides constructive, strategic, operating, and networking support to its portfolio companies. The firm is specifically focused on opportunities to innovate and transform solutions for cyber security, enterprise productivity, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, TechOperators was founded in 2008.

TechOperators

Sidekick is a value-add venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups and focuses on the consumer and technology sectors. The Sidekick community members have deep networks and are based primarily in New York, Texas, and California. Our members fall into three main buckets: successful entrepreneurs, private equity executives, and Fortune 100 executives. Our community is excited to provide strategic value every step of the way.

Sidekick Partners

Dynamism Capital

SafeGuard Privacy

SafeGuard Privacy develops a bundled solution to revolutionize corporate privacy compliance management errors. Founded in 2018 by technology and privacy experts, SafeGuard Privacy offers the first platform for comprehensive privacy compliance management and collaboration. A key feature of the platform is its comprehensive and independent assessments that evaluate a company’s privacy programs and guide them on their path to compliance. Its workflow management and governance tools, including policy wizards, training, secure document storage, real-time reporting, and true auditing features, empower businesses with everything they need to mitigate risk and demonstrate compliance—all while saving time and money. In addition, The Vendor Compliance Hub simplifies the industry's RFI process, making it easy for vendors to demonstrate privacy compliance to their partners and mitigate third-party liability. For more information, visit www.safeguardprivacy.com.

SafeGuard Privacy provides a platform that offers an accountability and governance solution enabling companies to demonstrate compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The company’s project management platform addresses privacy compliance issues and features comprehensive assessment questionnaires in plain English commentary to enable chief compliance officers and product managers to collaborate. The company’s vendor compliance hub streamlines the request for information (RFI) process and enables companies to manage third-party vendor compliance as required by privacy laws. SafeGuard Privacy also provides customizable policy templates written by privacy compliance experts, auditable real-time reporting, and risk scores to identify risk areas in managing privacy compliance efforts.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

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SafeGuard Privacy: SaaS-Based Compliance Company Raises $3.6 Million

SafeGuard Privacy provides a platform that offers an accountability and governance solution enabling companies to demonstrate compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The company’s project management platform addresses privacy compliance issues and features comprehensive assessment questionnaires in plain English commentary to enable chief compliance officers and product managers to collaborate. The company’s vendor compliance hub streamlines the request for information (RFI) process and enables companies to manage third-party vendor compliance as required by privacy laws. SafeGuard Privacy also provides customizable policy templates written by privacy compliance experts, auditable real-time reporting, and risk scores to identify risk areas in managing privacy compliance efforts.SafeGuard Privacy partnered with Ketch, a data privacy and compliance platform provider in October 2021, to offer programmatic privacy and program management solutions for all companies. Ketch and SafeGuard Privacy will offer their solutions as a bundle, which comprises data mapping and classification; templates of critical documents (privacy policies and privacy impact assessments); compliance and gap assessments; orchestration and data subject request (DSR) fulfillment; and simplified auditing and data forensics.Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2022, SafeGuard Privacy served companies such as Business Online, CafeMedia, Habu, Neustar, and Publishers Clearing House.Funding and financialsIn November 2022, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15007">raised USD 7 million </a>in a funding round led by TechOperators. The funds were utilized to expand its business operations.

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

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