IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including to Apple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.

IQ Capital

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+ companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Playfair Capital

We are Europe's leading specialist early stage investors in security and resilience. Our brilliant portfolio Founders leverage our unique network and sector expertise, benefiting from everything we’ve learned about what it takes to achieve escape velocity in this uniquely challenging sector. We focus on supporting our portfolio to reach early customers, meet other investors, and build long-term key strategic relationships. Our team has deep expertise in this sector, combining national security experience with nearly a decade working with the founders of enterprise security startups. We were the first investors in companies like Immersive Labs, Tessian, and some of the most exciting young companies in the UK, US and Israel.

CyLon Ventures

Molten Ventures is a venture capital company. They invest in software, telecoms, electronics, the internet, MedTech, and cleantech services. They support visionary entrepreneurs who will invent the future.

Molten Ventures

Navigate Ventures offers a unique, differentiated investment thesis and strategy by offering ''A Extension Rounds'' for B2B Enterprise SaaS companies outside Silicon Valley during their early growth stages, and help them get to growth rounds. We look for companies that use the latest technologies and AI to solve big problems in traditional industries. The partners bring decades of investing, advising, and operating experience in enterprise SaaS and are focused on helping our portfolio companies prepare for rapid growth, scaling, and raising a growth round.

Navigate Ventures, LLC

Pretiosum Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in Enterprise SaaS companies that will shape the Future of Businesses. We invest at pre-seed and seed stages. Capital meets Awesome.

Pretiosum Ventures

The Venture Capital team dedicated to supporting National Security Innovation for the UK and Allies.

MD ONE Ventures

J.A.S Ventures

Valarian Technologies

Valarian delivers advanced data sovereignty infrastructure engineered to safeguard sensitive data for commercial enterprises and government institutions. Our solution is built to empower customers with full data sovereignty, leveraging strategic localisation, granular access controls, and thorough auditability. Amid rising geopolitical and cyber threats, Valarian fortifies critical operations, enhancing resilience, securing privileged communications, and protecting IP and trade secrets. In this way, we empower corporate and government entities to innovate and compete globally with unwavering confidence. To learn more, visit valarian.com.

Worldr provides a zero-trust architecture that helps organizations to maintain their data sovereignty over information shared across collaboration platforms including Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, and Slack. Worldr for WhatsApp facilitates communication across an organization while complying with regulatory standards such as the GDPR, SEC, and FINRA. This is carried out by storing messages in a secure storage facility for compliance searches and auditing and does not require any additional application or download from the end user.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

Worldr

Worldr provides a zero-trust architecture that helps organizations to maintain their data sovereignty over information shared across collaboration platforms including Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, and Slack. Worldr for WhatsApp facilitates communication across an organization while complying with regulatory standards such as the GDPR, SEC, and FINRA. This is carried out by storing messages in a secure storage facility for compliance searches and auditing and does not require any additional application or download from the end user.The company provides complete ownership of encryption keys, data localization in cloud or server, and data sovereignty for regulatory compliance. Worldr protects communications through Teams to prevent third-party access and ensure organizations retain full ownership of their enterprise data. The company stores messages, user details, and metadata in a database protected by a transparent data encryption layer, and encryption keys are stored in the Hashicorp Vault.Key customers and partnershipsWorldr serves customers in the financial services, defense and government, healthcare and pharmaceutical, law, and corporate sectors.

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

Worldr

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