Richmond Global Ventures is the most engaged global venture capital firm in NYC investing in entrepreneurs building transformative global businesses. They seek disruptive technologies that benefit from strong network effects. In the U.S., they target early-stage venture opportunities that can scale globally, and in emerging countries, investing in companies poised to accelerate growth.

Richmond Global Ventures

DH Capital is a private investment banking partnership founded in 2001 and serves the media, Internet and telecommunications industries.

DH Capital

Ulu Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture fund in Silicon Valley investing in diverse entrepreneurial teams as well as Enterprise IT, EdTech, FinTech, Healthcare, and Sustainability startups.  Ulu is the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is one of the largest in the country with over $200M in assets under management. As well, the firm has designed its investment process to reduce risk and produce better, more consistent returns. Ulu’s process structures intuition and applies it intelligently to investments, avoiding cognitive biases common in VC; systematically identifies key drivers of risk and uncertainty, streamlining due diligence; and calculates a probability-weighted multiple(PWM) on invested capital, ensuring consistent decision-making.

Ulu Ventures

Lokker

Lokker protects companies and their customers' privacy by offering real-time data detection and response against privacy threats.  Lokker essentially works as a firewall against unauthorized data collection on the web.

Lokker is a startup developing privacy and compliance solutions for website operators, enabling businesses to protect customers who access their websites from third-party trackers. The company operates a SaaS platform that provides businesses with tools to identify and resolve privacy vulnerabilities and threats.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

LOKKER Launches Consent Management Solution

Lokker is a startup developing privacy and compliance solutions for website operators, enabling businesses to protect customers who access their websites from third-party trackers. The company operates a SaaS platform that provides businesses with tools to identify and resolve privacy vulnerabilities and threats.Lokker’s main web security product is Privacy Edge, a visibility and control tool that scans websites to identify trackers, cookies, and any other third-party applications or scripts in real time and leverages a proprietary database of threats to categorize and automatically block suspicious actors. Lokker Privacy Edge allows businesses to comply with data privacy laws including GDPR, HIPAA, and CPRA by setting geographical controls and providing granular management of which trackers have access to customer data.Lokker also offers a comprehensive website privacy analysis tool, Lokker Web Privacy Risk Score, which scans each webpage and assigns a score based on seven different risk factors. The tool offers website owners visibility into what kind of threats are affecting their privacy compliance.Key customers and partnershipsThe company caters to the healthcare, insurance, and law 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

Lokker

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