Dreamit is a leading venture fund focused on startups with revenue or pilots that are ready to scale. Dreamit specializes in startups building transformative companies in Securetech. Founders meet with dozens of potential customers and partners on Customer Sprints® and pitch leading venture firms during Investor Sprints®. Since its founding in 2008, Dreamit has partnered and helped grow over 320 startups, including LevelUp (acquired by GrubHub), Trendkite (acquired by Cision), SeatGeek, HouseParty (acquired by Epic Games), Elevate, Adaptly (acquired by Accenture), Wellth, Biomeme, Tissue Analytics (acquired by Net Health), Redox, Eko Devices, NestEgg, Cherre, Cylera, RaySecur, SpecTrust, Tidal Cyber, TestifySec, Nirmata, and Accuknox.

Dreamit Ventures

Food Retail Ventures invests in early stage food and retail technology companies. Food Retail Ventures uses their industry experience and network to help food and retail technology companies succeed. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Food Retail Ventures

Rockwood Group is a solutions-based strategic investment firm providing high-quality investment-grade securities and products for institutional investors.

Rockwood Group

CYTRIO

CYTRIO develops data privacy rights management platform for security and privacy professionals. Its platform provides automated identity verification, ai driven data discovery, classification, and ID correlation, enabling clients to build trust by facilitating their customers to exercise their data privacy rights. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Wayland, Massachusetts.

CYTRIO provides an automated data privacy rights management platform for security and privacy professionals, which it launched in October 2021. The company reports that its platform is suitable for medium-sized enterprises, as it eliminates over 80% of manual tasks, resulting in rapid deployment, and does not require dedicated privacy teams. The platform includes features such as a secure data request intake portal, automated identity verification, AI-powered PI data discovery, classification, automated Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) response workflows, identity correlation, and detailed audit records. The platform enables customers to exercise data privacy rights (rights to access or delete) over their personal data, after visiting specific websites, in compliance with data privacy legislation such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, VCDPA, and CPA.

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

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CYTRIO Launches Privacy UX Platform to Help Businesses Navigate Complex Data Privacy Laws

CYTRIO provides an automated data privacy rights management platform for security and privacy professionals, which it launched in October 2021. The company reports that its platform is suitable for medium-sized enterprises, as it eliminates over 80% of manual tasks, resulting in rapid deployment, and does not require dedicated privacy teams. The platform includes features such as a secure data request intake portal, automated identity verification, AI-powered PI data discovery, classification, automated Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) response workflows, identity correlation, and detailed audit records. The platform enables customers to exercise data privacy rights (rights to access or delete) over their personal data, after visiting specific websites, in compliance with data privacy legislation such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, VCDPA, and CPA.The company has a headcount of 23 and offers its platform under a SaaS subscription model that starts from USD 499 per month with an additional tier for larger SMEs and custom plans for large enterprises.

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

CYTRIO

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