Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. Their portfolio includes pinterest, shopify, twilio, yelp, linkedin, pagerduty, docusign, wix, fiverr, and toast, and has $19 billion of assets under management.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Zeev Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that invests in technology, financial, e-commerce, and consumer service sectors.  Zeev Ventures was founded in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Zeev Ventures

Xerox Venture Capital operates as an investment arm of Xerox Corporation. The firm seeks to take a seat on the board of its portfolio companies. Xerox Venture Capital is based in San Francisco, California.

Xerox Venture Capital

Moore Strategic Ventures is a privately held investment company. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and finance.

Moore Strategic Ventures

INT3

Strategic and financial investor, working across the globe to support the next generation of disruptive technologies and business models

Munich Re Ventures

Sentra

Sentra is a cloud data security company that enables security teams to gain full visibility and control of cloud data and protect against sensitive data breaches across the entire public cloud stack. The company was founded by experienced entrepreneurs and veteran leaders of the Israel Defense Forces' Unit 8200. Sentra detects the vulnerability of sensitive data due to misconfigurations, over-permissions, unauthorized access, data duplication or other security issues.

Sentra is a cloud data security platform that leverages algorithms and contextual data, including access patterns and metadata, to protect sensitive data, including PII and passwords, against vulnerabilities across public cloud environments. It provides users with complete visibility and control of data in the cloud. The company’s agentless platform automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data in the cloud based on its sensitivity and offers remediation plans to users. The company continuously analyzes the data security posture of its clients and automates risk assessment to prioritize threats based on the data’s sensitivity and policy guidelines.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

Sentra Announces Integration with Microsoft 365 to Discover and Resolve Data Risks Across Multi-Cloud and On-Prem Environments

Sentra is a cloud data security platform that leverages algorithms and contextual data, including access patterns and metadata, to protect sensitive data, including PII and passwords, against vulnerabilities across public cloud environments. It provides users with complete visibility and control of data in the cloud. The company’s agentless platform automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data in the cloud based on its sensitivity and offers remediation plans to users. The company continuously analyzes the data security posture of its clients and automates risk assessment to prioritize threats based on the data’s sensitivity and policy guidelines.Sentra’s platform tracks and assesses data and its security through the entire life cycle. By providing automatic visibility, risk assessment, and access analysis for cloud data, Sentra ensures that sensitive data is always secured - regardless of where it travels in the organization’s cloud. Using machine learning and metadata clustering, Sentra’s platform automatically classifies data in different categories such as PII, PCI, PHI, and developer secrets. The platform automatically labels proprietary data, including customer data, HR data, or intellectual property.The company gives the team direct visibility into its data security and compliance violations with integrations with tools such as Slack, Teams, Wiz, and Torq. The company also provides a multi-cloud data security platform that works across IaaS, SaaS and DBaaS, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Snowflake, and Databricks.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves the financial services, healthcare, and retail industries. Sentra’s customers as of September 2024 included Monday, SoFi, Papaya Global, and Stackline.Sentra entered a partnership with cloud security provider Wiz in September 2022 to help eliminate data risk and secure data in the cloud. The company also partnered with Check Point in May 2024, integrating the latter’s ThreatCloud and CloudGuard solutions to leverage its malware detection and enriched data context to enhance threat prevention and ensure data privacy.

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

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Sentra

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