Upfront Ventures is proud to be an early investor and long-term partner to the most exciting founders and startups. Founded in 1996 in Los Angeles with investing professionals based in LA, San Francisco, and Paris, Upfront has backed standout teams across all technology sectors, including Ring (acq. by Amazon), TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Bird, Maker Studios (acq by Disney), GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba (acq by Bridgepoint). We invest about half of our capital in the fast-growing Southern California ecosystem, with the balance across the country as well as investments in Europe and Israel. Upfront Ventures is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.

Upfront Ventures

IA Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments in the fintech sector.  The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in information technology, e-commerce, software, financial services, healthcare, media, big data, and business services sectors.

IA Ventures

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures across Europe.  Our partners have worked in leading Silicon Valley startups since the dawn of the Internet and have collectively amassed over 50 years in tech on both sides of the Atlantic. We are a small team of investors and startup operators who typically make just a small number of new investments per year, so every relationship matters. We appreciate that success is not built overnight; we are in it for the long haul. We are humble, curious, open and straightforward — having learned from both mistakes and successes. Read about our thesis-driven approach to investing and what you can expect when working with us on our website.

Mosaic Ventures

LocalGlobe is a UK-based venture capital firm that focuses on seed and impact investments. Seeding ambitious UK founders since 1999 inc Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Tweetdeck, Transferwise, and Zoopla.

LocalGlobe

Akamai is the provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps enterprises accelerate innovation in the hyperconnected world by removing the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward. We enable enterprises to capitalize on market opportunities presented by trends like mobile and cloud while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally. The Akamai Intelligent Platform™ reaches globally and delivers locally, providing unmatched reliability, security and visibility into your online business.

Akamai Technologies

ITV, as an integrated producer broadcaster, creates, owns and distributes high-quality content on multiple platforms globally. They operate the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and deliver their content through linear television broadcasting as well as on demand via the ITV Hub and across other platforms globally. ITV broadcasts a wide variety of content on its family of free-to-air channels. Their investment in programming is primarily funded by television advertising revenue. ITV has the largest share of the UK television advertising market, with a share of broadcast (SOB) of 47.6% in 2017. They sell all of their key demographics across 13 regional licences. The family of channels attracted a total share of viewing (SOV) of 21.7% in 2017, the largest audience of any UK commercial broadcaster. Their main channel is the largest commercial channel in the UK, delivering 99% of all commercial audiences over five million.

Experian is a global information services company that provides information, analytical tools, and marketing services to help clients manage their commercial and financial decisions. The company helps organizations manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers, and automate decision making. It also enables individuals to check their credit report and credit score as well as protect against identity theft. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Experian was co-founded by Michael A Barron and Bernie Brenner in January 1980 and has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Nottingham, United Kingdom; California, United States; and São Paulo, Brazil.

Experian

Ascential is an e-commerce optimization company. They specialize in information, analytics, events, and e-commerce optimization. Their consumer brands and their ecosystems through optimizing digital commerce and creating products. Their services include digital commerce, events, product design, marketing, and financial services for the marketing, advertising, and fintech industries.

Ascential

Xandr

Chrysalis Investments backs innovative companies, tech-enabled disruptors that are reshaping sectors, and influencing competition. Chrysalis Investments was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Chrysalis Investments

InfoSum

InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled.  The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

InfoSum provides infrastructure to enable organizations to run analytics and get insights from personal information without compromising underlying data privacy. The platform also provides the ability to share data securely by using a federated infrastructure model, enabling users to collaborate using first-party data sources without physically moving the data.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

McDonald’s and OMD New Zealand lead the way with Infosum’s data solutions

Netflix

To provide advertisers with secure data-sharing capabilities through clean room technology, enabling audience analysis and campaign measurement on Netflix's advertising platform.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Startups offering tools for finding and attracting potential customers with targeted ads.

Samsung Electronics

Samsung Ads partners with InfoSum to create a clean room solution utilising InfoSum’s technology.

Startups providing tools for gathering, cleaning, and enhancing customer data to provide deep analytics. This also includes firms offering account-based marketing (ABM) solutions to drive targeted and personalized campaigns.

InfoSum provides infrastructure to enable organizations to run analytics and get insights from personal information without compromising underlying data privacy. The platform also provides the ability to share data securely by using a federated infrastructure model, enabling users to collaborate using first-party data sources without physically moving the data.Key customer and partnershipsThe company caters to organizations in the retail media, media and advertising, gaming, financial services, and healthcare sectors. As of September 2024, notable customers included Domino’s Pizza, Sony, Samsung Ads, CNN, Experian, The Telegraph, Deliveroo, Disney Ad Sales, and TripAdvisor.

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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UK-based InfoSum has launched Private Path, a data collaboration platform that allows organizations to use first-party data securely and effectively. Privacy Path uses non-reversible synthetic identifiers to protect sensitive data and improve analytic capabilities. This facilitates faster, safer, and cost-effective data collaboration, optimising campaign performance and revenue while ensuring privacy. Early adopters of this technology include Circana, Experian, ITV, NCSolutions, S&P Global Mobility, and the Tesco Media & Insight Platform, powered by dunnhumby.
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