Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Slow Ventures

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011.  Investments include:  * BetterUp * Birdies  * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone * Very Good Security * VivaReal  * Zeplin

Graph Ventures

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors who manage portfolios in the U.S., China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. The firm is a trusted partner to some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs, supporting them with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners and customers they need to build truly global businesses.

Vertex Ventures

SocialCapital helps employers find suitable candidates for their companies by analyzing their online and social behavior. The company curates accurate personality profiles using social data. To infer personality characteristics from textual information, SocialCapital tokenizes the input text and matches the tokens with the LIWC psycholinguistics dictionary to compute scores in each dictionary category. It currently infers personality characteristics and interests from any combination of tweets, blogs, and any other publically available digital media. SocialCapital was founded in 2015 by Temitope Alabi and Obed Eugene.

SocialCapital

We're a team of founders and operators turned investors who lead/co-lead investment rounds at the Seed and Series A. We stick to the categories we know best: software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, and vertical SaaS. We’re fans of open-source software and excited by recent advances in AI.

Vertex Ventures US

408 Ventures invests in early stage companies that build data platforms, analytics, and tools that produce inherent network effects and actionable intelligence to support critical business decisions. They look for companies that are positioned to be market makers in a variety of data-rich sectors (e.g. health, finance, commerce, education) because they know how to build useful, high impact products and services from the smart application of the data stack.

408 Ventures

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the fintech sector. The firm connects innovative companies to financial institutions and technology companies as well as expert individuals as investors and advisors. Nyca Partners was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Nyca Partners

Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division is a private equity and venture capital firm that provides equity and credit investment. It is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking and Securities Investments. It is focused on providing private equity, mezzanine debt, senior secured loans and distressed debt securities. It manages private capital globally and offers expertise to companies, investors, entrepreneurs, and financial intermediaries around the globe. It also invests in equity and credit across corporate, real estate and infrastructure strategies. Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division began operation in 1869, with its headquarters in New York.

Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies. As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) have combined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

GS Growth

Very Good Security provides a secure payment environment, tracks PCI, and optimizes payment services. They decouple and insulate customer systems and applications from sensitive data. Their security protects data in formats including pdfs, images, emails, and voice calls. They also provide card payment data security solutions in the markets. They design a solution that helps card payment issuers protect payment card industry data.

Very Good Security (VGS) enables companies to offload the sensitive data they collect from consumers to VGS’s secure storage infrastructure. This liberates organizations from storing data on their own or setting up their own processes, thereby saving them from the repercussions of potential data breaches and making them compliant with relevant privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. This makes VGS the only disruptor that acts as a custodian for sensitive data.&nbsp;

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

Digital Privacy Tools

Very Good Security

After Transformational Year in Payments, VGS Surpasses 3 Billion Tokens

Very Good Security (VGS) enables companies to offload the sensitive data they collect from consumers to VGS’s secure storage infrastructure. This liberates organizations from storing data on their own or setting up their own processes, thereby saving them from the repercussions of potential data breaches and making them compliant with relevant privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. This makes VGS the only disruptor that acts as a custodian for sensitive data.&nbsp;The solution also aids in designing consent-gathering mechanisms, communicating with users concerning data collection, and allowing them to exercise their data subject rights.VGS’s platform enables organizations to securely take advantage of their sensitive data while residing on VGS servers. It achieves this by aliasing the data and making it unreadable by humans in the event of a data breach.Key customers and partnershipsThe company provides its solutions predominantly to the financial services sector and is backed by giants such as Visa and Goldman Sachs.&nbsp;

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

Very Good Security

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