New Enterprise Associates is a prominent venture capital firm focusing on investments in technology and healthcare startups. They help entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from the seed stage through the IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

New Enterprise Associates

PSP Growth is the investment arm of PSP Partners focused on venture and growth equity investments in early-stage and high-growth businesses.

PSP Growth

We are enterprise software experts.  We look to co-invest with strong leads, bringing our network of coinvestors and next round investors as well as enterprise software expertise to add value.  We see ourselves as partners who can fill out a round quickly and be a positive influence, and non-competitive as we don't lead or take significant stakes in our portfolio companies.  We generally write a small check into rounds of $750k-$3M that are mostly full, being low pain-in-the-ass to entrepreneurs compared to relatively high value add.  Having been entrepreneurs, we know that's the most important part.  While we'll invest anywhere in the US, we love ''second tier markets'' that can still support major exits but attract relatively less venture funding: Chicago, Toronto, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc etc!

SaaS Ventures

Founded by Steve Case in 2005, Revolution partners with passionate entrepreneurs upending traditional industries with innovative products and services, leveraging its areas of specialized expertise to create significant value. Through its family of funds that include The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds, Revolution Ventures, and Revolution Growth, Revolution partners with entrepreneurs at every stage of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. Revolution focuses on venture communities in high-potential geographies and believes that while talent is well distributed, the opportunity is not. The firm’s vision that great companies can start and scale anywhere is supported by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality of life.

Revolution

Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund is an outgrowth of Revolution’s Rise of the Rest platform, a national initiative launched in 2014 to spotlight emerging startup hubs. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund invests in seed- and early-stage companies located outside of New York City, Silicon Valley, and Boston. By partnering with regional ecosystem leaders and co-investors, Rise of the Rest is helping to build and scale the next wave of transformational companies. The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds are backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs and business leaders committed to the vision that the next great startups will be located outside of the coastal tech hubs.

Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund

As one of the established firms in the venture industry, Grotech Ventures has built a reputation for being a collaborative, long-term partner for CEOs and entrepreneurs by aligning their definition of success with that of their partners. They initially invest between $500,000 and $5 million in high-growth technology companies, reserving significant capital for subsequent investments to support companies through their early and growth stages. They look to partner with entrepreneurs who have fresh ideas, breakthrough innovations, and unconventional approaches that will yield explosive growth. They believe that their ability to meaningfully contribute to a business’s development is just as important as the capital they invest. As such, they seek investment opportunities that offer them the chance to leverage the experience, insight, and network they have built since their inception in 1984. Their approach is personal and long-term, not institutional.

Grotech Ventures

Sands Capital is an active, long-term investor in innovative growth businesses. The approach combines rigorous fundamental analysis with inspired thinking to seek out businesses that are creating the future. They operate through two affiliates: Sands Capital Management, which focuses on investing in companies in the public market, and Sands Capital Ventures, which focuses on investing in companies in the private market. By enabling clients to participate in the growth of these businesses, its mission is to add value and enhance their wealth with prudence over time.

Sands Capital Ventures

Forgepoint is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity and infrastructure software companies. With the largest sector-focused investment team, over $1 billion in AUM, and an active portfolio of nearly 40 companies, the firm brings over 100 years of collective company-building expertise and an Advisory Council of nearly 100 industry leaders to support exceptional entrepreneurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Forgepoint is proud to cultivate a diverse, global community dedicated to backing builders of the digital future. Learn more at https://www.forgepointcap.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/forgepoint-capital/.

Forgepoint Capital

WireWheel.io

WireWheel.io is a software company that revolutionizes data privacy and protection as-a-service for companies. WireWheel delivers a cloud-based solution to to help global organizations become GDPR-ready and operationalize privacy in the enterprise.

WireWheel offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that integrates with existing applications and provides compliance with all phases of privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. The company was founded by Justin Antonipillai, former Acting Undersecretary of Economic Affairs at the US Department of Commerce and lead US Negotiator of the EU-US Privacy Shield.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

Crownpeak

To integrate WireWheel's encrypted Subject Rights Request (SRR) management capabilities into its consent experience platform, Universal Consent Platform (UCP), to create a suite of CCPA privacy tools before the implementation of the regulation in January 2020. This integration was to provide customers with cookie and consent management, and rights to opt-out, data access, deletion, changes, and portability.

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.

WireWheel offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that integrates with existing applications and provides compliance with all phases of privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. The company was founded by Justin Antonipillai, former Acting Undersecretary of Economic Affairs at the US Department of Commerce and lead US Negotiator of the EU-US Privacy Shield.The solution offered by WireWheel.io provides an end-to-end privacy platform that provides automation and machine-learning solutions for data discovery and classification, subject rights management, data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, monitoring, and reporting. In November 2020, WireWheel announced a new data localization solution for the EU to comply with data localization and soveriegnity requirements. The new solution allows customers to store data in the WireWheel platform without the data leaving the EU.WireWheel has partnerships with companies like CrownPeak, BigID, and Virtru, among others, to provide comprehensive solutions to customers. The company’s most recent funding round secured USD 19.3 million through a venture round in February 2021.

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.

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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 Data privacy management firm, Osano has acquired WireWheel, an enterprise-level data privacy solutions provider. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. WireWheel is recognized for its privacy assessment tools, designed to effectively support large-scale data privacy programs. 
 Osano intends to integrate these solutions into their own platform to improve automated data auditing, risk identification, and regulatory documentation creation. This is expected to significantly increase the scalability and user-friendliness of the Osano platform, as well as facilitate safer corporate data-based AI initiatives. 

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