Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community.  Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.  With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com

Forum Ventures

Differential Ventures invest in b2b tech startups with a unique advantage in data science and machine intelligence that will transform the way businesses operate. It is a seed-stage vc fund that invests in b2b data-oriented technology solutions.

Differential Ventures

M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, and Web3/Gaming. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft.

M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

BDC Venture Capital

Shasta Ventures invests in startups in sectors. Their program consists of a proven methodology and a set of comprehensive playbooks that dive deep into the obstacles and challenges of early-stage startups. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to early-stage, so this agile program allows founders to tap into the resources they need when they need them.

Shasta Ventures

GIT1K is the End-User Syndicate For IT, Eng, Data, & Security leaders.

GIT1K

Parliament Angels operates as an angel group of Twilio employees.

Parliament Angels

Panda Angel Partners is a venture capital investment firm.

Panda Angel Partners

Bdc thrive venture invest in women-led technology companies to accelerate their growth and transform today’s markets.

Bdc Thrive venture

Private AI

Private AI is developing privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools. We envision a future in which private, secure, and seamless data analysis enhances creative software development. Our technology is the best in the world at finding, redacting, and generating synthetic PII within semi- and unstructured datasets. We hit 99.5%+ accuracy in 47+ languages across 50+ different entity types, and deploy as a Docker container within our partners' existing infrastructure so that their data never leaves their environment and is never shared with us. Ever. Try the web demo here: http://demo.private-ai.com/

Private AI uses natural language processing (NLP) to automatically identify and redact personally identifiable information (PII) such as name, age, address, and blood type, to protect sensitive data, in line with privacy regulations such as the GDPR, without the use of 3rd party cloud providers or new infrastructure. The company’s solution integrates with clients’ existing workflows and infrastructure—on-premises, web, or mobile, using only three lines of code. Private AI’s NLP model de-identifies over 30 different categories of PII in 7 languages.

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

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Private AI uses natural language processing (NLP) to automatically identify and redact personally identifiable information (PII) such as name, age, address, and blood type, to protect sensitive data, in line with privacy regulations such as the GDPR, without the use of 3rd party cloud providers or new infrastructure. The company’s solution integrates with clients’ existing workflows and infrastructure—on-premises, web, or mobile, using only three lines of code. Private AI’s NLP model de-identifies over 30 different categories of PII in 7 languages.In May 2023, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18169">Private AI launched “PrivateGPT”</a>, a privacy protection solution for LLM powered AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, based on the company’s NLP de-identification technology. PrivateGPT acts as a privacy “layer” between the user and chatbot, and redacts over 50 types of PII from a user’s prompt before submitting the query to the AI.Key Customers and Partners&nbsp;Private AI saw a sixfold increase in revenue since January 2021 and reports that it serves companies ranging from startups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. The company’s customers as of September 2024 included RBC, BDC, Forethought, Got It AI, Holmusk, Indico Data, Inbenta, Innovate Cities, Data.world, Actineo, Genesys, and Autumn.The company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18888">partnered with Replica Analytics</a> in May 2023 to develop a solution to enable healthcare providers to use patient data for analytics and insights while maintaining 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

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