Capnamic is a venture capital firm from Berlin/Cologne doing early-stage investments in outstanding teams in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. The team’s expertise includes 70+ investments, 30+ successful trade sales and 13+ IPOs as well as broad professional experience across various industries and functions.  Capnamic unites institutional and corporate investors thus offering its portfolio companies a unique network of sparring partners and customers. The firm’s general partners are Jörg Binnenbrücker, Olaf Jacobi, and Christian Siegele.

Capnamic Ventures

WestTech Ventures, a Berlin-based investment firm, partners with emerging VC funds in Europe and pre-seed & seed B2B software startups in Germany dedicated to making a positive global impact through technology. Our deep knowledge of the ecosystem gained from over 80 direct & indirect investments helps us to be an understanding partner along the journey.

WestTech Ventures

Data Pitch is a European Commission-funded startup accelerator that is being launched with the aim of connecting established businesses and organizations with lots of data with startups that might be able to help them unlock the value of the info they hold and thereby tackle industrial and societal challenges.

Data Pitch

Statice

Statice is a data privacy company that facilitates complex and professional data analysis using privacy-preserving technologies. With the current abundance of information and increasing data privacy concerns and regulations, the company helps companies to truly unlock the hidden value of their data.

Statice provides data anonymization solutions that allow companies to process sensitive data securely while minimizing privacy risks. Statice’s platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze raw data, train its model, and generate synthetic data with similar characteristics to the original data that retains the same data utility and can be used in applications such as business intelligence, product development and collaboration, while remaining compliant with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

Anonos Acquires Award-Winning Synthetic Data Company Statice

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PwC Germany has acquired a significant minority stake of nearly 50% in Statice. This will combine Statice’s data protection expertise and PwC’s extensive knowledge of the enterprise to help both new and existing Statice clients to better drive agility and to address modern data access challenges.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Statice provides data anonymization solutions that allow companies to process sensitive data securely while minimizing privacy risks. Statice’s platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze raw data, train its model, and generate synthetic data with similar characteristics to the original data that retains the same data utility and can be used in applications such as business intelligence, product development and collaboration, while remaining compliant with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.In March 2021, the Berlin-based company announced that PriceWaterhouseCooper had obtained a significant minority stake in Statice for an undisclosed amount. The company will use the investment proceeds and PwC’s enterprise expertise to accelerate product development and sales.

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.

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

Statice

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