One Peak is a B2B Tech specialist growth investor with deep sector expertise, a vast network, and a founder-first approach. We focus on equity investments between $15-100M in growth-stage companies with exceptional teams.

One Peak

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital is a private equity platform targeting late-stage growth investments in technology, health care, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors. For nearly three decades, Morgan Stanley has successfully pursued growth investment opportunities. Expansion Capital’s experienced investment team combines extensive growth equity and franchise experience to pursue a value-creation strategy focused on operational and financial measures. The team works closely with the successful entrepreneurs and business professionals underlying its investments to assist in building proprietary advantage for portfolio companies. Expansion Capital also leverages the brand and global network of Morgan Stanley to source investment intelligence and opportunities.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital

Kreos Capital is Europe's largest and leading provider of growth debt to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million. Since 1998, as the pioneer growth debt provider across the UK, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Israel: Kreos has completed nearly 450 transactions and committed €1.8 billion in 14 different countries. Kreos has a proven track record of adding value to portfolio companies and helping them to grow with additional capital and flexibility throughout their business cycle whilst working closely with both the portfolio company management team and their equity sponsors.  The Kreos global team has extensive debt financing, management and equity investing experience, covering the pan-European market from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.  Kreos is a value added partner, able to offer additional capital and more flexibility with lower equity dilution. Kreos's international team has extensive entrepreneurial, debt financing and equity investing experience, covering all local European markets from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.

Kreos Capital

DataGuard

Combining human expertise with a web-based platform, DataGuard is the end-to-end solution for managing your privacy and information security with total peace of mind. Over 2,000 customers trust us to comply with regulations like the GDPR, attain and retain certifications such as ISO 27001, or manage consents and preferences with ease. With over 150 employees in Munich, Berlin and London, we help you to efficiently integrate privacy and information security into your processes. Together we form a true partnership, driving compliance and generating value through trust and transparency.

DataGuard provides a 'Privacy-as-a-Service' platform, which enables organizations to comply with privacy policies established by GDPR. The company aids in data risk management, fulfilling data subject requests, maintaining documents relating to data breaches, third-party audits, and training organization workforces.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

DataGuard appoints Johannes Kamleitner as CRO

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom partners with DataGuard to automate data protection services

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.

DataGuard provides a 'Privacy-as-a-Service' platform, which enables organizations to comply with privacy policies established by GDPR. The company aids in data risk management, fulfilling data subject requests, maintaining documents relating to data breaches, third-party audits, and training organization workforces.DataGuard acquired privacy management solutions platform DPOrganizer in June 2024 for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition allowed DataGuard to improve its product and expand its geographic footprint in Europe, especially in the Nordics and the UK.In September 2022, the company reported revenue growth of over 10x in the preceding year.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Dataguard claimed it served over 4,000 organizations and over 40 million individual users in more than 50 countries, with notable customers including Canon, Burger King, HeyJobs, and Userlane.DataGuard serves 40 million individual users and over 3,000 companies in more than 50 countries. Notable customers include ABB, Canon, SUSE, Unicef, Taxdoo, Flipdish, and Xentral. As of September 2022, the company had an employee headcount of 250 based in 20 countries, with offices in Munich, Berlin, London, and Vienna.

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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 DataGuard, a provider of compliance and data privacy SaaS, has acquired Stockholm-based privacy management solutions firm DPOrganizer.
 DPOrganizer provides services such as data breach management, data subject request handling, data protection impact assessments, advanced data mapping, data analytics, and data flow visualization. It serves customers across 20 countries.
 The integration of DPOrganizer will enable DataGuard to enhance its services and increase its presence mainly in the Nordics and the UK.
 
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