Cloud Apps Capital Partners is a market-focused venture capital firm helping early stage companies in the cloud business applications sector.    We know firsthand what it takes to build category-leading business application companies. We also recognize entrepreneurs need much more than capital which is why we differentiate and pride ourselves on the guidance and support we give entrepreneurs to help accelerate and maximize their business potential during the critical early stage.  Our firm is leading change in the venture market for early-stage companies with our market-focused Classic Series A approach which provides early stage investments of $2 to $10 million and full board support.  This “classic” approach benefits entrepreneurs by giving them the right financial backing along with operational guidance from a seasoned, skilled and engaged investment firm. We are the leading investor in early stage cloud business applications companies. Cloud Apps Capital Partners has more direct operating, commercial and venture experience building great cloud business app companies than any other early stage VC firm. This translates into exceptional market and business insights, guidance grounded in expertise for our entrepreneurs, plus access to a world class network of cloud business application executives.

Cloud Apps Capital Partners

Gunderson Dettmer is the only business law firm of its kind—singularly focused on the global venture capital and emerging technology marketplace. With nearly 250 attorneys in nine offices—Silicon Valley, Ann Arbor, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore and Beijing, China—we represent more than 2,500 high-growth companies from a broad range of industries in every stage of development. We provide our clients with counsel on general corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, financings, intellectual property and commercial agreements, strategic alliances, executive compensation, and tax matters. The Firm is a recognized international leader in the representation of venture capital and private equity investment funds. With extensive experience in North America, China, the EU and Latin America, our attorneys provide general counsel, fund formation and investor representation services to hundreds of the world’s leading venture capital and private equity firms. We routinely earn the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst’s ranking as the most active law firm in the world in venture capital financing activity. We combine our deep market knowledge and strong industry relationships with a unique practice experience to provide practical, business-oriented counsel designed for the needs of the emerging-growth company marketplace.

Gunderson Dettmer

American Express Ventures is American Express's strategic investment group. They invest in innovative startups in order to enhance American Express’s core capabilities and accelerate the company’s efforts in consumer commerce and B2B services.

American Express Ventures

Basis Set Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on artificial intelligence and its practical application. It focuses on seed and Series A investments, writing checks typically between $1 million and $3 million. The firm invests in enterprise companies, concentrating on scalable infrastructure, collaboration tools, automated workflows, and autonomous machines. Lan Xuezhao headquartered Basis Set Ventures in San Francisco, California in 2017.

Basis Set Ventures

Okta Ventures, is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, Okta is committed to being a catalyst for the industry. With Okta Ventures, Okta is playing a critical role in accelerating innovation throughout the identity ecosystem. We are investing in cutting edge technologies focusing on identity, security, and privacy.

Okta Ventures

Dig Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund investing in cloud infrastructure and B2B SaaS companies in Europe, Israel and the US. Founded by Ross Mason, founder of Mulesoft, and managed by an all operator partnership, Dig runs an unparalleled portfolio success model, focused on clearing the hurdles of early technical company building.

Dig Ventures

Operator Collective is a venture fund and community of operators – proven enterprise leaders who are building, running, and growing today’s most successful tech companies.  We invented the Collective Venture Model, mobilizing operators to literally invest in rising companies. Operators grow their connections and careers, and share their collective expertise and substantial networks to supercharge customer, talent, and leadership growth. Our investment focus is in early-stage enterprise and b2b companies where our operators can help teams grow and scale. We look for founders from all backgrounds who are humble, lifelong learners and share our belief that culture, diversity, and operational excellence are keys to building truly great companies.

Operator Collective

Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.

Felicis

Decent Capital is a venture capital firm with a cross-border presence. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Zeng, co-founder of Tencent Holdings Limited.  Decent Capital has two teams, venture investment and asset management, with offices in Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore and the United States. Decent’s investment team invests from Seed to Series A, primarily focusing on SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech.  Decent has invested in over 200 companies globally, spanning across the United States, China, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Decent upholds strong dedication to post-investment management, they continue to heavily support their portfolio companies’ business operations, supply chain and logistics, and future fundraising efforts. While Decent’s emphasis is on early-stage investments, they prioritize continuing to support portfolio companies throughout growth, for example, Decent invested in Lime from Seed to Series D.

Decent Capital

DocuSign operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices.  The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented business transactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.  The company also provides training and support services. Its platform serves the sales, human resources, finance, information technology, operations, legal, marketing, facilities, support, product management, and procurement departments in the financial services, healthcare, technology, higher education, insurance, real estate, life sciences, and government sectors in the United States and internationally.  DocuSign was incorporated in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Dublin.

DocuSign

Next47 is a $1.2 billion independent, global venture firm backed by Siemens AG. We specialize in enterprise-focused businesses, make fast decisions and share deep conviction with the teams we invest in. We have the resources and the motivation to unleash maximum potential in every startup we work with. We leverage our own global footprint as well as the Siemens ecosystem that spans a broad set of industries across hundreds of countries and regions worldwide.

Next47

HubSpot Ventures invests in early and growth-stage software companies with the potential to deliver unique value to HubSpot’s customer base. We help those companies scale by actively supporting their success in our ecosystem and by providing guidance from our leaders. We back remarkable teams who are building differentiated products in large markets and who share in our mission to help organizations grow better.

HubSpot Ventures

Third Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, a registered investment adviser based in New York, with approximately $5 billion of assets under management. The firm was founded in 1995 by Daniel S. Loeb. Third Point Ventures is led by Robert Schwartz, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in private equity and technology company management, and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Third Point Ventures

Sixty Degree Capital is a North American VC that invests in companies creating meaningful change in their industries, across sectors (software, digital infrastructure, healthcare, biotech) and across stages (as early as Series A, as late as pre-IPO). The firm has a global investment mandate, but currently focuses on the US market.

Sixty Degree Capital

Thomson Reuters Ventures is an early-stage investment arm of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters Ventures will invest primarily in earlier-stage companies via Series A and B rounds

Thomson Reuters Ventures

DataGrail

At DataGrail, we believe in a world where people are in control of their privacy and identity. The world's most trusted brands like Salesforce, Overstock.com, Restoration Hardware, NETGEAR, and MyFitnessPal use DataGrail.  DataGrail is a Gartner Cool Vendor and has 4.8/5 stars on G2.

DataGrail provides a platform for privacy management, specifically designed to comply with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. The company’s Live Data Map feature integrates with existing applications and automatically carries out data discovery and mapping, enabling organizations to automate data subject rights requests, data protection impact assessments, among other data-related requirements. The platform provides organizations the ability to monitor their privacy program and the ability to deploy a user-facing portal that can be used to manage their consent and email preferences, which are then enforced organization-wide. In March 2024, the company reported it had more than tripled revenue since late 2022.

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

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DataGrail provides a platform for privacy management, specifically designed to comply with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. The company’s Live Data Map feature integrates with existing applications and automatically carries out data discovery and mapping, enabling organizations to automate data subject rights requests, data protection impact assessments, among other data-related requirements. The platform provides organizations the ability to monitor their privacy program and the ability to deploy a user-facing portal that can be used to manage their consent and email preferences, which are then enforced organization-wide. In March 2024, the company reported it had more than tripled revenue since late 2022.DataGrail’s Risk Monitor leverages intelligent workflows and pre-populated documentation to build risk assessments such as automated Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), or third-party assessments.The company supported integrations with over 2,000 enterprise apps, data platforms, and internal systems with pre-built connectors as of September 2024.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, DataGrail’s customer base included notable companies such as Bed Bath &amp; Beyond, Fanduel, Okta, and Salesforce.DataGrail partnered with the cloud-based CRM platform HubSpot in July 2021 to offer unified preference management, maintain continuous data discovery, and automate data subject requests (DSRs and DSARs) in compliance with CCPA, CPRA, and GDPR.

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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