Liveoak Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology and technology-driven services in Texas. LiveOak is a full lifecycle investor, with most of its relationships beginning at the seed stage.

LiveOak Ventures

Capital Factory is a venture capital firm and an accelerator that seeks to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. It accelerates companies in the software, media, and technology sectors. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, the firm meets entrepreneurs in Texas and introduces them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers.  In 2009, Sam Decker, Joshua Baer, and Bryan Menell co-founded Capital Factory in Austin, Texas.

Capital Factory

Social Starts is a venture capital firm with a data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies operating in the technology, health tech, internet, and mobile tech sectors.

Social Starts

Next Coast Ventures is an Austin venture capital firm that partners with bold entrepreneurs building innovative companies in big markets. It provides early-stage capital to high-growth startups in ‘Next Coast’ markets, using macro trends and themes to guide their investment strategy. In partnering with Next Coast, the fund provides hands-on, company building resources to its growing portfolio through its strong industry network, venture partner program and the founders’ own experiences as entrepreneurs. Learn more at www.nextcoastventures.com.

Next Coast Ventures

Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A. Jump invests in data-driven technology companies within the FinTech, B2B SaaS, IT/Data Infrastructure, and Media sectors. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump provides advocacy and support through a platform of institutional-level resources for entrepreneurs.  Jump's philosophy is to align with talented management teams that desire a trusted partner with real-world operating experience and a firm with an operating platform targeting initial investment checks between $2M to $10M.

Jump Capital

TDF Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Washington DC and Silicon Valley. We focus on startups that serve enterprise markets within infrastructure, software, and services (IaaS, SaaS, XaaS). We invest from a $200M permanent pool of capital and are currently investing out of Fund V.

TDF Ventures

Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity, and private equity investments in strategically-targeted sectors around the world.  The company values its creators who identify exceptional opportunities and partners with senior industry executives to build world-class companies. Its in-depth sector knowledge, deep relationships with entrepreneurial management teams, and global network of 60 investment and operating professionals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia help ensure that the company consistently drives value in its portfolio companies.  Baird Capital was founded on January 1, 1919 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Baird Capital

First Ascent Ventures was founded in 2015 and invests in emerging Canadian technology companies that are building the next generation of disruptive, enterprise B2B software that leverages the cloud, big data, analytics, mobility, AI and machine learning. First Ascent Ventures is looking for outstanding, committed entrepreneurs and management teams who seek not just financial backing, but the experience and expertise of successful financial and operating executives who can create a catalyst for growth and ultimately a successful exit for all stake holders.

First Ascent Ventures

Osano

Osano is an easy-to-use data privacy platform that helps businesses to become compliant with laws such as GDPR and CCPA.

Osano’s platform enables companies to comply with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. Osano uses a ‘compliance in a box’ approach, which allows websites to become compliant instantly. The platform also provides features such as personal information tracking, consent management, data subject rights management, and a comprehensive third-party risk management solution. Osano provides access to privacy experts and attorneys to advise companies on best practices as part of their plans.

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

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Osano Partners With DWCC to Accelerate Go-to-Market

Osano’s platform enables companies to comply with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. Osano uses a ‘compliance in a box’ approach, which allows websites to become compliant instantly. The platform also provides features such as personal information tracking, consent management, data subject rights management, and a comprehensive third-party risk management solution. Osano provides access to privacy experts and attorneys to advise companies on best practices as part of their plans.The company’s AI-powered Data Discovery tool automatically locates and classifies over 60 types of personal and non-personal data, automates privacy rights fulfillment and compliance with privacy regulations. Osano provides a free automated cookie scan for users and generates a comprehensive website privacy and cookie report in less than a minute. Osano blocks unauthorized third-party cookies and delivers consent dialogs in any of the 42 native languages it covers.In December 2023, Osano <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25003">acquired</a> enterprise data privacy solutions provider <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/536899">WireWheel</a> for an undisclosed sum. The latter’s solutions, which encompass capabilities ranging from privacy impact assessments and records of processing activity assessments, were integrated into Osano’s data privacy management platform.Key customers and partnershipsOsano’s customers as of September 2024 included New Relic, Boston Medical, Sprinklr, BuzzRx, and White Castle.

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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 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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