We are Europe's leading specialist early stage investors in security and resilience. Our brilliant portfolio Founders leverage our unique network and sector expertise, benefiting from everything we’ve learned about what it takes to achieve escape velocity in this uniquely challenging sector. We focus on supporting our portfolio to reach early customers, meet other investors, and build long-term key strategic relationships. Our team has deep expertise in this sector, combining national security experience with nearly a decade working with the founders of enterprise security startups. We were the first investors in companies like Immersive Labs, Tessian, and some of the most exciting young companies in the UK, US and Israel.

CyLon Ventures

StoneMill Ventures invests in disruptive cyber security companies, primarily at the seed stage. StoneMill are active investors and look for founding teams that can benefit from our experience building pioneering security companies.

StoneMill Ventures

(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 330+ start-ups since launching in 2011. Our alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2 billion in capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization. ERA’s initial investment in participant companies is $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company. ERA runs two four-month sessions per year one each in the winter and summer. We invest $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company selected. In addition to this financial investment, our companies are immersed in our mentor-driven program. We also provide free office space, free hosting credits with several major cloud providers, and additional benefits through our legal, finance, accounting, and other business-service partners.

(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

The FIS FinTech Accelerator is a 12-week, intensive program designed to accelerate the growth of early stage financial technology companies.  We are the ONLY accelerator with an open door to the executive suite of the global fintech leader, FIS™, and access to their 20,000 financial institution customers across 130 countries. FIS is the world's largest global provider dedicated to banking and payments technologies. FIS empowers the financial world with payment processing and banking solutions, including software, services and technology outsourcing. The highly selective program will admit up to 10 financial technology startups poised to challenge the status quo in the financial services sector. Startups chosen to participate in the VC FinTech Accelerator will enter a 12-week on-site program, complete with curriculum that will help them plan strategically, address business and finance challenges, and provide rigorous mentorship from successful fintech and entrepreneurial experts. How can VC FinTech and FIS help your startup?  FIS serves the largest players in the financial world, processing 27 billion transactions and $9 trillion annually. FIS is committed to disrupting the FinTech space with innovation centers in San Francisco, New York, London, Bangalore, Bangkok--and Little Rock, Arkansas. FIS stands uniquely poised to support your startup in ways that no other organization can.  By joining with VC FinTech, you aren't just getting an accelerator. The Venture Center is a strategic partner that can help you transform your company and gain access to some of the inaccessible decision-makers in the world!  Our next Accelerator begins May 8, 2017.

The FIS FinTech Accelerator in Partnership with The Venture Center

HighSide

Powered by a distributed cryptographic key management infrastructure, HighSide’s suite of products enable businesses to engage securely in a remote first world. At HighSide we build technology to enable the modern business addressing challenges in productivity, sharing and engagement typically stymied by data security and data access requirements. Through our zero-trust technology, teams have access to a modern unified communications and file sharing platform including voice, video, text and files, reducing risk of shadow IT and reliance on dated and insecure communications channels.

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.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

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

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

HighSide

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