The Slack Fund is an investment fund to support slack teams building products that enable more productive workplaces.

Slack Fund

Crosscut Ventures, one of LA’s longest-standing seed funds, invests in founders building solutions that provide humanity with a better future. Crosscut partners with founders focused on clean energy generation and power distribution, the commercialization of frontiers in space, the ocean, and the earth, decarbonization, and the upgrading of the U.S.'s defense systems. The firm is committed to using its 16+ years of experience, widespread connectivity, and proven playbooks to bring companies to commercial viability for the betterment of humanity.

Crosscut Ventures

Upside Partnership is a venture capital firm that provides seed-stage investment to founders creating high-profile companies. The firm was founded by Kent Goldman in July, 2014 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, California, United States.

Upside Partnership

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Root Ventures

Pre-seed/seed fund writing first checks into engineer-led enterprise startups focused on data technologies (AI/ML/deep learning/data infra)

Zero Prime Ventures

GTMfund is an early-stage fund focused on investing in hyper-growth B2B SaaS companies. The fund is comprised of 260+ go-to-market executives from the fastest-growing companies on the planet (Snowflake, DocuSign, Okta, Salesforce, Twilio, Square, Procore, etc). Our operators have been there, done that, from zero to IPO. We support our founders with everything GTM - from strategy to hiring and execution.

GTMfund

Aviso Ventures operates as an investment firm.

Aviso Ventures

Privacy Dynamics

Privacy Dynamics helps engineering teams maintain safe and secure access to the data they need for development, testing, model training, and analytics. Data processed by Privacy Dynamics maintains referential integrity, preserves the original data formats and indices, and ensures your lower environments include the messy nuances only found in real world data.

Privacy Dynamics offers a tool that provides de-identification and anonymization solutions, enabling organizations to carry out analytics on sensitive data while conforming to privacy regulations. The tool can anonymize thousands of records per second and does not store customer data. It also uses advanced clustering techniques to calculate how each cell in a dataset contributes to the risk of re-identification and minimizes it to comply with privacy regulations, such as the GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. It uses a plug-and-play framework and supports data warehouse providers such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Redshift. Privacy Dynamics offers its tool under a free and SaaS model starting at USD 80 per month.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

Privacy Dynamics debuts app that lets developers rapidly anonymize data

Privacy Dynamics offers a tool that provides de-identification and anonymization solutions, enabling organizations to carry out analytics on sensitive data while conforming to privacy regulations. The tool can anonymize thousands of records per second and does not store customer data. It also uses advanced clustering techniques to calculate how each cell in a dataset contributes to the risk of re-identification and minimizes it to comply with privacy regulations, such as the GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. It uses a plug-and-play framework and supports data warehouse providers such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Redshift. Privacy Dynamics offers its tool under a free and SaaS model starting at USD 80 per month.In December 2021, the company raised USD 4 million in a seed funding round led by Root Ventures. The company expected to utilize the funds to accelerate growth, enhance product offerings, and expand its current headcount of 13.

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

Privacy Dynamics

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