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

Caffeinated Capital is a technology venture capital firm that partners with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.

Caffeinated Capital

Ridge Ventures funds experienced founders redefining how the world interacts with software.    Whether for the cloud or the edge, we look for companies delivering advanced technologies, new distribution models and incredible user experiences to market.    While we’re focused on SaaS and infrastructure solutions for the enterprise, we also back startups in adtech, gaming and ecommerce.    We are firm believers in “where there’s a big problem, there’s a big opportunity.”  We love Series A deals and helping create something out of chaos.

Ridge Ventures

GFC is a venture fund that supports entrepreneurs at various stages of business development. It focuses on global markets and seeks individuals with innovative ideas. The fund evaluates opportunities based on potential impact and feasibility.

Global Founders Capital

Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm with $375M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.

Bloomberg Beta

CRV has been an investor in technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic, and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired. The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and deep-insight bioengineering.

MState invests in distributed system (blockchain) companies that sell to enterprise.  We typically invest as part of a syndicate of investors.  Our investments to date have included infrastructure and application companies.  We look for experienced, technical founders that have built product (MVP okay) to solve big business problems.  We work with our portfolio companies to scale them faster, especially in everything GTM related.

MState - Not Making New Investments

Parade Ventures is a seed stage venture fund investing in enterprise-themed companies.

Parade Ventures

Arbor Ventures invests in companies that leverage advanced technologies to facilitate, broaden or fundamentally change the way financial services are served, consumed, and managed. The firm's partners bring extensive sector and market knowledge, together with vast strategic networks, creating a unique platform to recruit world-class board members, investors, and strategic partners from across the globe. Arbor’s global perspective allows it to accelerate impact and reach globally.

Arbor Ventures

Mubadala Capital’s Ventures business builds on Mubadala’s 10-year track record of being an active investor in advanced technology. The Ventures platform includes a direct investment business, a fund of funds business and the management and oversight of Mubadala’s partnership with SoftBank, including its U.S. $15 billion LP commitment to the SoftBank Vision Fund.  The Ventures team is based in Abu Dhabi, San Francisco, and London with strong connectivity to European and Chinese venture capital markets through other Mubadala Capital managed vehicles.

Mubadala Capital Ventures

Team Builder Ventures is a venture capital fund that helps founders build teams. It aims to make investments in startups focused on developments in enterprise software and consumer internet. offer team building as a value-add for our investments.  The fund invests in the most compelling early-stage enterprise software and consumer Internet start-ups led by the top venture capital funds.   It was founded by Steven Lurie in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Team Builder Ventures

Bossa Invest manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients. It analyzes market trends to inform investment decisions. Bossa Invest serves multiple sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate.

Bossa Invest

Accenture Ventures partners with growth-stage startups that create innovative and disruptive enterprise technologies using an open innovation.

Accenture Ventures

InCountry

InCountry is a data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business. The platform securely stores, processes, and regulates profile data in its country of origin, helping multinationals scale by providing easy integration in under ten minutes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in 65 countries. InCountry is s backed by Accenture, Caffeinated Capital, Arbor Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Felicis Ventures, Mubadala, and Charles River Ventures.

InCountry provides solutions for companies to store and process data in their country of origin, complying with residency requirements. Services are geared toward companies that handle sensitive data across multiple jurisdictions. The company achieves this by providing storage infrastructure in more than 90 countries (as of September 2020). In 2019, it released Profile, which enables organizations to comply with residency requirements applicable to personal user data. This offering has since expanded to cover data related to financial services, healthcare, employees, and payment information.

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

Digital Privacy Tools

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InCountry provides solutions for companies to store and process data in their country of origin, complying with residency requirements. Services are geared toward companies that handle sensitive data across multiple jurisdictions. The company achieves this by providing storage infrastructure in more than 90 countries (as of September 2020). In 2019, it released Profile, which enables organizations to comply with residency requirements applicable to personal user data. This offering has since expanded to cover data related to financial services, healthcare, employees, and payment information.The InCountry platform integrates with existing applications to automate the residency requirements based on data that is handled, thereby enabling the organization to easily scale operations globally and take full advantage of the data collected.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has partnered with numerous high-profile organizations, including IBM Consulting, Salesforce, Alibaba Cloud, and Veeva.

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

InCountry

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