Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Battery Ventures

Saban Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), a private investment firm founded by Haim Saban in 2001 and specializing in the media, entertainment, and communications industries. Saban Ventures was formed by SCG in 2008 to invest in early-stage to mid-stage start-ups in digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet with an emphasis on companies that can add value to SCGâ€:tm:s global media investments.  The Saban Ventures team brings significant investment, operations, and industry experience in the digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet spaces. The firm seeks to partner with ambitious, market-changing entrepreneurs and invest in companies where the Principals can add value through their expertise and strategic network. The firm actively partners and collaborates with its portfolio companies to help them achieve breakout success.  Saban Ventures and SCG work closely together on investments that require multidisciplinary skills and creative structuring. As a division of SCG, Saban Ventures has access to a wide network of strategic relationships in the traditional media, entertainment, and advertising industries that continue to influence our new media investments. With representation in both Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley, Saban Ventures is well positioned to invest in disruptive start-ups at the intersection of media, entertainment, and technology.

Saban Ventures

Gradient is a seed fund that focuses on supporting founders in the artificial intelligence sector. The firm collaborates closely with innovators to integrate AI into various business processes and drive technological advancements. Gradient aims to foster disruptive ideas that can redefine industries and enhance operational capabilities.

Gradient

Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. It invests across geographies, leading rounds at every stage. The firm's Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, and invest locally. Its San Francisco-based Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond, working in collaboration with their Early Stage Teams. The sizes and locations of these funds make it possible for them to see local trends up close, identify winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble, and Yeahka are among the stars in Headline’s world. Headline was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998.

Headline

MMV is a multi-stage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice. MMV’s sole limited partner is MassMutual, a Fortune 500 financial services company with assets under management of $616 billion (Dec 2020).

MassMutual Ventures

PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return. Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial system that is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.

PayPal Ventures

Nationwide Ventures invests in startups, pilots new technologies, and tests new solutions and business models. We focus on delivering next-generation experiences for Nationwide’s customers by exploring leading-edge topics from analytics and automation technology to new insurance and financial services platforms.

Nationwide Ventures

Mine

The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage data requests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS.

Mine provides a platform for users to manage their personal data, which it achieves by connecting to a user’s email inbox and analyzing subject lines to map all companies with which they have interacted. The company was founded in Israel by two staffers of the cybersecurity unit within the Israeli Defense Forces. Mine’s platform independently scans these companies’ data collection and privacy policies and provides a risk score. Through the platform, the user can send requests to companies asking them to delete any data stored involving the user, in line with the “right to be forgotten” stipulated within the GDPR. As of October 2020, Mine offered its platform for free but aimed to move to a subscription model with additional features.

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

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Mine provides a platform for users to manage their personal data, which it achieves by connecting to a user’s email inbox and analyzing subject lines to map all companies with which they have interacted. The company was founded in Israel by two staffers of the cybersecurity unit within the Israeli Defense Forces. Mine’s platform independently scans these companies’ data collection and privacy policies and provides a risk score. Through the platform, the user can send requests to companies asking them to delete any data stored involving the user, in line with the “right to be forgotten” stipulated within the GDPR. As of October 2020, Mine offered its platform for free but aimed to move to a subscription model with additional features.The company also offers MineOS, a data privacy and governance platform that provides end-to-end solutions for businesses to manage their data privacy, compliance, and AI governance needs. MineOS offers a suite of tools, including data mapping, data subject request (DSR) automation, consent management, and AI asset discovery. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to provide automated, no-code solutions and integrates with popular platforms like Asana, WordPress, and Google Analytics to provide comprehensive data governance capabilities. The company's solutions help businesses comply with various data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, Colorado Privacy Act, and HIPAA.Key customers and partnershipsThe MineOS platform reportedly serves hundreds of customers across the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Notable clients include Reddit and HelloFresh.As of September 2024, the company reported it had more than 4 million individual users and claimed 40% of users reduced their footprint and online exposure.

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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 MineOS has updated its data governance and privacy platform with the release of Data Subject Request (DSR) Management 2.0. This upgrade introduces the no-code Infinite Integration Builder, which enables organizations to customize integrations with various backend systems, platforms, and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
 The new tool provides a no-code solution for organizations to streamline the integration with their data ecosystems. Notable improvements include enhanced automation features, customized rights flow based on geography, an improved ticket flow page, and a revamped approach to API connections.
 According to MineOS, this update simplifies the deployment and maintenance of automated DSR handling, making the process more efficient for businesses. The company also claims quick implementation of the platform within a matter of days, rendering expensive professional services and long implementation periods unnecessary.
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