Bracket Capital is an alpha-driven global investment manager focused on high-growth, later-stage, technology-enabled companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Bracket Capital

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

OMERS Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Toronto, Palo Alto and New York. Typically, we invest in Series A-C companies with a first cheque size between $5-25M. We focus primarily on four categories: horizontal SaaS, vertical SaaS, fintech and AI enablement.

OMERS Ventures

Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets.  It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company. Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.

Union Square Ventures

Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

K5 Global Advisor LLC (“K5”) is a venture capital firm and incubation studio that supports founders across the business lifecycle. The firm was founded in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum and has deployed capital of around $1B as of March 31, 2024. K5 invests across multiple stages, from seed through growth stage companies, with a focus on Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and FinTech. In 2023, Keenan Rice and Daniel Marcotte, investors from Tokyo Black Capital Advisors, LLC, and both on the founding team of Looker (acquired by Google in 2020 for $2.6B), joined with K5’s early-stage SaaS investing team. K5 seeks to help innovative companies expand their networks and best position them to achieve growth targets.

K5 Global

DuckDuckGo

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You.com is a multimodal search engine named “YouChat,” which can provide detailed answers to questions with citations, relevant web findings, and media data. YouChat is offered for free, while “YouPro” is a paid version named. Enterprise plans are also available.&nbsp;The platform is equipped with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25958">“AI Modes,”</a> which include various functionalities named Smart, Genius, Create, and Research, to offer varying levels of depth and sourcing to any queries. The Smart Mode, available for free users, can complete tasks, generate content, and access news and live web results. The other modes are only available through the paid version and allows to perform advanced tasks like multistep computations, data visualizations, file uploads, generate images, and conduct thorough research. The Pro version also offers the ability to choose between several foundation models, including GPT-4 Turbo, Claude Instant, Claude 2, Gemini Pro, and Zephyr.&nbsp; In November 2023, You.com launched a new product known as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23932">YOU API</a> to provide real-time access to internet data. The primary features of the YOU API included real-time web search, multilingual responses, extended snippets for AI, and usage rights for AI inference and data citation, addressing common challenges faced by LLMs and AI chatbots, such as hallucinations, source citation issues, and outdated information. It also offers a feature called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29912">Custom Assistants</a> that allows customizable AI assistance for specific inquiries, eliminating the need for lengthy instruction.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsThe company has partnered with MacOS browser SigmaOS (November 2022) and web browser Vivaldi (December 2022), which made the You.com platform their default browsers.&nbsp; Funding and financialsIn July 2022, You.com raised USD 25 million in a Series A funding round led by Radical Ventures. The funds were slated to develop premium features for the platform and collaborate with third parties.&nbsp;

You.com, founded by top AI research scientists, is a revolutionary AI chatbot and search engine. You.com uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to deliver personalized responses to queries with human-like replies. Its AI tools YouChat, YouCode, YouWrite, and YouImagine provide efficient web search, content and image creation, and code generation. With advanced machine learning, You.com streamlines answers to complex questions, aids in tasks, and supports research with citations and up-to-date information, enhancing productivity and saving time.

DuckDuckGo is an independent Internet privacy company for everyone who's had enough of hidden online tracking and wants to take back their privacy now. Founded in 2008 as a privacy protecting alternative to Google Search, today DuckDuckGo has more than 100 million users worldwide and provides users with an all-in-one privacy solution through the DuckDuckGo web browser, available on mobile and desktop devices. Unlike most popular browsers, DuckDuckGo has powerful privacy protections built in, including our search engine that doesn’t spy on your searches and over a dozen other privacy protections active by default.

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that does not log a user’s search history or any other personally identifiable information. The company also provides a downloadable browser extension and a mobile web browser that block trackers across the websites being visited. The company’s cross-platform email protection feature generates unique private email addresses and removes trackers. As of May 2021, DuckDuckGo averaged 95.8 million search queries a day and as of the same month, held 0.6% of the global search engine market share, highest of any privacy-focused search engine. The company generates revenue by presenting non-personalized advertisements. As of June 2021, DuckDuckGo employed 129 staff.

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

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NVIDIA

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Salesforce Ventures

Alumni Ventures

Day One Ventures

Companies that offer solutions to generate contextually relevant text responses across multiple conversational exchanges, such as natural language chatbots

Apple

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Startups that offer mobile apps that provide live information for route planning via multiple modes of transport

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused internet search engine that does not log a user’s search history or any other personally identifiable information. The company also provides a downloadable browser extension and a mobile web browser that block trackers across the websites being visited. The company’s cross-platform email protection feature generates unique private email addresses and removes trackers. As of May 2021, DuckDuckGo averaged 95.8 million search queries a day and as of the same month, held 0.6% of the global search engine market share, highest of any privacy-focused search engine. The company generates revenue by presenting non-personalized advertisements. As of June 2021, DuckDuckGo employed 129 staff.In October 2022, DuckDuckGo launched a web browser for Mac devices, integrating a range of privacy-focused features and more robust tracker-blocking compared to peers. A <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19680">Windows version launched</a> into public beta in June 2023.In March 2023, the firm launched <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19680">Duck Assist</a>, a GenAI search function capable of compiling summaries from Wikipedia articles to respond to user queries.

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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 DuckDuckGo, a search engine provider, has launched an AI chat feature using AI models such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku.
 This AI Chat feature enables users to have private conversations without the AI being trained on their data, as DuckDuckGo's technology removes IP addresses and metadata.
 The AI Chat feature of DuckDuckGo is free up to a daily limit, and there are plans to introduce a paid version for higher limits and additional features.
 
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