# Ben Brook

> Ben Brook is the co-founder and CEO of Transcend, the data-privacy infrastructure company he started in 2017 with Harvard classmate Mike Farrell. He flew to San Francisco the day after graduation to build software that lets the world's largest companies find, delete, and control personal data at machine speed. Under his lead Transcend has delivered actionable data rights to over a billion people and raised nearly $90M, including a $40M Series B in 2024. A Toronto-born, award-winning filmmaker turned privacy engineer, Brook argues that privacy only works when it is encoded directly into the systems that touch personal data.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Transcend
- **Organizations:** Transcend
- **From:** Toronto, Canada
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Secondary, Class of 2013, Greenwood College School (Toronto), Computer Science (with study in astrophysics and neuroscience), Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Transcend in 2017 and grew it into a leading enterprise data-privacy platform, Delivered actionable data rights to more than 1.2 billion people globally, Raised nearly $90M in venture funding, including a $40M Series B in 2024

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Graduates from Greenwood College School in Toronto and heads to Harvard University
- **2013-2017** — Studies computer science, astrophysics, and neuroscience at Harvard; meets co-founder Mike Farrell in a CS class
- **2017** — Flies to San Francisco the day after graduation and co-founds Transcend with Mike Farrell
- **2021** — Raises $25M from Index Ventures and Accel, with South Park Commons, Phil Venables, and Dylan Field participating
- **2024** — Raises $40M Series B led by StepStone Group; total funding reaches nearly $90M

## Achievements

- Co-founded Transcend in 2017 and grew it into a leading enterprise data-privacy platform
- Delivered actionable data rights to more than 1.2 billion people globally
- Raised nearly $90M in venture funding, including a $40M Series B in 2024
- Recruited backers including Index Ventures, Accel, StepStone Group, 01 Advisors, South Park Commons, Phil Venables, and Figma CEO Dylan Field
- Award-winning filmmaker before turning to technology

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Transcend raised a $40M Series B led by StepStone Group to expand its enterprise privacy and AI-governance platform.

## Links

- Website: https://transcend.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benbrook/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/transcend_io

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Last updated: 2026-06-04