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The $5.3 Billion Cookie-Banner Company Had to Grow Up - Now OneTrust Wants to Govern Your AI
OneTrust turned a deadline called GDPR into one of software's fastest growth stories. After a bruising reset, the company behind countless cookie pop-ups is betting that the next compliance emergency will be every company's unruly fleet of AI models and agents.
Daniel Barber Is Turning Privacy Into an Operating System
After years selling software built on customer data, Daniel Barber began asking a harder question: could a company map what it collects, honor what people ask, and make trust part of the machinery? DataGrail is his answer - and AI has made the question more urgent.
Abhi Sharma
For Abhi Sharma, the useful map is never the static one. From a college navigation experiment to Relyance AI's moving graph of enterprise data, his career has followed one question: can software reveal what people cannot see?
Relyance AI
Relyance AI is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company that maps how data actually moves through an organization - from source code and cloud infrastructure to third-party apps and AI models - and continuously checks that movement against customer contracts, privacy regulations, and compliance frameworks. Founded in 2020 by Abhi Sharma and Leila Golchehreh, the company sells an AI-native data governance and security platform used by companies including Coinbase, Snowflake, Notion, Plaid, and Canva. It raised a $32M Series B in October 2024 led by Thomvest Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $62-67M.