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The Checkbox That Became a Business
Dataships began with a privacy tool that customers barely noticed. It found its market when the founders asked a more pointed question: what happens to a paying customer after the checkout box is ticked - or missed?
Borneo Went Looking for the Data Nobody Knew They Had
Most companies can tell you where their servers are. Ask where their sensitive data has wandered, and the room gets quieter. Borneo built a business around that silence - then Atlassian bought the team.
Mozilor makes a business of the web’s unfinished chores
Cookie banners, product imports, website audits: Mozilor builds tools for the jobs nobody opens a business to do. Its most revealing expansion began with customers asking to take a WordPress plugin somewhere else.
Ketch Wants to Turn the Cookie Banner Into a Kill Switch
Most privacy software records what a customer clicked. Ketch is betting that the valuable part is making the rest of the company obey it.
Ohalo Found 19 Million Files in a Bank's Blind Spot - Here Is the Data-Governance Playbook Enterprises Can Copy
Ohalo built Data X-Ray for the files that ordinary catalogs and perimeter security struggle to understand. Its most useful lesson came when an early public-sector test missed sensitive details - and human feedback became part of the product, not an embarrassment to bury.
Osano
Osano is an Austin-based data privacy platform that helps companies comply with GDPR, CCPA, and 95+ global privacy laws through consent management, cookie banners, subject rights automation, data mapping, vendor risk monitoring, and privacy assessments. Founded in 2018, it is the first data privacy platform certified as a B Corporation and backs its software with an industry-only 'No Fines, No Penalties' guarantee. Osano processes over a billion consents a month for thousands of companies.
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.
Transcend
Transcend is the compliance layer for customer data. Founded by two Harvard students who couldn't get their own data back from the apps they used, the company builds privacy and AI-governance infrastructure that automates data mapping, data subject requests, consent management, and oversight of data flowing in and out of large language models. Its software powers modern data rights for more than 1.2 billion people across Fortune 100 brands and category leaders.
Chris Babel
Chris Babel is the Chief Executive Officer of Arcserve, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based data protection and cyber resilience company serving over 235,000 customers worldwide. With more than two decades navigating the intersection of security, privacy, and enterprise technology, Babel brought a rare cross-disciplinary resume to Arcserve in May 2024: he led TrustArc as CEO for over a decade, transforming a browser-padlock certification company into a global privacy compliance platform, and before that spent years at VeriSign running authentication services across 150-plus countries. His mandate at Arcserve is to rebuild partner trust, simplify a sprawling product catalog, and position the company as the go-to data resilience solution for SMBs and mid-market enterprises facing relentless ransomware threats.