Privacy Startups

Reality Defender develops an AI platform for detecting deepfakes and synthetic media, serving enterprise organizations to prevent fraud and impersonation. The company offers multimodal detection capabilities through an API and SDK for developers.

20 investors

SpruceID provides digital identity systems for governments and regulated industries, enabling secure verification and authentication across legacy and modern infrastructure. The company specializes in integrating identity solutions with existing workflows, using open standards to ensure interoperability and long-term flexibility.

15 investors

NuCypher, a contributor to the Threshold Network, builds tBTC, a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge that lets users wrap BTC into tBTC tokens for use across the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem. It targets Bitcoin holders, funds, crypto VCs, and DeFi users seeking a decentralized alternative to custodial bridges like wBTC, using distributed key generation and threshold signatures for decentralized custody.

9 investors

Dynamo provides automated AI risk evaluation and red-teaming tools designed to assess the privacy, safety, and compliance of AI systems. The platform offers guardrails, hallucination detection, and observability solutions for organizations deploying generative and agentic AI models.

8 investors

Optery removes personal information from the internet by helping consumers opt out of data brokers and people search sites that collect and sell their data. The platform provides visibility into where personal information is exposed online and automates the opt-out process.

8 investors

Unbound builds security infrastructure to govern AI coding agents in enterprise environments. The company provides an Agent Access Security Broker that sits between AI agents and systems they interact with, enabling security teams to discover, audit, and control agent actions without disrupting developer workflows.

8 investors

Permutive builds privacy-focused data infrastructure for digital advertising, using cohorts (privacy-safe user descriptions) instead of third-party identifiers to support targeting, frequency capping, and measurement. It processes and manages data on the user's device rather than in the cloud, serving advertisers and publishers in the ad-tech industry.

6 investors

TrueVault builds software that helps small and medium-sized businesses comply with consumer data privacy laws through automated tools. Its products aim to make getting and staying compliant with privacy regulations straightforward for businesses.

6 investors

Clearly AI automates compliance documentation and reporting for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams managing multiple regulatory frameworks. The platform centralizes evidence collection, audit preparation, and vendor risk management to reduce compliance burden across enterprises.

4 investors

Feroot discovers and monitors third-party scripts, tags, and trackers on websites to detect malicious or unwanted code and block threats. The platform helps organizations comply with PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations while protecting customer data.

4 investors

Tinfoil develops secure hardware and systems, with expertise in privacy and security protocols.

4 investors

Malloc is a mobile privacy and security app combining AI-driven spyware detection with a no-log VPN to protect users' data and privacy on Android and iOS devices. The app targets consumers concerned about data tracking, malware, and spyware threats on their smartphones.

3 investors

Petrarch operates a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of specialized datasets and proprietary information.

3 investors

Stealth Worker connects companies with qualified contractors in information security, cloud security, privacy, and compliance (including GDPR), billed at hourly rates. It operates as a marketplace for on-demand cybersecurity and compliance expertise.

3 investors

EGO is a personal context layer and "AI passport" that stores a user's preferences, history, relationships, and identity so it travels across the AI apps and assistants they use, letting people avoid reintroducing themselves each time. It offers privacy controls over what each application can see and includes an optional public profile page (at ego.ist/i/you) for sharing interests and links.

2 investors

Blyss operates an AI platform that runs machine learning models inside secure enclaves with end-to-end encryption, ensuring user data remains encrypted even during computation. The platform serves developers, enterprises, and organizations seeking to deploy AI features while maintaining strict data confidentiality.

1 investor

Documents.Me (Nouvou) provides client-side encryption and mobile file-sharing tools for securing files across devices and the cloud, aimed at enterprise customers.

1 investor

Fabric is a location-based personal journaling app that automatically records the places, paths, and activities a user experiences, letting them add friends and browse photos. It serves individual consumers who want to catalog their experiences and interactions.

1 investor

Mth Sense operates a mobile on-device profiling and ad-serving platform that targets ads by demographics and psychographics using an audience library. It aims to address untargeted "blind" mobile advertising.

1 investor

Preclusio provides software to help companies comply with privacy regulations such as GDPR. It targets businesses that need to meet data privacy and regulatory requirements.

1 investor

Vizly provides AI-powered tools that transform data into visualizations, statistical analyses, and predictions. It serves researchers, professors, data analysts, and business leaders seeking to interpret datasets more quickly.

1 investor