69 Best Privacy Engineering Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Privacy Engineering Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 100 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $7.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $103.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Immuta logo

Immuta

Immuta is a Boston-based provider of a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance.

7

Funding Rounds

$267.5m

Money raised

TrustArc logo

TrustArc

TrustArc is a San Francisco-based developer of privacy compliance and risk management software for GDPR, CCPA, and related regulations.

4

Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

Socure logo

Socure

Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.

8

Funding Rounds

$646.9m

Money raised

Hazy logo

Hazy

Hazy is a machine learning company creating statistically controlled synthetic data for fraud detection and risk modeling.

8

Funding Rounds

$28.3m

Money raised

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Segment (company)

Segment is a company providing a data infrastructure for businesses.

3

Funding Rounds

$239.6m

Money raised

Mostly AI logo

Mostly AI

Mostly AI is a company using AI to generate synthetic data based on real enterprise data.

5

Funding Rounds

$62.2m

Money raised

InCountry logo

InCountry

InCountry is a San Francisco-based data residency-as-a-service platform that enables global data compliance for international business.

6

Funding Rounds

$85.0m

Money raised

Aptible logo

Aptible

Company providing consultation for security standards and regulatory compliance for technology startups

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Tanium logo

Tanium

Tanium is a company providing security and systems management solution for businesses.

18

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

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Wickr

Wickr is a telecommunications and security company that builds secure communication tools, such as a messaging application. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$74.6m

Money raised

BigID logo

BigID

BigID is a cybersecurity company developing a platform for data protection and privacy compliance.

12

Funding Rounds

$296.1m

Money raised

Osano logo

Osano

Osano is a data privacy platform founded in Austin, Texas by Arlo Gilbert and Scott Hertel.

5

Funding Rounds

$44.4m

Money raised

BitSight Technologies logo

BitSight Technologies

A company that has created a software solution for businesses to monitor their security effectiveness. It was founded in 2011 and is located in Boston, Massachusetts.

3

Funding Rounds

$124.0m

Money raised

Security Scorecard logo

Security Scorecard

A cybersecurity company offering cybersecurity and security rating services.

4

Funding Rounds

$92.2m

Money raised

Metomic logo

Metomic

Privacy Automation Platform made to help businesses deliver transparent, trustworthy online experiences on autopilot

2

Funding Rounds

$21.8m

Money raised

Tealium logo

Tealium

Tealium is a company that has been at the forefront of delivering trusted customer data orchestration solutions to enterprises for more than a decade.

9

Funding Rounds

$263.9m

Money raised

Theta Lake logo

Theta Lake

Theta Lake is a video classification startup dedicated to addressing the challenges organizations face in managing increasing video content and communication.

4

Funding Rounds

$72.7m

Money raised

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Ensighten

Ensighten is a customer data tracking platform and tag management technology vendor headquartered in San Jose, California. The company sells a customer data platform which includes visitor tracking and marketing products.

6

Funding Rounds

$77.1m

Money raised

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Relyance AI

A unified platform for Privacy, DSPM, AI Governance, Customer Commitments, and Third-Party Risk Management.

3

Funding Rounds

$62.1m

Money raised

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Collibra

Collibra is an end-to-end data intelligence platform founded in 2008 by Felix Van De Maele.

15

Funding Rounds

$928.6m

Money raised

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Brighter AI

Brighter AI Technologies is a German artificial intelligence startup with a facial burring product used to protect consumer identities.

6

Funding Rounds

$557.5k

Money raised

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Ionic Security

Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) is a company that provides software for data security.

4

Funding Rounds

$89.4m

Money raised

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Protenus

Protenus is a company that participated in the DreamIT Ventures - Health Baltimore 1/1/14 cohort .

7

Funding Rounds

$52.4m

Money raised

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Statice

Statice is a data privacy company developing procedures for professional data analysis using privacy-preserving technologies.

1

Funding Rounds

Alation logo

Alation

Alation is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2012 by Venky Ganti, Aaron Kalb and Satyen Sangani.

5

Funding Rounds

$192.0m

Money raised

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WireWheel

WireWheel is a company founded in 2016 by Chris Getner, Justin Antonipillai and Amol Deshpande.

7

Funding Rounds

$73.7m

Money raised

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Securiti.ai

Securiti.ai is a San Jose, California-based cybersecurity company using artificial intelligence-powered privacy platform to help companies with privacy compliance.

2

Funding Rounds

$81.0m

Money raised

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ZIVVER

Zivver is an Amsterdam-based company focused on the development of secure communication technologies and products.

5

Funding Rounds

$56.2m

Money raised

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Privitar

Privitar was a London-based software development company offering a data security platform. In June 2023, Privitar was acquired by Informatica.

3

Funding Rounds

$136.0m

Money raised

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Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is a company founded in 2015 by Gabriel Engel.

3

Funding Rounds

$26.9m

Money raised

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CryptoNumerics

CryptoNumerics is an enterprise software company that delivers an end to end solution to organizations that want to share data internally and externally, but are restricted from doing so by regulatory, contractual, intellectual property and privacy issues. This platform enables organizations to protect the privacy and intellectual property of their data and collaborate with other organizations to build statistical and machine learning models on distributed privacy-protected data.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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AvePoint

AvePoint is a Jersey City, New Jersey-based technology company providing infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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DataGravity

DataGravity is a company founded in 2012 by Paula Long.

2

Funding Rounds

$42.0m

Money raised

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InfoSum

InfoSum provides a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy.

5

Funding Rounds

$165.1m

Money raised

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Tugboat Logic

Tugboat Logic is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company developing an automated cybersecurity platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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Dataguise

Dataguise provides a data-centric security solution to detect, protect, and monitor sensitive data in real time across all data repositories, both on premises and in the cloud.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.3m

Money raised

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Tonic.ai

Tonic AI is a company developing synthetic data solutions for small businesses and enterprises.

3

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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Virtru

Virtu is an email security company based in Washington DC.

2

Funding Rounds

$89.0m

Money raised

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Integrate.ai

Integrate.ai is a software company that has developed its Trusted Signals Network (TSN) to share signals from different companies for the purpose of data analytics.

4

Funding Rounds

$49.5m

Money raised

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DataGrail

DataGrail is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 by Earl Hathaway, Ignacio Zendejas, Daniel Barber and Mallun Yen.

3

Funding Rounds

$39.0m

Money raised

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Tresorit

Software that securely syncs and collaborates files in the cloud for businesses to share confidential data.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

Privacera logo

Privacera

Privacera enables consistent data governance, security, and compliance across all your data services - on-premises and in the cloud - so you can maximize the value of your data.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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Mylife Digital Limited

Mylife Digital Limited is a company founded in 2014 by Jeffrey Thomas, John Hall and J Cromack.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.2m

Money raised

LeapYear Technologies logo

LeapYear Technologies

LeapYear Technologies provides an AI-driven, enterprise-class platform focused on analyzing sensitive data.

3

Funding Rounds

$38.2m

Money raised

OKERA logo

OKERA

OKERA is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.0m

Money raised

Didomi logo

Didomi

Didomi helps companies put their users in control of their data; complying with privacy regulation such as GDPR or CCPA

3

Funding Rounds

$85.6m

Money raised

Tangem logo

Tangem

Tangem is a leading provider of secure hardware wallet solutions for digital assets.

3

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

Manta logo

Manta

Automated data lineage platform providing full visibility and control over data pipelines.

5

Funding Rounds

$87.0m

Money raised

Ethyca logo

Ethyca

Ethyca builds automated data privacy infrastructure and tools for developers and privacy teams to easily build products that comply with GDPR, CCPA Privacy Regulations.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.2m

Money raised

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Usercentrics

Usercentrics is a munich/Germany based legal technology SaaS provider, redefining the way to secure compliant data via consent management.

4

Funding Rounds

$46.3m

Money raised

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TripleBlind, Inc.

Developer of a cryptographic platform designed to share, leverage, and monetize regulated data.

3

Funding Rounds

$40.4m

Money raised

CyberSaint logo

CyberSaint

Cybersaint provides cybersecurity management solutions for organizations, automating compliance and risk assessments.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Solidatus logo

Solidatus

Developer of a metadata management software designed to help companies understand how their data flows through their systems. The company's software provides a digital transformation initiative to govern data, migrate to the cloud and receive regulatory reports, enabling organizations to map, manage and monetize their data assets.

1

Funding Rounds

$19.2m

Money raised

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DataFleets

DataFleets is a privacy-preserving data engine that unifies distributed data for rapid access, agile analytics, and automated compliance.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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CipherCloud

CipherCloud is a San Jose, California-based cybersecurity company developing a cloud security platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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SuperAwesome

SuperAwesome is a London-based company founded in 2013 by Tom Impallomeni.

2

Funding Rounds

$42.0m

Money raised

Exate Technology Limited logo

Exate Technology Limited

eXate provides pioneering technology that empowers organisations to protect, control and manage their sensitive data centrally, providing a complete data privacy solution.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Ohalo (company)

Ohalo is a developer of automated data governance solutions.

2

Funding Rounds

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Skyhigh Networks

Skyhigh Networks is a company founded in 2011.

2

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

Very Good Security logo

Very Good Security

Very Good Security is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015.

3

Funding Rounds

$103.5m

Money raised

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PHEMI Inc

PHEMI is a new class of data warehouse that uses big data technologies to handle any volume and variety of data.

4

Funding Rounds

$49.5m

Money raised

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PactSafe

PactSafe is an Indianapolis-based company founded in 2013 by Brian Powers, Eric Prugh and Adam Gillaspie.

6

Funding Rounds

$13.7m

Money raised

DataGuard logo

DataGuard

DataGuard helps businesses to build trust and operationalise compliance.

$59.0m

Money raised

Odaseva logo

Odaseva

Enterprise Data Platform for Salesforce that offers powerful tools to protect Salesforce data.

2

Funding Rounds

$36.7m

Money raised

Nuix logo

Nuix

Software platform for indexing, searching, analyzing and extracting knowledge from unstructured data

1

Funding Rounds

Anonos logo

Anonos

Anonos is a Boulder, Colorado-based company founded in 2012 by Gary LaFever.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.4m

Money raised

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DPOrganizer

Software for managing privacy by mapping, visualizing, reporting, and overseeing personal data processing.

3

Funding Rounds

$6.8m

Money raised

Text IQ logo

Text IQ

Text IQ is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2014 by Apoorv Agarwal.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

Whistic logo

Whistic

Whistic is a cloud-based platform that uses a unique approach to address the challenges of third-party risk management.

2

Funding Rounds

$47.0m

Money raised