69 Best Privacy Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Privacy 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 421 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $7.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $108.9m.

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$267.5m

Money raised

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

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$1.6b

Money raised

Snyk is a technology company offering a software development security platform using open-source code.

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$107.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.1b

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Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.

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$37.7m

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42Crunch is an enterprise API security platform with integrated services, including an API firewall, to discover and remediate API security vulnerabilities.

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$113.0m

Money raised

DuckDuckGo is a company developing an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding filtered results to meet personalized search results.

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$184.7m

Money raised

Tessian (formerly Checkrecipient) is an artificial intelligence email security platform.

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$62.2m

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

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3

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$70.0m

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Skyflow operates a privacy data vault platform designed to ensure customer and personal data are protected.

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$140.0m

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iProov is a user authentication technology company based in London.

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5

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$2.5m

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A company offering a platform for privacy and security for quantum cloud computing.

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Funding Rounds

$21.9m

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Signaturit specializes in digital transaction management and trust services.

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$36.3m

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Chronicled is a blockchain company founded by Ryan Orr, Samantha Radocchia, Maurizio Greco and David Aho.

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$4.1m

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Disconnect is a San Francisco-based internet and digital privacy company.

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$15.0m

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Concordium aims to build the world's leading open-source, permissionless, and decentralized blockchain with built-in user identity at the protocol level.

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$97.6m

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VMRay provides threat detection and analysis to enterprises.

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$5.6m

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ID Quantique is a company developing quantum cybersecurity products, quantum scientific instrumentation, and quantum random number generation.

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12

Funding Rounds

$296.1m

Money raised

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

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5

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$44.4m

Money raised

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

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$128.9m

Money raised

Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.

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$115.4m

Money raised

Lithic is a financial technology company that builds payments infrastructure for businesses and consumers.

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$32.3m

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Jscrambler is a client-side web security provider founded in 2014 by Pedro Fortuna.

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$21.1m

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Anapaya is a Zurich, Switzerland-based private network infrastructure provider and developer of a secure networking protocol separate from and capable of being used with the internet.

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$9.3m

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Authologic is an unified e-ID verification platform founded in 2020 by Jaroslaw Sygitowicz, Krzysztof Klimczak and Marek Rogozinski.

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$19.0m

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Platform that protects online assets by using community-shared information on IP behavior and reputation.

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$21.8m

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

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Funding Rounds

$55.4m

Money raised

EclecticIQ is cyber security software company based in Amsterdam. They provide a Threat Intelligence Platform for threat analysts to perform cyber investigations.

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$635.0m

Money raised

KnowBe4 is a Clearwater, Florida-based platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing attacks.

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$81.6m

Money raised

Coincover is a digital asset protection platform founded in 2018 by Adam Smith.

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$77.7m

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Neeva is a Mountain View, California-based company developing an advertising-free, private search engine.

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$41.3m

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Provider of secure and governed access to data for AI and analytics.

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$32.0m

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Espresso Systems is a single-shot scaling and privacy solution for Web3.

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$19.7m

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Keyless is a privacy-preserving biometric authentication solutions provider founded in 2019 by Andrea Carmignani, Rolf Hoefer, Giuseppe Ateniese and Fabian Eberle.

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A software company offering a banking grade platform for online identity verification.

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$18.8m

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Decentriq is a company combining machine learning and cryptography to analyze any dataset.

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$4.4m

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Company developing optical communications hardware for strong digital encryption.

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8

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$30.9m

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Coinfirm is a Blockchain Analytics company.

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6

Funding Rounds

$557.5k

Money raised

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

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$200.0m

Money raised

Nord Security is a company working in the field of online privacy and security.

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$99.6m

Money raised

CybSafe is a cloud-based platform focussed on addressing the human component of cyber security - an intelligent approach to awareness training.

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5

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$131.0m

Money raised

Immersive Labs is a company founded in 2017 by James Hadley.

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$2.7m

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An artificial Intelligence company that has developed a wearable device for voice communications. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.

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$18.0m

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Sqreen is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company developing a monitoring and protection platform for corporations.

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Funding Rounds

$52.4m

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

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$40.0m

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IDnow is the world's fastest, most flexible and most secure identity verification platform, delivering instant verification of the identity documents used by 7 billion people.

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$48.6m

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Passbase is building a full-stack identity verification engine backed by verified government documents.

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

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$21.0m

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Snips is a voice platform that uses artificial intelligence founded in 2013 by Rand Hindi.

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$4.2m

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DynamoFL is a San Francisco-based developer of enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning platform for highly compliant industries.

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$18.4m

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A company using metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to produce biochemicals from renewable feedstocks.

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$24.1m

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Smart Protection is software for protecting intellectual and industrial property rights online, eliminating illegal copies of materials.

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$12.0m

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Netacea is a cybersecurity solutions provider founded in 2018 by Mick Bradley.

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6

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

Minut is a Scandinavian startup that produces home security software and hardware. Minut's product, Point, analysing sounds and the indoor environment. It can recognise things like alarms, windows breaking, or unexpected activity.

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$112.2m

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Enable developers, ops, security and compliance professionals to enforce security policies across public and private code, and other data sources as well

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$581.0m

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Devo, formerly Logtrust, is a technology company that developed the first real-time big data-in-motion software, which collects and analyses big data in real-time. Devo (along with Panda Security) released several other integrated technologies. It is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

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$15.6m

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Elistair is a company that develops equipment for the aviation industry.

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$73.7m

Money raised

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

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$2.2m

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Cybersprint empowers cybersecurity professionals to prioritise mitigation of vulnerabilities by mapping their organisation's online footprint and digital attack surface. We offer full visibility using real-time, continuous and automated digital footprint detection, from risk to remediation. We monitor your brand, infrastructure, VIPs, third parties and more. Our integrated AI correlates dozens of data sources and uses a multitude of scanners, making risk relevant. Cybersprint's platform allows you to manage threats such as third-party risk, phishing, brand abuse, data theft and more. Our zero-touch platform is operable in minutes and can be complemented with off-the-shelf or bespoke services for your security programme. Specialties: Application Security, Data Breach Prevention, Data Monitoring, Data Security, Email Security, Incident & Breach Response, IoT Security, Machine Learning, Network Security, Phishing, Risk Management, Security Mgmt, Threat Management & Intelligence, Vulnerability Assessment & Mgmt, Website Security

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$52.0m

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Platform providing smart fraud detection and prevention to stop online payment fraud.

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$20.4m

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Checkstep develops an AI-driven platform designed to automate the process of moderating user-generated content.

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$36.3m

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CyberSmart is a London-based cybersecurity company developing automated compliance platform for small to medium enterprises.

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$30.4m

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Xayn is a company founded by Felix Hahmann, Leif Nissen Lundbaek and Michael Huth.

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$56.2m

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

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$22.4m

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Account security and fraud prevention for developers, teams, and enterprises.

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$12.0m

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Dyadic Security is a company that provides cloud-based security software to organizations by safeguarding their digital assets, even in an event of a network breach.

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$24.8m

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Build38 is a company that provides innovative and advanced AI-based app protection and management platform.

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$63.5m

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Platform that helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.

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$136.0m

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

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$26.9m

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

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