Transcend is pioneering the new category of Data Privacy Infrastructure
Transcend, the data privacy infrastructure that makes it simple to give users control over their personal data, announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Index Ventures led the round alongside Accel, with participation from South Park Commons, Phil Venables (Board Member and former CISO, Goldman Sachs), and Dylan Field (CEO, Figma). This investment validates the strength of Transcend’s breakthrough technology, strategy, and team, and positions Transcend to capture the entire data privacy market.
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.@transcend_io announced $25M Series A round led by @IndexVentures alongside @Accel to power modern data privacy. @southpkcommons @philvenables @zoink participated too.
Transcend has built a completely new data privacy infrastructure that integrates into a company’s databases and applications, automatically handling requests end-to-end with no human intervention required. Co-founders Ben Brook, CEO, and Mike Farrell, CTO, realized there was no easy way for consumers to access their personal data or for companies to easily provide access to that data. The team saw an opportunity to build a data infrastructure that fully manages personal data, no matter where it’s stored—databases, SaaS tools, warehouses, vendors, and everywhere else. From receiving new Data Subject Requests (DSRs) to user authentication to response reports, Transcend can handle everything.
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“We are defining how modern privacy will work, and how users will interact with their data going forward,” said Brook. “Operating on one person’s personal data across hundreds of data systems is extremely complex, but it’s all beneath the hood with Transcend. We distilled this process into something that is so simple for companies to use, they can start offering their users data rights in an afternoon.”
The data rights movement is growing and going global. With regulations like the GDPR in Europe and the CCPA in California, countries and states are rapidly adopting more stringent requirements around data privacy. This affects a vast majority of companies, who not only need to maintain compliance from a regulatory standpoint but also need to fulfill increasing numbers of user requests in an efficient and scalable way. Businesses that rely on manual, cumbersome, time-intensive internal processes that involve staff across nearly every business function are struggling to keep up. According to EY/IAPP, data rights requests are perceived as the most difficult of all GDPR obligations. Now as people are moving more and more of their lives online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for data privacy is even more urgent and necessary, and will continue to be so in the future. By powering data privacy inside of every company and creating simplicity, Transcend puts users everywhere in control of their data.
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