Top Privacy Startups in 2027

Jumio is the future for online and mobile ID verification, transaction monitoring and fraud detection. We are the largest and fastest-growing company in the ID verification space. With a global footprint, we’re expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services/Fintech, Travel, Sharing Economy, Gaming, Healthcare and others. Our team of over 500 are building solutions that help customers fight fraud at scale and we are looking for people who have a passion for solving challenges that make a significant impact on customers. Having acquired Beam Solutions in September, 2020, we have now brought our AI and ML expertise into AML for financial, retail and gaming and with significant demand need to grow our engineering team.

- Product allows you to share your identity only with those you want to. Use Cloaked email addresses and phone numbers. Pull the plug if you want to shut off relationship. - Lets you be in charge of how the Internet works for you - The power of privacy is returned back into people’s hands - You are in charge of how your data is used

In the AI era, proving who is behind an account or action has become harder, and more important, than ever. Nametag gives organizations a clear way to know the real human behind digital actions. Our workforce identity assurance platform verifies the real human behind high-risk actions across hiring, password resets, account recovery, and AI-initiated actions.

Keepsafe makes privacy in the digital world as easy as it is in the physical world. For consumers who want ownership over their digital privacy and a simple way to manage it, Keepsafe’s suite of apps, including Keepsafe Photos, Keepsafe Documents, and AppLock, let you keep personal items private and share them safely. It’s a hub for all of your most important things. Keepsafe is on a mission to change the conversation - and the technology - around digital privacy. Controlling one’s content online has never been an easy task, but the recent prevalence of data privacy has only complicated things further. We’ve forgotten the basics: controlling our personal content, keeping it safe, and sharing it with who we want to. Keepsafe wants to bring Content Privacy back to the fore.

Bureau is a first-of-its-kind trust network that delivers unprecedented trust and security to businesses and consumers. Think of us as a one-stop platform that helps businesses automate their decisions, prevent fraud, and power seamless user experiences. With Bureau, onboarding good customers, starting a new e-commerce business, setting up a gaming company and transacting in cryptocurrencies is as easy as shopping on Amazon. Bureau provides an accurate and comprehensive picture of each of your customers, so that you can confidently transact without fear of fraud. The ramifications of online fraud can be devastating for both businesses and the consumers they serve. Businesses add more friction points which leads to a frustrating user experience for consumers which in turn leads to lower conversions and more dropouts. It’s a vicious cycle. We believe that good customers should never be made to jump through verification hoops. We make it easy for companies to remove friction and serve their customers, while keeping bad actors out. Our platform takes the complexity out of identity verification and can easily be integrated with your backend. By combining ease of integration with a depth of functionality, we are able to provide a solution that can overcome the challenges of sophisticated online frauds. Whether you are a big fintech firm or a small e-commerce startup, our solution simplifies identity verification and fraud prevention so that you can focus on what matters: growth.

Click&Free is building an operating system for digital autonomy. We help people identify where their data leaks, remove harmful exposures, regain control, and turn privacy from passive fear into guided action. Our system combines Privacy Check, Remove, Privacy Guides, OneClick onboarding, and Data2Cash to make self-protection understandable, actionable, and economically relevant. We are not another content site or agency — we are building infrastructure that converts privacy demand into measurable outcomes.

Through innovative and proprietary software and services, BlackCloak helps high-net-worth individuals and CISOs and their security teams protect their company by protecting their executives in their personal lives, while maintaining the executives’ privacy and keeping their personal life from becoming corporate purview. Used by a large percentage of Fortune 500s across all industries, BlackCloak is the only product of its kind. While other vendors are entering the realm of Digital Executive Protection – many of whom offer a mash-up of multiple point solutions and in-house corporate resources or outsourced consultants – BlackCloak is the first and only holistic solution that combines software and services as well as concierge support.

Institute of Free Technology provides the Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects. Currently our growing portfolio includes Status, Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Nomos, Keycard. More about each project, here: free.technology As a team, IFT is completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

Osano, a leading data privacy platform, simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program to increase trust, stay compliant, and do the right thing. Founded in Austin, Texas, the data privacy management company solves for consent management, data subject rights, assessments, and vendor risk — all in one place. 

At Teleskope, we believe that data security and privacy is shifting left, and should be automated and enforced from within at the earliest stages. We are building a developer-first data security platform that provides companies with complete and actionable visibility into their continuously growing data.