Top Privacy Startups in 2024

We are building the world's most comprehensive Sensitive Data Discovery and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution that works seamlessly across SaaS, Cloud, Endpoint Devices, and Generative AI Apps.

At Aztec we believe decentralization is premised on individual rights. Without widely accessible privacy, we compromise our ability to choose how we live our lives and earn our livelihoods. That’s why we’re building Aztec Network to deliver privacy without compromise: Private. Aztec is the only zero-knowledge rollup built with a privacy-first architecture from the ground up, allowing users to access their favorite apps on Ethereum completely privately. Accessible. Proving Aztec transaction validity through zero-knowledge proofs on Ethereum reduces transaction costs by up to 100x. Compliant. Our programmably private system supports opt-in auditability and compliance while fully preserving confidentiality. We are now excited to announce Aztec Connect, the first private bridge for Ethereum’s decentralized finance ecosystem. It allows users to confidentially access world-class DeFi services on Ethereum with up to 100x cost savings, all while strengthening Aztec’s existing privacy guarantees. We're looking for talented engineers to join the team that invented PLONK, the dominant zkSNARK technology, and build the privacy-first future web3 deserves.

Namefi tokenizes domain names for DeFi. Namefi is the world's first platform and protocol that tokenizes DNS domain names (like .com, .xyz) on Ethereum. As the pioneer in this space, Namefi has achieved several industry-first milestones: First to launch on Ethereum Mainnet and Base, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 network Pioneered innovative technologies like Namefi NFT, NamefiService Credit, AutoPark, AutoENS, and PrivacyMax (patent pending) Namefi was founded by Victor Zhou, one of the 7 EIP/ERC Editors of Ethereum, and a team with 30 years of ICANN experience. The platform has already tokenized over 500 domain names and has a thriving community of domain traders.

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.

Nametag is the world's first human identity platform, designed to protect accounts from impersonators and AI-generated deep fakes. Leading companies use Nametag to prevent fraud, reduce support costs, and eliminate frustration when users are locked out of their account or need to authorize high-value transactions. Get started today: surround your MFA with secure enrollment and recovery for every user, or use our Helpdesk Copilot to verify any customer or employee with certainty – in just one click.

Doorway is a digital credential software that provides digital business cards and a new marketing channel to the world’s largest enterprises. Our Apple & Google Wallet digital business card software is designed to bring an app-less and digital wallet-native service for companies to engage employees and potential clients with brand messaging, rewards, access cards and more. We are a net-zero company and are heavily focused on reducing carbon emissions for our clients. Our service includes a monthly tree-planting initiative, with over 100,000 trees planted via Doorway. The roadmap for 2024 is focused on using our core digital credential card offering as a base to expand this new marketing channel for enterprise clients.

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.

Founded in 2021, BetterData enables data professionals to get faster access to good quality data. Recognizing that using data for open innovation is not possible with increasing data protection regulations and user expectations, BetterData equips businesses to convert real data into limitless synthetic data of exceptional quality and variety with advanced utility and risk features to develop state-of the-art AI applications. With betterdata, enterprises can finally unlock their data assets and generate new revenue streams. We are funded by Entrepreneur First, Franklin Templeton, Plug & Play and F10.

'PureAuth' by 'PureID' is an enterprise product to consolidate and seamlessly manage multiple identity instruments used today. It makes authentication highly secure for enterprises and amazingly smooth for users. 'PureAuth' is a 'Patent Pending' technology, along with 'VR5' mobile app it engages Distributed Multiple Factors using advanced cryptography standards to provide high-assurance and 'Breach Resilient' authentication solution.

Alloy is a smart identity solution that helps companies in financial services and other regulated industries safely onboard more “good” customers without introducing any additional fraud into their systems. We’re a five-year-old, fully funded financial technology startup based in NYC and backed by venture capital firms that have taken countless companies to IPO like Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, and others. We’re the leading provider of digital identity management and support innovative FinTech companies, and top tier banks to manage KYC, AML, and other components of client onboarding. Alloy’s single API enables its clients to access over 50 third party data sources in real-time to improve decision-making and streamline client experiences.