Top Privacy Startups in 2026

Windscribe is a self funded (no VC shackles) consumer cyber-security company that makes super simple privacy and security tools available to the general public. We're on a mission to democratize digital privacy. From an engineering and product first approach, we've built an extremely simple yet powerful VPN client, that works in conjunction with a browser extension that blocks ads, trackers, social widgets, spoofs location data and more.

We are a cybersecurity firm specializing in high speed, anonymous, encrypted communication and collaboration systems. Our firm was founded in 2014 to invent, build, and operate a means of sustainably defeating cyberattacks and behavioral analysis techniques that depend upon packet metadata.

Technology gives us superpowers. We believe equipping everyone with superpowers quickly and securely. That’s why we are building Lumos, the first AppStore for companies. Employees can go to their Company AppStore and receive the right access to the right apps and permissions for the right amount of time. The world’s most modern companies (Skydio, Vox Media, Getaround, Buzzfeed, Dialpad, ...) use Lumos to make their companies more productive and compliant at the same time. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Learn more at lumos.com.

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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.

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.

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.

We are a SaaS platform helping companies get in compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR or CCPA. We have hundreds of clients in 25+ countries and manage consents for millions of users every month. We have raised $45M to date. We think that people deserve to understand how companies use their data and to have the choice to authorize (or not!) companies to collect their personal data for different purposes (advertising, analytics, emailing, etc.). We know privacy appears to be a boring and hard problem, but we strive to make it interesting and easy to solve for our clients.

Vouched develops proprietary AI that powers visual ID verification and user onboarding - instantly. We do this through scalable APIs and tools aimed at developers to remove the friction of identity verification for their applications. Vouched has identified more than 290,000 people, is an expert in 300 ID types covering the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, as well as passports for 25+ countries -- and growing. Vouched is device agnostic, reduces fraud, and IDs and converts customers in real-time to grow revenue. The Vouched AI is a proprietary hybrid of deterministic and probabilistic ML algorithms combined into a multi-stage decomposition and validation process. This enables Vouched to rapidly master thousands of ID types around the world, as well as new, emerging forms of ID, and fraud.

We «map» the digital device world! Roqad’s technology creates an accurate and up to date “map” of (almost) all digital devices used in a specific country. Linking all these devices correctly to individuals and households creates a rich “Identity Graph” powering the open Internet. “Identity as a service with German precision and global reach”. Roq.ad originally had two product lines. In 2018, we split the company in two separate entities and sold the larger, lower margin, part of our business to our largest customer. Since then we focused on the enterprise SaaS part of our business, delivering identity resolution products to our customers. We started the enterprise SaaS business in 2017 Germany, expanded to Europe in 2018 and launched in the US in 2020. Our teams are located in Berlin, Germany / Poznan, Poland / Vilnius, Lithuania and San Mateo / US.