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New secure, human-governed AI agent helps privacy teams scale operations and mitigate growing risks.

Today DataGrail, a leader in data privacy, celebrates being named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. The company secured the #4 spot on the list in the Security category for its leadership in data privacy.

DataGrail, the leading Data Privacy Platform,™ today announces its AI Governance Solution. At a time when 48% of CISOs cite AI security as their biggest concern, DataGrail’s AI Governance Solution uncovers AI risks in third-party apps and systems that power their business, helping organizations get the benefits of AI innovation, while understanding and managing its associated risks.

DataGrail, the leading Privacy Control Center™, today announced several executive appointments as the demand for its products escalates. Over the past year, DataGrail has significantly grown its customer base, adding logos such as SHEIN, Compass, Carvana, and New Balance, that seek guidance and full-proof solutions from a trusted source in the face of unprecedented data privacy challenges.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy platform, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49841923, September 2023). The IDC MarketScape study evaluated the data privacy capabilities and innovations among 12 vendors, for both the strengths and challenges. According to the IDC MarketScape, “DataGrail integrates deep into the organization, and customers note that its privacy capabilities weave deep into the fabric of customer organizations and enable privacy by design.” Complimentary access to the excerpt is available online here.

DataGrail, the leading Privacy Control Center™, today announced its first ever DataGrail Summit, a unique event that brings together leaders in security, legal, and privacy to discuss the issues that will define the future, particularly in light of generative AI advances and global privacy legislation. The event will be held September 20, 2023 at The Pearl in San Francisco.

DataGrail, the leading Privacy Control Center™, today announced another industry first: a new Managed Services offering that offloads the burdens of day-to-day data privacy management so that companies can maintain their focus on strategy and impact. DataGrail Managed Services now handle customers’ DSR fulfillment and data mapping processes, streamlining internal resources and decreasing the need for additional headcount. The new offering comes amid persistently changing data privacy regulations and rapidly increasing volume of data subject requests (DSRs), which make it difficult for companies to keep up with their privacy obligations.

DataGrail, the leading Privacy Control Center™, today announced that it is the first in the industry to reach more than 2,000 quality integrations, connecting seamlessly with today’s most common enterprise apps and infrastructure, giving businesses visibility they need to assess privacy risks appropriately. DataGrail is the only data privacy platform that can uncover unknown SaaS and downstream integrations where personal data might be hiding. Its ability to identify these integrations through its Risk Intelligence is essential so that companies have a complete view of all systems that contain personal information. With Risk Intelligence, organizations can build a comprehensive data map of their entire tech stack, which helps them uncover and eliminate business risk.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy company, was identified as one of 13 vendors recognized as Representative Vendors in the April 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Subject Rights Request Automation. DataGrail believes recognition in the Market Guide validates its ability to help companies identify privacy risks, build robust privacy programs and comprehensively automate data subject requests.

DataGrail, the leading Privacy Control Center™, today launched a new Privacy Dashboard that provides actionable recommendations to improve privacy management in an ongoing and scalable way. The fully modernized dashboard gives instant visibility into the current and historic health and impact of a company’s privacy program. It goes beyond simple tracking and reporting to help legal and security leaders truly understand and effectively communicate privacy risk, while its personalized, smart prioritization of tasks highlights focus areas and encourages teams to become more operationally efficient. The Privacy Dashboard has received outstanding feedback from DataGrail customers, including Okta, Dexcom, Qualtrics, and Heartflow.

DataGrail, the leading Privacy Control Center™, today released its Privacy Trends 2023 Report, which shows a sharp increase in consumers’ desire to protect their privacy. The findings reveal Data Subject Requests (DSRs) — formal requests made to a company by a person to access, modify, or delete the personal data that the company holds on them — increased by 72% from 2021 to 2022, driven primarily by an increase in Deletion and Access requests. In fact, the number of Deletion requests more than doubled while Access requests grew fivefold. DataGrail projects these numbers will continue to increase as new data privacy laws, like those in Virginia and Colorado, come into effect and focus attention on responsible data privacy practices. DataGrail also uncovered a surge of privacy requests – 52% of all requests – coming from states that have yet to adopt data privacy legislation. This underscores the growing public support for a federal data privacy law.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy platform, today announced that Chris Deibler, formerly of Shopify, Twitch, and Box, has been named DataGrail’s VP of Security. Deibler will oversee the building out of the security team for DataGrail as it transitions into its next phase of growth. The move reunites him with DataGrail CTO Cathy Polinsky, formerly of Shopify, Stitch Fix, and Salesforce, to expand DataGrail’s security program and form one of the most privacy-driven teams in the technology industry.

DataGrail, the leading data privacy platform for building consumer trust and eliminating risky business, today unveiled the results of a powerful new study exploring consumer attitudes about data privacy. In the absence of federal regulations to protect consumer privacy rights, The Great Privacy Awakening report highlights how people are taking a myriad of actions to safeguard their privacy. The report reveals important implications for businesses and elected officials, as consumers demand greater protections and believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. When people feel like their data is in good hands, they are more willing to shop, share, and interact. Yet, when brand trust erodes, people walk away and take their business elsewhere.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy platform, today announced that it has closed $45 million in Series C funding in an oversubscribed round that brings DataGrail’s total funding to $84.2 million. Third Point Ventures led the round, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures and Sixty Degree Capital as well as previous investors Felicis Ventures, Operator Collective, Next47, Cloud Apps Capital and others. Third Point Ventures Partner Dan Moskowitz will join DataGrail’s Board of Directors as the company continues to scale to meet the needs of an evolving data privacy landscape.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy platform, today announced its new Risk Monitor product to help organizations overcome the challenges that accompany privacy risk assessments associated with third-party and internal systems. In particular, this first-of-its-kind product gives privacy leaders an automated way to complete and manage Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), calculating data privacy risk across an entire organization. Not only does DataGrail's Risk Monitor product significantly reduce the workload on privacy managers, but it also evangelizes good privacy practices across companies and helps employees understand privacy risk at a deeper level. Risk Monitor’s release comes on the heels of DataGrail’s announcement of $45 million in Series C funding and strong company momentum.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy platform, today announced that Cathy Polinsky, formerly of Shopify, Stitch Fix, and Salesforce, will be DataGrail’s CTO, overseeing ongoing product development as the company continues to scale to meet the demands of modern data privacy management. Sales leader Sam East also joined the company. He will serve as CRO, further advancing DataGrail into its next phase of growth by helping to scale the company to reach new enterprises, markets, and industries.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy platform, announced that it is enhancing its DSR automation capabilities to internal data systems such as custom databases, data warehouses, unstructured data stores, and internally built apps. DataGrail already fully integrates with 1300+ third-party SaaS applications, and the new API + agent allows companies to access, delete or anonymize data that lives in any other internal data system, from custom databases to internally built applications. The addition of the internal systems Integrations agent + API means that DataGrail offers the most automated and complete Data Subject Request Management tool available today.

DataGrail, a leading data privacy company, was identified as one of ten total Representative Vendors in the November 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Subject Rights Request Automation. DataGrail believes recognition in the Market Guide validates its ability to help companies build robust privacy programs and comprehensively automate data subject requests.

DataGrail, the modern privacy platform designed to help brands build customer trust and transparency, announced today that it has integrated with HubSpot to make it easier for companies to protect their customers’ data and adhere to their privacy preferences. HubSpot, an investor in DataGrail, is integrating with the DataGrail platform to support joint customers so that they can easily build robust privacy programs, boosting end-user brand trust. Together they have dozens of joint customers, including Plume and Snyk.

DataGrail, the modern privacy platform designed to help brands build customer trust and transparency, today announced that it has added key personnel to its leadership team. New hires include former Okta executive John Gronberg as VP of Product; People.ai and Mixpanel customer success architect Joshua Hanewinkel as VP of Customer Success; early Box and Flexport sales leader Maryana Kessel as VP of Sales; and Duo Security’s former head of SRE Jon Matthews as VP of Engineering. Each of the new hires is regarded as an expert at shepherding previous companies through periods of hypergrowth. Similarly, at DataGrail they will be tasked with growing the go-to-market engine in their respective domains as the company aggressively scales. The announcement of these proven leaders comes on the heels of DataGrail’s recent close of $30 million in funding.