39 Best London Based Privacy Startups to Follow

3 years ago

This article showcases Welp Magazine’s top picks for the best ‘Privacy’ startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating in the Privacy’ industry, but are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Welp Magazine  hosts a yearly startup award honouring the most outstanding entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses in the world. If you want to enter your startup to be in the running for the top startup of 2021 or learn more about our competition click here.


1. Top10VPN

The idea behind this startup: Top10VPN.com is a leading VPN (Virtual Private Network) review website. We provide unbiased reviews and advice about VPN services.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cyber Security, Network Security, Privacy

Founders: Antonio Argiolas

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2. Metomic

The idea behind this startup: The power of data without the risk. Metomic detects & protects sensitive data across all your internal databases & cloud applications.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Developer APIs, Information Services, Information Technology, Privacy

Founders: Benjamin van Enckevort, Richard Vibert

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3. Seersco

The idea behind this startup: GDPR, SaaS, Privacy, Cyber Security, Data Protection,

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Privacy, SaaS, Security

Founders: Adnan Zaheer

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4. Oscobo

The idea behind this startup: Oscobo is a U.K.-based privacy search engine that helps its users protect their data from advertisers, hackers, and profiling.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Advertising, Big Data, Internet, Marketing, Privacy, Search Engine

Founders: Fredrik Cornell, Robert Perin

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5. One & Only Pro

The idea behind this startup: One & Only is a bespoke company who deal exclusively with the acquisition of UK investment property.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Privacy, Property Development, Property Management, Real Estate, Residential

Founders: Unknown

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6. Privitar

The idea behind this startup: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Big Data, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Privacy, Software

Founders: Gerard Buggy, Jason du Preez, John Taysom

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7. PrivySeal

The idea behind this startup: Trust as a Service

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Education, Information Technology, Internet, Marketplace, Privacy

Founders: Stephen Logan

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8. Privacy & Cookies

The idea behind this startup: SaaS

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Privacy, SaaS, Software

Founders: Lawrence Shaw

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9. Trunomi

The idea behind this startup: Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Banking, Compliance, Cyber Security, Database, Fraud Detection, Identity Management, Information Services, Privacy, Software, Telecommunications

Founders: Stuart Lacey

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10. OutThink

The idea behind this startup: OutThink is the world’s first human risk management platform (SaaS)

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cyber Security, Education, Human Resources, Information Technology, Privacy, Security

Founders: Flavius Plesu

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11. Applied Blockchain

The idea behind this startup: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Blockchain, Computer, Finance, Payments, Privacy, Shipping, Software, Transportation

Founders: Adi Ben-Ari

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12. PORT

The idea behind this startup: The PORT.im SaaS solution enables businesses to manage personal data efficiently and comply with the GDPR quickly and with minimal effort.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Compliance, Information Technology, Internet, PaaS, Privacy, SaaS

Founders: Dan Eltis, Julian Saunders

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13. BUDFOX MESSENGER LTD

The idea behind this startup: Budfox Messenger is the first encrypted messaging app exclusively for the financial sector.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Apps, Cyber Security, Financial Services, FinTech, Messaging, Mobile Apps, Privacy, Private Social Networking, Security, Social Media

Founders: Dominique Lo Sardo, Massimo Russo, Tristan de Haenen, Yves Mahé

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14. Phorm

The idea behind this startup: Phorm is a personalization technology company making content and advertising more relevant to consumers by utilizing ISP data.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Advertising, Content, Privacy, Security, Telecommunications

Founders: Mark Lyle Schneider

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15. hiyalife

The idea behind this startup: Hiyalife is an app that allows users to organize their memories, build their life stories, and rediscover and share them.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Content, Hardware, Journalism, Photography, Privacy, Private Social Networking, Social Media, Video

Founders: David Gomez, Fernando Ripolles

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16. eXate

The idea behind this startup: eXate unlocks the value of production data by allowing you to share it safely, because data privacy is at the heart of everything we do.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cyber Security, Information Technology, Privacy, Software

Founders: Peter Lancos, Sonal Rattan

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17. Ntropy Network

The idea behind this startup: Ntropy Network is enabling machine learning models to learn from data across privacy barriers.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Privacy

Founders: Ilia Zintchenko, Naré Vardanyan

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18. Ohalo

The idea behind this startup: Ohalo helps automate data governance for modern organizations

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Privacy, Security, Software

Founders: Alistair Jones, Kyle DuPont

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19. Cossack Labs

The idea behind this startup: Cossack Labs provides reliable data security and cryptographic solutions for large enterprises, startups, and tech-savvy SMEs.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Developer Tools, Network Security, Privacy, Security, Software

Founders: Unknown

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20. Pimloc

The idea behind this startup: Pimloc’s deep learning platform allows organisations to automatically ingest, detect, classify and protect diverse image and video content.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, Privacy, Security, Software, Video

Founders: Simon Randall

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21. OpenQuery

The idea behind this startup: Privacy-First Information Marketplace

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Cyber Security, Privacy

Founders: Unknown

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22. Transfon

The idea behind this startup: Building Modern Infrastructure for Digital Publishers and Marketers

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Marketing, Privacy, Publishing, SaaS

Founders: Unknown

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23. Ukey1

The idea behind this startup: Authentication & Data Protection as a Service #CyberSecurityStartup #London

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Storage, Developer APIs, Identity Management, Privacy

Founders: Karel Zdráhal, Zdeněk Höfler

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24. Mydex

The idea behind this startup: Mydex is a community interest company that enables individuals to manage and exchange their personal data with confidence.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Information Services, Privacy

Founders: William Heath

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25. QCC Global Ltd – TSCM Services

The idea behind this startup: QCC Global Ltd is the world’s largest TSCM, bug sweeping & cyber forensics company with unique proprietary equipment & capabilities.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Privacy, Security

Founders: Unknown

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26. CyBourn

The idea behind this startup: CyBourn specializes in providing platform security, user access management, and governance.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cyber Security, Privacy, Security

Founders: Ashwin Jayaram, Daniel McKee

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27. Flare

The idea behind this startup: A new way to monetise on the internet. Powered by distributed storage.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Cloud Storage, Data Storage, Privacy, Social Network

Founders: Jamie Cox

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28. IG-Smart Ltd

The idea behind this startup: Cyber Security, Data Protection & Privacy Consultancy, Audit & Training Services & Solutions

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Compliance, E-Learning, Information Technology, Management Consulting, Privacy, Risk Management

Founders: Michael Abtar

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29. Smart GDPR

The idea behind this startup: Effective and Quick GDPR compliance SaaS solution

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Privacy, SaaS

Founders: Unknown

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30. LiveArtSocial / LAS

The idea behind this startup: Events Management & Networking Platform for Premium Businesses

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Art, Collectibles, Event Management, Events, Internet, Privacy, Private Social Networking, Social Media, Social Network

Founders: Alexa Brossard, Andreas Fux, Linda Agata Senya

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31. Playback Holdings Ltd

The idea behind this startup: Playback holdings limited is a new company formed to exploit a revolutionary television advertising.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Cyber Security, Privacy

Founders: Alistair Kelman

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32. iNf4mation

The idea behind this startup: Salesforce/Blockchain product that solves the Personal Data Privacy problem 🙂 (US-CCPA, EMEA-GDPR, APAC-PDPA/O).

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Computing, CRM, Database, Information Technology, Internet, Privacy

Founders: Daniel Mash

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33. Keynoir

The idea behind this startup: Keynoir is an online private buying club providing users with a wide variety of lifestyle products and services.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy, Restaurants

Founders: Glen Drury, Philip Wilkinson

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34. Kiris Group

The idea behind this startup: Intelligence & Security

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Business Intelligence, Consulting, Physical Security, Privacy, Security

Founders: Unknown

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35. Loky

The idea behind this startup: Loky is a mobile security application that protects mobile privacy.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Android, Apps, Mobile, Privacy, Security

Founders: Unknown

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36. TheGoodData

The idea behind this startup: TheGoodData helps you browse the web anonymously and make it work for a Good cause.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Charity, Privacy

Founders: Marcos Menendez

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37. Coposition

The idea behind this startup: Coposition is the secure and trusted way to manage location data

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Developer APIs, Geospatial, Location Based Services, Mobile Apps, Privacy

Founders: Unknown

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38. Informed Choices

The idea behind this startup: Informed Choices creates online privacy in to every organisation for greater compliance, RoE and user satisfaction.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Brand Marketing, Legal, Privacy

Founders: Unknown

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39. Moovidoo

The idea behind this startup: Moovidoo is a website that offers a display of classifieds to browse through.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: File Sharing, Privacy, Security, Video

Founders: Charlotte Brinton, Danny Bull, Richard Taylor

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