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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Software, Data Privacy, Data Governance |
Founded | 2020 |
Founders | Tom Chavez, CEO. [1], Vivek Vaidya, CTO [2], Maxwell Anderson, Head of Product |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
Website | www.ketch.com |
Ketch is a privately held company specializing in data privacy and data governance solutions. Founded in 2020 by Tom Chavez, Vivek Vaidya, and Maxwell Anderson, Ketch is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company provides software that helps businesses automate data privacy compliance and governance, ensuring adherence to various privacy regulations. [3]
Ketch was founded in 2020 by Tom Chavez [4], Vivek Vaidya, and Maxwell Anderson. They founded Ketch because Vaidya and Anderson experienced GDPR implementation challenges while working at Salesforce in 2018. They determined an opportunity to build software to help companies comply with the GDPR and other data privacy laws and regulations.
Chavez and Vaiyda are serial entrepreneurs and business partners. Prior to founding Ketch, the two co-founded Krux, a data management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2016, and Rapt, a media monetization software provider acquired by Microsoft in 2008. [3]
Ketch is a part of Super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data driven technology companies [5].
In 2021, Ketch launched Ketch Free, a comprehensive suite of tools offering cookie banners, consent management, and policy templates to ensure GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other compliance, all at no cost. [6]
In 2024, Ketch opened its new San Francisco Headquarters. [7]
Ketch offers a range of products designed to help businesses manage and automate various aspects of privacy program management. This includes:
The Ketch Data Permissioning Platform is a coordinated set of applications, infrastructure, and APIs to help businesses simplify privacy operations and mobilize data for business growth.
The company organizes their platform according to Applications and Platform Services. Applications included in the Ketch platform are:
These applications are supported by Platform Services [8], which include:
In April 2021, Ketch announced a $23 million Series A funding round led by Acrew Capital and CRV. [3] Six months later, Ketch secured an additional $20 million in A1 funding. [9]
Category:Software companies of the United States
Category:Technology companies established in 2020
Category:Companies based in San Francisco
Category:Data management