Transcend
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2017CEO / Founder
Mike FarberEmployees
51-200Funding
Series B — $90MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.7/10Website
transcend.io/
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About Transcend
Transcend is a data privacy infrastructure company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company builds software that helps organizations manage privacy compliance obligations, including those arising from regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy laws.
Transcend's core products include an automated data subject request (DSR) fulfillment system, a data mapping and discovery tool that catalogs where personal data resides across an organization's systems, and a consent management platform for cookie and tracking consent. The platform integrates with hundreds of third-party data systems to automate the retrieval, deletion, or portability of personal data in response to user requests. Customers include companies across technology, retail, and financial services sectors.
The company raised a $25 million Series A round in 2021 and subsequently closed a $40 million Series B round in 2022, bringing total disclosed funding to approximately $90 million. Investors include Index Ventures, Accel, and Scale Venture Partners. Transcend employs roughly 100 to 150 people as of the mid-2020s.
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Products by Transcend
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Competitive Landscape
Who Transcend competes with, and how they differ.
The privacy-management market leader with a much broader all-in-one GRC suite (privacy, security, third-party risk, ESG), versus Transcend's narrower orchestration-first architecture that plugs directly into a company's existing data systems.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Closest product overlap on DSAR automation and data mapping for mid-market SaaS stacks, but with less depth in Transcend's AI-governance and consent-infrastructure product lines.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A longer-established consent-management and compliance-assessment platform aimed at legal/compliance teams, versus Transcend's engineering-first, API/infrastructure approach to privacy automation.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedConsent-management and vendor-risk platform priced for mid-market budgets, competing most directly on cookie/consent tooling rather than Transcend's enterprise data-orchestration layer.
Focused specifically on AI governance and model-risk assessment rather than end-to-end data-privacy operations, overlapping with Transcend's newer Pathfinder AI Governance product but not its core DSAR/consent business.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Transcend's history, with sources.
- Launch
Launched Agentic Assist and a privacy MCP Server
Transcend extended its platform with an AI-agent-facing "Agentic Assist" capability and a Model Context Protocol server for privacy operations.
transcend.io - Milestone
Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software
Analyst firm IDC recognized Transcend as a Leader in its 2025 MarketScape assessment of data privacy compliance software vendors.
secure.businesswire.com - Milestone
Named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500
Transcend was included in Deloitte's annual ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecom, life sciences, fintech, and energy-tech companies in North America.
nasdaq.com - Funding
Series B — $40M led by StepStone Group
Transcend raised a $40 million Series B led by StepStone Group, with participation from Accel, Index Ventures, 01 Advisors, HighlandX, Script Capital, and South Park Commons, bringing total funding to $90 million.
securityweek.com - Milestone
Named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies 2024
Fast Company named Transcend to its annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies in the enterprise category.
fastcompany.com - Funding
Series A — $25M led by Index Ventures
Transcend raised a $25 million Series A co-led by Index Ventures and Accel at an approximate $100 million post-money valuation, with customers including Robinhood and Opendoor at the time.
forbes.com - Funding
Seed round — $3.95M led by Accel
Transcend came out of stealth with a $3.95 million seed round led by Accel to build tools giving consumers and companies control over personal data.
businessinsider.com - Founded
Transcend founded by Ben Brook and Mike Farrell
Ben Brook (CEO) and Mike Farrell (CTO) founded Transcend in San Francisco to let individuals and companies orchestrate personal data directly across business systems.
transcend.io
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