TrustArc

About TrustArc

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by TrustArc

All products by TrustArc reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

TrustArcAI Compliance

Privacy compliance and data governance for modern organizations

Free7.1/10

How Our Review Panel Scores TrustArc

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed TrustArc's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who TrustArc competes with, and how they differ.

OneTrust7.6/10

OneTrust runs a broader GRC-and-data-mapping suite that reviewers score higher on centralized platform breadth, while TrustArc scores higher on ease of setup and support for a narrower privacy-program scope — the two are widely cited as each other's closest rival.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

DataGrail7.8/10

DataGrail specializes narrowly in consent management, data subject request automation and risk assessments with 2,000+ prebuilt SaaS integrations, versus TrustArc's broader certification-plus-compliance-consulting model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Transcend7.7/10

Transcend is an engineering-first data subject request and consent platform aimed at developer-led privacy automation, a narrower technical niche than TrustArc's program-management and certification approach.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

BigID7.7/10

BigID leads with AI-driven sensitive-data discovery and data security posture management, feeding consent and governance decisions from the data-infrastructure layer rather than TrustArc's compliance-program and certification layer.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Securiti.ai

Securiti.ai positions itself as a unified "Data Command Center" spanning privacy, security and AI governance across hybrid multicloud data estates — a broader data-infrastructure play than TrustArc's compliance-program focus.

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Osano

Osano undercuts TrustArc and OneTrust with published pricing and a "No Fines, No Penalties" guarantee covering up to $500,000 in regulatory penalties, targeting price-sensitive buyers TrustArc's enterprise motion doesn't chase.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in TrustArc's history, with sources.

1. Oct 20, 2025Acquisition

   Main Capital Partners acquires TrustArc from Bregal Sagemount

   Dutch private-equity firm Main Capital Partners acquired TrustArc from growth-equity backer Bregal Sagemount in an undisclosed-terms deal; Bregal had invested in TrustArc since 2019. At the time of sale TrustArc served more than 1,200 customers across 25+ countries with a team of more than 300.

   bregal.com
2. Jul 11, 2019Funding

   Series D — $70M led by Bregal Sagemount

   Growth-equity firm Bregal Sagemount led a $70 million Series D investment in TrustArc, with existing investors Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures, DAG Ventures, Icon Ventures and Industry Ventures retaining stakes.

   goodwinlaw.com
3. Jun 7, 2017Milestone

   TRUSTe renames itself TrustArc

   TRUSTe changed its corporate name to TrustArc, marking the company's 20th anniversary and its shift from a privacy-seal certification business into a broader privacy compliance and risk-management technology provider; the TRUSTe brand continued under the renamed parent for certification offerings.

   prnewswire.com
4. Mar 18, 2015Milestone

   FTC approves final order in TRUSTe privacy-seal case, 5-0

   The FTC voted 5-0 to approve a final order resolving its complaint against TRUSTe, finalizing the November 2014 settlement without change: a $200,000 payment and a bar on misrepresenting its certification process or corporate status.

   ftc.gov
5. Nov 17, 2014Milestone

   FTC settles deceptive-practices charges over TRUSTe's privacy-seal program

   The FTC alleged TRUSTe failed to conduct promised annual recertifications of TRUSTe-seal holders in more than 1,000 instances between 2006 and January 2013, and failed to require certified companies to remove outdated claims describing TRUSTe as a non-profit after its 2008 for-profit conversion. TRUSTe agreed to pay $200,000 and accepted restrictions on future claims.

   ftc.gov
6. 2008Milestone

   TRUSTe converts from non-profit to for-profit, venture-backed company

   TRUSTe changed its corporate status from a non-profit to a venture-backed for-profit company in 2008, a conversion later cited by the FTC as the basis for its 2014 deceptive-practices complaint over unremoved non-profit claims in certified companies' privacy policies.

   ftc.gov
7. 1997Founded

   TRUSTe founded as a non-profit privacy-certification consortium

   TRUSTe was formed as a non-profit industry association — backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and CommerceNet — to foster online commerce by helping organizations self-regulate consumer-privacy practices and to administer an online privacy seal.

   trustsignals.com