About us | DataGuard - Data Protection for Businesses

How did we get there?

NOV 2017

Founding of DataGuard by Kivanç Semen, Thomas Regier, Dr. Markus Fisseler and Reinhard Gorenflos

DEC 2018

80 employees and more than 1,000 clients

APR 2019

100 employees and launch of strategic partnership
with Deutsche Telekom

MAR 2020

Successful completion of the Series A financing round with One Peak Partners

AUG 2020

US software patent for our platform granted,
and more than 1500 clients

SEP 2020

Opening of our Berlin office and London entity, and sales cooperation with Deutsche Telekom

With companies systematically gathering, analyzing and selling personal data to facilitate, optimize or run their businesses, the awareness around data protection has drastically changed: our data is private and belongs to us.
And it’s worth protecting. Big organizations across the world are slowly understanding that we are entering a new era. In addition, strict data privacy regulations such as the GDPR or the CCPA have been introduced to help protect people’s personal data. Not complying with these, can entail reputational damage, customer churn and heavy fines. But these shouldn’t be the primary arguments for data protection. If you think about a company merely being the accumulation of the individuals working there, data privacy concerns us all. Consequently, all companies should base their business on the transparent and respectful use of personal data. We at DataGuard help them.

Protecting personal data should be as natural as buckling up your seatbelt when you get in a car.

Thomas Regier

Founder and CEO

Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR

Kivanç Semen

Founder and CEO

Product, Technology

NOBODY EMBARKS ON A JOURNEY UNLESS THEY CARE ABOUT SOMETHING.

WE CARE

about data protection and the people behind the data. We consider the privacy of data to be an inviolable human right and our ambition is to enable organizations to achieve sustainable compliance in order to easily and efficiently protect each person’s privacy.

WE BUILD BRIDGES

not only between the complex privacy regulations, regulatory authorities and affected organizations, but also between the many different individuals with diverse backgrounds working together to perfectly connect high quality human expertise and state of the art technology.

WE ADD VALUE

by empowering businesses across the globe to focus on their core competencies and improving their processes, consequently strengthening customer trust and making privacy compliance their competitive advantage.

WE CONQUER PEAKS

by venturing into new, uncharted territory opposing the unregulated and untransparent use of people’s data. In order to make a considerable impact and to change the common perception as personal data not being a product that can be used or sold at will, we firmly stand together in paving the path to a better future.

WE CREATE TRUST

as a reliable partner, who not only talks but also leads by example. Transparency is paramount for the success of our mission and to strengthen our culture on the inside, as well as to form close relationships with authorities, organizations and people on the outside.