About us

Our Mission

We’re obsessively passionate about protecting the people behind the data, and our mission is to help businesses achieve it. We exist to help build trust, mitigate risks, and drive revenue whilst removing the need for costly consultants or hiring in-house specialists. Our all-in-one platform allows customers to move beyond simple ‘check-the-box’ compliance, information security and data privacy practices and instead manage data as a competitive differentiator.

Our Story

After a chance meeting at a basketball camp that led to a lifelong friendship, Thomas and Kivanc noticed that the world’s rapid digitalisation created challenges for businesses to be compliant while at the same time being able to deliver valuable customer experiences to accelerate growth.

DataGuard was founded to help SME and corporates navigate this reality. Bootstrapped for the first two years, Series A investment followed in 2020 which allowed rapid growth, becoming multi product, acquiring a UK-based consent and preference SaaS business, and launched in new geographies.

Fast forward to 2022, we have grown to almost 250 team members, providing customers on-demand and industry-specific support and have just closed our Series B which will further accelerate our product development and expansion across Europe and the US.

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 organisations 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 organisations, 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, organisations, and people on the outside.