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Privacy Tech startup ecosystem

We track 3 organisations in this sector across 3+ countries.

3 entries.

Koofr

Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup

Koofr is a privacy-oriented, GDPR-compliant cloud storage provider founded in 2013 and headquartered in Ljubljana. The service stores user data in EU-based data centres and allows users to connect and manage files from third-party storage accounts such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive from a single interface. Koofr won the Slovenian Startup of the Year award in 2013 shortly after launch and has grown to a paying subscriber base across Europe. It is a resident company of Technology Park Ljubljana.

Maciej Zawadzinski

Wroclaw, Poland · Angel Investor

Founding partner at Hard2beat VC and serial entrepreneur with multiple exits. Maciej is known for building Piwik PRO, a privacy-first analytics platform, and Clearcode, an AdTech/MarTech software company. His transition from founder to deep-tech investor was featured in Forbes Poland (March 2026) in the profile Mistrz exitow na inwestycyjnej sciezce by Krzysztof Domaradzki. Notable outcomes include the 2023 exit of Piwik PRO and the acquisition of Clearcode by ARICOMA Group.

Tresorit

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

Tresorit is a Budapest-founded end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and file-collaboration company that positioned itself very early as the privacy-first European alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive for regulated industries: law firms, healthcare, financial services, and — notably — government and defense teams in Europe that cannot legally store sensitive files with US hyperscalers. Founded in 2011 by István Lám, Szilveszter Szebeni, and György Szilágyi, the product is built around zero-knowledge client-side encryption, so files are encrypted before they leave the user's device and Tresorit itself cannot read them even if compelled. The company famously ran a public one-million-dollar hacking challenge to demonstrate the robustness of its encryption, and has since been repeatedly cited by European regulators and data-protection authorities as a model for GDPR-aligned cloud collaboration. In 2021 Swiss Post acquired a majority stake in Tresorit as part of its digital sovereignty push — one of the most strategically significant Hungarian deep-tech exits.