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Transcend Inc.

Covina, CA · ~11-50 employees
LAST FUNDING
$40.0M
Series B

Transcend is the only real-time data governance and decision layer that answers “Can I use this data?” to unblock AI, agentic, and first-party data initiatives.

Funding history

RoundAmount
Series B$40.0M
SEC Form D filed
Aug 6, 2024·Dec 20, 2018

About Transcend Inc.

How much funding has Transcend Inc. raised?

Transcend Inc. has raised $40.0M in total funding. The most recent round was Series B.

Where is Transcend Inc. headquartered?

Transcend Inc. is headquartered in Covina, CA.

What does Transcend Inc. do?

Transcend is the only real-time data governance and decision layer that answers “Can I use this data?” to unblock AI, agentic, and first-party data initiatives.

What problem does Transcend Inc. solve?

Fragmented consent, preferences, and policy rules create unclear data permissions that stall AI, personalization, and first-party data initiatives and block revenue.

What's Transcend Inc.'s solution?

Provides a real-time data governance and decision layer, including a 'Policy Engine,' that encodes consent, permissions, and business policy directly into the systems processing customer data to answer 'can I use this data?' in real time.

What makes Transcend Inc. different?

States it is the only platform that encodes consent, permissions, and policy directly into the systems that process customer data, secured through its Sombra end-to-end encryption architecture.

What makes Transcend Inc. notable?

Transcend (transcend.io) was co-founded in 2017 by former Harvard classmates Ben Brook and Michael Farrell, and raised a $25M round to build data-privacy infrastructure with backing from Accel.

Leadership

Benjamin Brook
Executive Officer, Director
Katherine Parker
Executive Officer
Brandon Wiebe
Executive Officer
Michael Farrell
Director
Vas Natarajan
Director
Bryan Offutt
Director
Industry
B2B
HQ
Covina, CA
Employees
~11-50
Raised
$40.0M
Stage
Series B

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