About us

At Ethyca, we know trust isn’t just given; it must be earned. We’re on a mission to help teams build respectful systems, and in so doing, restore user trust in the internet.

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You’re expected to own your work end to end, and you’re trusted to do it. That level of autonomy is rare, and it pushes you to be better.

Ann Donnelly Senior Operations manager, Ethyca

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Our vision

The world's most trusted
technology company

Our vision is to be the world’s most trusted technology company, and the reason business itself is more trusted.

Trust is the bedrock of modern business. Without it, innovation stalls, relationships break, and progress slows. Ethyca is redefining what it means to be a trusted technology company. Not just by meeting regulatory requirements, but by reshaping how businesses interact with data. We envision a future where every organization operates with transparency, accountability, and security at its core.

By aspiring to be the most trusted technology company, we are not just aiming for excellence in our products; we’re redefining what it means to be trustworthy in technology. We’re committing to transparency, integrity, and reliability, ensuring that our technology empowers people rather than exploits them. And when we achieve this, we won’t just elevate our own standing, we’ll raise the bar for the entire industry.

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Ethyca by the Years

2018

Turning GDPR into Code

Ethyca was founded to operationalize GDPR as code, launching its first platform for automated privacy requests. Traction came from DTC brands and a $4.2M seed round.

2021

Open Source Foundation

Ethyca released Fides 1.0, the world’s first open source privacy engineering toolkit, moving from a SaaS model to developer infrastructure, backed by a $13.5M Series A.

2022

New GRC Capabilities

Fides 2.0 introduced a visual UI and enterprise features to serve governance and security teams, driving broader adoption across industries and landing flagship clients.

2023

The Enterprise Platform

With Janus and new service capabilities, Ethyca matured into a platform company, delivering consent and privacy automation to large-scale enterprise environments.

2024

The Trusted Data Layer

Helios and Astralis extended Ethyca’s stack to detection and enforcement, powering trusted data for AI and securing major new client wins.

2025

Enterprise Scaling

With proven tech, top-tier clients, and a full GTM team, Ethyca scales into the market, delivering the trusted data layer to the world’s most advanced organizations.

Our mission

Engineering data
to build trust

Our mission is to be responsible for solving the most technical problems in data privacy and protection.

Ethyca was founded to solve the hardest problems in data privacy, making trust and security the foundation of every system. As the digital world expands, governance can’t be an afterthought. We build infrastructure that embeds privacy at the core of data operations, ensuring organizations set a high standard for responsible data use.

Privacy, ethics, and trust are no longer abstract ideals. They are deeply technical challenges that demand precision at the code level. The solutions to these problems demand precision and expertise at the most technical levels. Without this, we risk building a future where privacy is compromised, and trust in technology is eroded.

We work on trust

We quite literally work on the problems of trust. Earning trust requires courage to be vulnerable, consistency to be dependable and a commitment to transparency.

We’re optimists

We believe the decisions we make play an outsize role in fixing technology for future generations. We believe that anything is possible.

We care, so we listen

We have deep care and respect for our community and customers. We seek to hear every perspective, whether we agree or not, to find solutions that support our team and users.

We share the work

Working as a team means working to help each other, to communicate clearly and to coordinate effectively so our successes are amplified and our failures can be supported.