On Tuesday, data privacy and compliance solutions firm Transcend announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B funding led by new investor StepStone Group. Transcend offers a dozen products that help companies comply with global privacy regulations, including data subject right and consent management, and e-discovery and data classification tools.

A press release announcing the investment noted that the recent series B round brings the company's total funding to $90 million. In the release, Transcend CEO Ben Brook underscored that the company has much room to grow given that companies are still struggling to meet their expanding privacy compliance needs.

"This month marks the sixth anniversary of GDPR, and we're in the middle of another wave of comprehensive legislation with the EU AI Act and a draft U.S. federal privacy law. Yet privacy remains a fundamentally unsolved problem inside companies. Most have neither a clear view of their data, nor effective privacy controls installed directly into their systems. And now, new AI use cases are kicking this problem right up to the boardroom door," he said.