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The 10 Hottest Cloud Computing Startups Of 2020
Donna Goodison
Cloud computing startups picking up traction this year offer solutions ranging from Apache Airflow as a service to a life sciences R&D cloud software platform, and include a newly emerged security company formed by former ‘white hat’ hackers.

Privitar
CEO: Jason du Preez
Headquarters: London
The Privitar Data Privacy Platform natively integrates with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform to protect and manage sensitive data while optimizing its utility for analytic applications. Organizations can automate data provisioning and enable cloud-scale analytics, machine learning, data science and other services to derive insights from even sensitive datasets.
HSBC, the London-based banking and financial services firm, joined Privitar’s Series C growth round with a $7 million investment in June, bringing the funding round total to $87 million. HSBC also became a shareholder after four years as a customer.
Privitar joined the AWS Partner Network’s Global Startups Program last December. This month, it announced it had earned Microsoft’s co-sell-ready designation through the Microsoft One Commercial Partner program and joined Microsoft’s FastTrack for Azure program as an independent software vendor.