In 2016, OneTrust's founders recognized a critical gap: as data became the lifeblood of modern business, organizations lacked the tools to manage it responsibly. GDPR was two years away from becoming law, but the founders saw that comprehensive data privacy regulations were inevitable - and that existing compliance tools were woefully inadequate for the challenge ahead. They founded OneTrust with a clear mission: to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI.
What began as a platform to help companies navigate privacy compliance has evolved into the AI-Ready Governance Platform™ that unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows. Today, with over 14,000 customers globally and more than 300 patents, OneTrust helps organizations move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale - proving that trust doesn't slow innovation down, it accelerates what's possible.