Hacker Noon, the organization responsible for the awards, published a ranking of the most voted startups in each city, based on a public vote. Privacy Tools emerged victorious in the Porto Alegre category, in a vote that included all cities worldwide with a population exceeding 100.
Privacy Tools competed against 28 other startups representing Porto Alegre. Among the startups that were competing, those in the niches of agriculture, energy, e-commerce, hospitality, and finance stood out.
About the Award
O Hacker Noon was responsible for the initial curation of over 35.000 startups from more than 4.000 cities in almost every country in the world.
The evaluation criteria were based on startups that have shown remarkable attractiveness and capital raising in the years 2021 and 2021, and whose annual revenue was between US$50 and US$50 million, in addition to the fact that the nominated company had to be based in one of the eligible cities.
On its official website, Hacker Noon makes it clear that it seeks "Startups that add more value than they extract." The three Brazilian cities with the most representatives in the “Startups of the Year by City 2021” were São Paulo (35), Rio de Janeiro (31) and Porto Alegre (28).
What is the Hacker Noon portal?
According to information from the website itself "Hacker Noon is a small, distributed team of 14 people passionate about making the internet a better place by publishing high-quality, free tech stories – without paywalls, pop-up ads, or a sense of entitlement."
Hacker Noon has a global team of over 15.000 writers, founders, creators, thinkers, and technologists.
About Privacy Tools
A Privacy Tools is a privacy platform., a Privacy Tech accelerated by Obr.global, In addition to being one of the pioneers in Brazil in offering solutions for LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Law)..
It was ranked as one of the most attractive companies for the market in 2021 by the 100 Open Startups ranking. And today it seeks to transform the way companies protect and manage the privacy of personal data.
The company has over 150 clients, including Rede D'or, Banco RCI, Pague Menos, Farmácias São João, Grupo Bom Jesus, Universidade de Fortaleza, Synnex Corporation, and others.
It is important to emphasize that, according to the new amendment, the right to The protection of personal data has been incorporated into the Constitution as an entrenched clause., that is, that it cannot be changed, and it came to make the data protection and privacy a fundamental right, meaning that every company that handles customers' personal data needs to comply with it. GDPR
And Privacy Tools expertly works diligently to serve its clients and provide all the necessary support so that companies, through our tools, can more easily comply with the law.
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