INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Uber and Facebook and countless other companies that know an awful lot about their customers have found themselves in hot water for
privacy while also saving companies from themselves
Among the features the company, Internal, is offering, are search and filtering, auto-generated tasks and team queues, granular
permissioning on every field, audit logs on every record and redacted fields for sensitive information.Whether the startup can win the trust
of enterprises is the biggest question for the company, which was created by Arisa Amano and Bob Remeika, founders who last year launched
the blockchain technology company Harbor
The two also worked together previously at two other companies: Zenefits and Yammer.All of these endeavors have another person in common,
Sacks also invested last year in Harbor; he was an early investor in Zenefits and took over during troubled times as its CEO for less than a
year; he also founded Yammer, which sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion in cash in 2012.All of the aforementioned have been focused, too, on
making it easier for companies to get their work done, and Amano and Remeika have built the internal console at all three companies
themselves whether they think Internal can help their employees interact with their customer app data in a more secure and compliant way
The eight-person company has just made the product available for a free trial.Naturally, Amano and Remeika are full of assurances why
Remeika, who says not to mistake Internal for an analytics tool
counsel and chief compliance officer at Zenefits (he was its first lawyer) and who joined Harbor in February of last year as its president
early-stage investment vehicle, and other, unnamed angel investors.
