SecurePII, a cloud-native PCI compliance and data privacy platform, announced today it has raised USD 3.5 million in Seed funding led by Tidal Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate its US and global presence and propel SecurePII’s mission to enable businesses to securely capture and anonymize sensitive information in real time, across voice channels, for PCI Compliance and so AI applications can operate and LLMs can train on cleansed, data privacy compliant data.
SecurePII was founded by Jason Thals, Haydn Faltyn and Bill Placke, technology entrepreneurs with deep expertise in cloud communications, data compliance, and large-scale software delivery and have developed award-winning solutions for the telecommunications industry. Their shared vision for SecurePII builds on more than three decades of experience helping service providers and enterprises modernize their communications infrastructure, this time focusing on solving one of the most pressing challenges in the AI era, protecting personal data in voice interactions.
Closing The Compliance Gap in AI
The capital will be used to scale SecurePII’s sales and enablement teams and to accelerate product innovation, including AI-powered selective redaction. This technology unlocks AI/LLM use of voice data while minimizing organizations to regulatory risk and perfectly aligning with NIST Data Minimization principles closing a critical gap in Payments and AI.
The new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS 4.0), which took effect in March 2025, introduces stricter requirements for how sensitive payment data is stored, handled, and protected. Businesses that continue to store call recordings containing cardholder information risk severe penalties, increased transaction fees, or even losing their ability to process payments altogether.
“Reading your credit card details or personal information to a stranger on the phone is one of the last unsolved risks,” said Bill Placke, President, Americas at SecurePII. “SecurePII not only makes voice payments PCI-compliant; it will also enable organizations to safely harness voice data for AI and analytics.”
Compliance Without Complexity
SecurePII’s flagship product, SecureCall, uses a patented architecture to redact sensitive information, like credit card numbers, the moment they’re entered by the customer. It does this without rerouting calls, interrupting conversations, or storing audio. The platform integrates into VoIP platforms and payment gateways so teams can keep serving customers while minimizing global data privacy compliance exposure. SecureCall has deployed users across the United States, Australia and Europe.
Unlocking AI and Data Privacy
SecurePII goes beyond payments compliance, acting as privacy middleware for voice to help organizations:
- Train AI and LLMs on voice data stripped of PII in real time.
- Deploy AI across healthcare, insurance, legal, travel, and finance while keeping sensitive data out of their networks.
- Meet evolving privacy standards, including HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR.
Investor Conviction
The round was led by Tidal Ventures, an early-stage investor focused on AI-native B2B software. The firm’s conviction in SecurePII is shaped by Managing Partner Wendell Keuneman’s deep experience building and scaling communications technology companies, giving Tidal a unique lens on how transformative infrastructure in this space can unlock massive market opportunities.
“Voice is one of the last unprotected frontiers in payments,” said Keuneman. “SecurePII’s deep domain expertise, strong telco relationships, and elegant solution position them to become the compliance layer for business voice globally. We see significant potential for this to become critical infrastructure across modern communications networks.”
What’s Next?
SecurePII plans to use the new capital to accelerate product development, including AI-powered real-time redaction, expand its partner ecosystem, and build out its sales and enablement teams in the United States. The company is also exploring future product extensions into additional regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA and GDPR, as well as AI-driven privacy middleware for voice applications.
About SecurePII
Founded in 2025, SecurePII is a cloud-native compliance platform that makes payments and personal data collection over the phone secure and compliant. Its patented selective redaction technology removes sensitive audio before it reaches business systems, reducing compliance risk and fraud. SecurePII partners with telcos, UCaaS and CCaaS platforms, and managed service providers to deliver secure voice compliance at scale.
About Tidal Ventures
Tidal Ventures is an Australian–US venture capital firm founded in 2016, backing early-stage AI-native B2B SaaS companies. We’re technologists at heart, curious about where the world is going, and we work closely with founders to turn early signal into global scale. With deep operating experience and a hands-on approach, we back ambitious teams building category-defining companies like Shippit, FrankieOne, Operata, and Checkbox.
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