iubenda, one of Europe's leading providers for consent management and privacy compliance tools part of team.blue group, is pleased to announce the acquisition of CookieFirst, which offers solutions to help businesses make their websites and apps compliant with international privacy laws.
Founded in the Netherlands in 2019 by brothers Kees van den Bos and Tom van den Bos, CookieFirst serves customers across Europe and North America. It provides consent management tools, such as consent banners, cookie scanning and cookie policy generators, for businesses of any size with a focus on digital agencies and resellers, ensuring websites and digital applications are compliant with international privacy laws, including GDPR, ePrivacy, LGPD and CCPA.
Set up in 2011, iubenda group has been helping SMEs with attorney-level solutions to make their websites and apps comply with privacy laws. While based in Milan, Italy, the group operates on a global scale with a team of more than 140 highly qualified professionals, now supporting more than 100,000 customers spread over 100+ countries. It offers several integrated solutions to answer the compliance needs of organizations across multiple languages and legislations.
As e-compliance regulation becomes more complex globally, these types of tools will only become more relevant and valuable for companies and individuals who want to make their digital journey simpler and more successful. This transaction confirms team.blue's commitment to the privacy and compliance space as it seeks to become the most trusted digital services group in Europe.
Joining forces with iubenda is an exciting milestone for the team at CookieFirst. We launched in 2019 with a mission to ease the burden of businesses around the world dealing with complex privacy regulations and enable them to focus on growth. We’ve been inspired by iubenda group and team.blue’s commitment to making online business success simpler and we’re excited to bring CookieFirst’s expertise and products to the group so we can reach more businesses together.Kees van den Bos, CEO, CookieFirst
We’re thrilled to be bringing on board CookieFirst at a time when more and more businesses around the world need support to become compliant with international regulations. We’re looking forward to working with Kees and Tom as they stay on to support the integration of their team and products into our group.Andrea Giannangelo, CEO, iubenda
We are excited to welcome CookieFirst into team.blue. We can now bring our most innovative and comprehensive consent and privacy portfolio of solutions to even more businesses and individuals globally. We look forward to working with the founders and the team to strengthen our support for customers looking to navigate the complexities of international online compliance regulations with ease and successfully.Claudio Corbetta, CEO, team.blue
No further details about this transaction will be made available. For more information about this press release, please contact press@team.blue.
CookieFirst offers automated cookie consent, periodic cookie scans, an automated cookie policy generator in 44+ languages. CookieFirst is a Google CMP partner with a Gold status, our software integrates with Google Tag Manager & Consent Mode v2 and is platform agnostic. We offer many other consent management features for compliance with international privacy laws like the GDPR, ePrivacy, LGPD, CCPA, Law 25 and PDPA.
iubenda group offers several integrated solutions to answer the compliance needs of organisations across multiple languages and legislations on websites and apps. These include solutions on Privacy and Cookie policies, the EU Cookie law, Terms and Conditions, GDPR consent recording and CCPA disclosures, offered at a highly competitive price and through a one-stop shop SaaS compliance multi-national platform. iubenda group’s HQ is based in Milan, Italy, but the group is already operating on a global scale with a team of over 140 across more than 25 different nationalities. The company has more than 100,000 customers today, spread over 100+ countries.
About team.blue
team.blue is a leading digital enabler for businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom). The company is made up of 60+ successful brands who serve 3,3m SMB customers. team.blue is a one-stop partner for web hosting, domains, e-commerce, online compliance, lead generation and application solutions, supported by more than 2.500+ experts. team.blue's vision is to make online business simpler by shaping technology and providing customers with innovative online products and services.