Confidential AI platform empowers enterprises to unlock and scale AI on their most sensitive data<\/p>\n
OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company defining the trust layer for enterprise AI, today announced a $24 million Series B funding round led by Walden Catalyst, with participation from returning investors including Intel Capital, Race Capital, Storm Ventures, Thomvest, and new investor and strategic partner, Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC). This brings OPAQUE\u2019s total funding to $55.5 million and values the company at approximately $300 million post-money.<\/p>\n
From theory to mandate within a year, Confidential AI has been adopted and endorsed by companies like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Anthropic and all major hyperscalers, including Google, Microsoft Azure and AWS. According to\u00a0Gartner, Confidential AI techniques are essential for enterprises securing GenAI workflows and protecting sensitive data used by AI models.<\/p>\n
Enterprises across industries are eager to deploy AI agents on proprietary data to drive productivity and gain a competitive advantage, but most are blocked by data leakage and compliance risks. This widening \u201ctrust chasm\u201d is causing AI initiatives to stall in pilots as CISOs, compliance, and legal teams pause deployments over concerns about privacy, policy enforcement, and auditability.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnterprises will continue to struggle to bring AI into production until they have verifiable guarantees that their most sensitive data and models are protected,\u201d said Young Sohn, Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst, and board member at Samsung, Arm and Cadence. \u201cOPAQUE solves this problem and has pioneered a platform built for verifiable privacy, policy enforcement, and model integrity, capabilities that are quickly becoming non-negotiable. We\u2019re proud to continue to support this round and OPAQUE as they enable trusted, enterprise-grade AI adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n
With this new funding, OPAQUE is accelerating the delivery of its Confidential AI platform \u2014 the only secure, auditable infrastructure that gives enterprises verifiable proof that their data privacy, model integrity, and policy enforcement are provable before, during, and after runtime. For organizations under pressure to innovate quickly while meeting rising compliance standards, OPAQUE offers a path to deploy AI with confidence, transparency, and verifiable trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real barrier to enterprise AI is trust,\u201d said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO at OPAQUE. \u201cAI won\u2019t scale unless organizations can verify, not just assume, that their data and models are protected. Confidential AI closes the trust gap by delivering runtime proof that data stayed private during computation, model weights were never exposed, and policies were enforced exactly as written. We\u2019re accelerating the shift to a confidential-first infrastructure so every enterprise can turn sensitive data from a liability into a competitive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n
OPAQUE is expanding into post-quantum security, confidential AI training, and sovereign cloud environments, enabling enterprises to confidently scale AI across their most sensitive workloads. This investment strengthens OPAQUE\u2019s mission to make AI governance by design the new standard for enterprise AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no such thing as sovereign AI without verifiable guarantees on how data, models, and policies are protected and governed,\u201d said Dr. Najwa Aaraj, CEO of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII). \u201cOPAQUE provides the confidential and cryptographically verifiable foundation that empowers our combined technologies to operate AI systems with true sovereignty. This is why we\u2019re excited to be both an investor and a partner, given our shared commitment to advancing Confidential AI innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
This funding comes on the heels of the launch of\u00a0OPAQUE Studio, a development environment that lets enterprises build and deploy Confidential AI agents with runtime-verifiable privacy, policy compliance, and auditability.The post OPAQUE Systems Raises $24M Series B at $300M Valuation first appeared on AI-Tech Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Confidential AI platform empowers enterprises to unlock and scale AI on their most sensitive data OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company defining the trust layer for enterprise AI, today announced a $24 million Series B funding round led by Walden Catalyst, with participation from returning investors including Intel Capital, Race Capital,…<\/p>\n
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