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Tinfoil

Tinfoil makes it easy to make your AI workloads secure and provably private. You get the privacy of on-prem deployments, while running on the cloud. It's like end-to-end encrypted messaging but for your AI applications. We’ve built a full-stack platform on top of the latest NVIDIA GPUs offering confidential computing capabilities, meaning that you don’t have to trade off performance for privacy. We integrate a suite of recent advances in secure hardware technologies, in particular NVIDIA’s confi

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Y Combinator

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Tinfoil makes it easy to make your AI workloads secure and provably private. You get the privacy of on-prem deployments, while running on the cloud. It's like end-to-end encrypted messaging but for your AI applications. We’ve built a full-stack platform on top of the latest NVIDIA GPUs offering confidential computing capabilities, meaning that you don’t have to trade off performance for privacy. We integrate a suite of recent advances in secure hardware technologies, in particular NVIDIA’s confi

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Tinfoil is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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secure hardware technologiesend-to-end encrypted messagingconfidential computing capabilitiesNVIDIA GPUsAI workloadsfull-stack platformTinfoil
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Companies similar to Tinfoil

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

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Blyss

match 80

Blyss is an AI model provider built on strong security guarantees. We run AI workloads in GPU-based secure enclaves, which keep data encrypted even while it's being processed. Our customers get a privacy model similar to on-premises deployment, without ever having to think about AI infrastructure or GPU supply. The Blyss team has strong experience in cryptography and AI from Stanford, Apple, Nvidia, and more. We think data privacy is fundamental to safe, trustworthy AI, so it's our job to make e

shared extracted concept terms: secure; shared product terms: workload, secure, encrypt, while; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Texel.ai

match 67

Texel is a platform that enables developers to generate hardware-accelerated APIs for running AI pipelines 10 times faster, including image and video applications. For example, developers can use the latest NVIDIA GPUs or Google TPUs without having to become hardware experts themselves.

shared extracted concept terms: hardware; shared product terms: hardware, runn, application, latest; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Anjuna

match 61

Anjuna makes hardware-grade application and data protection simple, fast and enterprise-ready. Anjuna software enables IT to “lift and shift” applications and data into the hardware-encrypted confines of a secure enclave, protecting them from malicious software, insiders, and bad actors. Available from every major chip, cloud, and system vendor, secure enclaves are the data security gold standard. Unlike point memory-only enclave solutions that require expensive and complicated software rewrites

shared extracted concept terms: secure; shared product terms: hardware, application, encrypt, secure; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Parsimoni

match 57

Parsimoni has developed SpaceOS (unikernel architecture; secure by design) that unlocks value by making satellite in-orbit compute resources shareable; with full payload isolation, ultra-compact footprint, and dynamic in-orbit application deployment.

shared extracted concept terms: full, secure; shared product terms: secure, full, application, deployment; shared product theme: security and compliance

Sapling.ai

match 56

Sapling offers an API and SDK to help businesses integrate language models into their applications. Its messaging assistant sits on top of CRMs and messaging platforms to help users more efficiently compose responses.

shared extracted concept terms: messag; shared product terms: offer, integrate, application, messag; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

RunLocal AI

match 56

RunLocal’s AI agent is specialized in inference optimization and hardware acceleration for platforms like Nvidia Orin/Thor and Qualcomm. Under the hood, our agentic environment facilitates reliable hardware-in-the-loop experimentation and continuous learning. It tracks every experiment and continuously refines experimentation data into an understanding of what drives performance on your target hardware. This environment means that a generic coding agent (e.g. Codex or Claude Code) can experiment

shared extracted concept terms: hardware; shared product terms: hardware, like, nvidia, performance; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator