Confidencial Inc.

Overview

Problem: Perimeter defenses and network-based access controls remain vulnerable, as seen in high-profile breaches across government and industry. Sensitive data must flow between warfighters, mission partners, and AI agents, but current approaches rely on rigid enclaves or all-or-nothing access. This leads to overclassification and missed decision windows.

Confidencial enables secure, selective data sharing without enclaves. Our cryptographic protection embeds directly into unstructured data, enforcing usage controls across users, organizations, and AI - even after sharing. Users can redact, tokenize, or encrypt based on policy, with automatic enforcement.

Validation: The platform is live in financial services, legal, and healthcare, and has been demonstrated through AFWERX for the AF SABRE team. It supports cloud, on-prem, and disconnected use, and integrates with AI systems.

TRL is 6 for commercial deployments and nearing TRL 5 for defense.

Strategic Edge: Confidencial uniquely enables data-centric security aligned with Zero Trust and ABAC principles.

GTM: Our go-to-market leverages traction with SIs, VARs, and strong demand in enterprise and AI governance. Customers include Lilly, the NFL, and major law firms.

Dual Use: The tech supports dual-use across DoD, healthcare, and finance where sensitive data must be controlled, shared, and audited.

Team: The team includes cryptography researchers from SRI and other defense contractors.

Competition: Most alternatives stop at labeling, audit, or perimeter enforcement - we enforce policy cryptographically, at the data layer.

User and problem: Primary users are mission planners and analysts facing daily friction coordinating time-sensitive, sensitive data, using AI and other tools with multi-national coalitions.