Proven Innovators Behind Your Trusted AI Stack—Now Solving Confidential AI
Unlock AI’s Full Power—Without Risk, Delays, or Trade-Offs.
Your Most Valuable Data is Stuck—We Make It Work for AI, Securely and at Scale.
Transforming AI innovation by securely and efficiently scaling AI and unlocking value from sensitive data
OPAQUE is the leading confidential AI platform unleashing the full potential of AI and agentic workflows on sensitive data to securely accelerate AI into production. Created by world-renowned researchers at the Berkeley RISELab, OPAQUE’s user-friendly platform empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general purpose AI workloads on encrypted data. OPAQUE supports popular languages and frameworks for AI, including Python and Spark, and enables governed data sharing with cryptographic verification of privacy and sovereignty. OPAQUE customers deploy high-performance AI faster and eliminate the tradeoff between innovation and security.
Our Vision
OPAQUE Systems supports a world where the accelerated adoption of AI transforms businesses and organizations, unlocking the immense value of their sensitive data without sacrificing privacy or sovereignty. We empower organizations and people to harness AI confidently and securely, driving human progress while maintaining absolute data privacy and sovereignty.
Our easy-to-use platform integrates seamlessly with popular AI frameworks and data environments, offering end-to-end confidential AI solutions. Supported by a vibrant partner ecosystem, we enable customers to gain the most valuable insights from their most sensitive data through our confidential AI technology.
At OPAQUE, we cultivate an effective work culture grounded in kindness, customer-centricity, and continuous improvement. By fostering innovation, inclusivity, and excellence, we attract top talent and set industry standards, leading to widespread adoption and trust in AI technologies that keep data private and sovereign.
Our Story
Pioneering the first-ever confidential AI solution for multi-party and inter-company collaborative analytics.
OPAQUE was built by confidential computing pioneers hailing from UC Berkeley’s RISELab, the world-renowned lab developing technologies that enable applications to interact intelligently and securely with their environment in real time.
RISELab has produced companies and projects like Databricks and Apache Spark. Together, Professor Ion Stoica (also founder and chairman of Databricks), Professor Raluca Ada Popa, Dr. Rishabh Poddar, Professor Wenting Zheng, and Chester Leung created, incubated, and open-sourced the breakthrough MC2 (Multiparty Collaboration and Competition) platform; MC2 enabled multiple data owners to perform joint analytics and ML model training on collective data without revealing their individual data to each other. OPAQUE’s platform was built on top of this open-source foundation, and the company was officially founded in 2021.
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Our Values
Our shared beliefs that guide how we show up to work and for each other.
- 1. Customer Centricity Innovating relentlessly to solve customer problems efficiently.
- 2. Empowered OwnershipActing swiftly, owning your role, and grasping the ‘why.’
- 3. Intentional LearningBeing purposeful, humble, and ever-curious.
- 4. Mission-focused TeamworkCollaborating, thinking systematically, and promoting positive, open, and honest communication while staying mission-focused.
- 5. Inclusivity and KindnessOperating with kindness, listening, and celebrating diversity to enrich solutions and culture.
- 6. Joyful EngagementEmbracing fun, creativity, and laughter to enhance innovation and team spirit, fostering a vibrant, supportive atmosphere.