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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.

Leadership

Aaron Fulkerson

CEO

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Dr Rishabh Poddar

Co-Founder and CTO

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Imran Siddique

Chief Platform Officer

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Jared Aaker

Head of Business Development

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Miran Chun

CMO

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Prof Raluca Ada Popa

Co-Founder

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Prof Ion Stoica

Co-Founder

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Chester Leung

Co-Founder

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Prof Wenting Zheng

Co-Founder

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Advisors

Prof Hari Balakrishnan

Professor MIT

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Prof Pieter Abbeel

Professor UC Berkeley

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Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan

Strategic Advisor and Investor Tech Companies

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Prof Christopher Ré

Professor Stanford

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Our Values

Our shared beliefs that guide how we show up to work and for each other.