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Revolutionizing confidential computing with a secure, collaborative AI platform in Trusted Execution Environments

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Transforming AI deployment
by securely extracting value
from sensitive data



Opaque is the confidential AI platform unlocking 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.

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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

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Aaron Fulkerson
CEO
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Dr Rishabh Poddar
Co-Founder and CTO
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Prof Raluca Ada Popa
Co-Founder and President
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Chester Leung
Co-Founder and Head of Platform Architecture
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Prof Wenting Zheng
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
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Prof Ion Stoica
Co-Founder
Aaron Fulkerson
CEO
Dr Rishabh Poddar
Co-Founder and CTO
Prof Raluca Ada Popa
Co-Founder and President
Chester Leung
Co-Founder and Head of Platform Architecture
Prof Wenting Zheng
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Prof Ion Stoica
Co-Founder

Advisors

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Prof Hari Balakrishnan
Professor MIT
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Prof Pieter Abbeel
Professor UC Berkeley
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Kevin Mullen
Chief Product Officer
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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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Prof Hari Balakrishnan
Professor MIT
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Prof Pieter Abbeel
Professor UC Berkeley
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Kevin Mullen
Chief Product Officer
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Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan
Strategic Advisor and Investor Tech Companies
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Prof Christopher Ré
Professor Stanford

Investors


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 Ownership
         Acting swiftly, owning your role, and grasping the ‘why.’
  • 3. Intentional Learning
         Being purposeful, humble, and ever-curious.
  • 4. Mission-focused Teamwork
         Collaborating, thinking systematically, and promoting positive, open, and honest communication while staying mission-focused.
  • 5. Inclusivity and Kindness
         Operating with kindness, listening, and celebrating diversity to enrich solutions and culture.
  • 6. Joyful Engagement
         Embracing fun, creativity, and laughter to enhance innovation and team spirit, fostering a vibrant, supportive atmosphere.