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We performed hundreds of reviews at Amazon and Moveworks and now we're building the product we wish we had. Our users complete reviews in minutes instead of days.\r\n\r\nEmily and Joe are technical co-founders and senior engineers. We met in 2019 while working on an Alexa security review.", "one_liner": "Automate security and privacy reviews", "team_size": 12, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1722269171, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Generative AI", "Security", "Privacy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": true, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearly-ai", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2024/clearly-ai.json" }, { "id": 30456, "name": "Tinfoil", "slug": "tinfoil", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1fb98a08722d6b4a90ad914611f5c3579c0f3558.png", "website": "https://tinfoil.sh", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "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. \r\n\r\nWe’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 confidential compute mode available on Hopper and Blackwell. When combined with Tinfoil’s software stack, companies can prove their security claims like \"we can't see and don’t log your queries.” Tinfoil guarantees that all data always stays private and cannot be accessed by anyone other than the end user -- not even by Tinfoil or the cloud provider it’s processed on. Everything can be made end-to-end encrypted and private with Tinfoil. \r\n\r\nThe founding team combines deep academic and industry experience in security and Internet protocols. Tanya was previously a systems engineer at Cloudflare, where she built Internet security protocols used by billions, and contributed to the Workers AI platform. Jules and Sacha hold PhDs from MIT, where they worked on secure hardware, cryptography, and privacy technologies. Jules has also worked at NVIDIA on their confidential computing team. Tinfoil was born from our personal frustration with the false choice between access to powerful AI and the massive data privacy implications of deeply integrated AI.\r\n\r\nAI is a universal tool that becomes part of our personal lives and business workflows. In the process, it needs access to all personal, private, and proprietary data. Right now, the only solutions are data processing agreements (i.e., \"pinky promises\"), band-aids like PII redaction that don't work in practice, or AI locally/on-prem, which doesn't scale. Tinfoil promises to unlock significantly deeper AI adoption and integrations by making it easy to obtain true privacy, just as TLS on the Internet enabled e-commerce to flourish by securing credit cards on the network.\r\n\r\nToday we offer several self-serve products: \r\n\r\n- A consumer-facing chatbot that keeps your chats end-to-end encrypted and provides zero-access inference with powerful open-source models like Kimi, Gemma, and GLM. You can try it out for free: https://chat.tinfoil.sh\r\n\r\n- A developer-friendly API that allows you to build AI applications where all user data is kept private and we as the inference provider cannot see any of the prompts. Our SDKs make sure that all relevant security measures are checked for you before even sending a single byte of data. Learn more:https://docs.tinfoil.sh \r\n\r\n- An advanced confidential computing platform we call Tinfoil Containers that allows you to secure any Docker application. We make it easy to deploy your own logic and applications inside secure enclaves and prove to the world what code is running inside. This enables attested workloads and publicly verifiable privacy policies for sensitive applications. 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