Protopia AI
Information Security · AI Governance & Compliance
$6Mlatest round · Seed · Dec 2022 · 3 yr ago
1backers · Mercato Partners
$3.2Mgrants · 2 grants · CORDIS
19stories in the press
Overview
Protopia AI transforms data so models can run on it without exposing sensitive content. Its Stained Glass technology protects inputs during inference. The company serves regulated enterprises adopting generative models.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$6M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$6M
Seed · Dec 2022 · 3 yr ago
Grants
$3.2M
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Mercato Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
47 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
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Last sign of life
2 mo ago
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Partnership Wand AI and Protopia AI Partner to Power Sovereign AI on Shared, Secure, High-Utilization Backend · protopia.ai
Jul 17, 2025
Won a grant $2M · CORDIS
May 20, 2025
Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS
May 6, 2025
Partnership Protopia AI And Lambda Announce Partnership To Provide Roundtrip Inference Data Protection To Secure LLM Endpoints · menafn.com
Dec 5, 2022
Raised a round Seed $6M
2019
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Jul 2025 | $2M | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | May 2025 | $1.2M | — | CORDIS |
| Seed | Dec 2022 | $6M | — | businesswire.com |
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News
The Virtual Private Token Factory: Full Utilization, More Tenants, and No Plaintext on Your Platform
For neoclouds, NVIDIA Cloud Partners, sovereign and in-country cloud operators, and AI factory builders: the virtual private token factory is how to run multi-tenancy that regulated customers can join and that a single mistake cannot turn into a leak, at
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Mission Data, Open Models, and the Inference Privacy Layer for Shared Government AI
Protopia AI Stained Glass Transform (SGT) is now available for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, two open-weight models built for long-running work. SGT eliminates plaintext exposure from the inference path. A command can run controlled un
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Wand AI And Protopia AI Partner To Power Sovereign AI On Shared, Secure, High-Utilization Backend
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Wand AI and Protopia AI Partner to Power Sovereign AI on Shared, Secure, High-Utilization Backend
Wand AI's agentic workforce operating system paired with Protopia AI's Stained Glass inference privacy layer. Every ministry and agency in a nation can run sensitive workloads on a single sovereign AI back end, with plaintext never leaving the trust bound
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Private Token Factories: How Rafay and Protopia AI Let Sensitive Workloads Run on Shared GPU Capacity
This post was originally published on the Rafay blog by Mohan Atreya, Chief Product Officer at Rafay, and is republished here with permission. Rafay's Token Factory makes it brutally simple for neoclouds to publish AI models as OpenAI-compatible, token-me
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Confidential Compute and Stained Glass Transform in a Zero-Trust AI Factory
A walkthrough of Protopia AI Stained Glass Transform running alongside confidential computing in a zero-trust AI factory, where SGT is designed to minimize plaintext exposure from the inference path so sensitive workloads can run on shared infrastructure.
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Useful Agentic AI Has Arrived
The More of It Your AI Factory Runs, the More Value It Can Create. Agentic AI has moved from demo to job description. The long-running agents enterprises want to deploy are persistent, always-on digital workers that reason across systems, write and run th
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Sensitive Data, Open Models, and the AI Factory's Inference Privacy Layer
Protopia AI Stained Glass Transform (SGT) is now available for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. As an integrated data-privacy layer, SGT is designed to minimize plaintext exposure from the inference path, so an enterprise's most sensitive
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Zero-Trust AI Factories Unlock Sensitive AI Anywhere with Protopia AI Stained Glass Transform and NVIDIA Confidential Containers
Confidential containers protect the model weights. Stained Glass Transform protects the inference data the model runs on. Together, they unlock zero-trust AI across multi-tenant infrastructure, expanding where sensitive AI workflows can safely run. Zero-t
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LLM Chatbot Demo
A demonstration of an LLM chatbot running on Llama 8B, served on Baseten. The post LLM Chatbot Demo appeared first on Protopia.
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Austin
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