Oblivious AI banked €2.8M in a Seed funding round led by Cavalry Ventures. The investment includes participation from Atlantic Bridge, Act Venture Capital, and Firebrand VC.
The Dublin-based startup builds tools that allow developers to process sensitive data within secure environments. By utilizing "Oblivious" enclaves, the technology enables organisations to run code on private data without the infrastructure provider or the software developer being able to access the underlying information.
This technical approach addresses a critical friction point in high-stakes industries such as finance and healthcare, where data privacy regulations often prevent the collaborative use of data for machine learning and analytics.
As European enterprises face increasing pressure to adopt AI while maintaining rigorous data sovereignty, infrastructure that enforces privacy at the hardware and software level is becoming a prerequisite for scaling industrial applications.
Originally reported by EU-Startups Daily.