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    Tinfoil

    Tinfoil provides verifiable privacy for cloud AI by hosting models and workloads on secure enclaves and NVIDIA confidential GPUs, guaranteeing zero data access and retention.

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    At a Glance

    1Tool Listed
    3Products
    5Capabilities
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    San Francisco, CAHeadquarters
    2024Est.
    10Employees
    $500000Raised
    Focus Areas
    Conversational Agents
    Data Protection
    Application Security
    Latest News
    Building a Browser-Native Verification Stack for TinfoilDec 18, 2025
    Tinfoil Launches Containers for Secure AI WorkloadsMay 15, 2025
    Markets
    • AI Startups
    • Healthcare
    • Fintech
    • Enterprise Security

    AI Tools by Tinfoil

    (1)
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    Tinfoil Private Chat

    Private Encrypted AI Chat App

    Conversational AIData ProtectionApp Security

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    Latest News

    12/18/2025

    Building a Browser-Native Verification Stack for Tinfoil

    tinfoil.sh
    05/15/2025

    Tinfoil Launches Containers for Secure AI Workloads

    LinkedIn / Tinfoil Blog
    01/08/2025

    Tinfoil Joins Y Combinator Winter 2025 Batch

    Y Combinator / Wellfound

    Products & Services

    3
    Tinfoil Containers
    2025

    An advanced confidential computing platform that allows users to secure any Docker application using NVIDIA confidential GPUs and secure enclaves.

    Private Inference API
    2025

    A developer-friendly API for private AI model inference with verifiable privacy and zero data retention.

    Tinfoil Chat
    2025

    A private AI chat interface (chat.tinfoil.sh) running models within secure enclaves.

    Market Position

    Positions itself as 'Apple Private Cloud for everyone', offering stronger cryptographic guarantees and verifiable privacy compared to standard cloud providers.

    Leadership

    Founders

    TV

    Tanya Verma

    Co-founder & CEO. Previously a systems engineer at Cloudflare. Expert in AI and privacy-preserving protocols.

    JD

    Jules Drean

    Co-founder. PhD from MIT in secure hardware and systems. Previous experience at Microsoft Research and NVIDIA working on confidential computing.

    SS

    Sacha Servan-Schreiber

    Co-founder. PhD from MIT in cryptography and privacy-preserving systems.

    NS

    Nate Sales

    Co-founder. Infrastructure and security researcher with expertise in networking and privacy.

    Executive Team

    TV

    Tanya Verma

    CEO & Co-founder

    Ex-Cloudflare Systems Engineer.

    JD

    Jules Drean

    Co-founder

    MIT PhD, expert in secure hardware.

    Board of Directors

    NS
    Nick Sullivan
    Investor & Advisor (Former Head of Research/CTO at Cloudflare)
    MG
    Michael Grinich
    Investor & Advisor (Founder & CEO of WorkOS)
    MD
    Miles Dai
    Technical Advisor/Research (MIT Cryptography)

    Founding Story

    Started by a team from MIT and Cloudflare to bring 'Apple Private Cloud' level privacy to all AI developers and enterprises, ensuring that cloud AI providers cannot access user data.

    Business Model

    Revenue Model

    Subscription-based and API usage-based pricing for private AI inference and container hosting.

    Pricing Tiers

    Developer/Free
    Free

    Limited usage for testing and personal projects.

    Pro/Individual
    Usage-based

    Standard access to private inference API and containers.

    Enterprise
    Custom

    High-scale deployments, dedicated support, and custom SLAs.

    Private

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • AI Startups
    • Healthcare
    • Fintech
    • Enterprise Security
    Use Cases
    • Private LLM inference
    • Secure handling of PII/PHI in AI apps
    • Verifiable AI workloads for compliance
    • Secure Docker application hosting
    Notable Customers
    • Trail of Bits

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    San Francisco, CA
    Founded
    2024
    Entity Type
    Inc.
    Employees
    10
    Total Funding
    $500,000+
    Investors
    Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund
    Office Locations
    San Francisco

    Funding History

    Seed (YC Batch X25)$500,000
    2025
    Y Combinator
    Pioneer Fund

    History & Milestones

    2025

    Participated in Y Combinator (Batch X25/W25).

    2025

    Launched Tinfoil Containers for secure Docker application hosting.

    2025-12-18

    Announced browser-native verification stack using Sigstore and TUF libraries.

    2024

    Tinfoil founded in San Francisco, CA.

    Key Capabilities

    5
    NVIDIA Confidential Computing GPUs
    Secure Enclaves (TEE)
    Zero data retention guarantees
    Cryptographically verifiable integrity
    Browser-native Sigstore/TUF verification

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • Docker
    • NVIDIA GPUs
    • Sigstore

    Key Partnerships

    NVIDIA Inception
    Sigstore
    TUF

    Connect

    Website
    tinfoil.sh

    AI Topics

    3

    Tinfoil focuses on these topics:

    Conversational Agents(1)
    Data Protection(1)
    Application Security(1)
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