Confident Security
Category: AI in Cybersecurity
An end-to-end encryption layer named CONFSEC that wraps around AI models to guarantee that user prompts and metadata cannot be stored, seen, or used for training by any third party, including the AI model provider. Confident Security was founded in 2024. The company is led by Jonathan Mortensen. Based in San Francisco, USA. Team size: As a seed-stage startup that emerged from stealth in July 2024, the exact team size is not publicly disclosed but is understood to be a small, highly experienced team.. Total funding raised: $4.2 million. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Decibel, South Park Commons, Ex Ante, Swyx.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Team size
- As a seed-stage startup that emerged from stealth in July 2024, the exact team size is not publicly disclosed but is understood to be a small, highly experienced team.
- Total funding
- $4.2 million
Value proposition
To provide provable privacy for all data sent to large language models (LLMs), eliminating the risk of data retention or reuse and enabling AI adoption in sensitive environments.
Products and solutions
CONFSEC
Unique value
The product is marketed as 'the Signal for AI,' drawing inspiration from Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC) architecture to ensure verifiable privacy through cryptographic guarantees.
Target customer
Enterprises, governments, and organizations in highly regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, and legal.
Industries served
Healthcare, Finance, Government, Legal
Technology advantage
The core advantage is providing a zero-trust privacy layer that prevents even the AI model provider or cloud infrastructure hosts (like Cloudflare and Fastly through which data is routed) from accessing the original user data. This ensures non-logging and no data usage for AI training.
How they differentiate
Confident Security acts as a trusted intermediary layer, offering a stronger, verifiable guarantee of zero data retention, unlike the built-in privacy controls of major AI providers which may not offer the same absolute level of data isolation.
Main competitors
OpenAI Enterprise, Anthropic's enterprise solutions, Other private AI startups
Key partnerships
Cloudflare, Fastly
Notable customers
Not publicly available.
Major milestones
Emerged from stealth and launched its CONFSEC product in July 2024., Secured $4.2 million in a seed funding round.
Growth metrics
Not publicly available.
Market positioning
A specialized provider of AI privacy and encryption solutions, targeting a niche of highly regulated enterprises that require maximum data security and compliance.
Geographic focus
Global, with an initial focus on North America.
Patents and IP
Not publicly disclosed.
About Jonathan Mortensen
Serial entrepreneur and technology executive with deep expertise in AI, data infrastructure, and cybersecurity. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University. Mortensen is a two-time founder who sold previous companies to BlueVoyant and Databricks. His team includes experts with backgrounds from Google, Apple, RedHat, and HashiCorp.
Official website: https://confident.security/