Protopia AI
Protopia AI, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, builds Stained Glass Transform, a privacy-enhancing layer that lets enterprises and government agencies use sensitive data across AI training, fine-tuning, inference and RAG without exposing it in identifiable form.
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Protopia AI, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, builds Stained Glass Transform, a privacy-enhancing layer that lets enterprises and government agencies use sensitive data across AI training, fine-tuning, inference and RAG without exposing it in identifiable form. Users include Q2, UC San Diego and U.S. Navy, Air Force and Missile Defense Agency; partners include AWS, NVIDIA, HPE and NetApp.
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- 2022-12-06Seed$6M
Investors · ATX Venture Partners, Galaxy Interactive, Silverton Partners, DNX VenturesSource · itdigest.com ↗
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