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Tinfoil

Tinfoil runs private, verifiably secure AI inference and chat on confidential computing hardware so data stays hidden even from Tinfoil and the cloud provider.

tinfoil.sh · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·TINFOIL·26
StageVenture RoundMay 2026[7]
Raised$7.8Mdisclosed rounds[7][12]
Headcount5as of Aug 2026[3][7]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2024[3][7][12]
Money

Raised $7.8M across disclosed rounds.[7][12]

Venture Round closed May 2026.[7]

Round size and post-money valuation are not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Scale Rise, Tekedia Capital.[1][2][7]

People

Tanya Verma, Co-Founder & CEO[1][3][9][10][11][16]

Jules Drean, Co-Founder[1][3][9][10][11][16]

Sacha Servan-Schreiber, Co-Founder[1][3][9][10][11][16]

Nate Sales, Co-Founder[1][3][9][10][11][16]

Signals
Jul 16 2026launchCached prompt pricing with client-side secret salting company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
May 29 2026fundingTekedia Capital invests in Tinfoil, betting privacy is the next AI infrastructure layer[2][8]
May 7 2026launchRust SDK released company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Apr 24 2026otherCanonical Ubuntu 26.04 LTS collaboration company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Mar 10 2026launchTinfoil Containers launch company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Mar 4 2026otherSecurity audit with Trail of Bits company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Comps

Apple Private Cloud Compute · apple.com · Named in independent analysis as the closest comparable for hardware-enforced enclave AI privacy, though closed to Apple's ecosystem.[4]

OpenAI · openai.com · Tinfoil positions itself as the drop-in alternative to OpenAI's chat-completions API for buyers who cannot accept data leaving their control.[3][4]

Anthropic · anthropic.com · Named in independent analysis as a provider whose opaque backend Tinfoil replaces for privacy-sensitive buyers.[4]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[7]

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Tinfoil

CALL NO.CS·TINFOIL·26

Tinfoil runs private, verifiably secure AI inference and chat on confidential computing hardware so data stays hidden even from Tinfoil and the cloud provider.

tinfoil.sh · San Francisco

StageVenture Round
Raised$7.8M
Headcount5
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2024
CompsApple Private Cloud Compute +2

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