Tinfoil YC 지원서

Spring 2025Active

Tinfoil은(는) Spring 2025 배치에서 B2B 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Spring 2025
산업: B2BSecurity
팀 규모: 5
상태: Active
출시됨: 2025

창업자

Tanya VermaFounder
Jules DreanFounder
Sacha Servan-SchreiberFounder

Tinfoil의 사업 내용

Tinfoil makes it easy to make your AI workloads secure and provably private. You get the privacy of on-prem deployments, while running on the cloud. It's like end-to-end encrypted messaging but for your AI applications. We’ve built a full-stack platform on top of the latest NVIDIA GPUs offering confidential computing capabilities, meaning that you don’t have to trade off performance for privacy. We integrate a suite of recent advances in secure hardware technologies, in particular NVIDIA’s confidential compute mode available on Hopper and Blackwell. When combined with Tinfoil’s software stack, companies can prove their security claims like "we can't see and don’t log your queries.” Tinfoil guarantees that all data always stays private and cannot be accessed by anyone other than the end user -- not even by Tinfoil or the cloud provider it’s processed on. Everything can be made end-to-end encrypted and private with Tinfoil. The founding team combines deep academic and industry experience in security and Internet protocols. Tanya was previously a systems engineer at Cloudflare, where she built Internet security protocols used by billions, and contributed to the Workers AI platform. Jules and Sacha hold PhDs from MIT, where they worked on secure hardware, cryptography, and privacy technologies. Jules has also worked at NVIDIA on their confidential computing team. Tinfoil was born from our personal frustration with the false choice between access to powerful AI and the massive data privacy implications of deeply integrated AI. AI is a universal tool that becomes part of our personal lives and business workflows. In the process, it needs access to all personal, private, and proprietary data. Right now, the only solutions are data processing agreements (i.e., "pinky promises"), band-aids like PII redaction that don't work in practice, or AI locally/on-prem, which doesn't scale. Tinfoil promises to unlock significantly deeper AI adoption and integrations by making it easy to obtain true privacy, just as TLS on the Internet enabled e-commerce to flourish by securing credit cards on the network. Today we offer several self-serve products: - A consumer-facing chatbot that keeps your chats end-to-end encrypted and provides zero-access inference with powerful open-source models like Kimi, Gemma, and GLM. You can try it out for free: - A developer-friendly API that allows you to build AI applications where all user data is kept private and we as the inference provider cannot see any of the prompts. Our SDKs make sure that all relevant security measures are checked for you before even sending a single byte of data. Learn more: - An advanced confidential computing platform we call Tinfoil Containers that allows you to secure any Docker application. We make it easy to deploy your own logic and applications inside secure enclaves and prove to the world what code is running inside. This enables attested workloads and publicly verifiable privacy policies for sensitive applications. Learn more:

Tinfoil의 YC 지원서, 재구성됨

Y Combinator 지원

Tinfoil, Spring 2025 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tinfoil

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Encrypted AI with verifiable privacy

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We provide a platform that makes AI workloads secure and provably private by running them in confidential computing environments on NVIDIA GPUs. Our products include an end-to-end encrypted AI chatbot, a developer API ensuring zero-access inference, and Tinfoil Containers, which secure Docker apps inside attested enclaves. This lets companies prove they can't see user data, even while processing on the cloud.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We all live in San Francisco, CA, and the company remains headquartered here post-YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong ecosystem of security and AI experts, and all founders are here already, making it natural to base the company here.

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Tinfoil의 실제 YC 지원서인가요?

아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 Tinfoil의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. Tinfoil과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.