Anthropic acquires confidential computing startup Opaque Systems
Original title: Anthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque Systems
Opaque’s team is joining Anthropic and winding down the company after a $24 million Series B at a $300 million valuation.
Anthropic has acquired Opaque Systems, which built hardware-backed protection for sensitive data used in AI and later expanded into verifiable AI with cryptographic evidence of what ran and under which policies. Opaque said last week that its team is joining Anthropic. Financial terms were not disclosed. The company began as a UC Berkeley RISELab project and listed Anthropic, ServiceNow and Accenture among customers.
Unconfirmed: Financial terms were not disclosed, and Opaque has not said what the wind-down means for existing customers.
- Opaque raised a $24 million Series B this year at a $300 million valuation.
- Named customers included Anthropic, ServiceNow and Accenture.
- Open work includes Agent Governance Toolkit, TRACE, Confidential MCP and Weight Custody Manifest.
- Founders include Ion Stoica and Raluca Ada Popa; Aaron Fulkerson became CEO in October 2023.
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Organizations
- Opaque SystemsUC Berkeley RISELabServiceNowAccenture
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