# Cyber Company Profiles: Confident Security

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## At a Glance

- Website: [confident.security](https://confident.security)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/confident-security
- Type: Security for AI, Privacy, Data Security
- Market readiness: Emerging (24/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2024
- Last updated: 2026-07-16

## Executive Summary

Confident Security sells CONFSEC, a service that runs AI models on encrypted prompts so the provider and operator cannot read them, copying the approach Apple built for its own devices. The company is betting that privacy becomes a requirement for AI in healthcare, finance, and government before the cloud platforms and model providers build that privacy in themselves. To get there first, it published its core as an open standard, OpenPCC, an openly licensed specification with a source-available server, so others can adopt it rather than a rival's. Founder Jonathan Mortensen sold two prior companies, and backers include Decibel and Halcyon. But no customer is named yet, only talks with banks and browsers, so the next test is a named deployment a customer will stand behind.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Confident Security offers CONFSEC, an inference API that runs AI models on encrypted prompts and outputs so the model provider and operator cannot read the data, built on its open-source OpenPCC standard. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2024 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, US | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Seed, $5M (2025) | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| CONFSEC | Verifiably-private inference API that keeps prompts, outputs, and logs encrypted and hardware-attested so the operator cannot read them, based on the OpenPCC standard. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runtime AI Data |  |  | ✓ |  |  |  |
| AI Gateways & Routers |  |  | ✓ |  |  |  |

CONFSEC is a verifiably-private inference API that keeps prompts, outputs, and logs confidential through encryption and hardware attestation, routing requests through Oblivious HTTP so the operator cannot read them. These capabilities are mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Emerging (24/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-08. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof | 2/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 2/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-16. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Confident Security homepage (verifiably-private inference API)](https://confident.security) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f2 | [TechCrunch on Confident Security stealth launch (year-old company)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/confident-security-the-signal-for-ai-comes-out-of-stealth-with-4-2m/) | press | 2026-07-03 |
| f3 | [The AI Journal on Confident Security OpenPCC launch (seed funding and team)](https://aijourn.com/confident-security-launches-openpcc-an-open-standard-to-secure-llm-data/) | press | 2026-07-03 |
| f4 | [CONFSEC (AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/confsec) | other | 2026-07-03 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Confident Security homepage (verifiably-private inference API)](https://confident.security) “Verifiably-private Inference API. Develop AI products without worrying about security, privacy, or compliance. We take financial responsibility for any breach or misuse. Based on OpenPCC, the open-source standard that ensures all AI interactions are verifiably-private.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [TechCrunch on Confident Security stealth launch (traction, founding, mechanism)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/confident-security-the-signal-for-ai-comes-out-of-stealth-with-4-2m/) “It's still early days for the year-old company, but Mortensen said CONFSEC has been tested, externally audited, and is production-ready. The team is in talks with banks, browsers, and search engines, among other potential clients, to add CONFSEC to their infrastructure stacks.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [The AI Journal on the OpenPCC launch (seed funding, founder, team)](https://aijourn.com/confident-security-launches-openpcc-an-open-standard-to-secure-llm-data/) “Confident Security raised $5 million in seed funding from Decibel, Ex/Ante, South Park Commons, Halcyon, and SAIF. Mortensen is a two-time founder with prior exits to BlueVoyant and Databricks. The team's background spans Google, Apple, Databricks, Red Hat, and HashiCorp.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [Pulse 2.0 on Confident Security's stealth raise (investors)](https://pulse2.com/confident-security-4-2-million-raised-to-enable-provably-private-ai-interactions/) “launched with $4.2 million in funding from Decibel, South Park Commons, Ex Ante, and Swyx. ... The team, led by two-time founder Jonathan Mortensen, comprises experts ... including Google, Apple, and Johns Hopkins.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [OpenPCC open-source repository (open, auditable framework)](https://github.com/openpcc/openpcc) “OpenPCC is an open-source framework for provably private AI inference, inspired by Apple's Private Cloud Compute, fully open, auditable, and deployable on your own infrastructure. It enforces privacy with encrypted streaming, hardware attestation, and unlinkable requests.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Confident Security pricing (per-token, 2x market rate)](https://confident.security/pricing) “Beyond compliant AI for just 2x market rate. Mistral 7B $0.25 per 1M input tokens, $0.25 per 1M output tokens. Llama 4 Scout 16x17B $0.36 per 1M input tokens, $1.18 per 1M output tokens. Last updated July 9th, 2025.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [Confident Security compliance page (probed trust surface, guarantees framing)](https://confident.security/compliance) “Why pay for promises when you can have absolute guarantees? Your data are guaranteed to never be used in training AI models, never be shared with a third party. ... HIPAA Compliant AI. PCI DSS Compliant AI. GDPR Compliant AI. SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant AI.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | [CONFSEC in the AI Defense Matrix Catalog (matrix coverage)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/confsec) “Keeps prompts, outputs, and logs confidential through encryption and attestation, so prompts are never logged, retained, used for training, or sent to third parties. Routing requests through Oblivious HTTP so operators cannot link or read individual requests.” | other | 2026-07-03 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Confident Security homepage (verifiably-private inference API)](https://confident.security) “Verifiably-private Inference API. Develop AI products without worrying about security, privacy, or compliance. We take financial responsibility for any breach or misuse. Based on OpenPCC, the open-source standard that ensures all AI interactions are verifiably-private.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [TechCrunch on Confident Security stealth launch (traction, mechanism, founding)](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/confident-security-the-signal-for-ai-comes-out-of-stealth-with-4-2m/) “It's still early days for the year-old company, but Mortensen said CONFSEC has been tested, externally audited, and is production-ready. The team is in talks with banks, browsers, and search engines, among other potential clients, to add CONFSEC to their infrastructure stacks.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [The AI Journal on the OpenPCC launch (funding, founder, team, components)](https://aijourn.com/confident-security-launches-openpcc-an-open-standard-to-secure-llm-data/) “Confident Security raised $5 million in seed funding from Decibel, Ex/Ante, South Park Commons, Halcyon, and SAIF. Mortensen is a two-time founder with prior exits to BlueVoyant and Databricks. The team's background spans Google, Apple, Databricks, Red Hat, and HashiCorp.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [Pulse 2.0 on Confident Security's stealth raise (investors, founder, team)](https://pulse2.com/confident-security-4-2-million-raised-to-enable-provably-private-ai-interactions/) “launched with $4.2 million in funding from Decibel, South Park Commons, Ex Ante, and Swyx. ... The team, led by two-time founder Jonathan Mortensen, comprises experts ... including Google, Apple, and Johns Hopkins.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [OpenPCC open-source repository (open, auditable framework)](https://github.com/openpcc/openpcc) “OpenPCC is an open-source framework for provably private AI inference, inspired by Apple's Private Cloud Compute, fully open, auditable, and deployable on your own infrastructure. It enforces privacy with encrypted streaming, hardware attestation, and unlinkable requests.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Confident Security pricing (per-token, 2x market rate)](https://confident.security/pricing) “Beyond compliant AI for just 2x market rate. Mistral 7B $0.25 per 1M input tokens, $0.25 per 1M output tokens. Llama 4 Scout 16x17B $0.36 per 1M input tokens, $1.18 per 1M output tokens. Last updated July 9th, 2025.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [Confident Security compliance page (probed trust surface, guarantees framing)](https://confident.security/compliance) “Why pay for promises when you can have absolute guarantees? Your data are guaranteed to never be used in training AI models, never be shared with a third party. ... HIPAA Compliant AI. PCI DSS Compliant AI. GDPR Compliant AI. SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant AI.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | [CONFSEC in the AI Defense Matrix Catalog (matrix coverage)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/confsec) “Keeps prompts, outputs, and logs confidential through encryption and attestation, so prompts are never logged, retained, used for training, or sent to third parties. Routing requests through Oblivious HTTP so operators cannot link or read individual requests.” | other | 2026-07-03 |

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