Winner

Decentriq develops and operates a software platform in the software-as-a-service model that enables companies and organizations to make sensitive information available for collaborative analysis without allowing access to the data, while guaranteeing data protection-compliant use (“sharing without sharing”).

The most valuable data in a company is usually also the most sensitive, such as customer or patient information. In many cases, their value-creating analysis (for example in AI tools) requires multiple parties – often from outside the company – to have access to the data. This entails a wide variety of risks. In addition, this data is usually subject to legal and regulatory requirements.

With its cloud-based data cleanroom, Decentriq offers a secure environment for data in which it can be encrypted and made available to third-party companies for analysis and research purposes.

Processing takes place exclusively on the protected information so that the cooperating companies do not have access to the raw data at any time. The start-up uses confidential computing, a new, highly secure chip and cloud technology from industry giants such as Microsoft, Intel, and AMD.

Decentriq was founded in 2019 by Maximilian Groth (CEO) and Stefan Deml (CTO) and already has an impressive list of customers. For example, the start-up has been involved in a Swiss Armed Forces project to strengthen the critical infrastructures of the Swiss financial center.

The jury of the Pionierpreisjury is convinced that Decentriq will make confidential computing usable in a simple and secure way and will massively facilitate collaboration between different stakeholders with sensitive value-added data.