Enigmata raises $6.5M to run AI without exposing plaintext
Scott Searle's Enigmata, founded in 2024, says Cipher keeps enterprise data encrypted during training, search and analytics; Blockchange Ventures led the seed.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: PR Newswire
Why it matters
Enterprises have large stores of regulated and proprietary data that AI teams cannot safely move into ordinary model pipelines. Enigmata's bet is that cryptography can remove that bottleneck without imposing the performance penalties that have limited encrypted computation, but its internal benchmarks and security model still need external proof.

Enigmata co-founder and CEO Scott Searle is building a cryptographic layer for AI systems working with sensitive enterprise data. On September 10th, Enigmata emerged from stealth with a $6.5 million seed round led by Blockchange Ventures and a product designed to let enterprises train models, search documents and analyze records without exposing the underlying plaintext.…
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