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Blind Insight

Techstars '24

Venice, US · Founded 2022 · 14 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

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Blind Insight develops a privacy-preserving data platform using searchable encryption and access controls for organizations that require both data security and insights. The platform is designed for use in the AI era.

Also known as Blind Insight

Founders & leadership

Blind Insight was founded in 2022 by Jackie Peters, Jathan McCollum, and Nick Sullivan.

JPJackie Peters
Jackie PetersFounder & CEOJackie Peters is founder and CEO of Blind Insight, which develops a privacy-preserving data platform using searchable encryption for organizations. Peters has worked in technology strategy for over two decades and has contributed commentary on AI and enterprise data to publications including Newsweek and the International Business Times.
JMJathan McCollum
Jathan McCollumCo-FounderJathan McCollum is a software engineer with over 30 years of experience in security, infrastructure automation, and distributed systems. He co-founded Blind Insight, building an end-to-end encrypted data platform, and has contributed to open source infrastructure tools including Nautobot, NSoT, and Trigger.
NSNick Sullivan
Nick SullivanCo-FounderNick Sullivan is a former Apple software engineer who founded Cloudflare Research, a hybrid research organization focused on internet security. He has published research in top-tier journals, contributed to cryptography and security media, and serves in advisory roles for cryptography standards and research organizations.

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Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Blind Insight offers an "encryption-in-use" data platform that lets organizations run queries, analytics, machine learning and LLM inference directly against encrypted records, so that data is never decrypted on the company's infrastructure or inside a model. Data is encrypted at the source — on the customer's machine, in their pipeline, or at the SDK boundary — and Blind Insight states it holds no encryption keys; results return encrypted and are decrypted only where the customer's keys reside. Keys are derived from a seed held by the customer.

The platform is built around real-time searchable encryption supporting equality, range, aggregate (sum, avg, count, min, max) and fuzzy-match operations on encrypted fields, plus field-level access grants checked at every query and decrypt, proxy-backed key segregation for cross-border data residency, and an immutable cryptographically signed audit trail of every query, grant and decrypt. Two product layers sit on top: Blind(L)LM, which translates prompts into encrypted queries or model runs, assigns an agent the minimum key set and revokes access at session end; and BlindML, which trains Naive Bayes, decision tree and logistic regression models on aggregate counts derived from encrypted data and supports bring-your-own scikit-learn models.

The company positions the platform as database-agnostic, wrapping existing stacks such as PostgreSQL and Snowflake without migration or re-architecture, and lists integrations spanning cloud platforms, data warehouses, BI tools, healthcare standards (Epic, HL7 FHIR) and financial systems. It cites SOC 2 Type 2 certification and alignment with DORA Article 9(2), GDPR, HIPAA and FIPS 140-3 (AES-GCM-256, NIST-validated).

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Key figures

latest reported
HeadcountAug 202614

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Blind Insight went on to found or lead other companies.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Blind Insight do?
Blind Insight runs queries, analytics, ML training and LLM inference directly on encrypted data without decryption.
Who founded Blind Insight?
Blind Insight was founded by Jackie Peters, Jathan McCollum, Nick Sullivan in 2022.
Who are Blind Insight's investors?
Blind Insight's investors include Altari Ventures, Responsibly Ventures, Techstars, Women's Equity Lab.
Where is Blind Insight headquartered?
Blind Insight is headquartered in Venice, US.