Corporate Profile: Vaultree
Overview
Vaultree is an award-winning cybersecurity company that pioneered the world?s first "Fully Functional" Data-In-Use Encryption solution. Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, the company was founded in 2020 by Ryan Lasmaili (CEO), Tilo Weigandt (COO), Shaun McBrearty, Kevin Curran, and Maxim Dressler. Vaultree?s mission is to democratize advanced cryptography, ensuring that data privacy is treated as a fundamental human right by making always-encrypted data a standard for global enterprises.
Vaultree has established itself as a leader in Next-Generation Fully Homomorphic Encryption (NG-FHE). By solving the long-standing trade-off between data security and data utility, Vaultree enables organizations?particularly those in highly regulated sectors like finance and healthcare?to process, search, and analyze their most sensitive information without ever decrypting it or surrendering encryption keys to third-party providers or cloud administrators.
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The "Always-Encrypted" Philosophy
Traditional encryption protects data "at rest" (in storage) and "in transit" (moving across networks). However, the "Data-In-Use" gap has historically been the industry's greatest vulnerability: to process or analyze data, it typically must be decrypted, exposing it to memory-based attacks, insider threats, and administrative backdoors.
Vaultree closes this gap with a Zero-Trust architecture where:
* Persistent Encryption: Data is encrypted at the client-side before it ever reaches a server or database.
* Encryption-in-Use: Computations and searches are performed directly on the ciphertext (encrypted data).
* Decentralized Key Management: Encryption keys never leave the customer?s environment, ensuring that even if a server is breached or a provider is subpoenaed, the underlying data remains unreadable.
Products and Services
1. Vaultree Encrypted Data Suite (VEDS)
VEDS is a comprehensive family of cryptographic technologies designed to integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise workflows without requiring changes to data architecture or SQL syntax.
* Encrypted Search SDK: Enables near-real-time searching and filtering of encrypted datasets. It supports complex queries including prefix, wildcard, and phonetic matching, with performance levels comparable to plaintext operations.
* Cryptographic Access Control System (CACS): Shifts access enforcement from administrative policies to mathematical guarantees. Access rules are bound directly into the encryption layer, ensuring only verified participants can view specific records.
* Tamper-Proof Auditing: Every interaction with encrypted data is cryptographically signed, creating immutable logs that align with strict global frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, and FINMA.
2. VENum Stack (Encrypted ML & AI)
In late 2024 and throughout 2025, Vaultree expanded into the frontier of "Private AI" with the launch and open-sourcing of the VENum (Vaultree Encrypted Numbers) stack.
* VENumpy: An internal FHE library that facilitates secure and scalable machine learning operations on encrypted numerical data.
* VENumML: A high-level Python library that allows developers to build and train machine learning models (such as Linear Regression, PageRank, and Transformers) directly on encrypted data.
* Scalable FHE: Vaultree?s breakthrough allows for performing billions of vectorized FHE operations per minute on standard hardware, eliminating the need for expensive, specialized accelerators.
3. Database Integrations
Vaultree offers "Plug & Play" compatibility with major cloud database technologies:
* Google Cloud AlloyDB & SQL: Vaultree is a strategic partner for Google Cloud, providing the first and only in-use encryption solution for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.
* Standard SQL Databases: Seamlessly integrates with existing database engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) without requiring code rewrites or API proxies.
Strategic Market Applications
| Industry | Primary Use Case |
| :--- | :--- |
| Financial Services | Encrypted trade analysis, secure document search in M&A, and fraud detection on encrypted transaction logs. |
| Healthcare | Collaborating on patient genomic data and clinical trials while ensuring "Need-to-Know" compliance by design. |
| Government & Law Enforcement | Using encrypted facial recognition and database cross-referencing to aid investigations without compromising citizen privacy. |
| Energy & Infrastructure | Protecting critical infrastructure software from ransomware and multi-extortion attacks via persistent encryption. |
Recognition and Global Growth
Vaultree is a venture-backed company with over $16 million in funding from investors including Ten Eleven Ventures, Molten Ventures, SentinelOne, and the European Innovation Council (EIC). The company is an alumnus of the Intel Ignite deep-tech accelerator and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
With a dedicated research team of cryptographers and mathematicians, Vaultree holds multiple patents (such as WO-2025186266-A1) regarding the approximation of FHE operations and secure data retrieval. The company has expanded its US presence and continues to scale globally, providing the foundational technology for a future where data breaches and leaks are rendered "powerless and irrelevant" because the stolen data remains permanently encrypted.
Summary
Vaultree is transforming sensitive data from a liability into a strategic advantage. By enabling companies to use their data without ever sacrificing its security, Vaultree provides the "Safe" in which the world's most valuable digital assets can be safely processed. In an era of escalating cyber threats and strict privacy regulations, Vaultree?s always-encrypted approach ensures that data sovereignty is maintained at every stage of the digital lifecycle.
