Silence Laboratories Raises $6M for Cryptographic Security
Silence Laboratories has raised $6 million in total funding to build cryptographic infrastructure that secures sensitive data against current and future threats.
What it does
The Palo Alto-based startup replaces traditional legal contracts and third-party intermediaries with mathematical guarantees. Its platform lets organisations jointly compute on encrypted data without ever revealing the underlying raw inputs to each other or to any central party.
Founded by Jay Prakash, Andrei Bytes, and Tony Quek, the company combines Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) into a single Cryptographic Computing Virtual Machine (CCVM).
The system runs without specialised hardware. It currently serves around 35 clients across banking, fintech, and digital assets, and is pushing into post-quantum cryptography to defend against the code-breaking potential of future quantum computers.
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Why it matters
As enterprises adopt AI, their data sharing requirements multiply across platforms, geographies, and third parties. Every handoff creates a point of trust that legal contracts are meant to manage but cannot technically enforce.
Silence Laboratories collapses that trust requirement into verifiable cryptography, which shifts risk from institutional reputation to mathematical proof.
For a global bank or digital asset custodian operating across the India-Gulf corridor and beyond, infrastructure that eliminates raw data exposure during joint operations means faster due diligence, lower compliance friction, and a meaningful hardening against the quantum era most regulators are only beginning to face.
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