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LeapYear Technologies
Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015
LeapYear integrates the latest advances in machine learning and cryptography to protect data in use MoreLess
LeapYear Technologies, acquired by Snowflake in 2023, was a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015. The company specialized in providing a data processing platform that ensures the security of data while it is being used. It achieved this by integrating advancements in machine learning and cryptography, which provided proven assurances of privacy and security for sensitive data. This technology enabled enterprises to securely unlock value from their most sensitive data through privacy-preserving aggregates, analytics, and machine learning.
The company's primary clients were enterprises in data-driven industries that handle sensitive information. Its business model was centered around providing this specialized data security platform to these large organizations. The acquisition by Snowflake, a cloud-based data warehouse company, was aimed at enhancing Snowflake's data clean room capabilities and furthering its mission of mobilizing the world's data, including highly sensitive information, through differential privacy.
Keywords: data security, privacy-preserving, machine learning, cryptography, sensitive data, data analytics, enterprise software, data processing, differential privacy, data clean rooms
Company overview
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- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Employees
- 6
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 61.6
Valuation & funding
LeapYear Technologies funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACQUISITIONOther financing | Feb 2023 | $62M | — | Snowflake | ↗ |
| LATE VCOther financing | Sep 2021 | $15M | $60M | Lightspeed Venture Partners · Bain Capital Ventures · Harpoon | — |
| SERIES BOther financing | May 2019 | $26M | $102M | Lightspeed Venture Partners · Bain Capital Ventures · Nyca Partners · John Thompson | — |
| SERIES AOther financing | Aug 2016 | $13M | $50M | Bain Capital Ventures · Dorm Room Fund · Nyca Partners | — |
| SEEDOther financing | Jan 2016 | $0 | — | Undisclosed | — |
| SPINOUTOther financing | Dec 2015 | University of Pennsylvania | — |
Growth signals
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Latest recorded traffic for LeapYear Technologies is 270 monthly website visits. LeapYear Technologies's team declined 14.3% over the past year.
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