London Quantum Group raises $1.2M pre-seed to encrypt health data for AI
What's the deal? London Quantum GroupDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a British startup building privacy technology for health data, has raised more than $1.2 million in a pre-seed round. Long Journey VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → led the deal, backed by investors who participated in the early stages of companies including SpaceXDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Uber.
What's the endgame? Founded last year by chief executive officer Sebastian Kot and chief operating officer Chris Whittle, a National Health ServiceDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → doctor, the company builds data infrastructure that lets highly sensitive clinical records be used for research and AI model training. Its Blind Data Platform analyses and builds models on encrypted data without exposing it to third parties.
Why now? The technology targets one of the central tensions in health AI: unlocking clinical data while keeping sensitive patient information protected. The company will use the funding to accelerate international expansion and strengthen operations.
Where next? Already working with the UK's public health system, the startup is expanding into the US, where it is developing applications such as cancer prediction from electronic medical records.
London Quantum Group was incubated through APOLLO, the acceleration programme run by JUNITECDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → at Lisbon's Instituto Superior TécnicoDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. This year's edition opened for the first time to university startups across Europe, and the company was one of those selected.
The signal: As hospitals and AI developers race to mine clinical records, privacy-preserving infrastructure is emerging as a way to reconcile the promise of the technology with strict controls on patient data.
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