# Protegrity

> Protegrity sells enterprise software that discovers and protects sensitive data with tokenization, encryption, masking and centralized access policies. Its customers use protected information across databases, cloud analytics and AI workflows; its current range spans AI Developer, Team and Enterprise editions.

- **Founded:** 1996
- **Headquarters:** Stamford, United States
- **Founders:** Ulf Dahl (Founding developer; early privacy technology originator), Ulf Mattsson (Technical co-founder and former CTO)
- **Products:** Protegrity Data Security Platform, AI Developer Edition, AI Team Edition, AI Enterprise Edition, Professional services and training
- **Notable:** An unnamed credit reporting agency selected Protegrity to satisfy an approximately 300 million tokens-per-minute requirement and PCI requirements for a Visa project, according to its published case study., Albertsons used Protegrity and Denodo to support protected public-cloud analytics., Former CEO Paul Mountford reported more than 150 patents and EBITDA-positive, operationally self-funded status in July 2024; these were management statements at that date.

## Products & services

- **Protegrity Data Security Platform** — Centralized policy management and distributed field-level protection using tokenization, encryption and masking across applications, databases, cloud and legacy environments.
- **AI Developer Edition** — Free containerized sandbox and SDKs for prototyping discovery, protection, semantic guardrails, anonymization and synthetic data workflows.
- **AI Team Edition** — Team and departmental protection for AI pipelines and agent workflows; announced as a technology preview in November 2025 and further announced in April 2026.
- **AI Enterprise Edition** — Enterprise policy management, integration coverage, key-management options and deployment support for AI, analytics and hybrid environments.
- **Professional services and training** — Implementation assistance, deployment support and product training for enterprise customers.

## Achievements

- An unnamed credit reporting agency selected Protegrity to satisfy an approximately 300 million tokens-per-minute requirement and PCI requirements for a Visa project, according to its published case study.
- Albertsons used Protegrity and Denodo to support protected public-cloud analytics.
- Former CEO Paul Mountford reported more than 150 patents and EBITDA-positive, operationally self-funded status in July 2024; these were management statements at that date.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — September 29 commentary discussed sensitive data and the obstacles between AI pilots and production.
- **2026-09** — September 21 news highlighted AI governance and protection within developer workflows.
- **2026-09** — September 16 PodMagic discussion covered retail AI and agentic workflow protection.
- **2026-04** — April 16 announcement positioned AI Team Edition around secure inferencing and semantic encryption; claims remain company positioning.

## Links

- Website: https://www.protegrity.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/protegrity/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/protegrity
- GitHub: https://github.com/Protegrity-AI-Developer-Edition
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEvfydmEjdcDo4AM3l3s5-w
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ProtegrityUSA/

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Last updated: 2026-10-02