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Xata Built a Database. Then It Built the Escape Hatch.
After selling developers a friendlier database, Xata discovered the sharper problem: engineers and AI agents need real data they can safely break. Its second act is a bet on cheap, disposable Postgres branches.
David Lazerson
David Lazerson is the co-founder and CEO of Briya, a healthcare technology company that connects hospitals, research institutions, and life sciences organizations so they can share de-identified, real-world patient data securely and in compliance with U.S. and European privacy rules. A physicist and cognitive scientist by training and a former Israeli military cyber operations officer, Lazerson built Briya on cryptography, federated learning, and zero-knowledge proofs, and in 2025 launched Briya AIRE, a clinical-grade AI research assistant that lets researchers ask questions in plain language instead of writing code.
Integral Privacy Technologies
Integral is a privacy engineering company that turns sensitive real-world data - starting with HIPAA-regulated healthcare records - into compliant, AI-ready datasets. Founded in 2022 by Shubh Sinha and John Kuhn, it pairs automated de-identification and continuous risk assessment with embedded statisticians and privacy engineers (its Forward Deployed Privacy Services) so enterprises and AI labs can use regulated data quickly without violating privacy law. The company positions itself as an independent privacy layer for the real-world data economy and has raised roughly $24.9M to date, including an $18M Series A closed in July 2026.
Omnisient - Collaborative Consumer Intelligence
Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration company that lets banks, insurers, retailers and consumer brands analyze their first-party data together without ever sharing or exposing it. Using privacy enhancing technologies, US-patented Crypto-IDs and AI-powered data clean rooms, the platform matches mutual customers across datasets so lenders can score credit-invisible and thin-file consumers using alternative behavioral data - all while personal information never leaves the owner's environment. Founded in Cape Town and now expanding into the United States, the company protects hundreds of millions of consumer records for more than 100 enterprises.