
Onai Inc. is a technology company specializing in advanced artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptography, and distributed computation. Their business model includes providing AI and cryptographic technologies to enable secure, decentralized collaboration and computation across industries such as healthcare and government. Key products and initiatives include secure cross-institutional AI model training, encrypted data querying, and blockchain protocols. Onai has demonstrated traction through projects with government agencies like DARPA, NASA, NSF, and collaborations with leading healthcare institutions. Their technology emphasizes privacy-preserving AI, secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, and formal methods for code correctness, positioning them as a pioneer in next-generation decentralized computation and data security.

Onai Inc. is a technology company specializing in advanced artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptography, and distributed computation. Their business model includes providing AI and cryptographic technologies to enable secure, decentralized collaboration and computation across industries such as healthcare and government. Key products and initiatives include secure cross-institutional AI model training, encrypted data querying, and blockchain protocols. Onai has demonstrated traction through projects with government agencies like DARPA, NASA, NSF, and collaborations with leading healthcare institutions. Their technology emphasizes privacy-preserving AI, secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, and formal methods for code correctness, positioning them as a pioneer in next-generation decentralized computation and data security.
Founded: 2013
Headquarters: San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area
Core tech: Privacy-preserving AI, secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption
Founder / CEO: Guha Jayachandran
Reported headcount: 11–50 employees
Privacy-preserving AI, secure decentralized computation, and data security for regulated sectors (e.g., healthcare, government).
2013
Software / Artificial Intelligence / Cryptography
Seed round recorded on May 18, 2018