
Bitfount is a federated AI and data science platform that enables organizations to collaborate on sensitive data without moving it. It focuses on privacy-first data collaboration, allowing users to deploy AI across clinical trials and other sectors while ensuring data remains secure. The platform supports various industries, including life sciences, financial services, and academic research, and aims to make data interactable without compromising privacy. With a strong emphasis on compliance and security, Bitfount is positioned to revolutionize data collaboration in the B2B data economy.

Bitfount is a federated AI and data science platform that enables organizations to collaborate on sensitive data without moving it. It focuses on privacy-first data collaboration, allowing users to deploy AI across clinical trials and other sectors while ensuring data remains secure. The platform supports various industries, including life sciences, financial services, and academic research, and aims to make data interactable without compromising privacy. With a strong emphasis on compliance and security, Bitfount is positioned to revolutionize data collaboration in the B2B data economy.
Core offering: Federated AI and data science platform for privacy-preserving analytics (send algorithms to data)
Primary markets: Clinical research, life sciences, regulated environments
Founders / leadership: Blaise Thomson (CEO) and Naaman Tammuz (CPO)
Headcount: ~30 employees
Recent financing: Series A $8.0M (Jul 2025); total funding reported $13.0M
Privacy-preserving data collaboration and federated machine learning for regulated industries
2020
Healthtech / Data privacy / Federated AI
$5,000,000
Seed round announced by company
$8,000,000
Series A named investors include Parkwalk Advisors, Portfolio Ventures, Pace Ventures, Foresight Group, Ahren Innovation Capital
“Backed by institutional investors including Parkwalk Advisors, Foresight Group, Portfolio Ventures, Pace Ventures and Ahren Innovation Capital”
Company Name: Bitfount
Location: London
Employment Type: Full-time
Location Type: Hybrid
Department: Engineering
£80K – £100K (Offers Equity)
At Bitfount, our goal is to connect owners of sensitive data with AI model developers and those who need insights from that sensitive data. We are currently focused on applying our platform to the problem of clinical trial recruitment in the healthcare and life sciences space. Our mission is to enable privacy-preserving collaboration between healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies, which will streamline the process of finding patients and ensuring critical medicines make it through trials efficiently.
Longer term, we are building a secure network that allows organizations to send algorithms to data, enabling data owners to share the benefits of their data without compromising privacy or exposing raw data.
Learn more about how we work at bitfount.com/company/careers.
Job Title: Software Engineer (Data)
Location: London
Employment Type: Full-time
Location Type: Hybrid
Department: Engineering
Bitfount is looking for a motivated, experienced Data or Software Engineer to join our team, focusing on our desktop application’s ML capabilities. The application allows users to deploy, use, and build ML models collaboratively while performing data analytics in a privacy-preserving manner. The workload runs on the user’s hardware, presenting unique challenges in flexibility and robustness.
Bitfount is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity status, or disability status. All successful applicants will be subject to a DBS reference check in line with industry norms.