Obsidian Labs
Confidential compute infrastructure for regulated industries.
Overview
Obsidian Labs lets banks, insurers, and health systems run workloads on shared infrastructure without ever exposing plaintext data, using hardware-backed enclaves and verifiable attestation.
Obsidian Labs applied three weeks after the founders left their previous employer, before the company had a name. They were approved in two days, which is roughly how long it took them to decide on one.
What Stackpass unlocked
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Bare-metal and enclave-capable compute
Confidential computing needs specific, expensive hardware. The infrastructure track covered it while the company was still four people.
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Security review before the first customer
Mentors from the security track ran an architecture review that a regulated buyer would later ask for verbatim.
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A pre-seed round without a warm network
Two founders new to fundraising, six curated introductions, and a round closed in under two months.