Who leads security at SandboxAQ

What the company sells

SandboxAQ is a science-first technology company that connects AI and Quantum techniques across pharma, energy, defense, and other markets. SandboxAQ was spun out of Alphabet in 2022. REAQT is an LQM-powered AI platform from SandboxAQ that serves multiple verticals.

SandboxAQ offers three ways to access and deploy its LQMs. One way connects SandboxAQ's LQMs to an existing chat LLM or cloud environment via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Customers can deploy SandboxAQ LQMs within their own operational environment, fine-tune models on their proprietary data, and access dozens of specialized modules. SandboxAQ offers long-term, shared-risk engagements with milestone-based alignment. SandboxAQ provides pay-as-you-go access options for individuals and enterprises. AQCat Adsorption Spin is available via LLM integration and can be accessed via any MCP client.

SandboxAQ says most organizations lack real-time visibility and control over where cryptography is used, where it's vulnerable, and how to fix it fast. AQtive Guard gives security teams insight into cryptographic assets and NHIs, then automates remediation. AQtive Guard works across existing infrastructure and cloud environments. AQtive Guard discovers and monitors cryptographic assets and NHIs across hybrid environments. AQtive Guard detects and remediates weak, expired, or non-compliant keys, certs, and algorithms. AQtive Guard automates lifecycle management including credential rotation and certificate renewal. AQtive Guard includes post-quantum cryptography support, and its stated uses include compliance with FIPS 140-2, PCI DSS, NIST, and custom policies.

Sandwich is an open source, unified API for cryptographic libraries, built for developers. Sandwich supports the languages C++, Rust, Python, and Go and the cryptographic libraries OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and libOQS, to enable post-quantum as well as classical cryptography. Sandwich composes the chosen protocol and implementation into a Sandwich object, such as a secure tunnel. The protocols and implementations available at runtime depend on the choices made when compiling the Sandwich library. Sandwich gives developers the ability to change configurations without having to re-compile their code.

AQBioSim enables biopharma teams to model interactions, predict outcomes, and optimize drug candidates in silico. AQChemSim uses LQMs to predict how molecules, materials, and industrial systems behave under real-world conditions. AQCat is a machine learning interatomic potential trained on 13.5 million quantum chemistry calculations across 47,000 catalyst systems. AQCat Adsorption Spin predicts spin-polarized adsorption energies and converged geometries on catalytic surfaces. AQCat Dispersion expands catalyst modeling to large molecules, including C5+ fuels and plastics precursors. AQPotency is a Large Quantitative Model for potency prediction and virtual screening that ranks protein-ligand pairs by predicted binding strength (pIC50) without requiring a 3D crystal structure of the target. AQADME is an ADME and pharmacokinetic property-prediction model for candidate molecules.

AQNav is designed to be compliant with MOSA standards. SandboxAQ characterizes and evaluates sensors for AQNav across performance, environmental, and integration criteria. CardiAQ combines advanced magnetic sensing, AI-powered Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), and electromagnetic interference rejection. CardiAQ is an investigational device. AQMed has partnerships with academic medical centers, including Mount Sinai and Mayo Clinic.

SandboxAQ worked with NOVONIX on predicting lithium-ion battery end-of-life with LQMs. SandboxAQ partnered with AWS, Intel, and Accenture on a near-exact simulation of PFAS bond-breaking chemistry across more than one million vCPUs. SandboxAQ collaborated with DIC and AWS on a simulation of an organometallic catalyst. SandboxAQ has a dedicated biopharma team combining expertise in computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, biology, bioinformatics, AI, and software engineering.^{[1][4][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Categories

• Post-quantum cryptography (primary category)
• Machine identity and PKI
• Encryption, tokenization and key management
• Compare SandboxAQ with companies in the same categoryside by side

Headquarters

Palo Alto, United States^[3]

Founded

Not established from our sources

Ownership

Privately held^[2][5][6]

CISO on record

Not yet on our record. Send a verified source

Website

sandboxaq.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• AQtive Guard^[1][5]

  AQtive Guard gives security teams insight into cryptographic assets and NHIs, then automates remediation.

  AQtive Guard gives security teams insight into cryptographic assets and NHIs, then automates remediation. AQtive Guard discovers and monitors cryptographic assets and NHIs across hybrid environments. AQtive Guard automates lifecycle management including credential rotation and certificate renewal.

• Sandwich^[7]

  Sandwich is an open source, unified API for cryptographic libraries, built for developers.

  Sandwich is an open source, unified API for cryptographic libraries, built for developers. Sandwich supports the languages C++, Rust, Python, and Go and the cryptographic libraries OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and libOQS, to enable post-quantum as well as classical cryptography. Sandwich composes the chosen protocol and implementation into a Sandwich object, such as a secure tunnel. Sandwich gives developers the ability to change configurations without having to re-compile their code.

• Large Quantitative Models^[4][5][11]

  SandboxAQ offers three ways to access and deploy its LQMs.

  SandboxAQ offers three ways to access and deploy its LQMs. One way connects SandboxAQ's LQMs to an existing chat LLM or cloud environment via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Customers can deploy SandboxAQ LQMs within their own operational environment and fine-tune models on their proprietary data. SandboxAQ provides pay-as-you-go access options for individuals and enterprises.

• AQCat Adsorption Spin^[8]

  AQCat Adsorption Spin predicts spin-polarized adsorption energies and converged geometries on catalytic surfaces.

  AQCat Adsorption Spin predicts spin-polarized adsorption energies and converged geometries on catalytic surfaces. AQCat Adsorption Spin is available via LLM integration and can be accessed via any MCP client.

• AQPotency^[10]

  AQPotency is a Large Quantitative Model for potency prediction and virtual screening.

• AQBioSim^[5]

  AQBioSim enables biopharma teams to model interactions, predict outcomes, and optimize drug candidates in silico.

• CardiAQ^[11]

  CardiAQ combines advanced magnetic sensing, AI-powered Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), and electromagnetic interference rejection.

  CardiAQ combines advanced magnetic sensing, AI-powered Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), and electromagnetic interference rejection. CardiAQ is an investigational device.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of SandboxAQ's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On post-quantum cryptography, SandboxAQ competes with EigenQ, CryptoNext Security, IDEMIA, PQShield, QuSecure, Patero, CyberTrust Consulting, DigiCert, Fortanix, SSH Communications Security and 3 more.

• On machine identity and pki, SandboxAQ competes with DigiCert, Entrust, Keyfactor, Sectigo, EigenQ, Akeyless, CyberTrust Consulting, HID, Indusface, Infisical and 1 more.

• On encryption, tokenization and key management, SandboxAQ competes with Fortanix, Thales, Baffle, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Protegrity, Skyflow, StratoKey, Virtru, EigenQ, Akeyless and 9 more.

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

1. [1]Aqtive guardSandboxAQ · sandboxaq.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]Sandboxaq closes 450m series e round with expanded investor baseSandboxAQ · sandboxaq.com · published April 4, 2025 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]What is sandboxaqSandboxAQ · sandboxaq.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]Transforming the World with AI and Advanced Computing | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]Large Quantitative Models | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]Pricing | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]Sandwich - Agile Cryptography for Developers | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
8. [8]Material Discovery | Turn complex materials discovery into faster decisions | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]AQNav | Positional intelligence in GPS-denied environments | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]LQM Models | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
11. [11]AQMed | CardiAQ Magnetocardiography for Cardiac DiagnosticsSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
12. [12]AI Drug Discovery Platform | Computational Chemistry LQMs | SandboxAQSandboxAQ · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified November 2, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 10, 2026 from the references above.

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