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Modelyo vs SandboxAQ

Modelyo sells a cryptographically isolated cloud environment in which customer data, applications, AI workloads and keys remain under customer control, even on infrastructure the customer does not own. SandboxAQ is a science-first technology company that connects AI and Quantum techniques across pharma, energy, defense, and other markets. CISO Tribune files both under Encryption, tokenization and key management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Modelyo vs SandboxAQ: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ModelyoModelyo sells a cryptographically isolated cloud environment in which customer data, applications, AI workloads and keys remain under customer control, even on infrastructure the customer does not own.modelyo.comSandboxAQSandboxAQ is a science-first technology company that connects AI and Quantum techniques across pharma, energy, defense, and other markets.sandboxaq.com
What it sells
  • Sovereign cloud[1][3][4]A cryptographically isolated cloud environment for customer data, applications, AI workloads and keys.
  • Confidential AI[1][4][6]Runs inference, agents and AI workloads inside hardware-protected environments, keeping sensitive data, models and weights under customer control.
  • AQtive Guard[1][5]AQtive Guard gives security teams insight into cryptographic assets and NHIs, then automates remediation.
  • Sandwich[7]Sandwich is an open source, unified API for cryptographic libraries, built for developers.
  • Large Quantitative Models[4][5][11]SandboxAQ offers three ways to access and deploy its LQMs.
  • AQCat Adsorption Spin[8]AQCat Adsorption Spin predicts spin-polarized adsorption energies and converged geometries on catalytic surfaces.
  • 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.
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Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesPalo Alto, United States[3]
Founded
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Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesPrivately held[2][5][6]
Named customers
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Recent news
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Who it fits
Modelyo describes these buyers as held back from the cloud by the question of who else can see the data. One kind of customer Modelyo describes is a regional bank that needed to run core transaction processing on public cloud infrastructure. Modelyo deploys across hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clouds and on-prem environments.From its own pages, SandboxAQ sells to organizations across pharma, energy, defense, and other markets. AQtive Guard is aimed at security teams working with cryptographic assets and NHIs. Sandwich is aimed at developers, as an open source API for cryptographic libraries. AQBioSim is aimed at biopharma teams that model interactions and optimize drug candidates. SandboxAQ provides pay-as-you-go access options for individuals and enterprises.
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October 23, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Modelyo and SandboxAQ are both filed under Encryption, tokenization and key management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Modelyo's primary category is Cloud workload protection; SandboxAQ's is Post-quantum cryptography.
  • SandboxAQ is also filed under Machine identity and PKI.
  • Modelyo lists Sovereign cloud and Confidential AI. SandboxAQ lists AQtive Guard, Sandwich, Large Quantitative Models, AQCat Adsorption Spin, AQPotency and 2 more.
  • SandboxAQ is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.
  • SandboxAQ is privately held.

What it sells: Modelyo

What Sovereign cloud does[1][3][4]
Kubernetes, databases, AI, storage and development tools inherit the same confidential protection from the moment they are deployed. Nodes, control plane, secrets, keys, storage and workloads operate inside the same confidential architecture. Modelyo deploys across hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clouds and on-prem environments.
What Confidential AI does[1][4][6]
Data stays encrypted while at rest, in transit and while in use by AI. Each agent tool call and retrieval is checked against keys only the customer holds. Modelyo is built to support confidential AI infrastructure, from H100 and H200 through Blackwell and Vera Rubin.

What it sells: SandboxAQ

What AQtive Guard does[1][5]
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.
What Sandwich does[7]
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.
What Large Quantitative Models does[4][5][11]
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.
What AQCat Adsorption Spin does[8]
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.
What CardiAQ does[11]
CardiAQ combines advanced magnetic sensing, AI-powered Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), and electromagnetic interference rejection. CardiAQ is an investigational device.

Questions about Modelyo and SandboxAQ

What do Modelyo and SandboxAQ sell?
Modelyo sells Sovereign cloud and Confidential AI. SandboxAQ sells AQtive Guard, Sandwich, Large Quantitative Models, AQCat Adsorption Spin, AQPotency and 2 more.
Are Modelyo and SandboxAQ in the same category?
They share Encryption, tokenization and key management. Modelyo's primary category is Cloud workload protection and SandboxAQ's is Post-quantum cryptography.
Where are Modelyo and SandboxAQ headquartered?
SandboxAQ is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States.
Who owns Modelyo and SandboxAQ?
SandboxAQ is privately held.
Who are Modelyo and SandboxAQ sold to?
Modelyo describes these buyers as held back from the cloud by the question of who else can see the data. From its own pages, SandboxAQ sells to organizations across pharma, energy, defense, and other markets.

About Modelyo

Modelyo sells a cryptographically isolated cloud environment in which customer data, applications, AI workloads and keys remain under customer control, even on infrastructure the customer does not own. Modelyo provides a mesh of confidential managed services that inherit the same security and trust architecture from the start. Modelyo is a confidential layer that runs on the cloud customers already use.[1][3][4][5]

Modelyo creates a hardware-rooted trust layer that keeps workloads isolated from infrastructure operators and Modelyo itself. Neither the cloud provider nor Modelyo can see inside the infrastructure that runs a customer's workloads. Modelyo isolates infrastructure and workloads from the cloud provider and verifies them cryptographically before they are trusted. Modelyo continuously verifies infrastructure and workloads against trusted policies, and changes in integrity or trust state are detected and handled automatically. Modelyo checks each workload every 60 seconds and moves it automatically if anything looks off. Intel SGX, TDX and NVIDIA H100 are used so that Modelyo operators cannot access customer data.[1][3][4][5]

Modelyo ties access to sensitive data and services to verified environments, so neither the cloud provider nor Modelyo becomes part of the customer's trust model. Modelyo keeps data protected at rest, in transit, and while it is being processed. Modelyo produces cryptographic proof and audit evidence of exactly what ran and on what data. Enterprise customers of Modelyo get a named technical contact and 24/7 support for production issues.[3][5][6]

Kubernetes, databases, storage, networking, and managed services operate together within the same confidential trust architecture at Modelyo. Kubernetes, databases, AI, storage, and development tools all inherit the same confidential protection from the moment they are deployed. Nodes, control plane, secrets, keys, storage, and workloads operate inside the same confidential architecture. Teams deploy pods, services, and workloads on Modelyo using the Kubernetes tools and workflows they already use. Modelyo delivers familiar databases, messaging, search, APIs, and developer services as confidential managed services. Customers can launch PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis on Modelyo with compute, storage, networking, and keys protected as one environment. Modelyo also lists Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, API gateways, container registries, and observability tools among the services deployed inside the confidential workspace.[3][4]

Modelyo supports data environments with object storage, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and supporting services integrated inside the same confidential architecture. On Modelyo, customers hold the keys to S3-compatible object storage, shared file stores over NFS, persistent Kubernetes volumes, and encrypted backups.[3]

Modelyo runs inference, agents, and AI workloads inside hardware-protected environments while keeping sensitive data, models, and weights under customer control. Modelyo runs inference, RAG, vector databases, data processing, and AI applications while keeping sensitive data protected during processing. For agents, Modelyo keeps prompts, memory, and reasoning traces sealed even during active use. Modelyo checks each agent tool call and retrieval against keys only the customer holds. Modelyo checks each RAG lookup against the customer's keys, the same as every model call. Modelyo traces every answer to the model and dataset that produced it.[3][4][6]

Modelyo deploys across hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clouds, and on-prem environments across Intel, AMD, Arm, and NVIDIA architectures. Modelyo is built to support confidential AI infrastructure, from H100 and H200 through Blackwell and Vera Rubin, including Arm CCA-based environments. Modelyo provisions the confidential hardware from the cloud provider's own fleet. Customers deploy Modelyo with the Kubernetes tools and workflows their teams already use, and connect their identity provider and existing tools. Modelyo deployments start with a technical deep dive and a guided first workload. Because Modelyo runs across hyperscalers, neoclouds and on-prem environments, the same confidential environment can be deployed in more than one place for resilience.[1][3][4][5]

Modelyo describes customer stories of regulated enterprises, government, and defence teams running sensitive workloads on Modelyo. In one story, a regional bank needed to run core transaction processing on public cloud infrastructure, but internal compliance and its regulator required on-prem-level data control. At that bank, Kubernetes, the transaction database, and the analytics pipeline all moved inside a single hardware-enforced perimeter, with encryption keys held exclusively by the bank's own HSM. In another story, a government department needed the compute of a public cloud for a classified analytics programme. That programme was deployed inside a Modelyo confidential environment spanning two cloud regions. In a third story, a healthcare provider wanted to run AI models over patient records, but the models lived with a third-party vendor. In that story, inference runs on confidential H100 compute inside a Modelyo environment.[1][2][3][5][6][7][10]

Modelyo on the record

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Modelyo full record

  1. [1]modelyo.comModelyo · modelyo.com · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]PrivacyModelyo · modelyo.com · published September 24, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Cloud — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Modelyo — Trust engineered into the cloud you already useModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]What we do — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Confidential AI — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Customer stories — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]How a regulated bank moved core workloads to the cloud without moving risk — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Processing classified data on public cloud infrastructure, provably — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Confidential AI inference on patient data, without a single plaintext copy — ModelyoModelyo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

SandboxAQ full record

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

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