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World-leading R&D impacts all of our products
World-leading researchers
Partisia is a pioneer in the commercial use of advanced cryptography like MPC and blockchain technologies. Our team of world-leading researchers and experts ensures the shortest path from the design of cryptographic protocols to commercially viable software solutions.
From launching the world’s first large-scale commercial use of MPC to advancing secure key management and combining distributed ledger and MPC technologies, Partisia has consistently delivered breakthrough innovations that shape the future of secure digital infrastructure. Explore our journey, the research behind it, and how these efforts continue to power the next generation of privacy-first platforms.
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Partisia has been pioneering zero-knowledge computation since 2008 with the first large-scale and commercial use of MPC documented in the landmark paper “MPC goes live”.
Partisia also pioneered MPC based key management that was moved to a separate spin-out in 2013 and exited in 2022. Partisia is currently pioneering the merger of distributed ledger and MPC technologies to tackle the pressing requirements facing all basic digital infrastructures.
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The historical R&D efforts include all aspects from designing better protocols, implementing these protocols and bringing them to real life use.
Since the first real use of MPC, the Partisia team has been behind a large part of the R&D efforts that have reduced the computational overhead to less than 1/1.000.000. The unique innovative ledger based platform curates efficient execution of MPC while securing transparency as a regulatory feature required for building trust.
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Partisia has participated in numerous public and private funded R&D projects from broad large scale projects with many partners to focused projects with few participants.
The many R&D projects have contributed to the design of better protocols and platforms to commercially maturing products.
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Ongoing projects
Dive into our Ongoing projects section to stay updated on the latest initiatives at Partisia. Explore how our team is leveraging innovative technologies like Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to drive forward-thinking solutions in data privacy and security.
Access QKD
Total grant: DKK 25,9 millions, Grand Solution grant from Innovation Fund Denmark
Total Budget: DKK 33,3 millions
Period: 2025-2028
Partners: DTU, Aarhus Universitet, GlobalConnect, Celare Quantum Communications, Polytechnic University of Bari and Partisia.
Description: The goal of the project is to develop, test, and validate a scalable Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure communication.
The solution will be implemented and tested in existing fiber optic telecom infrastructure like Danish Quantum Communication Infrastructure (QCI.DK).
Partisia’s primary focus: Improving, maturing and testing Partisia’s secure distributed QKD solution.
The consortium includes the best knowledge in the field and all relevant partners covering all aspects of a quantum communication supply chain.
OSCAR - Data Research Analysis Machine (DREAM)
Total grant: DKK 18,7 millions, Grand Solution grant from Innovation Fund Denmark
Total Budget: DKK 28.3 millions
Period: 2024-2026
Partners: Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet), Data Fair, Veil.ai, Inversion, Partisia
Description: OSCAR DREAM is an extension of the OSCAR project. The project will develop solutions supporting the vision that Denmark can become one large phase 4 study, where data and insight from patients treated today will help tomorrow’s patients and increase the competitiveness of the Life Science industry.
Partisia’s primary focus: Improving and maturing the “Virtual Public Register platform” as a tailored Confidential Computing product.
NEDO 2025 challenge with Softbank
Period: 2025 - 2026
Partners: Softbank, Keio University and other partners
Description: As part of the NEDO challenge in Japan, we work with partners on two subprojects for the next-gen practical use of quantum computation:
- Enhancing security through MPC in quantum federated learning
- Next generation quantum security service stack covering everything from Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Key Distribution, Quantum Signatures, Multi-Party Computations applied for quantum computation a.o..
The end goal of the project is to use Multi-Party Computation to calculate confidential data in a Quantum Federated Learning environment. This guarantees that multiple parties are able to confidentially share and calculate together using quantum computers in collaboration with classical computing power.
CRANE
Total grant: EUR 2 millions
Total Budget: EUR 2 millions
Period: 2023-2024
Partners: Data for Good Foundation, Tech4Care, Cardiolyse, Meteda SRL and Partisia
Description: Pre-procurement project that test services seeking to maximize the potential of data to target a wide-ranging treatment of chronic diseases in the rural areas. Partisia’s primary focus: Improving and maturing the Data for Good platform as a tailored My Data Activation product.
OSCAR - One stop shop for clinical research
Total grant: DKK 24,5 millions, Grand Solution grant from Innovation Fund Denmark
Total budget: DKK 79 millions
Period: 2020-2024
Partners: Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet), Roche, Amgros, Data Fair, A-Evidence, Enversion, DPO Management and Partisia
Description: OSCAR design and develop a one stop shop for clinical research while focusing on precision medicine based on 2000 cancer patients.
Partisia’s primary focus: Improving and maturing the “Virtual Public Register platform” as a tailored Confidential Computing product.
CareMatrix
Total grant: EUR 1,4 millions
Total budget: EUR 1,4 millions
Period: 2023-2024
Partners: Data for Good Foundation, Tech4Care, miThings, Vademecum
Description: Pre-procurement project that test services aiming to improve the way that People with Multimorbidity experience their care in the health sector.
Partisia’s primary focus: Improving and maturing the Data for Good platform as a tailored My Data Activation product.
OSCAR DREAM is an extension of the OSCAR project. The project will develop solutions supporting the vision that Denmark can become one large phase 4 study, where data and insight from patients treated today will help tomorrow’s patients and increase the competitiveness of the Life Science industry.
BCM - Center for Blockchain and Electronic Markets
Total grant: DKK 17,2 million, Semper Ardens Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation
Total budget: DKK 17,2 million.
Period: 2019-2024
Partners: University of Copenhagen, University of Aarhus and Partisia (associated member)
Advisors: Herve Moulin (University of Glasgow), Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University), Rann Canetti (Tel Aviv University), Ueli Maurer (ETH Zurich) and Sarah Meicklejohn (UCL)
Description: The center explores the new Web 3.0 infrastructure and study design of secure and economically sound markets that ensure efficiency and fairness in a new decentralised economy.
Partisia’s primary focus: Develop and test DeFi models and fee distribution among node operators
DIREC - Digital Research Centre Denmark
Total grant: DKK 100 millions
Total budget: DKK 275 millions
Period: 2020-2025
Partners: 230+ researchers, 55+ private and public organizations.
Description: The nationwide research center focusing on green transition, future work, cybersecurity and digital health.
Partisia’s primary focus: Work with experts in AI to develop the next generation of privacy-preserving AI solutions.
High Assurance Software - High assurance cryptographic software and smart contracts
Total grant: DKK 0,536 million from Digital Lead and Copenhagen Fintech
Total budget: DKK 0,995 million
Period: 2023-2024
Partners: Aarhus University, Concordium Research, Cryspen, Partisia
Description: Research and developing high assurance cryptographic software and smart contracts.
Partisia’s primary focus: Develop smart contracts based on the principles of high assurance software.
Selected past projects
Discover the insights gained from our Past Projects section, where we reflect on the successful endeavors that have shaped Partisia’s journey.
Secure IoT Analytics powered by MPC and Network Coding
Total grant: DKK 300k grant from the Danish Hub of Cyber Security
Total budget: DKK 370k
Period: 2021-2022
Partners: Aarhus University, Chocolate Cloud, Partisia
Description: Describing and commercially validating how Chocolate Cloud’s approach to optimize data storage can be merged with MPC and the Partisia Platform to develop a new type of secure distributed storage for IoT.
Partisia’s primary focus: To map the future required R&D effort and assess the commercial value.
BIS - Better Internet Search (KIN)
Total grant: EUR 150k granted via EU’s Next Generation Internet initiative
Total budget: EUR 225k.
Period: 2020-2021
Partners: Better Internet Search (now Kin) and Partisia
Description: Develop a beta version of the ad-free Better Internet Search searching machine that is 100% privacy-preserving and allows the users to fully control their private data.
Partisia’s primary focus: To show how the Partisia Blockchain is the ideal foundation for Better Internet Search (now live on the network as KIN).
P2DEX - Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Exchanges
Total grant: DKK 200K from Copenhagen Fintech
Total Budget: DKK 444K
Period: 2022
Partners: IT University of Copenhagen, Monaco Foundry Global SA and Partisia
Description: Building regulatory compliant privacy-preserving DeFi solutions.
Partisia’s primary focus: Develop privacy-preserving Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
HedaX - Health Data Exchange
Total grant: DKK 16 millions, Grand Solution grant from Innovation Fund Denmark
**Total budget:**DKK 27 millions
Period: 2020-2023
Partners: Data Fair, Data for Good Foundation, The Alexandra Institute, Statistics Denmark, Monsenso, Cancer Denmark, Lundbeck, Aarhus University, Capital Region, DPO Management and Partisia.
Description: Partisia’s primary focus: Develop and operate public-private privacy-preserving data exchange and applications.
Blockdap
Total grant: DKK 5 millions, grant from the Danish Industry Foundation
Total budget: DKK 6,8 millions
Period: 2019-2021
Partners: The Alexandra Institute, the Data for Good Foundation, Data Fair, Vital Beats, Open Telehealth and Partisia
Description: Partisia’s primary focus: Developing the initial version of the privacy-preserving data exchange and applications
BDbS - Big Data by Security
Total grant: DKK 7,6 millions from the Danish Industry Foundation
Total budget: DKK 7,6 millionsPeriod: 2015-2018
Partners: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, The Alexandra Institute, Lendino, Denmark Statistics, Copenhagen Fintech and Partisia.
Description: Researching and developing privacy-preserving statistics for finance and energy.
Partisia’s primary focus: Develop software for crowd lending and benchmarking of energy consumption in collaboration industry partners and Denmark Statistics.
KMaaS - Key Management as-a-Service
Total grant: DKK 17 millions, EU grant from H2020 SME instrument phase II
Total budget: DKK 19 millions
Period: 2023-2024
Partners: Sepior (Partisia Spinout) and pilot customers Penneo, Rushfiles and Partisia
Description: Commercialise advanced MPC based key management.
Partisia’s primary focus: Appling MPC based key management to market and data applications
CFEM - Center for the Foundation of Electronic Markets
Total grant: DKK 26,5 million, grant from the Danish Council for Strategic Research
Total budget: DKK 50 million.
Period: 2010-2016
Partners: Aarhus University, Copenhagen Business School, University of Copenhagen, Alexandra Institute, Energinet.dk, Dong Energy, Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, Trade Extensions, Innovations, Partisia
Advisors: David Parkes (Harvard), Jason Hartline (Northwestern University, Herve Moulin (Rice), Ronald Cramer (CWI), Morten Lau (Durban University), Daniel Monte (Simon Fraser University), Rene Kirkegaard (University of Guelph)
Description: CFEM focused on three scientific areas that were essential to the design and implementation of electronic markets: Game Theory and Mechanism Design, Operation Research and Algorithms and Cryptography.
Partisia’s primary focus: Developed selected advance market solutions such as combinatorial auctions for gas storage.
Practice - Privacy-preserving computation in the Cloud
Total grant: DKK 56,5 millions, EU grant from EU’s FP7 program
Total budget: DKK 78 millions
Period: 2013-2016
Partners: SAP, INTEL, ARCELIK, AARHUS UNIVERSITET, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADT, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, ALEXANDRA INSTITUTTET, BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY, CYBERNETICA, JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET WUERZBURG, KU LEUVEN, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, , DISTRETTO TECNOLOGICO AEROSPAZIALE, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO, Georg-August-Universitaet, TECHNIKON FORSCHUNGS- UND PLANUNGSGESELLSCHAFT, Partisia
Description: R&D in MPC based Cloud Computing
Partisia’s primary focus: Develop MPC cloud based statistics and market solutions
COBE - Confidential Benchmarking
Period: 2010-2013
Partners: Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, Danish Shipowners, Finansforbundet, Maersk, Bankdata
Description: Research and develop MPC protocols for confidential benchmarking
Partisia’s primary focus: Develop confidential benchmarking applied to shipping and finance.
White papers
More than 1050 papers and 63.000 citations.
Our research stands as a testament to our commitment to advancing knowledge and innovation. Explore the depth of our contributions and the impact we’ve made in shaping the future of technology and beyond.
Ivan Damgård
Chief Cryptographer, Partner
Papers: 334 Citations: 30.061
Jesper Buus Nielsen
Chief Cryptographic System Designer, Partner
Papers: 113 Citations: 9.805
Claudio Orlandi
Chief Cryptographic Protocol Designer, Partner
Papers: 85 Citations: 4.906
Carsten Baum
Scientific Consultant on MPC and Blockchain
Papers: 42 Citations: 1.970
Peter Bogetoft
Chief Economist, Partner
Papers: 301 Citations: 8.037
Kurt Nielsen
Chief Executive Officer, Partner
Papers: 91 Citations: 1.732
Jakob Pagter
Vice President Multi-Party Computation, Partner
Papers: 27 Citations: 1.398
Tomas Toft
Senior Software Developer, Partner
Papers: 35 Citations: 3.883
Thomas Jacobsen
Senior Software Developer, Partner
Papers: 22 Citations: 1.436
Hamid Khoshakhlagh
Industrial Postdoc working for Partisia on ZK Proofs and Roll-ups among other things. Papers: 5 Citations: 210
Explore our R&D areas
Discover how our cutting-edge technologies, including Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), are reshaping data privacy and security paradigms. Dive deep into our R&D efforts and stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving landscape of secure computation.
Artificial Intelligence
Data is the oil and although large language models trained on publicly available data are very popular some of the more important problems require data that are proprietary and something highly confidential and regulated.
Quantum Computing
We provide and continuously extend a quantum-proof platform for secure use of quantum computing. It is paramount for us to ensure that the Partisia Platform remains quantum proof unlike most of the currently applied cryptography.
Why work with Partisia?
Partisia was founded in 2008 by global pioneers within Multi-Party Computation and advanced cryptography. While our core mission is to integrate Privacy Enhancing Technologies with the aim of improving decision-making and product development, we also pride ourselves on being one of the best in the industry.
We are an innovative software company and a trusted partner empowering companies to operate and compute encrypted data. Providing a platform where data from individuals, governments and private companies are able to stay encrypted and protected, and still fully enabled, creating the perfect balance between transparency and privacy. Choose Partisia and get a partner based on expertise and know-how, but most importantly trust.
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