Belfort

Belfort is a hardware-accelerated encrypted computation platform built around Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). It enables organizations to process sensitive data in its encrypted form, meaning the data is never decrypted during computation. The platform combines purpose-built hardware with algorithmic improvements to bring FHE workloads to practical performance levels. The company holds patents on a streaming architecture designed specifically for encrypted computation acceleration. Target use cases include: - National security and government: protecting intelligence and citizen data during processing - Finance: fraud detection, credit assessment, risk management, and compliance on encrypted client data - Healthcare: collaborative diagnostics, genomic analysis, and research without exposing patient data - Crypto and blockchain: confidential smart contracts, payments, and DeFi protocols Belfort's approach positions security as a structural property of the system rather than an add-on layer. The team includes researchers with backgrounds in FHE hardware acceleration from institutions such as KU Leuven, Microsoft Research, Rambus, and Intel, with prior contributions to DARPA's DPRIVE program.