Name

EP3 Foundation

Legal name

EP3 Foundation

Website

https://ep3foundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Privacy Infrastructure Network

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Privacy, Data Protection & Compliance (zk compliance, GDPR/PII handling) (FSAPAJAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Quantum Cloud Security, Identity & Compliance (HDAGAIAF)

Keywords

• Privacy infrastructure
• Data compliance certification
• Health information exchange
• Trust networks
• Accelerator programs

Headquarters

HQ city

San Jose

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Self-funding Network Model: The network is designed to be crowdsourced, self-funding, and self-organizing. Four mechanisms reinforce each other: self-organizing adoption through incentive-aligned participation; crowdsourced launch work via QPN Catalyst where contributors earn QP Rewards; low-cost capability building through reuse of existing infrastructure and contracts; and connection to QPIIN and QP Meta Fund for investor capital through financial instruments backed by token pools.
2. Accelerator Token Allocations: Each EP3-managed shared Accelerator allocates 20% to its Incentive & Investment Pool, which rewards verified enablement and activation. Participants can earn allocations of network tokens when settlement activates.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

EP3 Foundation operates a platform-plus-accelerators architecture centered on the Quantum Privacy Network (QPN). Its QPN Accelerators are rule-based coordination environments that overlay existing organizational systems, compliance frameworks, AI systems, and enterprise relationships into shared, self-funding networks governed by the Unified Trust Model. QPN Catalyst captures contributions via email CC, links them into contribution graphs, and rewards participants with Exchange Token allocations, enabling organizations to pool data, content, software, and infrastructure at zero marginal cost while preserving privacy and continuous regulatory compliance.

Product overview

EP3 Foundation operates a platform-plus-accelerators architecture centered on the Quantum Privacy Network (QPN). The core infrastructure consists of QPN Accelerators—formally Quantum Privacy Accelerators (QPAs)—which are rule-based coordination environments that overlay existing organizational systems to create interoperable Exchange Networks governed by the Unified Trust Model (UTM). The QPN Catalyst serves as the attribution and reward mechanism that tracks contributions and allocates Exchange Tokens. Eight vertical accelerators deploy this infrastructure across specific domains: Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator unifies Hawaii's healthcare ecosystem with AI-optimized care delivery and population health analytics; Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator provides the foundational privacy technology and Privacy Network Exchange; Sustainable Markets enables nature-based asset tokenization and climate resilience; Agentic Finance & Commerce powers privacy-preserving AI agents for financial services; Proof of Trust Accreditation offers continuous compliance certification; Education & Workforce Development provides AI tutoring and portable credentials; Healing Fields brings privacy-preserving healthcare to rural India; and Online Child Safety enables anonymous age verification and parental consent. All accelerators share the same Privacy Network architecture—built on Quantum Privacy Cells and EasyAccess—enabling them to pool resources and reuse infrastructure at zero marginal cost.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• QPN Accelerators (Quantum Privacy Accelerators) Rule-based coordination environments curated by EP3 Foundation that transform existing organizational infrastructure, compliance frameworks, AI systems, and enterprise relationships into interoperable Exchange Networks and shared Resource Pools governed by the Unified Trust Model. Sold to enterprises and institutions that join as Affiliates or Members to participate in one of the eight vertical Accelerators.
• QPN Catalyst Contribution attribution and reward mechanism that captures introductions, meetings, referrals, partnerships, and advocacy via email CC (no signup required), links them into contribution graphs, and allocates Exchange Token ownership when settlement activates. Available to any individual or organization whose work builds the Quantum Privacy Network.
• Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator Privacy-preserving, AI-optimized marketplace unifying Hawaii's healthcare ecosystem — care delivery, payments, public health, patient safety, and clinical research. Capabilities include value-based health, care coordination, population health analytics, prior authorization support, observational research, clinical research matching, telehealth, remote care, and behavioral health. For healthcare providers, payers, public health agencies, and clinical research institutions.
• Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator Cross-cutting accelerator advancing the core privacy technology combining Quantum Privacy, Proof of Trust, and Unified Trust Model into a secure foundation for AI and data sharing with a Privacy Network Exchange operating at zero marginal cost. Incubates ventures that don't fit a single industry vertical. For AI, quantum, and privacy-tech organizations.
• Sustainable Markets Accelerator Privacy-preserving infrastructure for ecosystems, communities, and capital markets enabling nature-based data standardization, personal and enterprise privacy networks, and self-funding climate resilience through asset tokenization. For conservation projects, climate initiatives, environmental organizations, and capital markets participants.
• Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator Privacy-preserving, AI-powered financial services where Personal AI Networks enable AI agents to act on behalf of individuals across global distribution, omnichannel payments, and anonymous tracking of resource contributions. For banks, payment processors, financial services providers, and fintech innovators.
• Proof of Trust Accreditation / Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) Independent certification framework providing verifiable certification that participating systems meet privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance standards continuously rather than just at onboarding, with frameworks aligned to HIPAA, GDPR, the 21st Century Cures Act, and TEFCA. For healthcare, finance, and other regulated organizations.
• Education & Workforce Development Accelerator Privacy-preserving personalized education and portable workforce credentials enabling AI tutoring without surveillance, verifiable professional credentials that travel across borders, and cross-organization training intelligence. For educational institutions, edtech companies, credential issuers, and workforce development organizations.
• Healing Fields Accelerator Privacy-preserving healthcare infrastructure for rural India, partnering with 8,000+ Community Health Entrepreneurs serving 10 million people, enabling population health research without compromising individual privacy. For NGOs, public health programs, and rural healthcare providers.
• Online Child Safety Accelerator Infrastructure for anonymous age verification, privacy-preserving parental consent, and AI safety monitoring enabling online child safety without creating surveillance systems or collecting new personal data. For social media platforms, app stores, and online services needing to comply with child online safety laws.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8,000+ Community Health Entrepreneurs serving 10 million people across 8,000 villages
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

45 partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Healing Fields FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealing Fields Foundation (HFF) is an Ashoka Fellow-led NGO founded by Mukti Bosco, recipient of the 2022 Roux Prize. HFF trains rural women as Community Health Entrepreneurs (CHEs) bringing healthcare to 10 million people across 8,000 villages in 10 Indian states. EP3's privacy infrastructure protects health data while unlocking potential for research and coordinated care.
• WebShieldcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWebShield is the co-managing member of Quantum Privacy LLC alongside EP3 Foundation. WebShield's patented technology provides the Quantum Privacy foundation for the QPN Architecture. Jonathan Hare is CEO of WebShield and co-founder of EP3 Foundation.
• QPN CatalystcoreTechnology or IntegrationQPN Catalyst is how contribution becomes ownership in the network. Contributions are captured, attributed, and turned into durable ownership through Exchange Tokens. QPN Catalyst links contributions into contribution graphs by causal chains.
• MillimancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMilliman is a featured affiliate providing solutions for healthcare, insurance, and financial services. Contributes to multiple accelerators including Lōkahi Healthcare, Quantum Privacy & AI, and Sustainable Markets.
• ICON PlccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClinical research organization and featured affiliate contributing to Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator and Proof of Trust Accreditation. Adam Halbridge built and led Clinical Trial Tokenization operations at ICON.
• Tempus AIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAI-enabled precision medicine company and featured affiliate contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator and Proof of Trust Accreditation. Sanjay Juneja serves as VP of Clinical AI Operations at Tempus.
• Palm Global Tech (TEAL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTEAL is an ecological and fintech platform powering the Kayan Project. TEAL's innovations include AI and satellite-driven ecosystem verification, blockchain-based asset tokenization, SEC-compliant digital credit markets, and revenue-sharing models returning 70% of proceeds to communities.
• LabLab.aicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal community of 250,000+ AI builders managing the inaugural Lōkahi Healthcare Hackathon and providing direct pipeline for workforce development in privacy-preserving AI.
• UBIX LabscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBusiness-led AI transformation on a data intelligence platform. Miles Mahoney serves as President & Co-Founder, contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator.
• Hawaii SHPDAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHawaii State Health Planning & Development Agency is spearheading the Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator alongside EP3 Foundation with support from Governor Josh Green and the legislature.
• Safe HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare technology company providing connected diagnostics platform contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator. Nada Milosavljevic serves as Chief Medical Officer.
• Safety Net ConnectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCare coordination technology company and featured affiliate contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator. Chris Cruttenden serves as President.
• New NativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmpowering the AI-Native Economy with multiple team members contributing across accelerators including Simon Olson (CEO and Co-Founder) and Pawel Czech (Co-Founder).
• NADPHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Alliance against Disparities in Patient Health - Nonprofit Academic Research Network focused on reducing health disparities. Dr. Alex J. Carlisle serves as Chairman and CEO.
• Center on Media & Child HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch center at Boston Children's Hospital focused on positive digital media experiences for young people. Dr. Michael Rich serves as Founder and Director, contributing to Online Child Safety and Education & Workforce Development Accelerators.
• Digital Wellness LabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit research center at Boston Children's Hospital seeking to understand and promote healthy digital media experiences. Dr. David Bickham serves as Research Director, contributing to Online Child Safety Accelerator.
• University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical school contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator and Online Child Safety. Thomas Sam Shomaker serves as Dean.
• Compliant MindssupportingTechnology or IntegrationFeatured affiliate providing secure and adaptable information sharing environments, contributing to multiple accelerators.
• HederasupportingTechnology or IntegrationDistributed ledger technology provider enabling seamless tokenization of real-world and digital assets at scale.
• SenzingsupportingTechnology or IntegrationEntity resolution software and featured affiliate contributing smart data matching capabilities.
• CENTRLsupportingTechnology or IntegrationAI-powered third party risk and diligence solutions. Sanjeev Dheer serves as CEO & Founder, contributing to Proof of Trust Accreditation.
• DirectTrustsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablishes trust in a connected world to improve patient care. Lee Barrett serves as Commission Executive Director.
• PrivosupportingTechnology or IntegrationChildren's online privacy expert and technology provider. Denise Tayloe serves as CEO & Co-Founder, contributing expertise to Online Child Safety Accelerator.
• Code.orgsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducational technology nonprofit providing generative AI curriculum, contributing to Education & Workforce Development Accelerator.
• ProNatura InternationalsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerApplied sustainable economy organization and featured affiliate. Marcelo de Andre serves as Chairman, contributing to Sustainable Markets and other accelerators.
• E.O. Wilson Biodiversity FoundationsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerBiodiversity foundation creating enduring resilience for nature and people. Paula Ehlrich serves as President & CEO, contributing to Sustainable Markets Accelerator.
• Global Footprint NetworksupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdvancing the science of sustainability through ecological footprint measurement. Mathis Wackernagel serves as Co-Founder, contributing to Sustainable Markets Accelerator.
• FinayasupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerHomeownership marketplace and fintech affiliate. Naren Nath serves as CEO & Founder, contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator.
• Military ConnectsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerVeteran-focused services affiliate. Kevin Sullivan serves as President & Founder, contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator.
• Eureka.aisupportingTechnology or IntegrationActionable market and risk intelligence from population scale data. Benjamin Soemartopo serves as CEO & Founder, contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator.
• Galatea BiosupportingTechnology or IntegrationPrecision health at scale for all. Prof. Carlos Bustamante serves as CEO, contributing to Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator.
• AcoersupportingTechnology or IntegrationHealth data technology making data connected, usable, and cryptographically authentic. Jim Nasr serves as CEO & Founder.
• hiive healthsupportingTechnology or IntegrationClinical workflows technology affiliate. Jesse O'Gorman serves as CEO, contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator.
• Global Grid for Learning (GG4L)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdTech data privacy platform connecting educational applications without risking student data, contributing to Education & Workforce Development Accelerator.
• CodeXsupportingTechnology or IntegrationHealthcare data standards community focused on bringing standards to healthcare data so patients have the care and research journey they deserve.
• Cambridge Frontier Technology LabssupportingTechnology or IntegrationFrontier technology lab contributing to Online Child Safety Accelerator. Simran Chana serves as Executive Director.
• QuantropisupportingTechnology or IntegrationQuantum security technology provider contributing to Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator.
• QusidesupportingTechnology or IntegrationRandomness foundation technology provider contributing to Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator. David Worrall serves as Founder and Technical Advisor.
• SureMark DigitalsupportingTechnology or IntegrationIdentity-based deepfake protection technology provider. Steve Lund serves as contributor, contributing to multiple accelerators.
• Ticket FairysupportingTechnology or IntegrationEvent technology platform contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator. Ritesh Patel serves as CEO & Co-Founder.
• RazorMetricssupportingTechnology or IntegrationDrug spend optimization technology contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator. Tom C. Dorsett serves as CEO.
• MetaPausesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerWomen's health marketplace contributing to Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator. Lauren Weiniger serves as Founder & CEO.
• TealsupportingTechnology or IntegrationDatafying, valuing, and productizing nature-based assets contributing to Sustainable Markets Accelerator.
• CureMatch / CureMetrixsupportingTechnology or IntegrationPrecision medicine and cancer treatment technology. Navid Alipour serves as CEO & Founder, contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator.
• VPCa Veterans Prostate Cancer AwarenesssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerVeterans prostate cancer awareness nonprofit contributing to Lōkahi Healthcare Accelerator. Michael Crosby serves as Founder & CEO.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Duality Technologies: Privacy-enhancing technology using homomorphic encryption and federated learning for sensitive data collaboration. Directly comparable to EP3's cross-vertical privacy-preserving computation, particularly in healthcare and life sciences use cases.
• TripleBlind: Privacy-preserving AI/ML platform built on cryptographic and statistical techniques. Directly comparable to EP3's Quantum Privacy & AI Accelerator, where privacy-preserving computation is the core capability enabling cross-organization training and inference.
• Datavant: Healthcare-focused data connectivity and de-identification platform. Directly comparable because it operates privacy-preserving infrastructure to enable cross-organization health data sharing, the same problem EP3 solves in its Lōkahi and Healing Fields accelerators.
• HealthVerity: Privacy-safe healthcare data ecosystem for providers, payers, and life sciences. Closely comparable because it operates a privacy-preserving data exchange with governance and consent layers, analogous to EP3's Proof of Trust and Unified Trust Model applied to clinical and population health.
• Ocean Protocol: Privacy-preserving data exchange using blockchain-based access control and tokenized incentives. Comparable to EP3's QPN Catalyst, which similarly couples privacy infrastructure with token-based contribution attribution.
• Skyflow: Privacy data vault that protects sensitive personal and health data through tokenization and policy. Directly comparable to EP3's Quantum Privacy Cells and EasyAccess, which similarly wrap regulated data in privacy primitives usable across organizations.
• Enveil: Privacy-preserving computation for financial services, including secure search and analytics over encrypted data. Comparable to EP3's Agentic Finance & Commerce Accelerator, where privacy-preserving AI agents act on financial data without exposing it.
• Informatica (Privitar): Enterprise data privacy and de-identification platform with policy-based tokenization. Comparable to EP3's privacy-network primitives for regulated data sharing, especially in financial services and healthcare.

Others

• Hedera: Enterprise distributed ledger provider and EP3 partner, enabling tokenization of real-world and digital assets at scale. Comparable as an enabling infrastructure layer that EP3's QPN Catalyst and Sustainable Markets accelerator build on for asset tokenization.

Broad incumbents

• Consensys: Large blockchain infrastructure and privacy technology builder (Ethereum, MetaMask, zk-related tooling). Comparable to EP3 because it offers broader portfolio-level privacy and compliance tooling across multiple industries, though not specialized to EP3's non-profit healthcare and sustainability focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

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