Dutch scale-up Roseman Labs specializes in Multi-Party Computation, an encryption technology that allows encoded data to be shared and analyzed without the raw data being directly accessible. Customers include the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), university hospitals, the Dutch government and financial institutions.
“Roseman Labs is on a mission to unlock the power of sensitive data for societal good, while protecting individual privacy, data sovereignty and intellectual property,” says Freya de Mink, Roseman Labs’ head of business development
In the cyber security sphere Roseman Labs helped the Dutch government’s National Cyber Security Centre launch a data sharing network called SecureNed with 5000 members, including law enforcement and about 100 corporates. The idea is to enable confidential and protected information sharing about ransomware attacks without revealing publicly identifiable information, with an eye towards enabling participants to take proactive measures to mitigate damage. SecureNed enables collaboration between NCSC, Cyberveilig Nederland, the police, and the Public Prosecution Service, helping map the ransomware threat in the Netherlands. This review -the first of its kind- provided new insights into the scope of the problem. What’s more it provided a way for corporates to opt to be linked to others who had undergone similar attacks so they could collaborate in fighting bad actors. And in late 2023 it helped Dutch cyber experts from government and business in dismantling part of a malicious cyber network called Qakbot, which affected 700,000 computers.
The Dutch scale-up’s data platform is based on one type of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). PETs was recognized in the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 report, co-published by the World Economic Forum and the scientific publisher Frontiers, as a transformative innovation poised to significantly influence society and address critical global issues. (See The Innovator’s story about privacy enhancing technologies that helps corporates, governments and organizations safely and privately share data.)
Roseman Labs data platform is also being used to enable secure collaboration between financial institutions to fight against money laundering via a partnership announced in May with Spotixx, a fintech in AI-powered financial crime detection.
Healthcare is another area being targeted by Roseman Labs. In a partnership with UMC Utrecht and other hospitals, in the Netherlands Roseman Labs has helped develop a solution to the challenge of linking sensitive data about child abuse discovered during patient exams in hospital emergency rooms. The solution allows the sharing of pseudonymized patient-level data to gather insights about abused children and improve the overall quality of care across hospitals in the network. While providing the option to link and analyze data on a granular level, the platform only shares results in the form of de-identified or aggregated datasets.
The Dutch startup’s mantra is the future of AI in healthcare is about creating an interconnected, privacy-first ecosystem where insights can be shared securely to drive better patient outcomes. AI alone isn’t enough, says the company. True transformation happens when AI and privacy-preserving technologies work together, enabling secure, data-driven innovation without compromising trust.
Roseman Labs says its technology will help enable:
- Hospitals to collaborate across institutions and borders without violating privacy regulations or exposing proprietary data.
- The entire healthcare ecosystem to access real-world data insights while keeping patient records confidential.
- AI-powered systems to operate with full transparency and compliance, ensuring data remains protected at all times.
A new law in the Netherlands advocating data sharing and the European Health Data Space Regulation (EHDS) which entered into force on 26 March this year are expected to accelerate uptake.
The EHDS regulation aims to establish a common framework for the use and exchange of electronic health data across the EU. It aims to enhance individuals’ access to and control over their personal electronic health data, while also enabling certain data to be reused for public interest, policy support, and scientific research purposes. The goal is to foster a health-specific data environment that supports a single market for digital health services and products by establish a harmonized legal and technical framework for electronic health record systems.
Local government is also starting to benefit from the application of Roseman Labs’s privacy preserving technology for different use cases.
For example, the Municipality of Rotterdam tackles developmental delay in infants before they start going to school, by analyzing and matching data from preschool organizations and the Centre for Youth and Family. The city has a statutory duty to ensure sufficient pre-school provision across the city for toddlers with (a risk of) a language and/or developmental delay. The Centre for Youth and Family (CJG) determines whether a toddler belongs to this target group based on established criteria. Childcare organizations in Rotterdam receive a subsidy from the municipality for the implementation of the preschool programs. Both the CJG and the childcare organizations provide data to the municipality for the purpose of monitoring how many toddlers have participated in a preschool program and which have not. By linking and analyzing the data, the municipality gains insight into whether there is sufficient supply in the various areas and districts of Rotterdam. Where this is not the case, the municipality carries out targeted interventions to increase the reach.
Before using the Roseman Labs platform, the entire process from data collection to analysis was carried out manually. Data was collected from various sources and analyzed, first determining which data points corresponded to each other. The process took an average of three to four months and was only carried out once a year. This meant that it took almost a year and a half before action could be taken based on the insights gained, too late for the city to intervene effectively with the toddlers lagging behind.
The privacy-enhanced solution now enables more than 100 childcare organizations to securely collaborate and retrieve insights each month, while safeguarding toddlers’ privacy. The monitor – powered by the Roseman Labs platform—earned the city of Rotterdam first prize in the Netherlands’ 2025 National Privacy Awards.
The Dutch scale-up was founded in March 2020 by Toon Segers, Roderick Rodenburg and Niek Bouman, three friends with combined expertise in data collaboration platforms and cryptography. The company has raised a total of €4.4 million euros from angel investors and venture capitalists and plans to expand internationally.
Competitors include Duality Tech, Enveil and Tune Insight. Roseman Labs says its differentiators are “industry-leading computational performance on massive datasets, support for training AI models on encrypted data, and a rich, out-of-the-box analytics toolkit for data scientists.”
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