Apheris
About
Apheris is a Berlin-based deep tech company founded in 2019, focusing on privacy-preserving data collaboration. It enables enterprises in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare to analyze and train machine learning models on distributed datasets without centralizing sensitive data. The company combines federated learning, decentralized computing, and cryptographic technologies to maintain data control and comply with privacy regulations. Apheris's flagship product, the Apheris Compute Gateway, facilitates federated machine learning and analytics, allowing for privacy-preserving computations locally. Key features include secure analytics requests, collaborative model training for drug discovery, and support for multi-modal healthcare data networks. The platform serves as a technology layer for networks like the Artificial Intelligence Structural Biology Network and the ADMET Network. Apheris collaborates with major global life sciences and biopharma organizations, including AbbVie, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. The company is committed to fostering new data-driven business models while protecting intellectual property and enhancing the accuracy of AI-driven drug discovery.