Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Founded in 1990 in Berkeley, California, Intertrust Technologies began as a research effort to create distributed operating systems that could secure and govern data over open networks. The company filed what it describes as a foundational patent on trusted distributed computing, establishing its intellectual property roots. Intertrust now sells three primary product lines: Intertrust Connect for connecting energy assets at scale for AI, Intertrust Flexworks for flexibility program valuation and optimization, and Intertrust PKI for custom IoT device and server certificates. Its solutions target connected energy (DER orchestration and flexibility), IT/OT convergence, digital identity management, and virtual secure rooms. The company serves media companies (rights and revenue infrastructure) and energy firms, with clients described as "the world's leading brands." Intertrust maintains offices in Berkeley, Tallinn, Mumbai, Beijing, Los Angeles, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, London, Madrid, Paris, and Taipei. Intertrust does not publicly disclose AUM, principals, or professional headcount. The firm states its mission is "to make the Internet trusted" and claims its technology is "trusted by the world's leading brands." A May 2026 news item on the company blog discusses virtual power plants and grid security, and in February 2026 Intertrust announced a partnership with Kinergy to deliver a secure, standards-based virtual power plant for distributed energy resources (per Intertrust, February 2026). Intertrust's structural differentiator is its dual identity as a product company and standards pioneer — it sells commercial software but also participates in open standards bodies, positioning itself as an infrastructure layer for trust rather than an application-layer vendor.