Capital One Software has announced the launch of Databolt Connect at the Databricks Data + AI Summit, introducing a new approach to secure, multi-party data collaboration within the Databricks ecosystem. The application is designed to help organizations safely link and analyze sensitive datasets without exposing raw data, addressing long-standing challenges around compliance, privacy, and cross-organizational data sharing.
Built for deployment within the Databricks Marketplace, Databolt Connect enables privacy-preserving data workflows through tokenization and secure clean room environments. The solution is positioned as a response to increasing demand for governed data collaboration in regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and life sciences.
Databolt Connect is designed to solve a critical enterprise challenge: enabling organizations to collaborate on sensitive data while maintaining strict privacy and regulatory compliance. By operating natively within Databricks environments, the application ensures that raw datasets remain within the customer’s controlled infrastructure.
The solution leverages secure clean rooms and tokenization techniques to allow organizations to connect datasets without exposing underlying sensitive information. This approach supports advanced analytics use cases while reducing risk associated with data sharing.
Industries such as health and life sciences often face strict regulatory constraints that limit how data can be shared. While this data has high value for research and innovation, privacy laws and security risks frequently prevent direct collaboration.
Databolt Connect addresses this issue by enabling organizations to apply customizable de-identification rules, including irreversible tokenization and data generalization. This allows sensitive identifiers to be transformed into secure tokens that can still support record linkage and analysis.
The platform introduces several core capabilities designed for secure, scalable data collaboration:
These capabilities are intended to help enterprises unlock cross-organizational insights while maintaining compliance and security standards.
According to Prashant Prahlad, SVP, Product at Capital One Software:
“Across the board, organizations make impossible tradeoffs across regulatory compliance, security and the sharing data needed to grow their business,” said Prashant Prahlad, SVP, Product, Capital One Software. “By expanding our collaboration capabilities in Databolt and launching it on Databricks Marketplace, we’re enabling organizations to protect sensitive data assets natively within Databricks. This allows our customers to safely unlock the full potential of their data and accelerate collaboration, balancing the drive for innovation with a strong commitment to security and compliance."
The integration with Databricks Marketplace reflects a broader industry shift toward governed data ecosystems that support secure interoperability across enterprises.
The Databolt Connect app is particularly relevant for sectors that handle highly sensitive data, such as healthcare and financial services. By enabling secure clean room collaboration, organizations can conduct joint analysis without sharing raw datasets.
As noted by Stephen Orban, SVP, Product Ecosystem & Partnerships at Databricks:
“Customers consistently ask us for easier, more secure ways to discover, access, and share data and AI assets across their organizations and ecosystems," said Stephen Orban, SVP, Product Ecosystem & Partnerships at Databricks. "By bringing Capital One Software's Databolt Connect app to the Databricks Marketplace, we're helping our joint customers, such as in Health and Life Sciences, collaborate on their data with confidence — accelerating innovation and unlocking more value from their data on an open, governed platform."
Databolt Connect is designed to support secure collaboration use cases across research, analytics, and operational workflows. Organizations can use the platform to link datasets across multiple parties, enabling insights that were previously difficult or impossible due to privacy constraints.
The solution is also positioned to reduce friction in cross-organizational data sharing, allowing enterprises to accelerate research timelines while maintaining strict compliance controls.
The launch is part of broader innovation efforts from Capital One Software, which focuses on helping organizations scale data management and AI adoption. The company leverages its experience in large-scale data systems to build tools aimed at improving security, cost efficiency, and cloud-based data operations.
Capital One Software, the enterprise B2B software business of Capital One, enables organizations to scale their data management capabilities and better harness the power of AI. Backed by 25 years of data innovation, Capital One Software solutions are helping customers overcome key data management challenges in the cloud, including cost performance, infrastructure management and data security. Capital One Software is based in McLean, Virginia, at Capital One's headquarters. To learn more, go to: www.capitalone.com/software
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) is a leading technology-based financial services company with $475.8 billion in deposits and $669.0 billion in total assets as of December 31, 2025. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the company operates as a premier global payments provider and diversified financial institution, delivering a broad suite of products and consumer lifestyle and shopping experiences through its Credit Card, Consumer Banking including its Global Payment Network and Commercial Banking lines of business. As the only major U.S. bank to migrate entirely to the public cloud, Capital One leverages proprietary data and advanced analytics to democratize financial tools across its primary markets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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