Proton Meet allows anyone to instantly create an encrypted video call, without requiring a Proton account to host or join a call, ensuring accessibility and privacy without compromise.
Today, Proton, the Swiss company behind well-known privacy and security services such as Proton Mail and Proton VPN announced the launch of Proton Workspace, a suite of business productivity tools to compete with widely used offerings from Google and Microsoft. While Proton, like Google, started as a consumer company and has attracted over 100 million users looking for an alternative to the Google ecosystem, it has also been successful at attracting businesses. Today, Proton counts over 100’000 enterprise customers spread across its ecosystems of products which today includes Proton Mail, Calendar, Drive/Docs/Sheets, VPN, password management, and Lumo, it’s privacy first AI.
While Proton’s enterprise customers initially adopted individual products to address specific needs, an increasingly large number are now adopting the entire Proton ecosystem. This shift has driven the development of Proton Workspace, a consolidated offering that unifies all services into a single, cohesive bundle.
“We see that businesses are increasingly adopting ecosystems instead of individual products and services and we’re hearing more from customers, particularly those wary of Big Tech’s data practices, that they want a secure, bundled alternative that matches the ease of migration and integration of Google or Microsoft, but without the privacy trade-offs. The launch of Proton Workspace is the next evolution of our business offerings to meet the needs of these customers.” said Andy Yen, Founder and CEO of Proton.
Together with Proton Workspace, the company is simultaneously launching Proton Meet, an encrypted video conferencing solution that fills a key missing piece in Proton’s productivity ecosystem. Proton Meet is a video conferencing solution not dissimilar to Zoom, but with two key differences. First, all video calls and chats in Proton Meet are end-to-end encrypted by default using the new Messaging Layer Security (MLS) encryption protocol. This gives Proton Meet a level of security that is unmatched by any other video conferencing service in existence today. With Proton Meet, the confidentiality of conversations can be assured even if Proton’s infrastructure is compromised. Second, Proton Meet can be used anonymously and keeps no logs, and a Proton account is not even necessary to host or join meetings, making it an ideal tool for dissidents and activists seeking the highest level of privacy.
“In today’s digital world, privacy shouldn’t be an optional extra, it should be the default for every conversation.” said Andy Yen. “Whether you’re talking to a doctor, hosting a business meeting, or checking in on your kids, you rightly expect these interactions to be private and safe by default. Unfortunately the dominant players like Google Meet and Zoom simply do not offer these assurances. That’s where Proton Meet comes in, combining privacy with convenience.”
As tech giants pivot to AI, they are now processing audio, video, and chat data. Depending on shifting privacy policies, this data could be used to train AI models, creating a real risk that fragments of private conversations could leak or resurface in future AI-generated outputs. Proton Meet’s end-to-end encryption also safeguards against these risks.
Proton Workspace and Proton Meet address a critical gap in the market for organisations seeking a genuine alternative to Big Tech. In an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape, the inherent risks of relying on US-owned platforms have become impossible to ignore. Laws like the US CLOUD Act empower American authorities to compel tech giants to hand over user data, regardless of where servers are physically located. This creates serious compliance challenges for organisations bound by GDPR, CCPA, or similar data protection laws – but it also raises fundamental privacy and security questions for everyone.
Beyond legal overreach, there is a growing fear that US tech dominance could be weaponized in trade disputes or that access to essential digital infrastructure could be arbitrarily restricted. These risks are driving a surge in demand for independent, non-US alternatives. While Proton has seen dramatic growth among European entities seeking to escape this dependency, the company is also witnessing a sharp rise in interest from US-based businesses. These organisations are increasingly wary that their confidential data will be exposed or misused as Big Tech companies aggressively funnel business and personal information into AI models.
“Companies are increasingly worried that their confidential business data is becoming business intelligence for Big Tech and turning to safer alternatives. In particular, we see strong demand for Proton’s Lumo AI, which also leverages strong encryption that ensures that we cannot read your AI history and that your confidential information cannot inadvertently leak, while still allowing companies to reap the productivity benefits of AI” said Andy Yen.
For more information about Proton Workspace, please visit Proton’s dedicated blog article. Please visit our dedicated blog articles for more information about Proton Meet and Proton Meet security model.
About Proton
Proton was started in Switzerland in 2014 by scientists who met at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Our vision is to build an internet where privacy is the default through an ecosystem of services accessible to everyone, everywhere, every day. Our first product, Proton Mail, is now the world’s largest encrypted email service. Subsequent Proton products such as Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, and Lumo AI leverage the same advanced encryption to give users full control over how and with whom their data is shared. Our products are open source, developed by a team of over 500, and supported by an active community in more than 180 countries. Proton’s primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. Today, Proton is making privacy universally accessible and protects over 100 million accounts, including those of journalists, some of the world’s largest organizations, and ordinary people from all around the world.
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