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The founding team

The founding team combines expertise in security and privacy with hands-on industry experience.

Tanya Verma

Tanya Verma

Co-founder

Tanya is an ex-Cloudflare engineer and researcher. Tanya designed and deployed privacy and security protocols used by billions of users, and contributed to Cloudflare's Workers AI platform.

Jules Drean

Jules Drean

Co-founder

Jules holds a PhD from MIT in secure hardware and systems. Jules has industry experience working at Microsoft Research and NVIDIA.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

Co-founder

Sacha holds a PhD from MIT in cryptography and privacy-preserving systems. Sacha has industry experience working at Microsoft Research and MongoDB.

Nate Sales

Nate Sales

Co-founder

Nate is an entrepreneur and software engineer with expertise in infra and distributed systems. Nate worked on projected for Tor, Cloudflare, open-source, and early-stage startups.

Advisors & Investors

Nick Sullivan

Nick Sullivan

Investor

Industry Leader in Security/Networking/Cryptography R&D. Previously at Cloudflare Research and Apple.

Alana Marzoev

Alana Marzoev

Investor

Former founder & CEO of Readyset. Alana is now an angel investor and PhD candidate at MIT's Language and Intelligence group.

Michael Grinich

Michael Grinich

Investor

Founder & CEO of WorkOS. Previously, founder and CEO of Nylas.