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The founding team

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

Team

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.

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.

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.

Miles Dai

Miles Dai

Founding Engineer

Miles is a software engineer focused on building robust systems for secure hardware. He completed his masters degree at MIT in computer architecture, and has prior experience working at Google and zeroRISC.

Backed by

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Featured Angel Investors

Nick Sullivan

Investor

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

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

Investor

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

Paul Graham

Investor

Co-founder of Y Combinator.