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Security Founder Directory

Founders building cybersecurity and identity solutions.

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Jamieson O'Reilly
@theonejvo

Hacker and security expert, founder of DVULN specializing in adversary simulation and penetration testing. CREST Australasia Council Member and OWASP project leader for penetration test reporting standards and cloud security testing guides.

Technical
4 VCs
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Currently building Collaborator AI and Spaceframe AR. Previously worked with renowned artist Olafur Eliasson and at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Research
3 VCs

Professor at business schools, building Kompanion.

Research
3 VCs
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Prior Labs
@prior_labs

Professor of Computer Science at University of Freiburg (on leave) and co-founder of Prior Labs, building foundation models for tabular data. Also serves as Hector-Endowed Fellow and PI at ELLIS Institute Tübingen, focusing on AutoML research.

FundedResearch
3 VCs
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Jasper Li
@jasperli0122

PhD from Texas A&M University, building Monid to provide unified API integrations for AI agents. Has 37K followers on Xiaohongshu and is associated with F.inc.

Research
3 VCs

20-year-old founder currently working on a stealth startup. Previously associated with UCL and Iterate.

Student
3 VCs
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Zayne (zeyu) Zhang
@zeyu1337

CS student at Cambridge University and co-founder of Hacktron AI. Previously worked at Cure53 and TikTok. Active in cybersecurity competitions, placing 2nd at DEF CON 31-32 with team Water Paddler.

Web3TechnicalResearchStudent
3 VCs
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Soheil Feizi
@feizisoheil

CS Professor at UMD and founder & CEO of RELAI, focused on AI/ML research and applications. Presidential Award recipient for contributions to the field.

Web3Research
3 VCs
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Yongchao Chen
@yongchaoc

Assistant Professor at Tsinghua AI and founder of Apex Intelligence. PhD from Harvard and MIT, previously a researcher at Google Research/DeepMind, Microsoft Research, and MIT-IBM AI Lab.

TechnicalResearch
3 VCs
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Liam Fuller
@liamfuller_

High school dropout who moved to Australia and raised $1.4m in funding at age 17.

Funded
3 VCs
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