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Security Founder Directory

Founders building cybersecurity and identity solutions.

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Dan Klein
@profdanklein

AI Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder & CTO of Scaled Cognition. Academic background in AI research with affiliations to Berkeley AI and Berkeley NLP groups.

TechnicalResearch
2 VCs
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Michael Trinh
@_mctrinh

Research Professor and founder of Mindlink, working at the intersection of academia and entrepreneurship.

Research
2 VCs
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Michael Witbrock
@witbrock

University of Auckland Professor and serial founder of multiple AI companies including TranzAxon. Previously worked at IBM and CMU, focusing on AI that reasons, brain-computer interfaces, NLP, and ML.

Research
2 VCs

Founder of @aiko_corp, working at the intersection of AI and information security. Background in exploit development with a focus on cybersecurity research and development.

FundedTechnical
2 VCs
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Deepak Vasisht
@deepakv91

Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Computer Science and co-founder of Worktrace, working to eliminate the AI divide. Previously at Microsoft, with academic background from MIT and IIT Delhi.

Research
2 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
2 VCs
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William McNulty
@williammcnulty

Jesuit-educated Marine turned serial entrepreneur. Co-founder of Team Rubicon, UA1, and @opwhitestork. Currently working on veteran and disaster relief initiatives.

Founder
2 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
2 VCs
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Liam McNamara ⁂
@liam_builds

Z Fellow and founder of Matrix Biotech, currently running an e-commerce vintage store. Previously owned and operated a landscape design company and managed a cafe.

Design
2 VCs
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Babak Hassibi
@babakhassibi

Caltech professor and co-founder/CEO of PrismML, an AI/ML company.

Research
2 VCs
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