Built by Believers in Data Sovereignty
We're engineers, operators, and researchers who got tired of watching organizations hand their most sensitive AI data to providers they don't control.
The Founders & Operators
A cross-functional team with deep roots in distributed systems, cryptography, enterprise sales, and growth.
Abebe Haile
CEO & Co-founder
Former distributed systems engineer at Cloudflare. PhD dropout turned founder, obsessed with making privacy-preserving infrastructure accessible to every organization on the planet.
Tigist Bekele
CTO & Co-founder
Principal engineer at Stripe, built core payment infrastructure serving billions of transactions. Now applying the same rigorous engineering discipline to decentralized storage and vector search.
Dawit Tesfaye
COO
Operations leader with 10+ years scaling B2B SaaS companies. Led university partnerships at a major edtech company, bringing deep expertise in institutional sales and customer success.
World-Class Expertise Behind Us
Our advisors bring decades of experience in distributed systems research, enterprise sales, and applied cryptography.
Dr. Yohannes Girma
Research Advisor
MIT CSAIL
Pioneer in approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms. Co-authored key HNSW papers.
Mekdes Wolde
Enterprise Advisor
Ex-VP at Salesforce
Helped close 500+ enterprise deals. Deep relationships across Fortune 500 companies and university IT departments.
Prof. Aida Bekele
Security Advisor
Stanford University
Cryptography professor and author of widely-used research on threshold encryption schemes.
Join the Mission
We're a small, highly-focused team building infrastructure that will power the next generation of private AI. If you care deeply about distributed systems, cryptography, or developer experience — we want to hear from you.