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Comm Technologies
Crypto-native messaging app
- 1-20 employees
- B2C
- Communication
- Privacy
- Community
- Web 3.0
- Lower East Side, New York, NY
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Company mission
Comm's mission is to help people reclaim their digital identities by scaling end-to-end encryption to replace centralized backends for all applications.
Our take
One of the main issues surrounding messaging apps is user data and privacy. End-to-End encryption (E2E) may be used by the likes of WhatsApp and Signal, but the technology has thus far been impossible to implement in more feature-rich apps like Discord and Slack. This is because it demands that data is stored on the user’s device rather than a central server.
Comm is a Web3 chat app on a mission to change this by scaling the useability of E2E encryption. Rather than forcing data to be stored on the user’s device, it’s developing “keyservers” – decentralized privacy platforms which each chat community can leverage to store personal data.
Though the Comm App is the company’s flagship product, it’ll be extremely interesting to see how keyserver technology itself grows in popularity over the next few years.
In the short term however, Comm is still in its infancy, but cryptonative investment firm CoinFund has seen enough to back the startup as it looks to massively disrupt the E2E encryption landscape.
Steph
Company Specialist
Benefits
- Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance, as well as dental and vision coverage
- 401k: With a full match up to 4% of your salary
- Free MacBook Pro: Every full-time hire gets a brand new MacBook Pro that they can keep
- Free lunch: The company pays for on-site employees’ lunches (up to a reasonable amount)
- Office in SoHo: The team works out of an office at 414 Broadway that is easily accessible by subway
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $5m
Leadership
Ashoat Tevosyan
(CEO)Founded free web hosting service Helio Networks at the age of 14 in 2005, running the company before joining Facebook as Software Engineer in 2011. Became an Engineering Manager at Facebook before founding Comm in 2021.