About Us

What We Do

Tectonic Labs is developing quantum-secure defense infrastructure, led by top researchers and cryptography engineers from IBM, Google, MIT, Dartmouth, Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation, Polygon, and Fireblocks.

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After decades of research, post-quantum cryptography is no longer theoretical. As quantum capabilities accelerate, modern infrastructure, financial systems, blockchains, and government networks must rapidly migrate away from vulnerable algorithms like RSA and ECDSA.
Tectonic is developing quantum-secure defense infrastructure, led by top researchers and cryptography engineers from IBM, Google, MIT, Dartmouth, Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation, Polygon, and Fireblocks.
Backed by BlackFlag.vc, Hack VC, Harpoon, and other national security-aligned investors, Tectonic translates cutting-edge cryptography into deployable systems for chains, custodians, and public-sector operators.

Team

Leadership

Our leadership team has over 97 years of combined experience in high-tech operations, blockchain and cryptography, and has a track record of working on the bleeding edge of quantum security.

CoinbaseDartmouthEthereum FoundationGoogleIbmMitPolygonUc Berkely

Ron Kahat

Ron Kahat

Co-Founder, Co-CEO

Applied cryptographer with over a decade of experience in distributed systems, ZK systems, and MPC protocols. Founding team of the ZKProof standardization effort (ex-Fireblocks, ex-Polygon).

Michael Berman

Michael Berman

Co-Founder, Co-CEO

Serial founder (2 exits). Early Eventbrite (led sales), Ex-Salesforce.

Min H. Kim

Min H. Kim

Co-Founder, CMO

Former CMO at Polygon (MATIC) and Hedera Foundation (HBAR). First US employee at TRON. Economics, Dartmouth College.

Ramis Movassagh

Ramis Movassagh

Chief Scientific Advisor

PhD at MIT Mathematics (advisor Peter Shor). Former quantum researcher at IBM Quantum and Google Quantum AI.

Omri Shmueli

Omri Shmueli

Scientific Advisor

Postdoctoral Fellow at NTT Research under Mark Zhandry. PhD Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and Cryptography Researcher at UC Berkeley.

Danno Ferrin

Danno Ferrin

Core Developer

Former Core Developer at Ethereum Foundation, Lead Protocol Engineer at Consensys. Ex-Google, Reddit.

Mike Lodder

Mike Lodder

Applied Cryptographer

Applied cryptographer with a PhD in information security. Former Staff Applied Cryptographer at Coinbase; member of RustCrypto and contributor to open-source PQ cryptography.

Manuel B. Santos

Manuel B. Santos

Cryptography Research Engineer

Former Cryptography Engineer at Nillion Labs. PhD Information Security from Lisbon University and MSc Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London.

Kris Urbas

Kris Urbas

Product Engineer

Full stack Web3 dev & open-source contributor. Prev Web3.js at ChainSafe, Lens Protocol SDKs at Aave Labs, genie.xyz (acquired by Uniswap).

David Kalk

David Kalk

Strategic Advisor

CIO at Reflexive Capital. Former CIO at Thiel Macro. Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

Cory Levy

Cory Levy

Strategic Advisor

Founder at Z Fellows. Co-Founder at After School (acquired by Ancestry).

Divya Gupta

Divya Gupta

Strategic Advisor

Partner at Sequoia. ML at Airbnb, Databricks, Palantir. CS at Stanford.

Alexander Flink

Alexander Flink

Research Intern

Theoretical Physics MS at Stockholm University. Applied Mathematician at Outlier (Scale AI).