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.

Investors

Tectonic Labs

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.

Ron Kahat

Co-Founder, Co-CEO

Applied cryptographer with over a decade of experience in distributed systems, ZK systems, and MPC protocols (ex-Fireblocks, ex-Polygon).

Michael Berman

Co-Founder, Co-CEO

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

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

Chief Scientific Advisor

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

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.

Léo Ducas

Scientific Advisor

Prof. Léo Ducas (CWI / Leiden) is a world-leading lattice-cryptography researcher and a co-author of ML-KEM (FIPS 203) and ML-DSA (FIPS 204).

Danno Ferrin

Core Developer

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

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

Cryptography Research Engineer

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