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, and Coinbase.

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, and Coinbase.
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.

Michael Berman

Co-Founder, 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.

Dr. Cyril Mark Taylor

Chief Strategy Officer

Dr Taylor served as the Chief Technical Officer for the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM/J6).

Dr. Mike Lodder

Chief Technology Officer

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

Douglas Cooper

Staff Engineer

Former Staff Software Engineer at NASA, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, Harris Corporation, Thales, and Rockwell Collins.

Ben Cottrell

Staff Engineer

Former Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare and Site Reliability Engineer at Apple. Staff Engineer at Akamai. Specializes in high-reliability network systems in Rust and C/C++.

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.

David Wu

Scientific Advisor

Stanford PhD in Computer Science. Cryptography researcher focused on secure computation, privacy-preserving systems, and modern protocols.

Yevgeniy Dodis

Scientific Advisor

Current Professor of Computer Science at New York University. MIT PhD in Computer Science. Consults with Google, Signal, Zoom on post-quantum encryption.