About Julia Social
Julia Social builds digital identity that confirms a person is a real, unique human without learning who they are. We make not.bot™, the cryptographic identity people carry on their phones; not.bot Verify, the server software businesses run inside their own infrastructure; and not.bot Signer, the tool brands use to sign their content.
Cryptographic identity without surveillance.
Why privacy
A technology becomes infrastructure when it achieves credible neutrality. Cisco’s routers move traffic without reading it. A database vendor stores data on your servers and sees none of it. Identity has been the hard case: to prove who you are, a system had to learn who you are and then keep it, so it could not stay neutral. The cost shows up as databases that become targets the moment they exist.
Julia Social brings credible neutrality to identity. We confirm someone is a real, unique human without learning who they are and without keeping anything that would identify users in a breach. We built the system so it cannot see who uses it, which is why we describe our first principle as protecting your privacy from Julia Social itself. The name comes from Julia in George Orwell’s 1984, who holds on to a private life under a regime that watches everything.
“Internet infrastructure must not be built around honeypots and gatekeepers.”
Ken Griggs, Founder and CEO
The team
Founder and CEO
Built on the Chia blockchain for three years as VP of Customer Success, where he invented DataLayer and was technical lead on the World Bank’s Climate Action Data Trust, the registry behind 95%+ of the world’s carbon-credit projects. Seven years in Deloitte’s Innovation Lab before that. Holds eight patents; BS in CS from Georgia Tech, executive MBA from Emory.
Co-Founder and VP of Business Development
Spent a decade as a general partner at GMG Capital Partners, helping raise $250M for early-stage technology companies, and founded ventures through acquisition. Former Chief Revenue Officer at Tozny, a zero-trust security platform built on cryptography with DARPA, NIST, and Galois.
Co-Founder and Engineering Lead
Builds production systems from zero and ships them. Founded the engineering consultancy Galactechs, led engineering at Evergreen Systems on a Chia-powered platform, and built a multi-million-dollar AI datacenter running 800+ GPUs. Creator of Druid Garden and the Chia FastFarmer.
With partners and advisors including Ram Jeyaraman (CTO, Datacaliper), Rob Wiltbank (CEO, Galois), and the team behind the not.bot app.
Open where it needs to be trusted, blind where it needs to be safe.
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