Technical Co-Founder

Technical Co-Founder (CTO) | Privacy Tech & OSINT | Executives and politicians are rarely attacked through their IT. They are attacked through what is publicly findable about them: home address, family, routines, leaked credentials. INVIOLA measures and reduces this digital exposure. Our product SCORIA uses passive OSINT to map a person's exposure, scores it (Personal Digital Exposure Score) and turns it into concrete steps that shrink the attack surface, for individuals, their families and their organizations. Built in Europe, for Europe We build everything digitally sovereign: European infrastructure, European AI models, privacy by design and GDPR as a baseline, not an afterthought. Protecting personal data is our product, so we hold ourselves to the highest standard. If you believe Europe needs its own trustworthy security tech, this is the place to build it. Where we are - Pre-seed, founder-led, based in Mannheim, Germany - Early traction: first paying customer and pilot customers, including members of German state parliaments - Validated in a blind comparison with the threat intelligence team of Siemens Energy - Research partnership with KIT/KASTEL, federal security research funding in application (Startup Secure) - Strong focus on people in public office: protecting those who hold democratic mandates is part of our mission What you will own - Architecture, data pipeline, OSINT tooling and scoring engine - Security and privacy by design, migration to sovereign EU infrastructure and European AI models - Taking the product from first customers to a scalable platform - Building the tech team and culture with me What you bring - Strong engineering skills and an AI-first mindset - You have shipped a digital product (side projects count) - Ideally a background in IT security, OSINT, data engineering or ML, but no must - You care about privacy, digital sovereignty and doing this the ethical way - All in: 100% commitment and a founder mindset What we offer - A real co-founder role with significant equity - A founder salary once funding closes; we are transparent about where we stand - Hybrid setup: no relocation required, we work across Germany and Europe - Tech that protects people and democratic participation - Advisors including a former criminal investigator and a founder with an exit Start: immediately Get in touch Send your LinkedIn or CV, GitHub or portfolio if you have one, and three sentences: why this, what you have built, when you could start. No cover letter needed.