Rand Hindi

Rand Hindi is the CEO and co-founder of Zama, the leading company building Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology, which lets software compute directly on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. He co-founded Zama in 2020 with Pascal Paillier, the cryptographer behind the Paillier encryption scheme, and the company has raised around $130 million from investors including Multicoin Capital, Protocol Labs, Blockchange Ventures, and Pantera Capital to bring confidential smart contracts to public blockchains. Before Zama he founded Snips, a privacy by design AI voice platform that was acquired by Sonos in 2019. A programmer since childhood, he holds a PhD in bioinformatics from University College London and has invested in more than 30 deep tech companies.

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