Protect Data. Unleash AI.

Businesses face growing risks – privacy breaches, data leaks, and compliance violations – as AI moves into production. Protecto secures data so AI can deliver value.

Our purpose

Brakes let you drive faster. Strong protections let you innovate faster.

With the right data, scientists could cure diseases faster, engineers could reduce carbon footprint, or teachers could shape future generations better. However, data becomes available only if we protect data and users’ privacy. Protecting privacy and security has become a generational issue with far-reaching implications.

Our purpose is to safeguard data security and privacy while unleashing the power of AI to drive global progress.

OUR DNA

Engineering First

We take an engineering-first approach to privacy and data security, building deterministic, precision controls (not heuristics) that preserve model accuracy, work in real enterprise environments, and are policy-driven and fully auditable.

Engineering is a mindset, not a degree. It's the courage to tackle challenging problems and the excitement of solving them elegantly and practically.

Awards & Certifications

Car safety innovations like brakes sparked the automotive revolution. Similarly, solving data security and privacy would ignite the AI revolution. We’re thrilled to be working on such a groundbreaking challenge.

Amar Kanagaraj

Founder & CEO

Leadership Team

A global team of seasoned data, AI, and privacy engineers dedicated to solving enterprise data protection challenges with innovative, trust-building solutions.

Amar Kanagaraj

Founder & CEO

Amar is a second-time entrepreneur. As the CMO, he scaled his previous startup. He started his career as a developer at Sun Microsystems and then led product management for Microsoft Search & AI. He has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon and MS in Computer Science from LSU.

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Baskaran Alagarsamy

Co-founder & CTO

Baskaran is an expert in data engineering, having spent over 18 years at Apple where he also led their privacy engineering efforts and petabyte-scale data problems. He has a bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering in Guindy, India.

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