About us
At krypt.co we’re building the next generation of mobile-based authentication. Our vision is that authentication should be
based on strong cryptography.
Public key cryptography has existed for almost 40 years but it’s barely used to authenticate people.
Most people cannot store a long private key in their head nor can they compute digital signatures on
the fly. Therefore, we need to store the private key somewhere. It has to be accessible but also kept
a secret. At krypt.co we’re tackling this very problem and we believe the smartphone is core to the solution.
Founding team
Kevin King
Co-founder / CTO / Developer
Kevin is passionate about making it easy for everyone to use strong cryptography. He studied Computer Science at MIT (B.S., M.Eng.) concentrating in systems engineering and applied cryptography. Before
MIT, Kevin created popular Android apps and now in his spare time he dabbles in audio
software and
rust.
Alex Grinman
Co-founder / CEO / Developer
Alex enjoys designing cryptographic protocols and building secure systems. At MIT (B.S., M.Eng.) he studied Mathematics
and Computer Science with a focus in applied cryptography and cybersecurity. Alex has also been developing iOS applications since iOS 3.
David Gifford
Co-founder / Chief Scientist
David is a professor of computer science at MIT. He co-founded three companies:
Open Market (Internet commerce), Sightpath (Internet content delivery, acquired by CISCO),
and the Computational Biology Company (acquired by Agilent Technologies).
