Cape

🎙️ David Dunn, Chief Architect at #Cape, recently joined Techlore for a technical deep dive into the "black box" of cellular security, and why cellular networks remain a massive, unaddressed vulnerability for most users. He breaks down exactly what carriers see about their customers, the mechanics of network-level tracking, and what really happens behind the scenes when you make a phone call. The conversation also explores how Cape is hardening the mobile network by moving away from traditional telecom norms. David discusses our implementation of 24-hour CDR deletion, automated daily IMSI rotation, account security rooted in BIP 39 recovery phrases rather than PII-linked credentials, and more. 🔗 Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/exS9gmF9

📱 Ruddy Wang, Head of Consumer Growth at #Cape, joins Heather Larson on Lightning News to pull back the curtain on how traditional carriers profit from your most sensitive information, like what you search, where you sleep at night, and who your closest friends and family are, and how we’ve built the only mobile carrier that treats privacy as the product, not a feature. 🔗 Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/e4FJCsYC

📣 #Cape CEO John Doyle joined Navy CTO Justin Fanelli and David Ulevitch on Andreessen Horowitz's Deep Dives to discuss Salt Typhoon's infiltration into American cellular networks, new Navy technology adoption cycles to pilot secure commercial solutions in months instead of years, and how Cape built a hardened alternative to protect both high-consequence government work and everyday users. 🔗 Watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/epFEp5mc

Russell Cellular, one of the largest Verizon Authorized Retailers in the United States, has allegedly been compromised in a cyber incident exposing more than 6.3 million customer and employee records, including full names, phone numbers, employee usernames and passwords, and more. This incident highlights a systemic vulnerability: your data isn’t just held by your carrier, but by a massive web of third-party retailers with varying security standards. At #Cape, we take a "minimum trust" approach. By minimizing the data we collect and store, and implementing robust app-level encryption for external vendor integrations, we ensure that sensitive information remains secure in transit, and less of your personal information is out there to be stolen in the first place. 🔗 Read more about our defense-in-depth: https://lnkd.in/ewJSfmvp 🔗 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gg6yapR7

John Doyle has his share of doubters. As a former executive at $350 billion surveillance juggernaut Palantir, it’s hard for some to believe he’s building Cape, a new mobile network that’s entirely privacy-first. But Doyle says Cape is neither a front for Palantir nor a honeypot for law enforcement. It’s the opposite: a telecom company that provides calls, texting and data for $99 a month, but won’t sell your data, track your location, or leave you open to surveillance like traditional operators do. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/e7Q2d8As 📸: Cape

There’s a particular kind of infrastructure that only becomes visible when it fails. Power grids. Water systems. Air traffic control. And telecom. When these systems work, they fade into the background of everyday life. When they fail, everything stops. For decades, cellular networks have been optimized for one thing: reliability. Can you make a call? Can you send a text? Does the tower stay up? The implicit mandate was simple - keep the network running. Security, to the extent it was considered, was largely about preventing abuse of the system itself, not protecting the people using it. Metadata - who you are, where you are, who you talk to, how often - was treated as exhaust. In reality, that exhaust has been leaked, stolen, and sold. For most people, it’s an erosion of privacy. For government workers and others in sensitive roles, it’s a matter of real national security risk. But because the system mostly works, we’ve accepted that bargain. The cost of ripping and replacing the global telecom stack is measured in trillions of dollars, so we just live with it. We harden around the edges. We encrypt messages. We install VPNs. We add patches. And we hope we’re never the ones targeted via the exposure that’s left. But hope is not a strategy. That’s why we at Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) invested in Cape - and are excited to be leading their $100M Series C. Cape did the hard thing. They rebuilt the telecom core itself. Certain companies can only be built by certain founders. This is one of them. John Doyle understands this problem viscerally. Before founding Cape, he helped scale Palantir’s government business into programs of record. He knows the problem deeply, how sophisticated buyers think, and even more importantly, he knows how they procure. We are so excited to be in business with this exceptional team alongside IVP and be reunited on the cap table with our friends at A*. cc: Enrique Salem, Akhil Aggarwal

📱🎉 Excited that IVP is co-leading Cape’s $100M Series C! Our phones carry our most sensitive personal and professional data. Yet the communications don’t travel over a secure network. That goes for everyone from intelligence officers to school teachers. This liability has become abundantly clear in recent years through frequent telecom provider breaches, as well as adversary groups successfully hacking the phones of senior US government officials. These attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities baked into how every major cellular network is built. To solve this, Cape built its own carrier from scratch with privacy and security at its foundation, not an afterthought. Government agencies, enterprises, and consumers already trust Cape for sensitive communications, and they’re just getting started. We’re thrilled to partner with John Doyle and the entire Cape team on their journey to build this secure connectivity backbone. More on why we believe in John and team here: https://lnkd.in/gxvdSvhY

Today, IVP is co-leading Cape's $100M Series C alongside Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). Cape has rebuilt a carrier from scratch — owning the mobile core, SIMs, and software layer — so that security is enforced at the infrastructure level rather than layered on top of a compromised foundation. The Salt Typhoon attacks made this problem visible, but the vulnerability has always been structural, and the surface area that needs securing keeps growing as cellular becomes the default connectivity layer for government, enterprise, and consumers. We've been tracking Cape for a while, and the more time we spent with John Doyle and the team, the clearer it became that the conviction here runs deep. Welcome to IVP, Cape. https://lnkd.in/gtbwewai

Most of us don’t want people listening in our phone calls. That distaste is magnified and becomes a critical vulnerability in the arena of national security. Salt Typhoon put cellular security in the headlines. Cape, founded by ex-Green Beret John Doyle has been on a mission to secure our most sensitive communications before most people even understood the problem. IVP is proud to co-lead Cape's $100M Series C. https://lnkd.in/eSKWfmHA

We're fortunate to partner with IVP, a firm with an impeccable track record of scaling category-defining companies. This gives us the resources to bring this secure-by-design connectivity to everyone.