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About Us

Prelude Research is a small team of security researchers and software developers trying to reinvent the way we protect endpoints, purpose-built for a world where the threats we care about are complex, emergent, and accelerating.

Our History

We believe that the right kind of goals lead to fundamental discoveries. Since Prelude was founded in 2021, we were driven by the singular goal of being able to answer the question of "are we protected" in the most comprehensive way possible. That led us to a discovery that we believe enables a transformational approach to the way we will need to defend ourselves in the future.

2022We built Operator, which made it easier to test how good of a job our security products actually do protecting us.
2023We released Detect, which allowed us to test specifically what was broken.
2024We started asking why so many things were falling through the cracks.
2025We found our answer.

our team

  • Michael Barclay
  • Max Harley
  • Matt Hand
  • Connor McGarr
  • Keith Robertson
  • Mitchell Turner
  • Robin Williams
  • Lewis Zimmerman

If you are interested in joining us, we're looking for talented security researchers.

our Investors

We're proud to be backed by Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, IA Ventures, and others.