Our team operatesat the frontier
depthfirst is an applied AI lab pioneering the future to secure software, and we're just getting started.
Our founders have spent their careers building and securing large-scale software systems, across startups, hyper-scalers, and leading research labs. They have seen how vulnerabilities emerge, how they spread, and why existing approaches fall short. From their shared experience came a single mission: secure the world’s most important software.
Daniele Perito
Daniele co-founded wholesale marketplace Faire, was a founding team member at Cash App leading security and fraud prevention, and was previously a postdoctoral security researcher at UC Berkeley.
Qasim Mithani
Qasim built developer and security products in the early days of AWS. Then he joined Databricks as an early leader, where he built the infrastructure and enterprise platform from the ground up.
Andrea Michi
Andrea was a Research Engineering Lead at Google DeepMind where he worked on reinforcement learning for Gemini, AlphaDev and other impactful projects, publishing his work in leading publications such as Nature.
Backed by investors with a history of building enduring companies in security, infrastructure, and mission-critical software. depthfirst is built with enterprise rigor and a commitment to advancing the frontier.
