# Elizabeth Nammour

> Elizabeth Nammour is the co-founder and CEO of Teleskope, a New York-based data security company she launched in 2022 after wrestling with petabyte-scale data sprawl as a security engineer at Airbnb. Teleskope bills itself as the industry's first agentic data security platform, autonomously scanning, classifying, and remediating sensitive data so organizations can adopt AI without losing track of their information. In late 2025 the company raised a $25 million Series A led by M13, bringing total funding to $32.2 million, on the back of 600% year-over-year growth and an 85% pilot-to-paid conversion rate.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Teleskope
- **Organizations:** Teleskope, Airbnb, Amazon, Booz Allen Hamilton, University of Pennsylvania
- **Nationality:** American (first-generation, Lebanese heritage)
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science, minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship, University of Pennsylvania (School of Engineering and Applied Science)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Teleskope, raising $32.2M total including a $25M Series A led by M13 (2025), Grew Teleskope to 23+ customers with an 85% pilot-to-paid conversion rate and 600% year-over-year growth, Built Airbnb's in-house data classification and protection tooling operating at petabyte scale

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Joined Airbnb as a software engineer, selected onto a team through a reverse-pitch process
- **2017-2021** — Senior software engineer focused on data security at Airbnb; built in-house tools to catalog and classify data at petabyte scale
- **2021** — Published 'Automating Data Protection at Scale' on Airbnb's engineering blog; engineers at other companies reached out describing identical problems
- **2022** — Founded Teleskope and raised a pre-seed round while still at Airbnb
- **2025** — Closed a $25M Series A led by M13, bringing total funding to $32.2M; launched as the industry's first agentic data security platform

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Teleskope, raising $32.2M total including a $25M Series A led by M13 (2025)
- Grew Teleskope to 23+ customers with an 85% pilot-to-paid conversion rate and 600% year-over-year growth
- Built Airbnb's in-house data classification and protection tooling operating at petabyte scale
- Nominated for the Women in Tech Global Awards 2025
- Authored the influential Airbnb engineering post 'Automating Data Protection at Scale'

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Teleskope raised a $25M Series A led by M13 with participation from Primary Venture Partners and Lerer Hippeau, bringing total funding to $32.2M, and positioned itself as the industry's first agentic data security platform.

## Links

- Website: https://teleskope.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethnammour

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Last updated: 2026-06-12