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Joon Kim and the Code Behind the Counterfeit Chase
He once made code visible through mixed reality. Now the MarqVision founding engineer builds systems that make online infringement visible - and actionable - across a borderless internet.
Proof Authentication
Proof Authentication is a Boston-based technology company that builds anti-counterfeiting and brand-protection solutions for large consumer brands. Its patented approach pairs a non-duplicatable printed mark with a custom smartphone app, letting consumers verify a product's authenticity in seconds while giving brands real-time data to enforce against counterfeits. Formed in 2021 to acquire the DSS Digital division of Document Security Systems, the company is led by CEO Dan McKinnon, former Head of Global Brand Protection at New Balance, and serves Fortune 500 companies.
Private Information (Detective Indonesia)
Private Information - operating as Detective Indonesia under PT. Periskop Integriti Indonesia - is a Jakarta-based private investigation and corporate intelligence firm that has been gathering field verified facts since 2002. It serves companies that cannot afford to make the wrong decision, offering background checks, brand protection and anti-counterfeit programs, surveillance, counter-surveillance, and mystery guest audits across Indonesia, backed by an international network and intelligence-grade confidentiality protocols.
DUST Identity
DUST Identity authenticates physical objects with a thin coat of engineered diamond dust. Each randomly oriented constellation of microscopic diamonds forms a fingerprint that cannot be copied, and that fingerprint is bound to a tamper-evident digital record. The result is an unbroken chain of trust from raw material to final delivery, used across aerospace, defense, electronics, luxury goods, and sports memorabilia.
Ophir Gaathon
Ophir Gaathon is the co-founder and CEO of DUST Identity, a Massachusetts deep-tech company that sprinkles microscopic, industrial diamond dust onto physical objects to give them an unclonable fingerprint. A Columbia-trained applied physicist who once chased the quantum properties of diamonds for computing, he turned that research into an identity layer for the physical world, used across defense, aerospace, automotive and luxury supply chains. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Airbus Ventures, Lockheed Martin and Castle Island Ventures, his company has raised more than $50M and works on problems originally posed by DARPA.
MarqVision
MarqVision is an AI-powered managed-service platform for brand control. Founded in 2020 by Harvard Law students, it helps global brands detect and remove counterfeits, impersonations, pirated content, and unauthorized sellers across more than 1,500 online platforms and websites in 118+ countries.