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CHEQ and the customer who wasn’t there
A crowded website can conceal an empty sales funnel. CHEQ built a business finding the impostors - and now has to decide which machines deserve a seat at the table.
Arkose Labs Put a Price on Being a Pest
The internet taught machines to behave like people. Arkose Labs built a business by making the badly behaved ones pay for the privilege.
Kevin Gosschalk Changed the Question the Internet Asks
A game designer looked at the web's ugliest security ritual and saw an economic contest. A decade later, Kevin Gosschalk is asking what happens when the helpful shopper and the thief arrive wearing the same machine-made face.
Aurelie Guerrieri Spent 20 Years Learning Who Is Really on the Other Side of the Screen
Before AI agents became shoppers, Aurelie Guerrieri had already followed the internet from clicks to apps to bots. Her career offers a practical lesson in growth: understand the traffic, earn the human's trust, and make room for the machines worth welcoming.
DataDome Is the $3,830-a-Month Bouncer Trying to Tell Bots From Buyers
The web's old security question was human or bot. DataDome now has to answer a messier one: useful agent, paying customer, or fraudster - in less than two milliseconds.
MirrorTab
MirrorTab is a San Francisco cybersecurity startup that stops browser-based attacks by moving the browser session server-side. Its isolation technology intercepts and sanitizes a web session at the edge before it ever reaches a user's device, so malware, malicious extensions, bots, and AI-driven automation never touch the application's code, data, or APIs. Founded in 2021 by Honey co-founder Brian Silverstein, the company raised an $8.5M seed round led by Valley Capital Partners in February 2025 and targets financial services, e-commerce, and government.
Brian Silverstein
Brian Silverstein is the founder and CEO of MirrorTab, a San Francisco cybersecurity company that treats the browser as the new battleground and tries to take it off the table entirely. Using server-side isolation, MirrorTab strips the client-side attack surface so malware, malicious extensions, and bots never touch the real code, data, or APIs behind a web session. Before MirrorTab he was an early co-founder and CTO of Honey, the shopping-rewards browser extension acquired by PayPal, and an engineer at Apple, Nest, Broadcom, and Freescale. A Cornell-trained electrical engineer with eight patents, he raised an $8.5M seed in 2025 led by Valley Capital Partners with GV and others.