# Vaibhav Antil

> Vaibhav Antil is CEO and co-founder of Privado AI, an enterprise privacy software company founded in 2020. An IIT Bombay alumnus based in Brooklyn, New York, he previously co-founded BC Jukebox, later acquired by Gaana, and worked as a senior product manager at Gaana. His work focuses on connecting privacy teams with engineering through data-flow visibility, code scanning and assessment automation.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Privado AI
- **Organizations:** Privado AI, Gaana, BC Jukebox / Jukebox Studio
- **Education:** Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- **Known for:** Co-founded BC Jukebox / Jukebox Studio, acquired by Gaana., Co-founded Privado AI, which announced $17.5 million in cumulative funding in August 2022., Presented a sponsored Play Store Data Safety session at Android Worldwide in April 2022.

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Co-founded BC Jukebox and opted for deferred placement interviews at IIT Bombay to pursue a music-app venture.
- **2015** — Graduated from IIT Bombay; BC Jukebox was operating in Mumbai and Pune by June.
- **Before 2020** — Jukebox Studio was acquired by Gaana; Antil worked as a senior product manager at Gaana.
- **2020** — Co-founded Privado; participated in Accel’s Founder Stack SaaS 2020 cohort with Jasdeep Cheema.
- **2022** — Privado announced a $14 million Series A, taking announced funding to $17.5 million.
- **2024** — Nishant Bhajaria joined Privado to build its Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence.
- **2026** — Privado AI launched Wren, an AI privacy analyst, on March 18.

## Achievements

- Co-founded BC Jukebox / Jukebox Studio, acquired by Gaana.
- Co-founded Privado AI, which announced $17.5 million in cumulative funding in August 2022.
- Presented a sponsored Play Store Data Safety session at Android Worldwide in April 2022.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Announced Wren, Privado AI’s AI privacy analyst, designed to handle privacy-review intake, triage and assessment work.
- **2025-07** — Appeared on Masters of Privacy with Sergio Maldonado to discuss evidence-based privacy and the language gap between legal and engineering.
- **2025-01** — Published a Privado analysis of DeepSeek’s Android app, comparing its privacy policy with tested data practices.

## Links

- Website: https://www.privado.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-antil-a8103938

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