Vivek Nair

Founder/CEO at Multifactor (YC F25) | Ex-CIA | Berkeley Ph.D.

Founder

Multifactor· Fall 2025🇺🇸 United States

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2025Founder· Multifactor (YC F25)

Founder · since 2025

Company

Multifactor (YC F25)

Role

Founder & CEO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Multifactor

Zero-trust authentication, authorization, and auditing for AI agents

Fall 2025

Experience

Career

Multifactor (YC F25)
Founder
Founder & CEO · 2025 – Present
2025
Central Intelligence Agency
Cyber Researcher · 2023 – 2025
2023
Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI)
Computer Security Researcher · 2022 – 2023
2022
The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3)
Computer Security Researcher · 2021 – 2022
2021
United States Department of Defense
Cyber Researcher · 2020 – 2021
2020
Solid Security: Security at Scale
Authentication Researcher & Consultant · 2015 – 2020
2015
Holmusk
Software Engineer · 2015
2015
VCNinc
Software Engineer · 2014 – 2015
2014

Bio

Former CIA agent and Technical Lead for elite cyber units of the CIA & DOD. Youngest ever Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. NSF, NPSC, and Hertz fellow. Winner of the CIA's Exceptional Performance Award for extraordinary contributions to US national security.