Jules Drean

Building Verifiably Private AI at Tinfoil (YC X25) | MIT PhD

Co-founder

Tinfoil· Spring 2025 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @julesdrean

2025Co-founder· Tinfoil

Founder · since 2025

Company

Tinfoil

Role

Co-founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Tinfoil

Encrypted AI with verifiable privacy

Spring 2025

Experience

Career

Tinfoil
Co-founder
Co-founder · San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis · 2025 – Present
2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PHD Student · Cambridge, Massachusetts, États-Unis · 2018 – 2025
2018
Microsoft
Research Intern · Seattle, Washington, États-Unis · 2023
2023
NVIDIA
Research Intern · États-Unis · 2022
2022
Gradient Tech
System Engineer Intern · Cambridge, Massachusetts, États-Unis · 2019
2019
Cadence Design Systems
Software Engineer Intern · Boston, Massachusetts, États-Unis · 2017
2017

Bio

Jules has an MIT PhD in secure hardware and confidential computing. He has industry experience working at Microsoft Research and NVIDIA on the technologies underlying Tinfoil. During his PhD, Jules has built secure enclaves from the ground up and studied how to attack and defend these systems against advance microarchitectural attacks. His work also looked at using trusted hardware to securely deploy advanced cryptographic primitives such as FHE and MPC.