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Skiff
An end-to-end encrypted workspace
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Privacy
- Community
- Cloud Computing
- SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
Skiff's mission is to provide a privacy-first collaboration platform with expiring links, secure workspaces, and password protection.
Our take
Skiff is a new addition to the collaboration software market, which saw significant growth over the pandemic as companies and institutions adjusted to lockdown measures. The workspace they offer is functionally similar to Google Docs, with the innovative difference that data on the platform is decentralized and end-to-end encrypted, offering highly competitive levels of privacy.
As with any privacy-first service, especially one adopting new technologies, the key will be to win the trust of would-be users. This is no small ask for a company as new to the market as Skiff, whose products only became available to the public in 2021. Skiff has navigated this assiduously, undergoing a comprehensive security audit, as well as opening up its source code and publishing a whitepaper for users to review.
This astute strategy has helped Skiff win a substantial waitlist of keen customers, and interest and participation from industry hard-hitters. Among their early investors are former Yahoo executive Jerry Yang, and John Hennessy, Chairman at Alphabet. Skiff have clearly won remarkable industry and consumer confidence, giving them an invaluable leg-up in the rapidly growing market for privacy-oriented services.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Leadership
Andrew Milich
(CEO)Studied at Columbia and Stanford, and then worked in Flight Software at SpaceX. Was also co-director of TreeHacks.
Jason Ginsberg
(CTO)After studying Computer Science at Stanford, worked as a Software Engineer at Visby.io and Apple.