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Cape dials up $61M from a16z and more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data


AT&T's recent mega customer data breach -- 74 million accounts impacted -- laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the

Doyle will have attracted that investor attention in part because his past roles have included nearly nine years of working for Palantir as the head of its national security business, and prior to that, as a Special Forces Sergeant in the U.S. Army. There’s a whole host of app-based solutions out there, apps out there like Proton Mail and Signal, and WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging platforms that do a good job, to varying degrees, depending on who you trust for securing the contents of your communications,” he said. “Cape’s technology is an answer to long-standing, critical vulnerabilities in today’s telecom infrastructure that impacts everything from homeland security to consumer privacy,” said Katherine Boyle, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, in a statement.

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