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ex/ante Activity

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Investment

ex/ante participated in AccessGrid's $4.4M round to build mobile access control turning phones into secure digital keys.

AccessGrid

AccessGrid ex/ante

harlem.capitalOCT 2025

OCT 2025

Investment

Participated in Confident Security's $4.2M seed round as the company came out of stealth with an end-to-end encryption layer for AI.

Confident Security

Confident Security ex/ante

techcrunch.comJUL 17, 2025

JUL 17, 2025

Essay

Published an essay (co-authored with Union Square Ventures) advocating for a diverse ecosystem of user-owned, privacy-preserving data systems as an alternative to centralized AI platforms.

The rebel alliance

Confident Security ex/ante

buildexante.substack.comJUL 14, 2025

JUL 14, 2025

Essay

Published an essay (co-authored with Union Square Ventures) arguing individuals should own and control their digital memories across AI platforms rather than corporations centralizing that data.

You don't own your memory

buildexante.substack.comJUL 7, 2025

JUL 7, 2025

News

ex/ante, with support from the Ford Foundation, launched Builder Blueprints — a free document library helping startups adopt strong privacy and data governance policies.

Builder Blueprints — free privacy policy resource for founders

builder-blueprints.comFEB 2025

FEB 2025

Press

TechCrunch profiled ex/ante's launch and Zoe Weinberg's thesis on using agentic technology to counter digital authoritarianism.

TechCrunch — Agentic tech to defend democracy

techcrunch.comDEC 2023

DEC 2023

Essay

Zoe Weinberg published the founding thesis essay explaining ex/ante's investment philosophy around human agency and democratic resilience.

Agentic tech to counter digital authoritarianism

buildexante.substack.comNOV 2023

NOV 2023

New Fund

ex/ante closed $33M Fund I to invest in agentic technology — privacy, security, and information integrity startups.

ex/ante Fund I — $33M

vcwire.techNOV 2023

chaincatcher.com

NOV 2023