Startup doxx.net hands the network controls to AI
It used to take a large team of engineers years to build a new networking startup.
It used to take a large team of engineers years to build a new networking startup.
The short version
- Barrett Lyon has founded (and sold) multiple networking vendors over the last two decades, including Prolexic ( acquired by Akamai ), defense.net (acquired by F5 Networks), and netography (acquired by Vectra AI).
- Now he has turned his attention to AI with a new startup launching this week that offers the promise of Agentic Defined Networking.
- The platform lets users and their AI agents build private networks.
What happened
The company also announced a $38 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Animo Ventures and Focal.vc. Doxx.net has its roots in the Darkflare project that Lyon created as a hobby for a TCP tunnel over Cloudflare that could tunnel through public networks in a way that helps to avoid detection and potential censorship.
Why it matters
The response to DarkFlare led Lyon to consider a VPN that cannot be stopped and is autonomously managed by AI.
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