Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Brian Acton is Founder and Executive Chairman of Signal Technology Foundation whose mission is to develop open source privacy technology that protects free expression and enables secure global communication. As more and more of our lives happen online, data protection and privacy have become critical. Signal Technology Foundation is the parent company of Signal Messenger, a fast, simple and secure messaging app.

At his core, Brian is a software builder. He’s also a Silicon Valley veteran having worked at Apple, Adobe, and Yahoo before embarking on his adventure with WhatsApp. In 2009, Brian cofounded WhatsApp and grew the service to over a billion users worldwide.

Brian grew up in Central Florida and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University. He lives in the SF Bay Area with his wife and two rugrats, I mean kids. In his free time, he builds Lego and plays ultimate frisbee.