demoxi to Bring Safe Connections to Internet Users.
Market Scientist and Rocket Scientist Team-up to Power Web 3.0
Bellevue, Washington, July 19, 2007 – Today Rob Monster and Jim Adler announced the launch of demoxi, a company dedicated to products that give users control of their online identity, allowing users to safely connect, communicate, and engage online. In the coming weeks, demoxi will be introducing privacy and identity technology that combines the most advanced solutions for managing identity, web surfing, peer-to-peer communication, managing personal data, exchanging money, digital signatures and online voting – all in one application.
“Our mission is to restore trust and privacy on the Internet so that people from all over the world can connect with confidence,” said Rob Monster, Co-Founder and Chairman of demoxi, Inc. “Where Web 2.0 was about user content generation Web 3.0 will be about user syndication. A key enabler of user syndication is the ability to have personal identity on the web that is as recognizable as that of the face of a friend or close colleague. Identity technology developed for use in conducting binding elections over the Internet provides the answer.”
demoxi will put identity control into the hands of users by giving them the ability to:
Protect: store passwords safely; prevent malicious software, avoid unsafe websites, and eliminate tracking spyware
Manage: access sites without registering; independent identify verification; privacy on the web
Connect: secure, multi-language messaging, secure chat, and secure file transfer
“When a market scientist meets a rocket scientist, the result is an explosive combination of engineering excellence and consumer relevance,” said Jim Adler, Co-Founder and CEO of demoxi, Inc. “The deep cryptography behind demoxi has been used for many years to provide open, audited, and private elections. Now for the first time, this technology can bring the same high level of safety to the everyday Internet experience.”
demoxi was recently formed by the contribution of selected intellectual property and other assets by Monster Venture Partners and Dategrity. The demoxi technology is built on 50 issued patents and 40 pending patents, based on ten years of advanced research in the fields of cryptography, identity technology, privacy protection and information control.
Tom Simpson, demoxi Board Member and Managing Partner of Northwest Venture Associates, said “With the growing popularity of global social networks, citizens and businesses need enhanced privacy and security applications to confidentially communicate and transact with others in their network. demoxi has the intellectual property, experience and team to provide these tools”
In the coming weeks, demoxi will make available a private beta download of the demoxi software. A public beta download will be available in September. For more information, or to join the private beta, please visit www.demoxi.com.
About demoxi, Inc.
demoxi’s first product is called demoxi identity. It protects personal identity on the Internet and allows the user to safely connect, communicate, and engage online. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, and lead by Rob Monster, an expert in market research and Jim Adler, an expert in cryptography, the company’s mission is to restore trust and privacy on the Internet so that people from all over the world can connect with confidence. The demoxi software is built on 50 issued patents and 10 years of advanced research in the fields of cryptography and online identity. For more information, visit www.demoxi.com.
About Robert Monster, Co-Founder & Chairman
Robert W. Monster leads Monster Venture Partners (MVP), an early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle, focused on Global Technology opportunities. Mr. Monster was the Founder of GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), a leading provider of technology-enabled services to the global market research industry. Mr. Monster served as Chairman and CEO from 1999-2007, during which time GMI achieved annual revenue growth of 100+% per year and expanded to serve customers in more than 60 countries. Prior to founding GMI, Mr. Monster was a global product development manager with Procter & Gamble. In addition to serving as Chairman of demoxi, Mr. Monster is a Director of GMI as well as Chairman of Healthcare.com.
About Jim Adler, Co-Founder & CEO
Jim Adler is founder and CEO of demoxi. Previously, Jim was President of Dategrity, an e-commerce company specializing in cryptographic solutions for individual privacy protection and information control. Prior to Dategrity, Jim was the founder and CEO of VoteHere, a company that pioneered the development of technologies for private and secure electronic voting, both online and offline. Under his management, VoteHere developed groundbreaking cryptographic technology resulting in 50 issued patents, and deployed that technology in over 200 secure and private elections for 15 million voters worldwide. Jim is widely regarded as an expert in the fields of cryptography, security, and e-voting. Prior to Dategrity and VoteHere, Jim co-developed pioneering patented digital signature technology for Scientific Atlanta and was a senior engineer in Advanced Avionics at General Dynamics Space Systems Division (now a division of Lockheed Martin).
