Architectural, not incremental
We build primitives that change what is possible — not better versions of what exists. The at-rest layer had to go, so we designed it out.
Company
BHTN Technologies Inc.
We're building the data architecture that makes the next decade of breaches architecturally impossible.
Sub-second
Class transfer latency
Competitive
Highly competitive cost structure
19/19
STRIDE mitigated
$200B+
Data security TAM
01 Mission
Data that can't be stolen, because it isn't there.
Every major data breach of the last two decades has exploited the same assumption: that data lives somewhere, persistently, waiting.
BHTN exists to retire that assumption. Zero-Residency Data Architecture removes the at-rest layer entirely. No disks to steal, no databases to exfiltrate, no backups to ransom.
The next generation of sensitive data — military, financial, medical, industrial — will be built on motion-first primitives. We're building those primitives, and shipping them as a production-grade pipeline.
02 Principles
How we build.
Security is a property, not a feature
Encryption, attestation, and policy are in the fabric of the pipeline — never an afterthought, never a product-manager line item.
Production is the benchmark
We build toward regulated, high-stakes deployment from day one. Not research demos, not proofs-of-concept — a pipeline a bank can actually put into production.
Transparency wins trust
Measured numbers, published methodology, open benchmarks. Enterprise buyers trust what they can verify, not what they're told.
03 Leadership
Founded and owned by the people building it.
Two co-founders, each leading the discipline most central to what ZeRDA does — one on the runtime and infrastructure side, one on the research and algorithmic side.
MK
Matthew Korn
Co-Founder · Runtime & Infrastructure
Architect of the ZeRDA runtime. Leads the infrastructure, SDK, and pipeline services — the four-plane topology, mesh, bulk relay, and key-custody service all ship from his design and code.
Background spans distributed systems, secure software delivery, and production cloud infrastructure at scale, with an MBA and MSBA and a PhD in progress. Works from the conviction that the hard problems in data security aren't solved by incremental improvement — they're solved by redesigning the approach from the ground up. Focused on making the architecture something a bank's audit team can actually put into production — not a reference paper.
Distributed systems Systems · Infrastructure-as-Code mTLS · Key custody Pilot-grade delivery
JK
Jonathan Korn, PhD
Co-Founder · Core Research Scientist
PhD in Data Science with an advanced research background spanning natural language processing, large language models, and reinforcement learning. Core research scientist for BHTN — leads the algorithmic and theoretical work behind the pipeline.
Shares the founding conviction that most problems in this space are not waiting to be improved — they are waiting to be rethought. Rather than iterating on the storage-era playbook, his research starts from first principles and redesigns the approach end-to-end, bringing rigorous discipline to a domain that too often ships on vibes. Co-founder and co-owner of BHTN Technologies Inc.
PhD · Data Science NLP · LLM Reinforcement Learning Advanced algorithms
04 For investors
A category-defining bet on post-storage data.
BHTN is privately held and actively engaging with strategic partners and investors aligned with our vision for motion-first data infrastructure. Below is the public-facing version of the story — detailed materials are shared under NDA.
Global spending on data security exceeds $200B annually and continues to grow — yet the fundamental architecture has not changed. Data still lives at rest, and breaches continue at record pace.
Zero-Residency Data Architecture is a primitive-level shift: not a better lock, but a system with nothing to unlock. The addressable market is every organization currently paying a premium to protect data that doesn't need to exist in the first place — starting with regulated industries (banking, healthcare, defense) and expanding to any enterprise moving sensitive data at scale.
We've validated performance against published competitor benchmarks at 2–14× lower total cost of ownership, with zero residency that none of them can match. The runtime is in pilot-grade deployment today, with pricing that starts at $500/mo for a single transfer pipeline and scales via enterprise licensing.
Position
- StagePrivately held · Engaging strategic partners
- RuntimePilot-grade production deployment · self-healing mesh · 4 planes
- Validation19/19 STRIDE mitigated · Benchmarked vs Aspera, Signiant, AWS Transfer
- Current roundUnder discussion with aligned investors
05 Corporate