Ben Cerchio is Co-Founder and CEO of Secludy AI, a San Francisco-based privacy-tech company building the control layer between enterprise AI and the privacy, legal, and security work that must be cleared before anything ships.

Ben built his career in privacy and information security, serving in product privacy at TikTok and InfoSec compliance at PayPal, where he repeatedly witnessed AI initiatives blocked by regulatory and legal review.

Having lived the problem firsthand inside two of the world's most scrutinized data companies, Ben founded Secludy to close the gap between enterprise AI ambitions and the compliance barriers that slow them down.

Secludy closed a $4M seed round led by Impression Ventures, with participation from LAUNCH, Wedbush Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Hustle Fund, and others, and co-founded the company alongside CTO Ming He, a Stanford-trained PhD in computational biology.

Secludy's platform compresses AI compliance review cycles from months to days and is already serving banks, payments firms, and fintech companies, with healthcare and life sciences expansions planned next.