Varun Wadhwa is Co-Founder and CTO at Traceforce, a YC S26-backed on-device AI security platform that gives enterprises visibility and control over AI apps, agents, and MCPs running across company devices.

Varun holds a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley and built his career at Microsoft, Clumio, and LinkedIn, where he led high-performance database systems for RAG.

Varun and his co-founder validated Traceforce's core problem with 50+ CISOs and CIOs before writing a single line of code, identifying a critical gap in enterprise AI security.

At LinkedIn, Varun served as Senior Software Engineer leading high-performance database systems, and at Clumio he was a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead on distributed data infrastructure and backup, before Clumio was acquired by Commvault in 2024. Earlier, he built distributed payments systems at Microsoft.

Traceforce is already deployed on 1,000+ devices across 10 organizations, with its platform capable of blocking up to 10,000 dangerous AI actions per second, and is trusted by companies that power the Fortune 500.