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Velum Labs

Velum Labs

Winter 2026

Firewall that controls access to information across AI and humans

Machine LearningSecurityOpen SourcePrivacy

About Company

Velum is an open-source firewall for content-level access control across documents, databases, and applications. Admins define policies, and we apply them in real time across your entire stack to control what each recipient sees. Our firewall sits between your data sources and consumers (LLMs, users, vendors), enforcing policies on every request. We understand meaning in text, documents, and databases to detect sensitive information based on your policies, then apply recipient-specific controls without blocking workflows. Create policies in natural language. Teams write rules that define what's sensitive and who should access it, and Velum enforces them consistently across all systems. When authorization changes, we can reveal tokenized data just-in-time for approved recipients, maintaining both security and utility. We integrate directly into your existing infrastructure. For AI workflows, we intercept prompts, responses, and retrievals to prevent sensitive information from leaking into or out of models. For enterprise systems like Salesforce, SAP, or Workday, we extend policy enforcement to exports, reports, and syncs. Velum is designed for scale and compliance. We provide encryption and structure-preserving tokenization for high-throughput pipelines, with multi-cloud deployment options and configurable data residency per tenant to meet your compliance requirements.

Active Founders

Benjamin Muñoz-Cerro

Benjamin Muñoz-Cerro

Founder

CEO @Velum Labs | stanford quantum computing | harvard physics

Alen Rubilar-Muñoz

Alen Rubilar-Muñoz

Founder

CTO @ Velum Labs | ml swe | aspiring mathematician | hackathon winner | world citizen

Company Facts

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Team Size2
Founded2025
StatusActive