Antigen
ActiveContinuous offensive security for the enterprise.
This company has previously operated under “Claybird”, “zag.dev”, “Zag”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
About
Antigen is an AI adversary for the enterprise. It maps, exploits, and secures your attack surface through nightly automated offensive testing and monthly human red team assessments. Every finding is delivered with traces, reproduction steps, and remediation directly in GitHub, Linear, or the Antigen Platform. We work with companies in financial services, healthcare, retail, and government where security is trust. We're backed by Lightspeed, DST Global, and Susa Ventures.
Founders · 2
co-founder @ antigen. prev. ml infra at tesla autopilot. law school dropout. Before Zag, Saad trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani, author of the famous Attention Is All You Need paper. At Nuro, he developed an ML Compiler framework that enabled running the perception layer across multiple GPU's. And at Tesla he built infrastructure that halved the time it took to train Planning & Controls models. He also served at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and dropped out of UChicago Law.
Co-Founder @ Antigen. Previously product at Google Ads and ML at Google Search. Previously at Google, shipped product features for new advertisers and built large-scale ML infrastructure for measuring cross-site conversions on Search. Took a year off college to join as second employee at a YC startup. Separately scaled a bootstrap SaaS to $30k MRR. Also wrote low-level imaging software for silicon wafer manufacturing.
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