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Traceforce

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AI apps such as ChatGPT and Claude have become part of everyone's daily workflow, but they introduce new security risks that traditional security tools weren't built to handle. Security teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500s, are struggling to keep up. Traceforce gives a company’s security team visibility of how AI apps are being used

Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

AI apps such as ChatGPT and Claude have become part of everyone's daily workflow, but they introduce new security risks that traditional security tools weren't built to handle. Security teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500s, are struggling to keep up.

Traceforce gives a company’s security team visibility of how AI apps are being used across company’s devices, and the ability to detect and prevent security breaches and unsafe actions as early as possible.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Xia Hua

Founder/CEO

Founder at Traceforce. Previously Director of Engineering at Clumio, managing all flagship ransomware protection products. PhD in Applied Math from MIT.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Varun Wadhwa

Founder/CTO

Co-founder & CTO at TraceForce. Previously Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, leading high-performance database systems for RAG. Before that, Staff Software Engineer at Clumio, leading distributed data infrastructure and backup. Earlier built distributed payments systems at Microsoft. BS in EECS, UC Berkeley.

LinkedIn
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Operating · 4 of 6 areas documented

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Company website: home Checked 2026-10-24

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