Our Mission

At Ancilia, we believe in the future of a secure Web3 world for everyone to participate in. It is our mission to protect such a world by building the most effective and easy-to-adopt security solutions.

Meet the Team

  • Huagang Xie

    CEO/ CO-FOUNDER


    Huagang is a cybersecurity expert with a hand in inventing some of the most critical security technologies of the last 20 years. He was a founding engineer and later SVP of engineering at Palo Alto Networks, building the world's first next-generation firewall. Before that, he was a founding engineer at IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), helping invent one of the first intrusion prevention systems. Huagang is also a respected open-source contributor (Linux kernel, LIDS), speaker at Defcon 10, and a Boston marathoner.

  • Kyle Sanders

    CHIEF SECURITY ARCHITECT/
    CO-FOUNDER

    Kyle loves delivering solutions to hard problems with great people. Previously he did malware reverse engineering as well as being a core contributor and director for Palo Alto Networks malware detection. His focus has now shifted to Web3 and creating a secure space that everyone can participate in.

  • Jiangxia Liu

    CHIEF SCIENTIST/ CO-FOUNDER


    Before co-founding Ancilia, Jiangxia was a Fellow at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw company-wide product security efforts. He is a world-famous security researcher who has discovered many high-profile vulnerabilities in software from Microsoft, Adobe, etc.

  • Wei Xu

    VP-ENGINEERING/ CO-FOUNDER


    Wei is passionate about solving real-world problems. Before founding Ancilia, he was VP of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw the engineering team behind security products including URL Filtering, DNS Security and Wildfire. He received Ph.D. in computer security from Penn State and B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University.

Our Investor

Binance Labs identifies, invests, and empowers viable blockchain entrepreneurs, startups, and communities, providing financing to industry projects that help grow the wider blockchain ecosystem in 25+ countries. Binance Labs Leads Pre-Seed Funding Round for Ancilia, Inc.