Basel, Switzerland · Est. 2025

Bold ideas often start in a barn

Just like HP, Apple and other tech giants. See the vision, not the present state — this is the story of AIvantGuard AG.

A few years from now, people will ask why the internet of the AI age was built the way it was — with everyone's data flowing to everyone else, encrypted with schemes approaching their expiration day, running on infrastructure nobody controls.

We asked that question early. Our answer is AIvantGuard AG: a Swiss company building sovereign AI today and the Vault — the secure distributed heart of Web 4.0 — for tomorrow. We break the mission into components, build them in public, and make every one of them real, usable and provable.

We operate lean by principle: capital goes into technology, not office floors and headcount. Our workforce is part human, part agentic — and we build the tools our own agents run on.

The founders

László Popovics

CEO / CTO · Inventor

20+ years in distributed systems; led engineering organizations of 100+. The inventor of the Vault concept and the architect of the sovereign AI stack — the one who sees how to solve problems differently, before it becomes a global trend.

Áron Antal

COO / CIO · Co-founder

10+ years in banking; managed portfolios over a billion euros, CPA qualified, PhD candidate. Brings the corporate finance mindset that keeps the vision sustainable — unit economics that work.

Advisory board

Marshall Choy

Products / Business Development

Silicon Valley AI-chip veteran; international IT leadership across enterprise hardware and software, AI hardware products.

Judit Hegedüs

Business Strategy / Funding

Harvard Business School alumna; decades of multinational leadership, transatlantic strategy and EU innovation funding.

Endre Ábrahám — Silur

Platform Security / Cryptography

Forbes 30 Under 30 ethical hacker; a decade in cryptography and Web3, post-quantum cryptography specialist.

What we stand for

Privacy-first, always

Complete data sovereignty. We never trade your information for profit.

Future-proof security

Built to withstand current and quantum-era threats alike.

Responsible AI

Ethical development; AI that amplifies people without new vulnerabilities.

Rebuild, don't iterate

We're not patching the legacy internet — we're rebuilding its foundations.