Our Team

Serial entrepreneurs.
Deep R&D roots.

Three founders. Five years of DARPA-funded research at A2 Labs. One thesis: the internet should never be the reason something breaks.

<1sSelf-healing recovery
0%Packet loss on failover
30+Apps classified in real time
Founders

The people
behind Weavian.

Dr. Angelos Stavrou
Founder · CEO

Dr. Angelos Stavrou

Serial entrepreneur, Quokka Inc. (VC-backed). Principal Investigator on NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and DHS awards. 130+ publications in network security.

Dr. Tolga Atalay
Founder · CTO

Dr. Tolga Omer Atalay

Expert in scalable cellular network frameworks, cloud architecture, and QoS system design, with top-tier publications in mobile and edge networking. Built production-grade 5G control planes and kernel-level data planes that move real traffic at line rate, and translates deep systems research into shipping product.

David Barron
Founder · CCO

David Barron

Commercialized emerging technologies and products at Apple, AT&T, Disney, Microsoft, and Motorola. Led Next Level Networks from pre-revenue to exit. Silicon Valley startup advisor and investment due-diligence partner.

Backed by the full A2 Labs research team and DARPA commercialization advisors.

Origin

Five years of
DARPA-funded research.

Weavian came out of the DARPA Open Programmable Secure (OPS) program at A2 Labs — half a decade of work on programmable networking, secure 5G cores, and resilient multi-path transport.

We learned, repeatedly, that the hard part isn't any one of those things. It's stitching them together into something a non-network-engineer can actually deploy. So we built a product around it.

The same software stack now runs in commercial pilots, multi-site retail deployments, and ruggedized first-responder kits. One codebase, from the daily commute to the forward operating base.

5+
Years of DARPA-funded R&D
30+
Peer-reviewed publications
TRL-6
Prototype in relevant environment
6
Live anchor regions today
Traction

Working today.
Scaling next.

MVP in production. Beta units in the field. Pilot conversations open with multi-site commercial operators and public-safety integrators.

01

MVP

Real traffic, real failover. Validated end-to-end in the lab and on live customer links.

Live
02

Beta units in the field

Hardware-paired appliances running at design-partner sites. Telemetry feeding back into the product weekly.

Active
03

6 live anchor regions

Cloud anchors in production across US and EU. Sessions migrate between them in under a second.

Active
04

Active patent pipeline

Multiple filings on cloud anchor portability, classification-aware scheduling, and policy compilation.

In flight
05

Pilots → TRL-7

2026 goal: 2–3 multi-site pilots, 90-day PoCs, hardware + cloud delivered at cost.

Open
06

Series A path

Seed round closing now. 18-month runway. Path to $15M ARR by 2028 on the Edge Appliance GTM motion.

Now