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Neal Swaelens

Head of Product, LLM Security at Protect AI

Berlin Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Neal Swaelens is currently the Head of Product for LLM Security at Protect AI, following the successful acquisition of his previous company, Laiyer AI, by Protect AI. With a background in entrepreneurship and financial analysis, Neal has a strong track record in founding and growing startups, as well as investing in various tech ventures in sectors like DeepTech and FinTech.

Work Experience 

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Protect AI

  • Head of Product, LLM Security

    2024 - Current

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Laiyer AI (Acquired by Protect AI)

  • Founder

    2023 - 2024

    Securing LLMs in production with LLM Guard, the leading open-source LLM Security product. Backed by a Google Patch Reward. +13k downloads of LLM Guard, +5M downloads of our proprietary threat detection scanners on HuggingFace.

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Chamaeleon

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Early-stage VC, based in Silicon Valley, investing globally.

early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley investing globally

chamaeleon.vc
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AMPLIFIER

  • Investor

    2020 - 2022

    Early-stage VC - investing in the world’s backend OS - the supply chain.

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Plug and Play Tech Center

  • Fintech Ventures Team

    2020 - 2020

    Pre-Seed/Seed investments in Europe, Israel, and North America.

Plug & Play Topeka is a Venture Capital company that offers corporate Innovation, open Innovation, and accelerator Programs.

plugandplaytechcenter.com
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Santiment

  • Product Manager

    2018 - 2020

    Leading on chain crypto data provider for retail and institutional markets.

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Various Companies

  • Prev. Roles

    2015 - 2018

    Prev. at Innopay (Strategy Consulting), Blocksource (founder and CEO), CT Equity and Advisory (PE), ABN AMRO (Business Development), State Street (Working Student), European Banking Federation (Legal Intern)

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