John Whaley is the founder of Inception Studio, CTO of Textla, and an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University. He is a three-time cybersecurity founder associated with Redcoat AI, UnifyID, and Moka5, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and an M.Eng. from MIT.
John Whaley is the founder of Inception Studio, CTO of Textla, and an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University. He is a three-time cybersecurity founder associated with Redcoat AI, UnifyID, and Moka5, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and an M.Eng. from MIT.
Career
ISCo-Founder & CEO at Inception Studio from 2022 to PresentFounded Inception Studio, a nonprofit accelerator for AI-native founders.
Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford from 2000-09 to Present in Stanford, California, United StatesTeaches computer science courses including compilers and generative-AI application development.TChief Technology Officer at Textla until PresentJoined Textla after its acquisition of Redcoat AI.
Senior Vice President of Emerging Products at Prove until PresentLed emerging products after Prove acquired UnifyID.RACEO and Co-founder at Redcoat AI from 2023 to 2026Co-founded an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on protecting people and organizations from scams, phishing, and social-engineering attacks.
Founder and CEO at Unify from 2015 to 2021Founded a behavioral-biometrics authentication company, later acquired by Prove.MFounder and CTO at Moka5 from 2005-06 to 2015Co-founded Moka5, an enterprise desktop-virtualization company, and led its engineering effort.
Internship at IBM from 1998-01 to 1998-08 in Tokyo, JapanDesigned and implemented an optimizing compiler for the Jalapeño Java virtual machine and contributed to other virtual-machine components.