Inception StudioCo-Founder & CEO
2022 — Present
Founded Inception Studio, a nonprofit accelerator for AI-native founders.
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
StanfordAdjunct Lecturer
Sep 2000 — PresentStanford, California, United States
Teaches computer science courses including compilers and generative-AI application development.
TextlaChief Technology Officer
Until Present
Joined Textla after its acquisition of Redcoat AI.
ProveSenior Vice President of Emerging Products
Until Present
Led emerging products after Prove acquired UnifyID.
Redcoat AICEO and Co-founder
2023 — 2026
Co-founded an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on protecting people and organizations from scams, phishing, and social-engineering attacks.
UnifyFounder and CEO
2015 — 2021
Founded a behavioral-biometrics authentication company, later acquired by Prove.
Moka5Founder and CTO
Jun 2005 — 2015
Co-founded Moka5, an enterprise desktop-virtualization company, and led its engineering effort.
IBMInternship
Jan 1998 — Aug 1998Tokyo, Japan
Designed and implemented an optimizing compiler for the Jalapeño Java virtual machine and contributed to other virtual-machine components.