Hounddog
San Francisco, US · 5 known investors
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Alex Tranunlockedknows Joohwan Oh · together at Instacart (overlapped)
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HoundDog.ai offers a privacy code scanner and a dataflow context engine built on a static code-analysis engine, tracing 100+ sensitive data types (PII, PHI, auth tokens) across code paths to prevent leaks and automate GDPR data mapping and RoPA documentation. It serves engineering and privacy teams by mapping services, APIs, and fields across repos to provide cross-repo context for AI coding agents and code-based evidence for privacy compliance.
Founders & leadership
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Amjad Afanahin𝕏CEO & Co-founderPreviously VP of Product at Cyral and a product management leader at Cruise, he also co-founded APIsec and DCHQ and served as VP of Product at HyperGrid. Earlier in his career he held product roles at VMware and Oracle.
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Joohwan OhinCTO & Co-founderAn engineer who was a founding engineer at Aktos and a software engineer at Meta, with earlier roles at Amazon Web Services, Amazon, and Instacart. He began his career with a software engineering internship at Demonware.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Hounddog do?
- HoundDog.ai offers a privacy code scanner and a dataflow context engine built on a static code-analysis engine, tracing 100+ sensitive data types (PII, PHI, auth tokens) across code paths to prevent leaks and automate GDPR data mapping and RoPA documentation. It serves engineering and privacy teams by mapping services, APIs, and fields across repos to provide cross-repo context for AI coding agents and code-based evidence for privacy compliance.
- Who founded Hounddog?
- Hounddog was founded by Amjad Afanah, Joohwan Oh.
- Who are Hounddog's investors?
- Hounddog's investors include Ex/Ante, Mozilla Ventures, Page One Ventures, The E14 Fund, Propeller Inc..
- Where is Hounddog headquartered?
- Hounddog is headquartered in San Francisco, US.