Find your path to Ariana
278 people in our graph share verified history with Ariana — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
Doug NealunlockedAriana: together at University of Michigan (2012–2013)
Ariana: together at Censys
×3Ariana: together at UC San Diego
×2Ariana: together at RetailMeNot, Inc.
About
Ariana Mirian is a cofounder at BeeSafe AI with over a decade of experience in security research and measurement science. She previously worked at Censys, Google Chrome, and UCSD, where she focused on large-scale security analysis.
Founder at BeeSafe AIYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Ariana went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran BeeSafe AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ariana can intro founders to BeeSafe AI's investors below.
BeeSafe AI's investors · 3
Co-founders at BeeSafe AI
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Daniel SpokoynyFounder & CEO
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Nikolai VoglerFounder
Experience
- BeeSafe AICo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- CensysSenior Security Researcher2023 — 2026
- UC San DiegoResearcher, ITS Security2021 — 2023
- UC San DiegoPHD Student2016 — 2023
- GoogleSoftware Engineer Internship2017
- University of MichiganUndergraduate Researcher2014 — 2016
- RetailMeNot, Inc.Product Manager Intern2014
- StrykerEngineering Challenge2013Kalamzoo, Michigan
- MHacksHacker2013Ann Arbor, MI
- Technische Universität BerlinProject Team Leader2013Berlin, Germany
Skills & more
Data AnalysisSecurityInformation TechnologyC++/C1HTML1CSSJavaScript1jQueryPython1RubyC++5
Languages Farsi · German
From Ariana's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ariana Mirian?
- Ariana Mirian is a cofounder at BeeSafe AI with over a decade of experience in security research and measurement science. She previously worked at Censys, Google Chrome, and UCSD, where she focused on large-scale security analysis.
- Where does Ariana Mirian work?
- Ariana Mirian is Founder of BeeSafe AI.
- What companies did Ariana Mirian found?
- Ariana Mirian founded BeeSafe AI.
- Where did Ariana Mirian go to school?
- Ariana Mirian studied at UC San Diego (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); University of Michigan (BS, Computer Science and Engineering); Technische Universität Berlin.
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Y Combinator mafia10,230
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University of Michigan mafia339
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UC San Diego mafia235
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Technische Universität Berlin mafia58
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Censys mafia2
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Shared employers
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