# Traceforce

[Traceforce on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/traceforce)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.traceforce.ai/)
- Crunchbase
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/traceforce)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/traceforce-security)

## About

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## YC company profile

CrowdStrike for AI Agents

AI apps such as ChatGPT and Claude have become part of everyone's daily workflow, but they introduce new security risks that traditional security tools weren't built to handle. Security teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500s, are struggling to keep up.

Traceforce gives a company’s security team visibility of how AI apps are being used across company’s devices, and the ability to detect and prevent security breaches and unsafe actions as early as possible.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2025
- **Team size:** 2
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** SaaS, Security, Cybersecurity, Enterprise, AI
- **YC partner:** Brad Flora

## Founders

### Xia Hua — Founder/CEO

Founder at Traceforce. Previously Director of Engineering at Clumio, managing all flagship ransomware protection products. PhD in Applied Math from MIT.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xia-hua-ph-d-28856a30/)

### Varun Wadhwa — Founder/CTO

Co-founder & CTO at TraceForce. Previously Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, leading high-performance database systems for RAG. Before that, Staff Software Engineer at Clumio, leading distributed data infrastructure and backup. Earlier built distributed payments systems at Microsoft. BS in EECS, UC Berkeley.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/varunwadhwarcds)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/traceforce) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Varun Wadhwa](https://hacklab.so/varun-wadhwa) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Xia Hua](https://hacklab.so/xia-hua) — Founder/CEO (Present)