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We've cobbled the same stack you're running

Fencer is the platform we wish we had.

Our Story

The trade-off no one should have to make

Whoever owns security is making the same quiet trade-off, every week. Chase the finding or ship the fix. Prep the audit or work the actual risk. Manage another vendor or get back to work that matters. Sometimes it’s a CTO who inherited security by default. Increasingly it’s a first security hire, or a small team, outnumbered by the work.

Most security tools weren't built for this. Enterprise platforms assume a security org you’re still building. Free scanners produce noise. Compliance tools tell you what to do but don't do the work. So you cobble together what you can and the patchwork becomes the bottleneck.

Tim Olshansky lived it. As CTO of a fast-growing startup, he'd built the team, shipped the product, owned SOC 2, and assembled ten security tools cobbled into a stack that kind of worked. Vladik watched too many founders make the same trade-off, sprint after sprint, until the patchwork became the bottleneck, and the security work outran the people doing it.

This road traveled led us to build Fencer. An AI-native platform that handles the security work across your attack surface, and escalates only the decisions that need a human. Built for whoever owns security today, and engineered to scale as the function does.

— Vladik Rikhter & Tim Olshansky, Co-Founders, Fencer

Leadership

Vladik Rikhter

CEO and co-founder of Fencer

Vladik previously, he was the CEO and co-founder of Zenput, a leading operations execution platform for chain restaurants, convenience stores, and grocers. Prior to its acquisition by Crunchtime, Zenput grew to serve over 75,000 locations across 100+ countries supporting brands like Chipotle’s, Domino’s, and KFC. Vladik graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering.

Tim Olshansky

President and co-founder of Fencer

Tim is a seasoned senior executive and entrepreneur. He served as Chief Product & Technology Officer at Crunchtime (after the Zenput acquisition), where he launched products serving safety and compliance-minded brands like Chipotle and Burger King; was CTO at Aconex (ASX:ACX) working with security conscious government agencies and contractors like the US DoD and Bechtel following the acquisition of his startup Worksite; among other successful exits and teams. He holds degrees in Law and Physics from the University of Sydney.

What we built

One AI-native platform, shaped by three convictions.

Built for your stage, not scaled down for it

Enterprise platforms assume a security org you don't have. Point solutions solve pieces in isolation. Fencer was built for the person who owns security today, and engineered to grow as the function does.

Handles the tactical work for you

Finding problems was never the hard part; doing the work is. Fencer's AI triages and fixes what it can across your attack surface, and escalates the decisions that need a human.

Compliance claims it, Fencer proves it

A SOC 2 badge says you passed an audit. It doesn't mean the work got done. Fencer does the real security behind the certificate, so your posture holds up when someone actually looks.