Fencer is the platform we wish we had.
Every CTO at a growing startup is making the same quiet trade-off, every week. Ship the feature or fix the vulnerability. Prep for the upcoming audit or review the PR. Manage another vendor or get back to building the product.
Most security tools weren't built for startups. Enterprise platforms assume dedicated security teams. Free scanners produce noise. Compliance tools tell you what to do but don't do the work. So you cobble together what you can but the patchwork becomes the bottleneck.
Tim Olshansky was that CTO. 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.
This road traveled led us to build Fencer. Full-stack security for startups, built for the stage you're at, scaling into what comes next.
— Vladik Rikhter & Tim Olshansky, Co-Founders, Fencer
Vladik is CEO and co-founder of Fencer. 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.
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Tim is President and co-founder of Fencer and 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.
Full-stack security for startups, shaped by three convictions.
Enterprise platforms assume dedicated teams you don't have. Point solutions solve pieces in isolation. Fencer was built for the team that has to do the work right now and engineered to grow with you from there.
Compliance tools tell you what security work needs to be done. Fencer does it. Scanning across code, cloud, network, and infrastructure; threat detection through an integrated SIEM; vulnerabilities found, prioritized, and fixed.
Tim Olshansky was the CTO running security on top of everything else, cobbling ten tools into a stack that kind of worked. Fencer is the product he needed then.
Make things as easy as possible for the end user
Speed is critical, but not at the cost of really hurting ourselves
Speak plainly
Ensure we deliver
