Jesse Posner
Vora
2026, San Francisco, Private AI
Vora Aegis
If someone controls your personal AI, they can control you. Jesse Posner from Vora is building Aegis: a provably secure and loyal AI guardian for every person, one that manages and protects the digital life of the individual it’s dedicated to.
Biography
If someone controls your personal AI, do they control you? Jesse Posner is co-founder and CEO of Vora, where he is building a sovereign device that brings Bitcoin-grade self-custody to AI and personal data. A software engineer with a decade in cryptography, he was the lead engineer behind Bitkey at Block, worked previously at Coinbase, and is an open-source Bitcoin developer known for FROST threshold signatures; he also holds a JD from George Washington University Law School.