TC Disrupt Limited Series - Valentine Wats - CTO - Excelitte

10/26/23 • 18 min

On this week’s episode of the Full Stack Leader, we are talking to Valentine Wats at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.
Valentine is the CTO and a co-founder of Excelitte, a service that instantly converts your data in a spreadsheet to a web-based software database application, automatically encrypting your data, providing access to it only after 3-Factor authentication. Excelitte instantly encrypts your computer or cloud-based files of any format, ensuring that your files can’t be ‘ransomwared’, stolen, or lost.
During our conversation, Valentine talks about cybersecurity, emphasizing the shift towards data protection in the era of remote work. He also advocates for a multi-layered approach to security, stressing the need to safeguard data in an age of unprecedented data generation and sharing.

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