About Validin

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We’re making superior domain and IP intelligence accessible for individuals and organizations to protect and defend their networks and customers.
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Our Vision

We are building the platform that provides the single most essential view of the global public internet for cyber threat intelligence. We never stop developing and improving Validin to help security teams stop cybercriminals and hunt APTs.

Our History

2019

DNS Collection Begins

Kenneth Kinion, prior to founding Validin, begins work on proactive domain name discovery and resolution, creating an independent and unique data source for detailed DNS history.

2021

Validin Founded

Validin is officially founded and serves its first customers.

2023

Community Launched

Validin adds registration and host response data collection and launches the Validin Community platform in Fall 2023 with DNS pivoting and filtering capabilities.

Late 2024

Widespread Adoption and Port Crawling.

Validin crosses 3000 individual users and customers from hundreds of organizations worldwide. Validin also adds dozens of ports to its regular internet scanning, giving users unparalleled visibility into the internet.
 

2020

Heavy Investment in Proactive Discovery

Kenneth builds a robust pipeline for proactively and insightfully public reporting data across billions of domain names.

2022

Product Maturation

Validin invests in the massive scalability required to process, index, and interface with years of historic data with unparalleled detail.

2024

Validin 2.0 Launched

Validin launches a unified platform with DNS, host response, certificate, OSINT, and registration annotations and pivoting capabilities.

2025

Rapid Growth

Validin starts collecting full HTML responses, enabling deep, precision searches using YARA rules; adds Threat Actor Profiles to track thousands of publicly-reported named threats and develops an advanced search syntax for fine-tuned query capabilities.

2019

DNS Collection Begins

Kenneth Kinion, prior to founding Validin, begins work on proactive domain name discovery and resolution, creating an independent and unique data source for detailed DNS history.

2020

Heavy Investment in Proactive Discovery

Kenneth builds a robust pipeline for proactively and insightfully public reporting data across billions of domain names.

2021

Validin Founded

Validin is officially founded and serves its first customers.

2022

Product Maturation

Validin invests in the massive scalability required to process, index, and interface with years of historic data with unparalleled detail.

2023

Community Launched

Validin adds registration and host response data collection and launches the Validin Community platform in Fall 2023 with DNS pivoting and filtering capabilities.

2024

Validin 2.0 Launched

Validin launches a unified platform with DNS, host response, certificate, OSINT, and registration annotations and pivoting capabilities.

Late 2024

Widespread Adoption and Port Crawling.

Validin crosses 3000 individual users and customers from hundreds of organizations worldwide. Validin also adds dozens of ports to its regular internet scanning, giving users unparalleled visibility into the internet.

2025

Rapid Growth

Validin starts collecting full HTML responses, enabling deep, precision searches using YARA rules; adds Threat Actor Profiles to track thousands of publicly-reported named threats and develops an advanced search syntax for fine-tuned query capabilities.

Leadership

Learn about the key innovators behind Validin's next-generation internet-intelligence platform.

Kenneth Kinion

Founder and CEO

Kenneth brings deep experience in software and data engineering to Validin. He started working in security data analytics with large datasets in 2008 when he graduated from Georgia Tech. He joined Microsoft to help find malicious activity through bulk data analysis. He’s worked on very high-scale data and services at Amazon in Seattle and moved back to Atlanta to work for and with numerous Atlanta-based security startups.

Before graduating college, Kenneth worked as an embedded software engineer, writing C and assembly language programs for very low-resource microcontroller applications. He’s spent time in test, development, and research roles.

Sreekar Madabushi

Founding Engineer

Sreekar brings a wealth of engineering and academic experience to Validin’s engineering team. With a variety of academic interests, Sreekar is especially passionate about discovering cyber threats and working with big data sets. In his time at Validin, Sreekar has been instrumental in accelerating major product launches while driving development of Validin’s next-generation internet intelligence platform. He has also presented at multiple research conferences, exporing the latest cyber threats in the landscape.

Prior to Validin, Sreekar was a two-time contestant on Jeopardy! and previously interned with Amazon and the U.S. Navy. Sreekar holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Elliot Roe

Software Engineer

Elliot brings a mix of engineering, product, and user-experience focus to Validin. A Computer Science graduate from Georgia Tech with concentrations in information networks and UI/UX.

Before joining Validin, Elliot founded and grew education-focused nonprofit and for-profit ventures, developing software used across the K-12 and higher education sectors.

At Validin, Elliot focuses on shaping how dense, internet-scale data is surfaced and explored, ensuring the platform feels powerful, clear, and aligned with user expectations. He is passionate about creating an unmatched experience for searching and understanding the internet.

John Head

GTM and Strategy Lead

Tom Hegel

Advisor

An accomplished cybersecurity researcher and a leader in the threat intelligence space, with a background of tracking some of the most interesting and unique threat actors globally. Tom’s dedication lies in driving cutting-edge cyber threat intelligence and research, collaborating with top-tier analysts and organizations worldwide.

As a Distinguished Threat Researcher and Research Lead at SentinelLabs, Tom spearheads investigations into the most sophisticated nation-state and criminal threat actors, uncovering operations from adversaries across Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, India, and beyond. His work has led to the discovery of new mercenary groups, emerging geopolitical cyber campaigns, and critical insights into global conflicts.

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