Sovereign power, rising.
Veldris, from Old Norse veldi, dominion, sovereign power, and rísa, to rise. The name states the thesis: sovereignty is not granted by a vendor. It is held, your data, your models, your keys, on your hardware.
Where this comes from
Veldris was founded by JB Benjamin, previously founder of Kryotech and Djinn Technologies, and James Bowater, founder of Crypto AM and The Digital Commonwealth. It is built in the Midlands, UK.
The post-quantum sealing lineage comes from Kryotech's Vox Messenger, which demonstrated post-quantum end-to-end encryption in the consumer space: adoption measured at 400,000+ across Google Play, the Amazon Appstore and direct downloads, counted by user cards created on Virgil Security's Pythia servers through the e3Kit SDK. Those are Vox Messenger users, not Veldris traction; what transfers is the demonstration, which survives inside Midgard as the Seal action. The computer-vision lineage comes from Djinn's SpatialScan3D, end-to-end volumetric 3D video production.
Neither system was a demo. Both shipped, and both taught the same lesson: the only guarantees that hold are the ones built into the architecture.
| Founded by | JB Benjamin · James Bowater |
| Built in | Midlands, United Kingdom |
| Registered name | Veldris Ltd · England and Wales |
| Company number | 17366869 |
| Incorporated | 28 July 2026 |
| Patents | Two granted post-quantum sealing patent families |
| Cyber Essentials | certified 2026-08-26 · whole organisation |
| ICO registration | ZC222667 · data controller · Tier 1 |
| Data Protection Officer | JB Webb-Benjamin · jb.benjamin@veldris.io |
| Registered office | 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom |
| Telephone | 0203 195 3829 · Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00 UK time |
| Sealing lineage | Vox Messenger · PQ E2E demonstrated at consumer scale |
| Vision lineage | SpatialScan3D · volumetric 3D video |
| Licence | Open-source core · OSI licence |
Personal before institutional
Data sovereignty belongs to people before it belongs to institutions. Everything Veldris builds is natively post-quantum encrypted, open source, and local-inference only, because you should not have to be a government to own your data.
Palantir named itself after a seeing-stone that deceives whoever looks into it. We think infrastructure this consequential should be the opposite: readable, to the last line.
Veldris is a forever company: infrastructure meant to outlive its founders. Open source, reproducible builds, documented governance, built to be inspected, forked, and continued by others.
Centuries, not quarters
Planning for forever changes engineering decisions today. It is why the cryptography assumes the computers of the 2040s. It is why every release is reproducible from source with a signed SBOM. It is why the exit, forking the whole platform, is documented rather than obstructed. A forever company doesn't ask for trust; it makes itself replaceable, and earns permanence by being worth keeping.
Who holds the pen
Veldris is run by its founding team, JB Benjamin (chief executive), James Bowater (chief strategy), Alan Boyd (chief technology) and Luke Kovic (commercial director), with Deepak Jassal as chief operating officer, Filip Talac as chief information security officer, and a non-executive board chaired by Jonathan Berry, Viscount Camrose, alongside Janet Adams, António Beja, Dr. Barry Childe, Lord Ranger of Northwood and Adriana Ennab. Meet the team →
Everything Open. Nothing Exposed.