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CyberDive is the team behind Aqua One, the world's first smartphone with full visibility into a child's device. Founded in 2017 by a U.S. Army intelligence officer who saw what apps couldn't catch, and built the OS that finally could.
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Frames leave the device
Phones became a black hole.
Bark, Qustodio, Screen Time, Circle, every monitoring tool parents had heard of ran as an app on top of iOS or Android. Apps live in sandboxes. Sandboxes mean kids can walk around them.
We tried that approach for two years. We watched our own app get bypassed by 11-year-olds. So we did the only thing that was actually going to work: we wrote the operating system underneath.
If it shows up on screen, we see it.
Incognito doesn't matter. Encryption doesn't matter.
From Army intel to your kitchen counter.
2014
It starts in Army intelligence
Derek is commissioned as a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer. He learns the difference between a tool that works and a tool that's just a dashboard.
2016
Two years overseas
Tracking threats in real environments. The toolkit assumes you can see what's happening. He realizes parents have nothing close.
2017
CyberDive is founded
Derek lands in Silicon Valley. The mission: build the visibility layer parents need, with the rigor of intelligence-grade tooling.
2020
COVID forces our hand
Kids' screen time doubles overnight. The first CyberDive app launches. We learn quickly that an app on iOS will never be enough.
2022
First Aqua One ships
We give up on apps and build the operating system itself. The first generation of Aqua One ships to U.S. families.
2024
Pixel 9 + Unite OS
Aqua One gets rebuilt on Google Pixel 9 hardware. Nudity Prevention launches. Roblox chat-filter bypass detection ships.
2025
Aqua X for recovery
Recovery centers ask if we can help. We launch Aqua X, tiered devices for residential addiction recovery, replacing blanket phone bans.
Four rules we don't bend.
Ship like the kids are real
Because they are. Every week we don't ship is a week another kid sees something they can't unsee.
Data over opinions
We measure everything, false positives, latency, alert fatigue. If we can't prove it works, we don't ship it.
Genuinely care
Every email gets answered by a human, usually inside the day. We answer the hard questions parents actually ask.
Never give up
Apps can be uninstalled. Filters can be bypassed. We rebuilt the whole operating system because nothing less was actually going to work.
The people you're trusting with your kid.
Derek Jackson
Co-Founder & CEO
U.S. Army intelligence officer turned founder. Spent two years overseas tracking threats with the same tools that should exist for parents, but didn't. Built CyberDive to fix that.
Resident hacker. Sleeps rarely.
Kelli Jackson
Co-Founder & CPO
The emotional compass of the company. Keeps every product decision tied to what real parents and kids actually need, not what looks good in a deck.
Translates engineer-speak into parent-speak.
Harshini Kanukuntla
CTO
Machine learning engineer who built the on-device detection stack from scratch. Ships fast, ships often, and refuses to let any frame leave the device.
Turns research papers into shipping code.
Running ops & engineering.
Jordan Arnold
Business Operations Manager
Keeps the trains running. Turns chaos into spreadsheets and spreadsheets into shipping product.
Siddhesh Rao
Engineering Manager
Runs the engineering org. The reason a release ever leaves the staging branch.
The crew that ships the OS.
Android. iOS. ML. Backend. Every engineer here ships to real families on real devices.
Abhishek Aggarwal
Senior Android Engineer
Ihtisham Arif
Senior Software Engineer
Rashmi Bongirwar
Lead ML Engineer
Elijah Bowers
Senior Software Engineer
Saketh Emani
Lead Software Engineer
Raghav Gupta
Android Software Engineer
Poojitha Konduparti
Software Engineer
Cibelle Montor
Senior Software Engineer
Viraj Thakur
Senior Software Engineer
Abhishek Aggarwal
Senior Android Engineer
Ihtisham Arif
Senior Software Engineer
Rashmi Bongirwar
Lead ML Engineer
Elijah Bowers
Senior Software Engineer
Saketh Emani
Lead Software Engineer
Raghav Gupta
Android Software Engineer
Poojitha Konduparti
Software Engineer
Cibelle Montor
Senior Software Engineer
Viraj Thakur
Senior Software Engineer
Viraj Thakur
Senior Software Engineer
Cibelle Montor
Senior Software Engineer
Poojitha Konduparti
Software Engineer
Raghav Gupta
Android Software Engineer
Saketh Emani
Lead Software Engineer
Elijah Bowers
Senior Software Engineer
Rashmi Bongirwar
Lead ML Engineer
Ihtisham Arif
Senior Software Engineer
Abhishek Aggarwal
Senior Android Engineer
Viraj Thakur
Senior Software Engineer
Cibelle Montor
Senior Software Engineer
Poojitha Konduparti
Software Engineer
Raghav Gupta
Android Software Engineer
Saketh Emani
Lead Software Engineer
Elijah Bowers
Senior Software Engineer
Rashmi Bongirwar
Lead ML Engineer
Ihtisham Arif
Senior Software Engineer
Abhishek Aggarwal
Senior Android Engineer
Sales & Customer Success.
These are the people who actually email you back.
Phoenix Minor
Sales Associate
Delaney Zimmerman
Customer Success Manager
The bench we lean on.
Sabeer Bhatia
Senior Advisor
Co-founder, Hotmail (acquired by Microsoft for $400M)
Robert S. Basso
Board Member
Founder of Basso Financial · former UBS / Merrill Lynch
Bill Drury
Senior Advisor
Co-founder, Make-A-Wish · AZ Top 100 Lawyer
John Bonamego
Senior Advisor
34-year NFL & college football coach
Brandon Guffey
Senior Advisor
SC State Representative · Gavin's Law sponsor
Jackie Henretig, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist
Licensed CA & AZ · cognitive-behavioral therapy
Now go see what we actually built.
Aqua One is shipping. The dashboard is live. Recovery centers are piloting Aqua X. Pick your path.