CyberDive
About CyberDive

Builtbyparentswhogot tiredofguessing.

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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Phone OS built for parents

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Why we exist

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.

The road here

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.

How we work

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 founders

The people you're trusting with your kid.

DJType 3 · INTP

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.

KJType 6 · ISFJ

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.

HKType 7 · ENFJ

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.

Leadership

Running ops & engineering.

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Jordan Arnold

Business Operations Manager

Keeps the trains running. Turns chaos into spreadsheets and spreadsheets into shipping product.

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Siddhesh Rao

Engineering Manager

Runs the engineering org. The reason a release ever leaves the staging branch.

Engineering

The crew that ships the OS.

Android. iOS. ML. Backend. Every engineer here ships to real families on real devices.

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Abhishek Aggarwal

Senior Android Engineer

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Ihtisham Arif

Senior Software Engineer

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Rashmi Bongirwar

Lead ML Engineer

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Elijah Bowers

Senior Software Engineer

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Saketh Emani

Lead Software Engineer

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Raghav Gupta

Android Software Engineer

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Poojitha Konduparti

Software Engineer

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Cibelle Montor

Senior Software Engineer

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Viraj Thakur

Senior Software Engineer

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Abhishek Aggarwal

Senior Android Engineer

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Ihtisham Arif

Senior Software Engineer

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Rashmi Bongirwar

Lead ML Engineer

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Elijah Bowers

Senior Software Engineer

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Saketh Emani

Lead Software Engineer

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Raghav Gupta

Android Software Engineer

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Poojitha Konduparti

Software Engineer

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Cibelle Montor

Senior Software Engineer

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Viraj Thakur

Senior Software Engineer

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Viraj Thakur

Senior Software Engineer

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Cibelle Montor

Senior Software Engineer

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Poojitha Konduparti

Software Engineer

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Raghav Gupta

Android Software Engineer

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Saketh Emani

Lead Software Engineer

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Elijah Bowers

Senior Software Engineer

RB

Rashmi Bongirwar

Lead ML Engineer

IA

Ihtisham Arif

Senior Software Engineer

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Abhishek Aggarwal

Senior Android Engineer

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Viraj Thakur

Senior Software Engineer

CM

Cibelle Montor

Senior Software Engineer

PK

Poojitha Konduparti

Software Engineer

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Raghav Gupta

Android Software Engineer

SE

Saketh Emani

Lead Software Engineer

EB

Elijah Bowers

Senior Software Engineer

RB

Rashmi Bongirwar

Lead ML Engineer

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Ihtisham Arif

Senior Software Engineer

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Abhishek Aggarwal

Senior Android Engineer

The humans who pick up the phone

Sales & Customer Success.

These are the people who actually email you back.

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Phoenix Minor

Sales Associate

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Delaney Zimmerman

Customer Success Manager

Advisors & board

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.