Company
Built by people who fought fraud at scale
We help platforms stop bad actors without ever learning who anyone is.

Our mission
Platforms shouldn't have to choose between safety and privacy.
The internet is filling with bots, AI agents, and people who come right back after they're banned. The usual fix asks everyone for more: an ID, a selfie, a phone number. Good users pay in friction and data for what a few bad actors do. Helix ends that tradeoff. We verify the person, not the paperwork, and we never learn who they are. Platforms stay accountable. Users stay anonymous.
Who we are
We've sat in your seat.
Our team includes fraud and data science leaders from Ticketmaster and Tinder. One of us also helped create Siri. Now we’re building the voice check we always wished we had.
Verified Fan
Built the bot protection platform Ticketmaster acquired in 2017.
Zillow
Led data services and a team of more than 100 engineers.
Tinder
Built the original matching algorithm and the first data team.
Leadership
The people behind Helix

Alex Oberg
Co-founder & CEO
Sold his first startup to Ticketmaster in 2017 (via Techstars Boston), which became Verified Fan, the world’s largest bot protection platform. Alex spent the years after watching the same defenses he helped build get steadily defeated by AI, and started Helix to do it right the second time.
LinkedIn: Alex Oberg
Anna Dorofiyenko
Co-founder & CTO
Mathematician-turned-engineer with a Master’s from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Most recently VP of Data Services at Zillow, where she led a team of 100+ engineers managing backend systems at scale. Anna owns Helix’s signal architecture and the on-device inference stack.
LinkedIn: Anna Dorofiyenko
Mike Hall
Co-founder & CPO
Former Marine and UCLA-trained data scientist. Built the original Tinder matching algorithm and founded its first data team. At Helix, Mike leads product and the ML research team responsible for the voice age estimator and the synthetic-voice detector.
LinkedIn: Mike Hall
Tell us where fraud hurts you most.
Pick one flow and we'll show you how Helix helps. Nothing else in your stack has to change.
