Shane Curran

He comes from Dublin, Ireland, and is the eldest of his siblings.⁠[1][2]

He recalled playing computer games from the age of four or five and teaching himself HTML to build cheat websites for games, one of them for Club Penguin; The Irish Times wrote in 2012 that he learned to program when he was six and created several websites.⁠[1][3]

Silicon Republic wrote in November 2011 that he did his first Linux install at six, learned Visual Basic at seven and wrote a simple web browser that he offered for download online; by the age of 11 he had learned languages such as PHP, C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl and Bash, mostly from online material and largely by himself, and he also mentioned a CoderDojo that had started that year. Of how it began he said, “I just sat at a computer and I was interested to see how it worked and I looked inside.”⁠[2]

The same article states that he did a lot of sports, that his teachers often asked him for help with computer problems, and that he used the handle @TechieShane on Twitter. He said, “I’d like to be the owner of a large company,” and named GoogleGoogleGoogle is an American technology company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and incorporated in 1998. It became an Alphabet subsidiary in 2015. Its businesses include internet search, advertising, software platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry’s founders Larry PageLarry PageLarry Page is a computer scientist and co-founder of Google who helped develop PageRank. He previously served as chief executive of Google and Alphabet and remains an Alphabet director.Open the full entry and Sergey Brin as his inspirations.⁠[2]

In November 2011, aged 11, he was working on the website Peoplez.info, which stored people’s names and email addresses in a MySQL database and let visitors browse the people registered and contact them; he entered it in that year’s Junior Spiders Awards.⁠[2][4]

The Irish Times wrote in July 2012 that he had just finished primary school and that the previous year he had worked as a software developer and chief technical officer for CreditCroc, a platform for saving people money on their mobile bills; the phone analytics he built compared a consumer’s usage with the price plans of the different network operators and identified the cheapest. He said that CreditCroc’s founder, Roman Grogan, had contacted him through Twitter and asked him to join.⁠[1]

On Monday, July 30, 2012, aged 12, he launched the software business Libramatic at the Dublin start-up event Dublin Beta. Libramatic was a smartphone- and web-based library system: a book’s ISBN barcode is scanned with a phone camera, the service fetches the book’s details online and stores them in the library’s database, and the book can then be loaned and returned. Silicon Republic wrote that 12 start-ups were presenting that evening; The Irish Times wrote that the event featured 11 start-ups.⁠[3][1]

He said the idea came when his own school spent a large sum on a library system in which every book’s details had to be typed in by hand, which did little to help the librarians. He led the team developing Libramatic, planned to use it at his own school, and said it could serve schools, public libraries and people with home libraries.⁠[3][1]

The Irish Times article, headlined “Chief executive (12),” states that he became one of Ireland’s youngest chief executives and that he was a frequent participant in CoderDojo, where he helped train other children in software and computer programming. Silicon Republic wrote that he often attended James Whelton’s CoderDojo and knew eight programming languages; he said CoderDojo was short of mentors and that the Dublin waiting list was over 300 people.⁠[1][3]

Packy McCormickPacky McCormickPacky McCormick is a writer and venture investor who founded the Not Boring newsletter and Not Boring Capital. He previously worked in investment banking and the flexible workspace business, turned in 2020 to writing focused on technology and business strategy, then took up angel and fund investing, and has been involved in an energy podcast and collaborative writing.Open the full entry’s sponsored deep dive on Evervault, published in Not Boring in April 2022, states that librarians stored all kinds of confidential data in Libramatic, which made him aware of the security risk and led him to study cryptography.⁠[5]

He attended secondary school at Terenure College in Dublin. He said he had wanted to enter the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition since fifth or sixth class in primary school. The Not Boring piece states that he first entered the year after building Libramatic and did not win in 2014, 2015 or 2016; The Irish Times wrote in January 2017 that 2017 was the fourth time he had brought a project to the RDS in Dublin and that he had won the best individual project award at the 2016 exhibition.⁠[6][5][7]

On January 13, 2017, the result of the 53rd BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition was announced at the BT Arena in the RDS, Dublin: Shane Curran, a 16-year-old fifth-year student at Terenure College, was named “BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year 2017.” The announcement was made by Richard Bruton, Ireland’s Minister for Education and Skills, and Shay Walsh, managing director of BT Ireland. More than 1,100 students from 375 schools took part.⁠[8][9][7]

The winning project’s full title was “qCrypt: The quantum-secure, encrypted, data storage solution with multijurisdictional quorum sharding technology.” The Irish Times described it as an easy-to-use encrypted data storage system: data is split and the pieces are stored in several jurisdictions so that they cannot be reassembled even under pressure from a court; he also designed a new key system that he believed was safe from attack by quantum computers, and he said it was as simple to use as any file-transfer product but 40 per cent faster. He spent about six months on research and another four or five months developing the software; the project was prompted by the case in which a court forced Boston College to hand over historical interviews involving former IRA members.⁠[8][7]

The prize consisted of €5,000, the exhibition’s perpetual trophy, a trip to the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands, and the chance to represent Ireland later that year at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Tallinn, Estonia. The judge John Dunnion commented that qCrypt was a novel distributed data storage system giving user data greater protection than was currently available, and that its algorithm had been shown to resist attacks by quantum computers.⁠[8][9]

Silicon Republic wrote that he was the only exhibitor from Terenure College that year and that it was his fourth attempt; after his name was called he said, “It’s phenomenal.” Richard Bruton said it was great that his project was in cybersecurity, an area of huge interest at the time.⁠[10]

An interview published by Newstalk on January 21, 2017 describes him as almost entirely self-taught and of the view that learning works much better when it is self-driven; he opposed making programming compulsory in schools but supported voluntary clubs such as CoderDojo. He said qCrypt had drawn a lot of interest and was a commercially viable idea; he mentioned Patrick CollisonPatrick CollisonPatrick Collison is an entrepreneur who grew up in Ireland. In 2010 he cofounded the payments and financial infrastructure company Stripe with his brother John Collison and serves as its chief executive; he is also a cofounder of the biomedical research organization Arc Institute and has been a director of Meta since 2025.Open the full entry, who had won the same prize in 2005 at 16, and said he wanted to become chief executive of a major global company, adding that he was not mainly motivated by money but wanted to build a tool useful to large numbers of people. He was continuing to prepare for the Leaving Certificate and still planned to go to university.⁠[4]

An Irish Times article of February 16, 2017 described qCrypt further: his key-exchange system double-encrypts data; the data is cut into shards, each sent to a server in a different jurisdiction, at least 20 by his account; segments of the key could be hidden in images by steganography, with different people holding different images; and he suggested sending the person who encrypted the data regular emails, so that if there was no response for a period of time, death would be assumed and the key or key fragments sent to designated recipients. Of his next steps he said, “Commercialisation is definitely on the agenda.”⁠[11]

The Not Boring piece states that on the morning after the win he had twenty or thirty emails from companies that wanted to use the technology; ThinkBusiness likewise wrote in 2019 that companies contacted him after the win about turning the project into a product.⁠[5][12]

On September 22, 2017, he flew to Tallinn, Estonia, to represent Ireland with qCrypt at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS), held from September 22 to 27 with more than 80 projects from 40 countries. He was then a sixth-year student at Terenure College, and on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland he advised students preparing for the next BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition to start their projects early.⁠[13][6]

At the award ceremony on September 26 he was not among the prize winners.⁠[14]

The Irish Times wrote on January 22, 2018 that, aged 18 and still at school, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2018 (technology category) as founder and chief executive of qCrypt, alongside another Irish entrepreneur, Hometree founder Simon Phelan; the article states that qCrypt offered post-quantum security solutions for businesses and that he expected revenue of $5 million in 2018. A University College Dublin news release of January 2019 describes the list as the Forbes “30 under 30” list for Europe.⁠[15][16]

He recalled that during the Easter holidays before his Leaving Certificate he flew to San Francisco to meet the Irish technology community there, which he called the “Irish mafia”; Silicon Republic wrote that he used his BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition connections, including Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison, to reach the Irish business community in Silicon Valley. He said, “24 hours before my Leaving Cert I was flying back from San Francisco where I met investors”; his first stop in Silicon Valley was Sand Hill Road.⁠[17][12][5][18]

Sources date Evervault’s founding differently: The Irish Times wrote in May 2021 that it was founded in June 2018, when he was 18; the same newspaper wrote on May 22, 2020 that he had founded Evervault less than two years earlier, and in January 2021 that the company was about 18 months old; Fora, IrishCentral and Not Boring give 2018, IrishCentral adding that this was shortly after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced; RTÉ and Silicon Republic wrote in October 2019 that it was set up earlier in 2019; and the press page of Evervault’s website states that the company was founded in 2019 in Dublin. IrishCentral wrote that his first act after founding the company was to draw up an eight-step privacy manifesto; the Not Boring piece states that he explained the company as “Stripe for data privacy.”⁠[19][20][21][22][23][5][24][25][26]

The Sunday Independent wrote on August 19, 2018 that, aged 18, he had that week obtained enough Leaving Certificate points to study business and law at University College Dublin but had not yet decided whether to take the place. In the article his company is called Muon and is described as a “Stripe for data privacy” start-up: a software platform helping companies process people’s data securely, drawing on the qCrypt idea of splitting data into shards stored on nodes in different jurisdictions, and developing an identity solution as an alternative to logging in with Facebook, Twitter or LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry accounts. The company then had five remote staff, planned to hire at least 20 people in Dublin, and, the article states, was understood to be raising a seed round likely to amount to several million euro and was already working with at least one well-known US technology giant.⁠[27]

The same article states that he had previously led teams of 20 or 30 contractors but had never hired so many people; he was spending more time in San Francisco, had met Patrick Collison there earlier that year, and planned a San Francisco office focused on business development.⁠[27]

Two University College Dublin news releases, of January 23 and 28, 2019, state that, aged 19, he was a first-year Business and Law undergraduate at the UCD Quinn School of Business and that his cybersecurity start-up Evervault had joined NovaUCD, the university’s start-up centre; Evervault’s software platform let organisations process personal data without seeing, storing or handling it, had by then secured several enterprise customers in the technology sector, was finalising a seed round, and planned to expand its research and development and sales teams substantially in 2019. He said that being based at NovaUCD also helped him combine the company with his undergraduate studies.⁠[28][16]

ThinkBusiness wrote in October 2019 that he was on a leave of absence from University College Dublin, where he had attended three lectures; TechCrunchTechCrunchTechCrunch is an American technology news outlet founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare and headquartered in San Francisco; it mainly covers technology companies, startups, and venture capital, and hosts events such as TechCrunch Disrupt. Its ownership passed successively through AOL, Verizon, and Yahoo, and in 2025 Regent announced its acquisition.Open the full entry wrote the same month that, after finishing secondary school, he spent “a few days” at university before taking a leave of absence to pursue Evervault.⁠[12][18]

On October 16, 2019, Evervault announced a seed round of $3.2 million (€2.9 million as converted by The Irish Times), led by Sequoia CapitalSequoia CapitalSequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972, investing from the seed stage through the growth stage. Its historical investments include Apple, Cisco, Google, YouTube, Airbnb, and Stripe; in 2021 it introduced the Sequoia Capital Fund structure, which can continue to hold public securities, and in 2023 its regional businesses became independent brands and partnerships.Open the full entry with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Frontline Ventures, SV AngelSV AngelSV Angel is a San Francisco venture capital firm cofounded in 2009 by angel investor Ron Conway and former Google executive David Lee. It typically writes small follow-on checks in seed rounds and has invested in companies such as Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox; in 2018 it said it would no longer raise new funds from outside investors, and from 2022 it set up growth funds.Open the full entry and other investors; he was 19. RTÉ wrote in May 2020 that it was Sequoia Capital’s first seed investment in Ireland.⁠[18][29][24][22][25][30]

In January 2020 he described how the investment came about: on a camping trip to Napa Valley with other young founders he met people from Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry for 20 minutes, looking only for advice, at a time when he already had offers from European funds; the next morning he received an email with the subject line “Coffee with Sequoia?”; about a week later Sequoia Capital made an offer, and the deal closed roughly a week after that.⁠[17]

TechCrunch wrote that the product had not launched at the time of the round and that he was chief executive and the company’s only full-time employee, with two more people about to join; The Irish Times wrote the same day that the team numbered three, that he expected it to reach about 15 within a year, and that the money would go to expanding the engineering team in Dublin and bringing the first product to market. He said, “Imposter syndrome is very real,” and that he had never expected firms such as Sequoia Capital to invest in him. Sequoia Capital partner Stephanie ZhanStephanie ZhanStephanie Zhan is an early-stage investing partner at Sequoia Capital who focuses on artificial intelligence, developer tools, and related technology companies. She graduated from Stanford University in computer science, joined Sequoia in 2015, took part in early investments in companies including Linear, Middesk, Rec Room, and Tavus, and serves on the boards of companies including Linear, Reflection, Ricursive Intelligence, and Skild.Open the full entry said he “has a special combination of clear vision, deep thoughtfulness and insatiable curiosity”; Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid said Evervault’s developer-first approach ensured that data privacy became part of the fabric of development instead of an afterthought left for compliance.⁠[18][29]

The ThinkBusiness interview states that he planned to hire in Dublin, which he considered still a great place to build a product, but did not rule out moving to San Francisco as the company grew; he said cryptography was his core passion and the field on which he had spent the most years, and added, “You can still build a nice nine-figure business in Ireland.” Of his investor he said, “Sequoia is working off a $6bn fund and to get a shot is amazing.”⁠[12]

During the 2020 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition he sat down with Ann O’Dea, founder and curator of Future Human, at a Future Human pop-up event, the Future Human Leaders’ Lunch; Silicon Republic published its account on January 16, 2020. He said that, given the size of the data privacy problem, Evervault wanted to become one of the biggest companies in the world, worth more than $100 billion, with a focus on the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry first; he held that European venture capital can often hinder the companies it invests in. Of his school years he said, “I spent a couple of years being kind of a normal enough teenager,” and the article adds that he then did what teenage boys do and followed the herd to Magaluf on holiday. The article also notes that Evervault had published a “Pragmatic Privacy Manifesto.”⁠[17]

On May 21, 2020, Evervault announced a Series A round led by Index VenturesIndex VenturesIndex Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996. It invests from seed through growth and operates across London, San Francisco and New York, supporting technology companies through a transatlantic network.Open the full entry; the company’s announcement gives $16.4 million, while Index Ventures’ announcement and several news outlets give $16 million. Existing investors Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Frontline Ventures took part again, and the individual investors included former LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner, Figma chief executive Dylan FieldDylan FieldDylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma and an angel investor. He studied computer science and mathematics at Brown University, explored browser-based design tools with Evan Wallace, and founded Figma in 2012 with support from the Thiel Fellowship. His personal history also includes collecting digital art and investing in companies such as Mercury and Socket.Open the full entry, Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, Datadog chief executive Olivier Pomel and former Facebook chief security officer Alex StamosAlex StamosAlex Stamos is an American cybersecurity expert who served as chief information security officer of Yahoo, chief security officer of Facebook and founding director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, and has been chief information security officer of SentinelOne since 2024.Open the full entry. Index Ventures’ announcement states that Ari Helgason led the investment and that the company had raised more than $19 million in total. The Irish Times gave his age as 20.⁠[31][32][20][30]

CNBCCNBCCNBC is an American business and financial news cable channel launched by NBC in 1989; it merged with its rival FNN in 1991 and since January 2026 has been part of Versant Media Group, spun off from Comcast.Open the full entry wrote that he had met Index Ventures in a Dublin coffee shop the previous autumn, that funding talks got properly under way around late February and early March, that the presentations were made and the term sheets agreed remotely, and that the round closed earlier in May; his talks with Alex Stamos were conducted entirely in remote meetings, and he had still not met Stamos in person. Evervault then had eight employees, its software was not yet public, it planned to sell first to financial services and health care companies, and plans to expand beyond its Dublin headquarters were on hold.⁠[33][23]

Announcing the round he said, “Regulation makes data privacy complex; technology makes data privacy simple,” and that the company aimed to distill what the GDPR did in 99 articles down to a line of code; he also wrote in a blog post that funding announcements and the glamour that goes with them are a complete distraction and that the company should be judged only on the execution of its “grand plan.” A photo caption in IrishCentral’s article states that he had spoken at the previous year’s Web Summit in Lisbon.⁠[20][34][23]

On December 30, 2020, the Thiel Foundation announced the 2020 class of the Thiel FellowshipThiel FellowshipThe Thiel Fellowship is a two-year grant program started by investor Peter Thiel and run by the Thiel Foundation that funds young people who skip or stop out of college to build new things instead. The program has been criticized by figures in education for encouraging young people to leave college.Open the full entry, 24 people in all, among them Shane Curran, whose hometown is listed as Dublin, Ireland. The announcement describes his project as follows: Evervault is building a data protection solution that helps developers encrypt sensitive data as soon as it leaves the user’s device. The announcement states that fellows receive $100,000 and mentorship over the two-year programme.⁠[35]

In January 2021, aged 20, he spoke at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, held as a virtual event; The Irish Times published its account on January 8. He said the competition had taught him to pitch and explain a project to different audiences; that people tend to underestimate what teenagers can do with enough ambition and support, that given the right space they can make significant products, and that young people are often reluctant to back themselves—“Those that do are the ones who do best.” He held that building digital products is about being obsessed with customers rather than chasing funding, and said he spent most of his time coding and writing well-crafted cold emails to potential customers. Of meeting other past winners, he said it was more like spending time with friends than trying to impress one another.⁠[21]

The Irish Times wrote on May 4, 2021 that, aged 21, he planned to add about 20 people to Evervault within a year, the company then employing eight; he said, “Basically the plan is to keep hiring forever.” The company’s solution was not yet publicly available and was used by a small number of companies, among them the drone-delivery firm Manna; Evervault recorded a loss of $279,946 (€232,891) in its first year of operations and had raised close to $20 million to date.⁠[19]

In the same article he said that encrypting all data was the company’s ultimate goal, that he was not the biggest fan of regulation, that the past decade had been about addressing data privacy through regulation and the next would be about addressing it through technology, and that “European privacy regulation is just antitrust in a trench coat.” He said the company’s core product was trust and that it had gone for radical transparency from day one, showing everyone how everything is built.⁠[19]

Packy McCormick’s piece in Not Boring, published on April 14, 2022 and marked as a “Sponsored Deep Dive” paid for by Evervault, calls him the company’s 22-year-old founder and chief executive. It lists Evervault’s products at the time: the Evervault Encryption Engine (E3) on which the others are built, Relay, Cages, Inputs (rolled out around early April 2022 and aimed at PCI DSS compliance), and 12:18:24, a consumer product launched in February 2022 by the Evervault Encryption Lab that lets individuals encrypt and store cryptocurrency seed phrases. In the piece he says that once a company encrypts with Evervault, “they could put their database on a billboard and no one could get at the data.”⁠[5]

On July 6, 2022, Turing Fest published a question-and-answer piece with him ahead of his talk, “Building Security Into The Beginning Of The Development Cycle,” at Turing Fest 2022, held in Edinburgh on July 27–28. It states that Evervault had raised $19.4 million from firms such as Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, SV Angel and Frontline Ventures. He argued that sensitive data should be encrypted before it reaches a company’s infrastructure and that some encryption is better than none; he held that a company should build a suite of products for different buyers within one customer, as MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft is a technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, with businesses spanning Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, gaming and devices.Open the full entry did in the 1980s and 1990s, rather than a single narrow tool; and his advice to founders was to be “stubborn on vision, flexible on details,” a phrase he attributed to Jeff BezosJeff BezosJeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Amazon in 1994, led it as chief executive for many years, and became its executive chair in 2021. He also founded the spaceflight company Blue Origin, bought The Washington Post in 2013, and set up philanthropic funds including the Bezos Earth Fund.Open the full entry. In hiring, once a baseline of technical ability is met, he ranked cohesion with the existing team above intelligence; everyone at Evervault worked in the office every day. He said he had never been to Edinburgh and planned to see the castle.⁠[36][37]

Turing Fest’s speaker biography states that he also invests in early-stage start-ups and scouts for Sequoia Capital, and that he has worked extensively on data privacy, mostly at academic institutions, medical laboratories and other settings that handle highly sensitive data.⁠[37]

On July 12, 2023, Evervault released “Meet your hosts,” the first episode of its podcast Decrypt, hosted by him and Liz Moy, Evervault’s Developer Advocate Lead. The show invites security and engineering leaders to discuss how their teams protect sensitive customer data and was planned to appear every other Wednesday. Its Apple Podcasts page shows 10 episodes, released in 2023 and 2024.⁠[38][39]

On May 16, 2024, writing on Evervault’s website as founder and chief executive, he announced a modular payments security platform that included a Network Tokens API, for creating network tokens for cards on file and enrolling merchants in the card networks’ tokenization schemes, and a Card Insights API. He wrote that data security products are usually bought to reduce risk or streamline compliance and seldom to increase revenue; that the payments industry is fragmenting; and that components such as payments iFrames, 3D Secure, fraud prevention, tokenization and processing have typically been bundled by the payment processor, so that unbundling them frees merchants from being locked in to their existing processor.⁠[40]

On March 5, 2026, he announced on Evervault’s website a $25 million Series B round led by Ribbit CapitalRibbit CapitalRibbit Capital is a venture-capital firm founded in 2012 by Meyer “Micky” Malka and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It began with financial-technology investing and has expanded into AI, commerce and related infrastructure. Its investments include Coinbase, Robinhood and Nubank.Open the full entry, with continued support from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Next Play Ventures and with Operator Partners as a new investor, bringing the company’s total funding to $46 million.⁠[41][42]

The announcement and news articles of the same day give these figures: more than $5 billion in transaction volume processed over the past year, more than 100 million encrypted tokens generated each month, revenue up more than fourfold year on year, and integrations with more than 7,000 banks and financial institutions; the customers named in the announcement are CarTrawler, Overwolf, RampRampRamp is a corporate financial technology company founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh and Gene Lee. It provides corporate cards, expense reimbursement, bill payments, procurement and finance automation. Glyman and Atiyeh became co-CEOs in June 2026.Open the full entry, Rippling and Uniswap, and The Irish Times wrote that the company had hundreds of customers worldwide. SiliconANGLE wrote that under Evervault’s model the customer stores the encrypted data while Evervault holds the keys, with cryptographic operations running in Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing business of Amazon. Launched in July 2002, it made its public debut with the Amazon S3 storage service on March 14, 2006, and has since added hundreds of services, including Amazon EC2; its segment net sales were about $46.0 billion in the third quarter of 2026.Open the full entry Nitro Enclaves; he said customers save about $100,000 a year in compliance-related costs.⁠[41][42][43]

In the announcement he wrote, “Sensitive data is hazardous material,” and said the company intended to build a “clearinghouse” for sensitive data that lets companies share, enrich and route information without taking custody of it; The Irish Times wrote that the money would go to research and development, to growing the end-to-end encryption platform and to enlarging the engineering team. Justin Saslaw, a general partner at Ribbit Capital, said the amount of sensitive data flowing through digital systems was exploding.⁠[41][42]

As of November 2026, the careers page of Evervault’s website lists him as Founder & CEO; the page shows 45 team members and open roles based in New York and London.⁠[44]

Sources give only his age at particular dates: 11 in Silicon Republic on November 25, 2011; 12 in The Irish Times on July 31, 2012; 16 in The Irish Times, Newstalk and TheJournal.ie on January 13, 2017, 17 in The Irish Times on February 16, 2017, and still 16 in Silicon Republic on September 27, 2017; 18 in The Irish Times on January 22, 2018; 19 in a University College Dublin release on January 28, 2019; 19 in CNBC on May 21, 2020 and 20 in The Irish Times on May 22, 2020, where a photo caption also gives his age at the 2017 win as 17; and 21 in The Irish Times on May 4, 2021.⁠[2][1][7][8][9][11][14][15][16][33][20][19]

Evervault: Official website: https://evervault.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[45]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[46]

X: Public account: https://x.com/arcurn (opens in a new window).⁠[40]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanemcurran (opens in a new window).⁠[37]