Feb 11, 2025
As the CEO of Infiltron, Chasity Lourde Wright is also a former USAF Aerospace Engineer, Intel Officer, and Cybersecurity Instructor with extensive experience in cybersecurity, AI governance, and national security. She was part of the team that developed reconfiguration capabilities for the USAF C-130 and contributed to the creation of the CMMC framework since its inception in 2019. Additionally, she has engaged in high-level cybersecurity and AI governance initiatives, including industry collaborations, government advisory roles, and proprietary innovations in quantum-resistant encryption, AI security, and blockchain-based compliance solutions.
Her expertise extends beyond participating in NIST challenges, encompassing leading-edge cybersecurity development, policy influence, and defense sector innovations.
You can find out more about Chasity and Infiltron at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/infiltronsoftwaresuite/
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01:19
Welcome back to the Founder's Sandbox. I am Brenda McCabe, your
host of this monthly podcast in which I bring entrepreneurs,
founders, corporate directors, and professional service providers
who, like me, want to effectuate change in the world by building
resilient, scalable, and purpose-driven companies. I like to
recreate a fun sandbox environment with my guests. And we will
touch on not only their purpose,
01:47
and what has driven them to create their own businesses. But also
we're going to touch upon topics such as resilience,
purpose-driven, and scalable sustainable growth. Today, I am
absolutely delighted to have as my guest Chasity Wright. Welcome,
Chasity. Hey. Thank you for having me.
02:13
Super excited to talk about how Infiltron has evolved and the
lessons learned and how we're preparing to relaunch in 2025.
Excellent. And it's perfect timing because I've known you for a
couple of years now. Yeah. Right. So Chasity is CEO and founder of
Infiltron Software Suite, a company that's headquartered out of
Atlanta.
02:40
She is oftentimes in Los Angeles because she's working largely in
the defense market and cyber security. So I wanted to have you on
my podcast because you have gone further in building your business.
So you and I met, I want to say back in 2022, you came out of the
Women Founders Network cohort.
03:08
kind of very early stage. One of the events that I was a host of
was the Thai So Cal Women's Fund. And you weren't yet ready for
investing, but we struck up, I would say a friendship and I admire
many things about you as, and we'll get into it in the podcast
here, but you touch.
03:35
quite a few or check of quite a few boxes for my podcast. You says,
so you are a woman owned veteran and women owned business. You are
a veteran of the Air Force. You're in deep tech and you're by park
and queer. And so there's many many boxes that you check and it was
difficult to kind of hone in on what I really wanted to bring into
the podcast today, but we're going to we're going to start from
here.
04:05
I always like to ask my guests to start with kind of their origin
story. I, when I first met you, right, in private conversations,
got to hear your origin story and why you do what you do, what your
firsthand experience while on missions, right, that really informed
your aha moments to create infiltrant.
04:33
as a cybersecurity company. So tell us a bit about your origin
story, Chasity. So, I mean, my origin story has, if you can imagine
all of these different paths kind of streamlining into one path. So
one of those paths would be a little black girl born in Georgia,
still seeing dirt roads and...
05:01
being able to go to the country and work on a farm and, you know,
just still having that connection to the past, you know, and not
necessarily the past in a bad way. So athletic, played ball in
college, went to Clark Atlanta University, you know, the HBCUs are
a big hurrah right now, but they've always been one.
05:29
I grew up with one in my backyard, Fort Valley State, which is in
Fort Valley, Georgia. So, you know, roughed it with the boys,
played in the backyard with the boys, always been a boys girl,
cousins, neighbor. We're all still close. We all still play sports
when we meet. So it's like an adult play date, so to speak. But
also, you know,
05:58
raised religiously, you know, I'm in Southern Baptist Church, two
parent household, maybe lower middle class, but middle school was
very transformative for me because they decided to mix in
everybody. So it was my first time, you know, being in a more
diverse population in school.
06:25
And, you know, music is a big thing for me as well. I DJ, I make
music. That's the creative part of me. And I found a lot of people
in deep tech to do something with music. So, yeah, so, you know,
that's my like early years background. And then coming through, I
decided to go into the Air Force. I actually took off between my
junior and senior year at Clark Atlanta.
06:52
Um, there I was majoring in global leadership and management. Okay.
And went in and I was in for eight years. I was an aerospace
engineer, uh, got deployed several times, uh, to different places,
and that kind of brings us to why Infiltron exists and, um, on one
of those deployments, I was a part of a network takedown.
07:21
And it was, whoo. I mean, I don't mean to quote the pitch deck
story, but it is what it is. I wrote it because that's the way it
felt. It was catastrophic. So just imagine the city of Los Angeles
losing power out of nowhere. The rail stops working, Sinai has no
power, so all of the medical equipment is no longer working.
07:49
The internet's completely gone and not rebooting like it normally
would. Your energy grid is down. That is what I experienced in one
of those deployments. And I was a part of Iraqi freedom and
Afghanistan. I was a part of both of those wars. And when we came,
you know, we got everything back. Thank God we were smart enough to
ship.
08:19
brand new equipment. Okay, you know, so you know, we weren't able
to get there. Yeah. I mean, I mean, that's part of our job. We're
engineers. And when you're in the middle of nowhere, there's no
calling HP. There's no calling Cisco. Like you got to know how to
do what needs to be done. There was there was a lot of
makeshifting. I can be I came out of Air Force, I could be a
mechanical engineer to
08:45
because we had to figure out how to make components on the fly. It
was just so many things. Innovation, right? Like you had to be
innovative. You had to be adapt quickly while keeping the mission
as a focus. So just imagine something that catastrophic and
something similar has happened. I feel like Colonial Pipeline was
something that is known now in the US for sure.
09:15
that had similar elements of what we experienced in being deployed.
Yeah, and that was two years back. And SolarWinds is another one. I
generally refer to those because people generally gasp, even
non-technical people, because they know how damaging it was. So we
can reuse. Normally, when the equipment goes down,
09:44
Unplug, right? Plug back in. Reboot. Yeah, reboot. But that was not
happening. And what we found out in the debrief was that quantum
was used. So quantum simplistically is about frequencies in this
context. It's about frequencies. And frequencies matter in so many
aspects of life, from spirituality all the way through tech like
what Infotron has. So...
10:14
What they did was they basically zeroed out the frequencies of our
satellite communications. And I believe that they created some
frequencies that damaged other equipment. So these are things that
again we found out in the debrief. And I wasn't really able to talk
to that probably when we met because I wasn't sure if it was
unclassified yet.
10:42
But as soon as Biden started talking about quantum initiative,
which was back in 2022, when we were in, I was like, everything's
hitting it the right time because we were literally in Techstars LA
space. And Biden pushed the quantum initiative. And I'm like, see,
told you, because a lot of people, a lot of people doubted what I
was saying because of the year that I said it had happened. And
as.
11:09
we started to grow out our team. There are other veterans on our
team from different branches. And of course we war story swap all
the time. And those other two people work for like NSA and they did
kind of the same thing, telecommunications. And I'm telling the
pitch desk story and they're sitting there like, yep, yep. That
happened to us too. And I'm like, when?
11:38
And they're saying different years. So at that point, we understood
it. It happened more than once. So that's why Infiltronic. So
what's Infiltronic? So let's bring it back to, Yeah. So you leave,
you leave service after eight years after also experiencing that. I
still feel like I'm a part of it because I do consult them still.
Right. So it'd be great. So.
12:08
And once in the Air Force forever? Always. Well, I really would
have been in Space Force. Yes. Yeah. Well, you heard that here on
the Founder Sandbox. The next, yes. So for my listeners, again, you
check a lot of boxes. Deep tech, women in STEM. What is it exactly
that?
12:37
your suite of services. All right. So Info-Trans software, right,
has two patents now. And on your landing page, it says, our
patented solutions, solutions utilize adaptive artificial
intelligence, advanced quantum encryption and blockchain technology
to deliver real-time cybersecurity for a wide array of
applications. Later on, we'll get into smart cities, but
13:06
including the internet of things, smart devices, legacy systems,
hybrid data, signals and devices. All pretty, pretty
understandable, but what is it that Infiltrion software is able to
do that others are not? So we're able to create a easier way for
businesses to migrate their devices.
13:36
and their software, so their applications that they use, maybe
they've developed them themselves, we provide a way for them to
easily migrate those entities over into a more quantum-proofed
infrastructure. So we created what we've trademarked as quantum
encapsulation. So just imagine something being encapsulated. And
basically we've created,
14:05
a brand new method of leveraging quantum, the AI, we leverage it
for the pro-activeness. So in lieu of just waiting for threats to
happen to our clients, we go look for the threat. So we want to go
be where the bad guys are and find out and bring that information
back and update the solution in real time to provide protection for
all of our clients in real time.
14:33
That's how we leverage the AI. The blockchain is kind of leveraged
to kind of make sure that people, things like devices, aren't on
networks that shouldn't be. So it's kind of, I mean, we use it for
what blockchain was pretty much basically developed for, and that's
a ledger. So keeping up with the transactions of what's
happening.
15:03
in a client's infrastructure. Fantastic. So it's largely a B2B
business, yours, right? We do. We have B2B, but we've been
approached several times here recently by consumers. Because now,
because of the biometric protection aspect of our solution using
the quantum encapsulation, we can protect, say,
15:32
Halle Berry from deep fake, being deep faked, or, you know,
protecting her likeness from being used without her knowledge in
movies, CGI'd into movies. So it's kind of getting a little bit
more consumerish as we iterate, right? Yeah, and we were briefly
speaking before the podcast recording, Chasity and I, and...
15:59
I've known her for years. She's a very private person, would not
allow photographs. So I told my producer, I'm certain Whitney
Chastity's not going to be sending us a picture, but you said yes,
that you might, because you do have biometric, artificial
intelligence, safeguards that can actually discover deep fakes,
right? Yes, yes. Yep, if it didn't come from us, if it wasn't
checked back from us,
16:29
It wasn't approved by the person. So it's kind of pretty much that
simple. Amazing. Well, later on in the show notes, we will have how
to contact you at Enfield Tron. So you are in the startup
ecosystem. Again, you travel a lot. You're between Washington DC,
Atlanta, Los Angeles, and actually the Bay Area. Yeah, the Bay
Area. Right. So.
16:58
Revenue can be elusive, right? How? Especially in tech, and
especially in these really large markets that I call deep tech.
Deep tech and leading edge, bleeding edge, right? People don't know
what they're actually buying, right? Or what they don't even, they
probably don't even know that they have a need, right? What's been
your strategy at Infiltron to keep the revenue flowing while
maintaining also a pretty playful, innovative culture?
17:27
You talked about your team and so talk, that's kind of two
questions. So how have you kept revenue coming, right? While not
going out for dilutive funding yet, but tell us a little bit about
how, what's your business model? So the business model in itself is
set up for B2B and we also have a licensing element there. So if
they, for instance,
17:56
a Fortune 500 company who has a cyber team, right? They have an
internal cyber team. If they want to license out the patents that
we have and kind of customize it or create or build off of those,
use it as a baseline for what they need for their systems, we offer
that as well. But let me just put it out there. But back to your
question, how do we keep it fun? So the team...
18:25
The original team members, should I say. So we met about seven
years ago at a place called the Gathering Spot in Atlanta. So the
Gathering Spot is a community and they just opened one in LA and I
do go to the one in LA too when I'm there. But it's a community of
people, creatives from creative people to deep tech people like
myself and everything in between.
18:55
We went to a black tech event at the gathering spot and found
ourselves not being able to get into the actual room. So we ended
up, because they have a bar and everything at the gathering spot.
It's a social club too. It has a club aspect to it too, but you can
network there, have meetings there, meet all types of people. I
mean known people, I mean it's a great
19:25
great concept, shout out to Ryan. But we found ourselves at the
bar, and we're looking at each other. We knew each other because we
had been introduced by the Hellbrella person, Tracy. Yes, yes.
Because they had done some things for her with a previous startup
that she had, development-wise. So we're all sitting at the bar,
and we're looking at each other like, but we're the real tech
people.
19:55
We do it. It's like we don't really take people. Um, we can't even
get in there. We like, we know the organizers and personally and
everything. So let's start a company. Well, what we did was we
launched, um, what we launched kit labs. And it was literally right
down the street from the
20:23
and connect to the community. So we had, it's not far from the AUC
and the AUC is where Morris Brown, Morehouse, Spelman and Clark
Atlanta are. Got it. So a lot of times you would come in there and
find some of the founders, cause this was founded by myself and
like six or seven other black tech founders. The ones that were
outside. Drinking like, you know.
20:53
That's where we had that conversation. You know, the conversation
started at the bar, being outside of that first Black Tech meetup,
so to speak, with Joey Womack, who is a part of Goody Nation, who
we did get a 50K grant from back in 2020 through Google for
Startups. Let me just say this so much. We were so interconnected.
I mean, Atlanta is Wakanda. Don't let anybody tell you anything
different.
21:21
It's definitely Wakanda. But literally, not even a mile away from
the Gathering Spot, we opened up Kit Labs. It's a smart lab where
we can tinker with stuff. We're engineers. We're tech people. We
need something. We need a makerspace. We don't necessarily need a
space that is compared. The Gathering Spot was a little bit more
buttoned up.
21:46
And then what we needed, we needed to be able to throw things and
make things. We had everything from like 3d printers to, um, VR, AR
headsets. I mean, you, anything in tech. Innovative fun. It was in,
is in that lab. Um, but that's where around today. So we dissolved
it. So it's been dissolved. What one of, one of the founders, he
unfortunately transitioned. Um,
22:15
So, you know, and he was kind of like the pillar of it. And it kept
going for a while, but it was just a lot of people like myself, it
was two female founders, Dr. Nashley Cephas, who herself is from
Jackson, Mississippi. I'm shouting out everybody, right? She's from
Jackson, Mississippi, and she bought 10 acres in downtown Jackson,
Mississippi and started a nonprofit called Bean Pad. And he
basically took the concept of what we were doing at Kit Labs and
brought it to our hometown. So.
22:44
Um, and it's so funny. She actually founded it on my birthday. So I
was like, okay, I can dig that. Um, uh, but, but no, but we're
still connected. Everybody still works with each other. You know,
if I have to come in and do some things around cyber for a contract
or, you know, commercial or whatever client that they have, I do
like we, we all kind of still work together on each other's things.
So that has allowed you to bring in some revenues, right?
23:14
through its service context. Yeah. Oh, for sure. For sure.
Consultant wise, cause they're like, I think people may look at
Infotron and think that there's not a human touch piece there, but
if you're dealing with me, there's always gonna be a human touch
point there because we have to consult the client. We can't assume,
you know, we cannot assume.
23:41
what you need, we have to actually have a conversation with our
clients throughout the process, even after we possibly have set up
the platform for you, trained your people on it, there still needs
to be an element of communication, human communication, right? But
the team, we've been working together for about seven years.
Yes.
24:10
Infiltron has been around for five, going on six years now. So, you
know, I mean, respect, mutual respect, we're still kids at heart. I
mean, we grew up wanting to be engineers. So, you really can't take
the light of innovation out of an engineer unless they're just at
the point of not wanting to do it anymore. So we're always, what
I've found is most people in any engineering discipline are
very,
24:39
curious and forward thinking. So we, and we kind of, we're kind of
like a community. We are community and not kind of like, but we are
community of folks that contribute to each other's, you know,
projects. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And not just, not just business-wise, but
personally, like we, I mean, we've been around each other for
almost a decade, so.
25:04
there's been kids born and like I just said, one of our founders
transitioned, like we've been through some things together that
have brought us closer together. And you can, I believe when you
have a team like that, and we're all diverse, you know, we have a
team like that that cultivates innovation, for sure. You know, I've
had a few guests to my podcast and I also write about this,
25:35
Creativity is only possible or it's greatly possible when you
create a fun environment and make games out of things and have,
right? And set up teams. So I think a shout out to you and what
you've set up at Infiltron and in its earlier rendering at Kit
Labs, just creating an environment that allows for what ifs, right?
Is key. There are a lot of what ifs in cyber.
26:04
I bet you there. So I have a boatload of questions here. One is,
before we get into your fundraising path, again, I mentioned
earlier you have two patents that have been issued. What is
post-quantum encryption technology in layman language? Post.
26:32
Quantum encryption technology. So there is definitely confusion out
there that has been addressed. And because there is a difference
between post secure quantum and encryption. There's a difference.
So. Excellent.
27:02
Post quantum encryption, it is designed to protect data from
quantum computers. So. And that's done through the encapsulation?
For us, that is how we provide the protection, the encryption. That
is the quantum encapsulation is a method of encryption with
Involtron. So the current encryption. So you have things like
RSA.
27:32
elliptical curve, which elliptical curve is more widely used and
kind of being marketed as quantum encryption. It is, it is, it's on
the list of quantum protections, right, or quantum methods of
encryption protection. So companies like Okta use ECC a lot. But
what's happening is that quantum computers are being built now.
Yes. Like right now, there's no... Yeah, the cost is going
down.
28:02
Yeah, there's no waiting five years from now. Like I urge anyone
under the sound of my voice to prepare now for quantum computer
attacks. The same thing that I describe happening to us when we
were deployed, it's gonna happen. And again, I alluded to feeling
like
28:33
situations like Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds were, I feel like
they were tests because there were so many different elements of
what we saw in the deployment that happened in those two cases.
Yeah, because I'm sitting there and think it's like 2020, 2021,
2019 actually, it started. I think this didn't know, but.
28:59
And it's still going like 20, SolarWinds was still going, the last
time I checked SolarWinds was still unraveling. Like it's still,
still going. But back to the question. So for us, quantum
encapsulation for us is breakthrough. So NIST has had these
challenges, right? Where they put out bidding for companies,
29:27
researchers, because a lot of people that are in the quantum space,
whether it's physics, mechanics, are generally found in academia.
They're not at Infiltron. They're not at QED. They're just not
there, right? It's very far in between, and we generally have to
lure them. Or we have to do something like partner with them
on...
29:53
grants, like the STTR grants. Like that's the only way, generally
the only way that we can probably connect with the academia or
pierce them and have them work with us. And they usually through
that take all the funding, but it's, you're still. Exposed, right?
You're exposed, but you're also getting the expertise that you
possibly need and can't rightly find in the freelancing world.
Yeah. So it generally works out in the long run.
30:23
Um, but so our encapsulation is a, is a breakthrough method because
I look at it like this, NIST is holding these challenges and
nothing against NIST. We're connected. I contribute to NIST and
everything, but they are holding these challenges. And basically
they're telling the hackers what people are going to the
framework.
30:49
what people are gonna have to adhere to when they create their
quantum algorithms to protect their devices and data. You know,
you're giving away the secret ingredients. So like, even if they
don't know specifically your algorithm, they know what you've based
it off of. And that gives it like a tiny thread can unravel a whole
t-shirt, right? So I look at it like that. So...
31:15
And even before, you know, we were already developing things before
NIST put out these challenges. We are in alignment. We can adhere
and do it here to the framework that they're putting out because,
you know, you have the DOD space who definitely follows their
framework, especially when it comes to the risk management
framework. So they're going to follow NIST regardless. They're
going to follow their framework, whatever they put out about
cybersecurity protection.
31:44
The DOD space and all of its agencies are gonna follow that.
However, being in the cybersecurity space every day, seeing what is
happening and knowing that you've given some clues, some contextual
clues to the malicious hackers about what you're using as a
baseline to build your algorithms will, guess what? What we have is
not that. Like we are...
32:12
One of the things that differentiates us right now, because I'm
sure as quantum cybersecurity continues to grow legs, so to speak,
people are gonna start using the more, less susceptible to hacks by
quantum computers method. So you have things like multivariate hash
code. So these are some of the
32:40
quantum properties that you can use that are not generally hackable
by a quantum computer. They won't be hackable by a quantum
computer. So we leveraged some of that. It was like, if I'm built,
I looked at it like this, I've been in cyber, I've been in tech for
almost 20 years. I know I don't look it. I get it all the time. You
don't have to say it. I've been in tech for almost 20 years. I've
been, and when I was in the air force, we call it InfoSec. It's the
same thing. And that dates me.
33:08
If I say, if you hear somebody say InfoSec, trust me, they've been
in cybersecurity for at least 20 plus years. So, but it's
cybersecurity, that's what it is. And I've seen the changes and
I've paid my dues too. Like I didn't, when I got out of the Air
Force, I was just, side note, like I cut grass and loved it. I
would go back and do it if I can make these results. So then like,
it's very, it's very fulfilling. Don't let anybody fool you. Like I
love, but I like being outside, but.
33:38
Um, my first tech job though, I literally went through the phone
book. Cause this is like still, you know, internet was not quite
what it is now, of course, but it was like still growing. And I
went through the yellow pages and went through the aerospace
companies and called all of them and was like, Hey, let's just get
out of the air force, look for a job. I don't care if it's an
intern or co-op and L3 L3 before they merged with Harris. Uh,
34:08
they created me a co-op. And, but again, still in touch with, cause
you know, L3 is a huge government contracting company, right? And
in the satellite communication space, cause they're in line with my
background. And so I've seen it all. I've seen the changes of
InfoSec into cybersecurity. And now we're entering a new frontier
with quantum cybersecurity. So I've been here,
34:37
maybe at the latter part of the info set, but definitely through
the cybersecurity and here for and to forge some guidelines and
pathways in the quantum cybersecurity space with Inflotron. So when
you know Inflotron was founded in 2019, I was like, okay, if I'm
gonna start
35:03
something new in cyber and we hadn't even gotten to the quantum
piece yet. They hadn't even gotten to me yet. Like it started like
I was getting downloads. Yeah. Because I'm, I always, I'm a reader.
I wake up looking at cyber news and just staying in the know
because I need to know what's going on so I can protect my clients,
whether that was me in a government contracting position or me as a
consultant in my businesses. So.
35:33
I need to know what's going on. And if I'm going to build something
new, why am I going to build it with compromised parts? Right.
That's a great way to describe it. Yeah. Forget the tech. It didn't
make logical sense. If I'm going to build something new, a SaaS
product that's going to integrate and be flexible and adaptable and
proactive.
36:01
Why would I use RSA encryption when I know what's coming? Got it.
That will be one of the snippets that I share in my YouTube channel
as well as the podcast. That is excellent. Why build something with
compromised parts? Frontier technology, quantum cybersecurity is
what Epfiltron is about.
36:30
Next generation. Talk to me a little bit more for us, less tech
savvy listeners about the use of Infiltron in a SelleGov's program
for smart cities. That kind of brings it more home and more
tangible. How is technology used for smart cities? So first,
SelleGov through leading cities. Yes.
36:59
It connects companies like ours with municipalities to tackle urban
challenges. So for us, it's infrastructure, security, and
sustainability. So we were a finalist in leading cities global
competition back in 2021. And we've worked through them. You know,
we've been able to work with city leaders to secure IOT systems and
critical infrastructure.
37:28
And quick shout out to Michael Lake. Okay. He's the founder of
Leading Cities, amazing guy. Another keep in touch, answer the
email quickly person. He's based in Boston, but he's built a very
supportive ecosystem. So shout out to Michael Lake. But as a part
of this program,
37:56
We're offering smart cities our enhanced quantum vulnerability
assessment. And this is to help the smart city leaders identify
areas that need better quantum protections now. We've just had a
session on November the 11th, Veterans Day. And the second one is
coming up December the 5th. So you.
38:24
If you're a smart city leader or see so small, medium, large
enterprise, no matter what market you in, you're in, definitely tap
in. You can register for it on the leading city's website or on our
website at Infotron.net. Yeah, that's on December 9, 2024 at 1pm.
Is that Eastern? December 5th. December 5th? No, it's the 9th,
because I have it here. And that's my cousin's birthday. So yeah,
it's December 9th.
38:53
Did you get to influence those dates? Yeah. So let's jump into your
startup. You've taken in very little dilutive funding. How much
money have you raised to date? And how have you, what is the next
phase, right? In terms of outreach for fundraising. So we've raised
120K and that was through Techstars, LA Space.
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Still counting. I do not take a salary. I could take one, but I'm
just, it's the long game for me. And I still consult. Don't let
these people tell you not to quit your job and be an entrepreneur.
Don't let people do that. Especially if you have a family. Don't
let these people, don't let these people try to guilt you or shame
you because you still have a job while you're building your
startup. Don't let, don't do it.
39:53
Because I do have a company that I started called Right Tech
Solutions and we still, that's why I said I still feel like I'm in
the Air Force because I still consult them. So I can, you know, the
revenue that we do and we've hit 500K in revenue. So you know, I
could easily take a salary, right? But I just, it's the long game
for me. It's the global expansion.
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um, you know, more IP and patents, uh, protections, right? Because
we do have global count clients. And, um, one of the things that I
wanted to make sure of before we even took on the clients was that
we had legal backing there. So IP trademarks, um, at least patent,
at least the application is pending, but you know, like I want to,
I want to, I want it to at least have that. And we have great
attorneys. Um, shout out to Malika Tyson.
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and Matthew and Dorian who have, they took over because I had a, I
had an attorney, IP attorney that would, had her own boutique firm
and then she had to go back, you know, she just couldn't do the
entrepreneurship, it's not for everybody, but we still stay in
contact as well. But she introduced me to McAndrews, they're based
out of Chicago.
41:20
And they are the legal team for Impletron. I always tell them that
when we're on calls, like you are the legal team. Like, yeah,
anything that I need from them legal, legal wise, they do it. I
literally just sent a partnership NDA over to Malekka this morning
and she just sent it back to me. So like, that's not IP and
trademark, right? But they do, they do it. And I always tell them
how much I appreciate them because...
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IP and trademarks are not free and they're not inexpensive. So, and
then imagine, you know, we have one pending now in Japan. We just
got one in Canada. So yeah, like it's expensive, you know, it's
expensive. So a lot of the funding that we get now is going to be
allocated to pay them, you know, even though they work with us. But
it's going to be paying them.
42:18
doing some iterations, we have a partnership where there's some
hardware that's gonna be involved. We're definitely tapping into
the hardware. So we'll be forging our way there because people like
things they can touch. SaaS isn't necessarily something that you
can touch, although put it into a platform makes it a little bit
more tangible for people, visual at least. So in the-
42:48
Yeah, I mean, hardware has always been a part of the vision. FBGAs,
we have another colleague of mine, he has developed a
cryptocurrency mining machine, and it leverages quantum. So it's
mining at exponential speeds, right? Because generally what quantum
does is speeds things up. It speeds exactly, in simplified
terms.
43:18
Definitely still going after Sivers traditional government
contracts globally. We participated in Fintech down in the Bahamas
last October. Cause we are in the Fintech space and there's a lot
of similarities between Fintech and Space Tech. Because when you're
talking about fault zeros and being able to detect anomalies.
43:46
both of those markets need that and they need it quick. So we've
been able to, yeah, like we've been able to leverage some of the
things that we're learning in both of those for each other. So
we've been able to participate in some conferences. We actually
getting ready to go to Barbados in January for Fintech Islands,
I'll be speaking about
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the kind of the intersection of the quantum age and what's coming
in respect to the fintech space, cryptocurrency, web three,
traditional finance and AI, because we do leverage AI. And we've
been in the AI space, Impletron has been in the AI space from the
beginning. One of our advisors is an AI evangelist at AWS. I did
say her name earlier on this podcast, but.
44:42
She's amazing. She's a Georgia Tech grad. We do have a few Georgia
Tech people on the team, but she's amazing. And I'm able to tap
her. I've been able to tap her because she was one of the Kit
founders. So I've been able to tap her about AI and machine
learning very early on. So all of the LLMs and the SLMs that
everybody's kind of talking about, we've been doing.
45:11
Like even as small as we are, we've been.
45:16
Yeah, so, Chasity, how can my listeners contact or get information
about Infotron? So, yeah, of course the website. So, infiltron.net.
You can follow us on all of our socials at Infotron Software Suite.
It might be, I think on Twitter is Infotron app. We wanted to keep
it short.
45:41
And then, or you can email us at mfultronapp at gmail.com. And I
know people are gonna be like, why you use Gmail? That's another
filter. And that's an email that everybody on the team can look at
and not be bombarded with, cause spam and it's just, everybody has
their own email address, but. So you probably, it's a test
environment for all of you.
46:09
beautiful quantum encryption that you're working on. Yes. And
that's it all. One better way to start. Yeah, Gmail, right? Google
knows a lot more about us than we'd like them to. Oh, Google knows
everything. That's tough. Even when you turn location off. Oh,
Instagram. I just posted something about Instagram. So Instagram's
new. They just updated their policy maybe a month ago, maybe.
46:38
Okay. Whether you want to or not, they now have access to your
photos, your GPS location, everything even if you say no, even if
you turn it off, they still contract.
47:00
Just putting it out there guys. Yeah. So if you do platform. So
there's cause to the platform. Right? Yes. Thank you. All right.
We're coming down to the section of the podcast where I like to ask
each of my guests what the following three words mean to you.
Because this is what I do with my consulting business.
47:24
In addition to my podcast, I work with founders that are really
building resilient, purpose-driven and scalable businesses. What's
resilience mean to you, Chasity? Man, that's a word that I use. Uh,
I mean, I'm, I mean, you gotta think about it. I'm black trying to
raise money. It's hard for black people to raise money on top of
that. I've been, you know, um, I've come face to face with people
that didn't believe that I wrote my own patents. Like.
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you know, as if black people didn't invent a lot of things, like
that we still use today. Like, come on. I mean, it's just the
truth. Resilience. Resilience for me is bending, but never
breaking. Bending, but never breaking. Yeah. It's about, you know,
adapting to challenges. I just mentioned some and facing them. Like
you can't, you can't, and I'm about to sound
48:23
run from the pain, you gotta run towards it. So you can come out
stronger on the other side. And it's not necessarily about
survival, it's transformation. That's transformation. It's
transformation. And that transformation is preparing you for what's
next. And you'll be standing taller than you were before. Amazing,
thank you. Purpose-driven, what's a purpose-driven?
48:53
Enterprises or? Yeah. I'm a visionary. So like, there's a lot of
founders that I've met. If I have the opportunity to get close to
them or kind of hear them speak about what they're building to
include myself, because I do talk to myself about the things that
I'm building. I counsel myself. I'm sure my ancestors are around
me.
49:23
Purpose is, it should be intentional. I think that it's kind of
interchangeable for me. But in the context of the question that you
asked on purpose driven enterprise, so it's the heartbeat in what
we build here at Infotron. I can definitely say that. It's creating
meaningful solutions that solve real problems. And in solving those
real problems,
49:52
you're still staying true to the mission. I still bring the aspect
of the military into Infiltron. We are mission focused. We have
fun. We do all the fun things, right? Because again, that
cultivates innovation too. And it keeps it spicy. You need to let
things be spicy because in a regular deglar cybersecurity job,
you're probably bored. Like.
50:19
I mean, let's just be real. Like you're probably bored. You're
probably looking at Excel spreadsheets and creating a report by
hand from that. Like it's boring. Like, but you know, it's also
making moves that matter. And it's solving problems that for me
leave a legacy and just never losing sight of why we started in the
first place.
50:48
So never lives in sight. Excellent. What about scalable? So how
does- That's one of those BC's favorite words. That's right.
Because that's what they want to see. How will you scale? That's
right. I mean, I'm an investor too guys. Don't get it twisted.
Like, I think that was a question that I did ask with one of the
investors I had. Like, how are you going to get over that
challenge? Like, before I give you this money.
51:18
Scalable. So growth, like we can think about growth in so many
different ways, like growth, personal growth, because if you embark
on the entrepreneur trick, you are going to be, and need to be open
to growth. To me, entrepreneurship is a spiritual journey.
Beautiful.
51:45
about the Southern Baptist roots, but I'm not spiritual. I'm a
yoga, meditating, put my feet in the sand, grass grounding person
nowadays, but still bringing that element of praying. And it's all
the same to me. They just changed the name of God, right? Just
that's my perspective, but growth isn't just about getting.
52:14
bigger. It's about getting better. And me speaking about the
personal aspect, that is what growth is. It might not feel good,
you know, while it's happening. But, you know, once you get through
it and you can get in a reflective mindset and look back with what
you just came through and be grateful, like find gratitude in it,
you know.
52:43
That's how I look at growth. It's expanding mindfully and staying
grounded in your values and making sure that every step that you
take going forward strengthens the foundation that you've already
built. And it's...
53:11
Like I said, it's moving with intention. And while you're moving
with intention, you're also preserving the quality and the vision
that define you. Which goes back to purpose-driven. Yes, thank you.
Last question, Chasity. Did you have fun in the sandbox? Oh yeah, I
mean, it's you. You know, we already have a great rapport.
53:38
I'll say this, one of my favorite memories of you is when you
brought Ty to the table to kind of see if they were, could invest
in Infiltron and it was too early. But we had to sign an NDA, it
was some type of contract, but it was during Mercury retrograde.
You said it before I said it, I was like, I wonder if she's onto
this type.
54:05
Cause I wasn't going to sign it. I was going to try to delay it as
much as possible, but you're like, no, let's wait, let's wait. So
after Mercer, that's your great. Well, I was like, oh, these are
this. She's my people. And I was like, and I think I responded
like, let's wait five days. So it is no, it's like clear. So, um,
that's a little fighter for me with you. Oh, I love it. I love it.
Generally hear that in business. No, no.
54:32
And the Founder Sandbox again is a pretty eclectic podcast,
bringing in deep tech founders like Chasity Wright that are on the
frontier, bringing in what the future, will, it's the future's
here. It's here. That's right. So to my listeners, if you like this
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55:01
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this month, thank you, Chasity. Thank you, Brenda, so much. I hope
to see you soon.