Ventures

Building the guardian layer for children online.

Halo is the core focus โ€” the compliance enforcement layer for AI agents and engineering teams shipping products that touch kids. Mindful Media Foundation is the prevention research behind it. Two ventures, one thesis.

The Thesis

The internet wasn't built for children โ€” and now AI is writing the next layer of it. The teams shipping AI products for kids are moving faster than the rules meant to protect them. Halo is the enforcement layer: every code change reviewed against COPPA, AADC, EU AI Act, and emerging children's-safety standards before it ever reaches a child. Mindful Media Foundation is the prevention layer โ€” clinically grounded research that informs what "safe for kids" actually means at a developmental level. The work is on both fronts at once.

The Ventures

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Halo โ†—

Core Focus ยท Guardian Layer for Children's Products

The compliance scanner for AI agents and engineering teams building products that touch kids. Every code change is reviewed against COPPA, AADC, EU AI Act, and emerging children's-safety standards before it ever reaches a child. Built for the people and the AI writing the next generation of the internet.

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Mindful Media Foundation โ†—

501(c)(3) Nonprofit ยท Prevention Research

Prevention-focused research, evidence-aligned storytelling, and public-good distribution. Informed by pediatric psychology and co-regulation theory โ€” the moral engine that gives the engineering work its direction.

Building a product that touches kids?

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Why This Matters Now

Apr 2026

COPPA 2.0 enforcement begins. Children's privacy rules now have teeth, and engineering teams are largely unprepared.

2,200+

Lawsuits filed against social media companies for harm to children. Liability is becoming engineering's problem.

1 in 5

Children experience a mental health disorder before age 18. The cost of getting this wrong is not theoretical.

Compliance was a PDF. Now it's enforceable. The teams building children's products need infrastructure that enforces the rules at the engineering layer โ€” not legal review after the fact.

The Scale of the Opportunity

Children's safety online is the largest underbuilt category of infrastructure on the internet. These ventures exist to build it.

73M

Children in the US alone

$2.3B

Pediatric sleep intervention market

$0

Spent on engineering-layer prevention

Interested in the work?

Whether you're a team building a product that touches kids, an investor in regulatory infrastructure, or a researcher who wants to collaborate โ€” let's talk.

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