Nate Kharrl

Nate Kharrl, CEO and Co-Founder at Spec, has built leading solutions for application security and fraud challenges since the early days of the cloud era. Drawing from his cyber experience at Akamai, ThreatMetrix, and eBay, Nate helped found Spec to focus on the needs of businesses operating in a landscape of increasing AI risks. Under Nate’s leadership, Spec grew from its mid-pandemic founding to raise $30M in venture-backed funding to build solutions used by Fortune 500 companies transacting billions in online commerce. Spec’s service offerings today include protective measures for websites and APIs that specialize in defending against attacks designed to bypass bot defenses and risk assessment platforms.