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About Darktrace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktrace

Darktrace was founded in 2013 by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge and individuals with cyber operations experience at intelligence agencies.[1] Its Enterprise Immune System technology uses AI and unsupervised machine learning to autonomously detect and take action against cyber-threats across all diverse digital environments, including cloud and virtual environments, Internet of Things, and industrial control systems.[2]

Darktrace is backed by several advisors and investors from the technology, business, and cyber security domains. The company's advisory board includes Alan Wade, former CIO of the CIA and Lord Evans of Weardale KCB, former Director-General of the British security service MI5.[3]

The board of directors is chaired by Robert Webb QC, former General Counsel of Rolls Royce and British Airways.[4] Twelve of the company’s 20 directors, including co-chief executives Nicole Eagan and Poppy Gustafsson, used to work at HP Autonomy.[5] The company does not list the members of its main board on its website.

Since the company's inception in 2013, its technology has been deployed more than 9,000 times across 5 continents. Darktrace now has over 850 employees around the world.

Voat posts:

Unicorns do exist - Darktrace = Alice - https://voat.co/v/QRV/3115948

I came across a website today and I'm pretty sure something is up with this group - https://voat.co/v/Conspiracy/2678204

Looks like we've got ourselves another rabbit hole.

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Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Evans,_Baron_Evans_of_Weardale

Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, KCB, DL (born 1958[1]) was Director General of the British Security Service, the United Kingdom's domestic security and counter-intelligence service. He took over the role on the retirement of his predecessor Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller on 21 April 2007. Evans was succeeded by Andrew Parker on 22 April 2013.

In 1985 he moved to the protective security function, dealing with internal and personnel security, before switching to domestic counter-terrorism in the late 1980s.[4] For more than a decade he was involved with the effort to combat the domestic threat of groups such as the Provisional IRA during The Troubles.

In 1999, with the violence in Northern Ireland greatly reduced due to the Good Friday Agreement, Evans moved to G-Branch,[5] the section of MI5 which deals with international terrorism. There he became an expert on al-Qaeda[6] and other branches of Islamic terrorism. He rose to head the section in 2001 (only a few days before the September 11, 2001 attacks), a position which put him on the service's board of management. In 2005, he became Deputy Director General before being promoted to head the organisation in 2007.[7]

In November 2007, Evans talked publicly about the threat the UK faces from digital espionage.[8] He spoke at RUSI on National Security in February 2008. He has a Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.

...In January 2012, the Daily Mail newspaper alleged that Evans had been leading a "lobbying campaign" to allow the use of secret evidence in court, and give government ministers "sweeping powers" to withhold evidence they deem 'sensitive' from civil court hearings and inquests.[11]

Evans was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to defence.

...On 21 October 2014, it was announced that he was to become a Crossbench life peer, having been nominated personally by the Prime Minister.[21] He was created Baron Evans of Weardale, of Toys Hill in the County of Kent, on 3 December 2014.[22] In January 2015 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.[23] and on 1 November 2018 he was appointed Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life for a 5-year term.[24]

In December 2018, following controversy about his paid business portfolio in light of his appointment to the Committee, it was announced that he would step down from his position as a Non-Executive Director with HSBC Holdings in early 2019.

Westminster Abbey Institute is run by a Steering Group...Council of Reference - The Lord Evans of Weardale KCB https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/the-institute/institute-people

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Mr. Alan C. Wade is the President of Wade Associates, Inc. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=29806621&privcapId=7985205

Address: 2325 Dulles Corner Boulevard Suite 1125 Herndon, Virginia 20171

Also at that address is United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation https://www.mapquest.com/us/virginia/united-states-geospatial-intelligence-foundation-261538081; Power Fingerprinting Inc https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0564496D:US?cic_redirect=true; Chiliad Inc https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0817391D:US?cic_redirect=2 which is a company started by Christine Maxwell. See: The sister of Ghislaine Maxwell is CEO of a data search technology company used by the FBI !

Christine Maxwell is an Internet content pioneer, best known as the creator and co-founder of Magellan, one of the first professionally curated online search/reference guides to Internet content.[

After Magellan was acquired by Excite, (a competing search engine) in 1996,[5] she went on to co-found Chiliad:[6] a software company involved in the advance of on-demand, massively scalable, intelligent mining of structured and unstructured data through the use of natural language search technologies.** The firm's software was behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse.**

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Daniel Levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Levy_(businessman)

Levy became a director of the Scottish football club Rangers, in which ENIC held a significant stake until 2004.[12] ENIC also held stakes in other European football clubs including AEK Athens, Slavia Prague, FC Basel and Vicenza (but all since sold),[13][14] as well as non-football companies such as Warner Bros Restaurants and a Cambridge software company, Autonomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Autonomy

Autonomy was founded in Cambridge, England by Michael Lynch, David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt in 1996 as a spin-off from Cambridge Neurodynamics, a firm specializing in computer-based finger print recognition

Michael Lynch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Richard_Lynch

Michael Richard Lynch OBE DL FRS FREng (born 16 June 1965)[1] is an entrepreneur with a scientific background. He is the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital, and has several other roles, including membership of the Council for Science and Technology which advises the UK government. His entrepreneurship is associated with Silicon Fen.

He is a member of the board of Cambridge Enterprise,[24] and a member of the Council for Science and Technology.[25] He is also a member of the Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology[26] and a Hub Mentor in the Enterprise Hub of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[27] Lynch is a trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,[28] and a member of the board of the Create the Change Campaign at the Crick Institute, for Cancer Research UK

..He has previously served as a non-executive director to the board of the BBC,[14] on the board of the British Library,[31] and as a trustee of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), where he was chairman of their investment committee

..On 29 November 2018 he was indicted for fraud in relation to the 2011 deal with HP.

More at : Inside the life of Mike Lynch, who sold his search startup to HP for $11 billion and was charged with fraud

Lynch also sold some of his fingerprint machines to South Yorkshire Police.

[and connections with eBay] n September 2011, Apotheker was replaced by former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. She remained committed to the Autonomy deal but she and Lynch didn't always see eye-to-eye.

In the meantime, Lynch planned a $1 billion (£770 million) fund called Invoke Capital to invest in fundamental European technologies...One of the first companies Lynch has backed is cybersecurity firm Darktrace, which has its origins in Cambridge. Darktrace director of technology Dave Palmer used to work for MI5.

Following the charges, Lynch has stepped back from his public activities. He stepped from the board of Darktrace, and as an advisor to the Royal Society, and the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tabizel

David Tabizel (born January 1965) is an internet and media entrepreneur, who was the co-founder of a number of successful technology startups such as 365 Corporation (Football 365, Rugby 365 etc.),[1] Demon Internet, Autonomy, Rage Software, Durlacher (now Panmure Gordon) and others.

..He was also involved in the forming and founding of Metrodome Film in the UK and in Ginger Media's purchase of Virgin Radio in the late 1990s. He also purchased Laughing Stock, Europe's leading comedy record label in the mid-1990s, a company whose artists included Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Rowan Atkinson and Arnold Brown.

Tabizel is credited with writing one of the first books on the Internet in 1991 [4] and also wrote an influential work anticipating the Internet boom of the 1990s in "The Internet an Investment Perspective" (Financial Publications Ltd 1994). Tabizel wrote an exhaustive study of the video games industry in 1993. Three of the companies co-formed by Tabizel, Durlacher, 365 Corporation and Autonomy each achieved stock market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion. Eckoh PLC a spin-off from 365 Corporation is now a London stock market quoted telecoms company.