Scott Searle is Co-Founder and CEO of Enigmata, Inc., a Nashville-based trust infrastructure company enabling enterprises to use sensitive data in AI workflows without ever exposing plaintext.

A serial entrepreneur and engineer, Scott previously built and exited LockStream, a DRM and encryption company whose technology was acquired by Irdeto and became an industry standard for secure content protection, and Relevantis, an AI-driven mobile advertising platform.

Scott holds multiple patents in encryption and data security, and brings a rare combination of cryptographic depth and operator instinct honed across decades of product and platform work.

Earlier in his career, Scott architected a secure-computing layer for Windows at Microsoft and contributed to Word, Outlook, and core OS components; at Apple, he worked on macOS fundamentals and consumer applications.

Enigmata emerged from stealth in September 2026 with a $6.5M seed round led by Blockchange Ventures, with Cipher benchmarks showing AI models trained on encrypted data matching raw-data accuracy while completing training 8-10% faster.