FOUNDERS

Your company raises its profile. Your household shouldn't have to.

Fundraising announcements, press features, and SEC filings make your name more searchable overnight. Data brokers pick up the signal. Within weeks, your home address, phone number, and family members are more discoverable than they were before your round closed.

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WHY THIS MATTERS

Visibility moves faster than personal protection

The same public presence that builds your company's credibility also exposes your private life. Here's what changes when you become a visible founder.

Fundraising creates a data event

SEC filings, Crunchbase profiles, press releases, and investor update leaks all feed data brokers. Within weeks of a round closing, your personal details become more accessible than they were before.

Your family appears on your broker profile

When a TechCrunch article or Crunchbase listing makes your name more searchable, data broker sites surface your spouse's name, your children's approximate ages, and your shared home address in the same listing. Their exposure is a side effect of your fundraise.

The window between visibility and protection

Most founders don't think about personal privacy until something specific happens: a concerning email, a stranger referencing their home address, a family member flagging unusual contact. By that point, the exposure has been accumulating for months.

Press and social profiles compound the problem

Media coverage, conference appearances, and LinkedIn activity generate more data broker records. Each new mention adds another source that brokers aggregate and sell.

HOW DELIST HELPS

From discovery to ongoing protection

Find where you appear

We scan 1,000+ data broker and people-search sites for your name, phone, email, and address. You'll see exactly which sites have your information and at what confidence level.

Submit removal requests

We handle opt-out submissions across every site where you appear. Automated forms, legal deletion requests, and family-group resolution for sites that share operators.

Verify and follow up

Each removal is verified after processing. If a broker hasn't complied, we escalate. If they re-list your data, we re-submit. You don't need to track any of it.

Monitor continuously

Your exposure doesn't end after one cleanup. As your company grows and your profile changes, new records appear. We catch them and remove them before they accumulate.

COMPARE APPROACHES

Why founders choose managed protection

	Manual opt-outs	Generic privacy tools	Delist.ai
Sites covered	10-20 (if you're persistent)	50-200	1,000+
Re-listing detection	You notice it yourself	Periodic	Continuous
Household coverage	You'd need to repeat for each person	Varies	Family plans
Time investment	Hours per month, ongoing	Setup + periodic check-ins	Fully managed
Legal removal requests	You'd draft and send them yourself	Rarely	CCPA/GDPR
Post-fundraising coverage	Same manual process, more sites	No event-aware scanning	Ongoing scans

FAQ

Common questions from founders

Before. SEC filings, press releases, and Crunchbase profiles all feed data brokers within weeks of a round closing. Starting before your fundraise means your personal data is already being removed while the new records are being created. If you're post-raise, starting now still matters — every day your listings are live, more aggregators copy them.

No. We target people-search and data broker sites that publish your personal contact details, home address, and family member information. We don't touch your company's legitimate web presence, press coverage, or professional profiles. Your LinkedIn, company website, and media mentions remain untouched.

Yes. Delist offers family plans that cover your spouse and other household members under a single subscription. This is particularly important because data brokers link family records by address. Removing only your own records while your spouse's remain published can still expose your location and contact details.

Delist covers the personal side that corporate security teams typically don't address. Your company may have endpoint protection, access controls, and SOC2 compliance, but those measures don't cover your home address sitting on Spokeo or your phone number listed on WhitePages. We handle the personal surface area that corporate security leaves exposed.

We detect it and re-submit the removal. Many brokers re-list records after 30-90 days, especially as new data sources feed them. Our monitoring catches these re-listings automatically. You don't need to check or re-submit anything yourself.