Keep your home address private as your company grows.
Every funding announcement, press feature, and public filing puts your home address, phone number, and family details online. Your exposed data is the supply chain for the spam, scams, and harassment that follow visibility. We pursue its removal through supported routes, and paid plans rescan every month.
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Building in public puts your personal details into circulation
Your company's public profile and your personal exposure grow in parallel. Here is exactly what happens to your data when you become a visible founder.
Fundraising creates a data event
SEC filings, public company directories, press releases, and investor announcements can feed aggregators. A funding announcement may create new public signals, but whether and when they change a broker profile varies.
Your family appears on your listing
A press feature or funding announcement makes your name more searchable, and broker listings serve up your spouse's name, your children's ages, and your home address in the same record. Their exposure is a direct side effect of your raise.
The gap between visibility and protection
Most founders don't act until something happens: a strange email, someone referencing their home address, a family member flagging an unsettling message. By then the exposure has been accumulating for months. Starting before you need to is the point.
Each media mention adds another record
Coverage, conference appearances, and professional activity generate more data broker records. Each new mention is another source for brokers to aggregate, and the monthly full scan looks for new listings so they can enter removal work.
Background reading: How data brokers get your information
A free scan checks people-search sites and other sources for your name, email, phone, and address, and shows the possible matches it finds.
Run a free scanWhat we do, step by step
Find where you appear
We scan people-search sites, data brokers, search engines, and public records for your name, phone, email, and address. You review the possible matches we find before any removal work starts.
Submit removal requests
We submit opt-out requests through each site's own channel where a supported route exists, and use state privacy rights where your state provides them. Some sites need a step from you.
Track and follow up
We track each request and record what the site says. If a site doesn't respond, we follow up and escalate where its process allows. Our monthly full scan looks for listings that come back.
Scan every month
Exposure doesn't end after one cleanup. As your company grows and your profile changes, new records appear. We run a full scan every month, pursue removal of new listings through supported routes, and tell you when a site needs something from you.
How the approaches compare
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| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage approach | Sites you identify | Varies by provider | No fixed list, we search the open web |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Monthly |
| Household coverage | You'd need to repeat for each person | Varies | Add members |
| Time investment | Hours per month, ongoing | Setup + periodic check-ins | Mostly handled for you |
| Legal removal requests | You'd draft and send them yourself | Rarely | State law where it applies |
| Post-fundraising coverage | Same manual process, more sites | No event-aware scanning | Monthly full scans |
Questions founders ask
Should I do this before or after my round closes?
Starting before a public announcement can establish a baseline and address existing listings. Filings, press releases, and company directories can create new source records, but ingestion timing varies. Re-scan after the announcement and remove supported listings that appear.
Will removing my data from data broker sites affect my company's public profile?
No. We target people-search sites that publish your home address, phone, and family details. Your company's web presence, press coverage, and professional profiles stay untouched. LinkedIn and media mentions are left alone.
Can I protect my family members too?
Yes. You can add paid coverage for your spouse and other household members under one subscription. Brokers link records by address, so removing only yours while your spouse's stays live still exposes your home and contact details.
How does this work alongside my company's security measures?
Corporate security covers endpoints, access controls, and SOC2. None of that touches your home address on people-search sites or your phone number on data broker directories. Delist handles the personal surface area corporate security leaves exposed.
What happens if my data reappears after removal?
Listings can reappear when brokers receive new public records or partner data. Our monthly full scan looks for listings that come back, and we review them before any further removal work. We tell you when a site needs something from you.
See where your personal data is right now
A free scan shows possible matches for your name, email, phone, and address on the sites it checks. Start there, then decide whether to add paid removal work.
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