Tessa Brown 12/12/25 Tessa Brown 12/12/25

Germ Wins a Cypherpunk Fellowship from Protocol Labs for Our Open-Source Contributions to MLS

We’re excited to share that Germ was awarded a Cypherpunk Fellowship to complete a portion of our open-source work extending the IETF end-to-end encryption standard Messaging Layer Security for decentralized systems. This fellowship capped off a fantastic three days at Cypherpunk Camp, an initiative of Protocol Labs and Web3 Privacy Now that Germ co-founders attended this fall outside Berlin.

Tessa Brown 10/28/24 Tessa Brown 10/28/24

Germ Network raises pre-seed funding from K5 Global, Mozilla Ventures

Former Apple privacy engineer Mark Xue teams up with ex-Stanford social media scholar Tessa Brown to put people in control of what they share online

Tessa Brown 9/10/24 Tessa Brown 9/10/24

Building for boundaries

Over the next weeks and months, we’ll be pushing features and technical updates that bring Germ out of beta, empowering you to use Germ in more contexts for more kinds of conversations. Before we get into the technical details, it’s worth taking a moment to refocus on our values and goals.

Tessa Brown 8/20/24 Tessa Brown 8/20/24

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves…

After a summer deep in the backend, we’re excited this fall to start shipping features again, building our community, and helping you control what you share online.