Our Company

CleanBrowsing, Inc is a bootstrapped startup out of Temecula, California. Consisting of engineers and security professionals, our team is fully committed to our mission of empowering people and parents around the world to retake control of their home networks. As a business, we are committed to building a long-term sustainable business such that you will know that we will be here as long as they need us.

Leadership

CleanBrowsing is run by Daniel Cid and Tony Perez. They are long time friends and have been business partners on other ventures as well.

Both have young kids, making CleanBrowsing a very special project for them, since they use it to protect their own families. See Why we started it.

Like many of you, we were concerned parents but also engineers at heart. We were not happy with the available solutions. We were especially focused, and disappointed, with the effectiveness of the available solutions. We wanted to feel comfortable that when our kids were playing their games, watching their YouTube or searching content for school they were safe from unexpected surprises. Coincidently, by working to solve for kids you end up solving for a number of other people and demographics.

Some solutions worked partially, but required additional tools to be installed; others were not effective, or efficient, or had to many false negatives (too much bad content being missed). Many were missing features we felt were important, things like the ability to block social platforms, employ Safe Search by default, block search engines that don't offer Safe Search and a number of other more granular controls we felt were more in line with today's online experiences. So naturally, as technologists, we set out to see if can solve our own problem.

In the process, we tried something different and achieved a clean browsing experience. We were able to maintain a strong balance between safe and usable experiences, enforcing the safe mode on the sites that offer this option automatically (Google and Youtube are good examples) and deploying a highly effective solution that can be leveraged by parents and organizations alike.