Gryphon Online Safety, Inc.

Gryphon Online Safety, Inc. ("Gryphon") is a privately held cybersecurity company headquartered at 10265 Prairie Springs Road, San Diego, California (PitchBook; SEC filings). It was formed as Delaware LLC "Griffin Innovations LLC" on January 30, 2014, and converted to a Delaware corporation under its current name on June 19, 2014; some trackers list a 2016 founding date reflecting when co-founder/CTO Arup Bhattacharya joined. Gryphon is venture- and crowdfunding-backed (Regulation A/Reg CF offerings via Republic, Wefunder, StartEngine; angels including Frontier Angels and Hyderabad Angels). PitchBook reports roughly 20 employees and about $21.5M raised; Tracxn lists 19 employees. Reported revenue is small — $2.39M for FY2024 per Gryphon's own Form C disclosure — so third-party "$4M revenue" estimates should be treated as unverified.

Products/services. Gryphon is an operating company, not an NPE. It sells an AI/cloud-managed network protection platform delivered through secure mesh Wi-Fi routers (Gryphon router and Guardian mesh nodes), paired with a mobile app providing network-level content filtering, screen-time management, intrusion detection, and malware blocking without per-device software. The HomeBound feature extends filtering to devices on cellular/public Wi-Fi. The company has shifted toward software licensing through its "HomeConnect" platform, embedding its containerized software into third-party router/gateway platforms for OEMs and broadband/ISPs (it cites Nokia and Adtran agreements). Gryphon states it holds roughly 10–12 issued patents on network protection.

Litigation posture. Gryphon appears once in the tracked data — solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 0 other cases), consistent with an operating company defending an infringement claim rather than asserting one. The single case is venued in the District of Delaware, not a plaintiff-friendly Texas district.

Notable case. Kajeet, Inc. v. Gryphon Online Safety, Inc. (D. Del. 1:19-cv-02370-MN), filed December 30, 2019 with co-defendant NortonLifeLock, alleging infringement of U.S. Patents 8,667,559 and 7,899,438 (parental-control/device-access technology). Kajeet, a McLean, VA-based connectivity vendor, publicly framed the suit as part of a broader patent-licensing and enforcement program. The case was stayed pending PTAB inter partes review and terminated February 27, 2024.