Winston Privacy Announces New Funding from Refinery Ventures, New Stack Ventures and Founder Equity
Winston Privacy Launches First-of-Its-Kind Home Privacy Device
Winston Privacy, an innovative start-up, today announced the direct to consumer launch of its new privacy filter and the world’s most comprehensive privacy solution for every IoT device. Read More
Winston Privacy Named CES Innovation Award Honoree in Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy Category
Winston Privacy announced today that it has been named a CES® 2020 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy category for its innovative privacy solution. Read More
Winston Mentioned on Science Friday: Your Smart TV is Watching You
Check out this fascinating interview with University of Chicago IoT and privacy researcher, Nick Feamster, on PBS' Science Friday. Nick and his colleagues at the IoT Inspector project have uncovered alarming user tracking in Rokus, Amazon devices and smart TVs. Read More
The Disruptors Podcast Talks Privacy and Kickstarter with Rich Stokes of Winston
Sean Johnson says his podcast "The Disruptors" contains ideas, tools, techniques, and advice from people and organizations who are transforming our world. In this episode, Sean talks to founder and CEO Rich Stokes about the genesis of Winston right through one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns. Read More
Consumer review site, Digital Trends interviews Rich Stokes
Simon Hill at Digital Trends is an experienced technology journalist and no stranger to internet privacy. In this piece, he reports that the idea of Winston is "very attractive" and plans to test the device soon. Read More
The Fast Company Op-Ed by Richard Stokes on the State of Online Privacy
This piece is especially important. Winston Privacy founder Richard Stokes addresses his firsthand view of the massive and troubling shifts in advertising in the last two decades — and where to go from here. Read More
Watch Rich Stokes of Winston Privacy on NBC 5 Chicago News
NBC News talked internet privacy with Rich Stokes. Stokes appeared on Tech Trends with reporter Charlie Wojciechowski to discuss the Winston device he developed at mHub, the Chicago innovation center where Winston is based. Read More
Fast Company Interviews Winston's Richard Stokes about Privacy's Relationship to Luxury
Writer and filmmaker John Pavlus interviewed Rich Stokes recently, as part of an article exploring the degree to which privacy is a luxury good. An element of Winston Privacy's market strategy was to hire MNML Design Studio of Chicago to lead its hardware design and branding. Read More
BizTimes Milwaukee Reports Winston as Favorite Tech
Romke de Haan who is the principal consultant for GuidePoint Security picks Winston as one of his favorite tech tools. Read More
Built In Chicago Features Winston Privacy at Launch of Kickstarter
Winston is featured in Built In Chicago in a profile that is timed with the launch of our Kickstarter campaign. Read More
Political Strategist Bradley Tusk Sits Down with Richard Stokes and Talks Privacy
Winston Privacy founder Richard Stokes shares his story and dives into the politics of online privacy. Read More
Winston Privacy Launches on Kickstarter to Finally Bring Privacy to the Home Network
Today, Winston Privacy, the world’s most advanced privacy solution, launches on Kickstarter. Right now, a person’s every online move is being tracked, mined, and sold by big tech companies, advertisers, data brokers, governments and more. The Winston device allows people to reclaim their privacy and security by fully encrypting, anonymizing and accelerating a user’s internet connection. Read More
The Investor Story of Winston Privacy
Joe Dwyer, partner at Founder Equity, and Nick Moran, general partner at New Stack Ventures, discuss what they see in Winston Privacy that led them to invest in the company on a special episode of The Full Ratchet. Read More
Cheddar.com Calls in Privacy Expert, Rich Stokes of Winston Privacy to Discuss Facebook's New Strategy
This week at the F8 Developer Conference, Mark Zuckerburg is promising privacy. Read More
50 Start Ups to Watch by Built In Chicago Includes Winston Privacy
What start ups in Chicago are set to make an impact this year? Built In Chicago says Winston, for instance. Read More
Winston CEO Interview on Bootstrapping in America | TastyTrade
We hung out with the gang at TastyTrade and things got a little out of control! Read More
TechRadar Pro Interviews Winston Founder about Avoiding Unwanted Tracking Online
2018 brought a surge of consumer awareness in the wake of Cambridge Analytica. TechRadar Pro sat down with Winston Privacy founder Richard Stokes to discuss how Winston’s hardware filter works to prevent undesirable online tracking. Read More
Neil Hughes Interviews Winston Privacy's Richard Stokes for Podcast
The prominent UK podcast Technology Blog Writer, hosted by Neil Hughes, interviewed Rich Stokes about privacy and about Winston. Read More
TechRepublic Profiles How Winston Privacy Protects Consumers
With a video demonstration and interview with Rich Stokes at CES 2019, TechRepublic shows how Winston protects all the devices on a network. Read More
Privacy As Selling Point
In coordination with CES 2019, Phys.org (also known as Science X) reports that respect of privacy is starting to make good business sense for some businesses and startups — and makes particular mention of Winston, with a photo of Rich. Read More
All Hands on Tech Profiles Winston Privacy in CES Video
IT World Canada's "All Hands on Tech" goes hands on with a Winston Device and profiles its functionality, place in the marketplace, and opportune timing. Read More
Winston Privacy Unveils New Safeguard Against the Surveillance Economy at CES 2019
Winston Privacy, a comprehensive online privacy solution in one device, today launches at the 2019 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Read More
The Best Internet Privacy Tools for 2019 Includes Winston Privacy, According to Search Encrypt
Search Encrypt assembled a list of useful tools for to keep your data private this year, including Winston Privacy. Read More
Winston on The (Mostly) Definitive Guide to Chicago Startup & Small Company Holiday Gift Ideas
This certainly is a fun list to be on. Brian Luerssen compiled 65 cool gift ideas from budding Chicago businesses, and Winston made the list "for the curious, creative, and savvy." Read More
Winston Privacy Makes Chicago Inno's List of "Startups to Watch in 2019"
Winston has been named one of the 19 startups in the Chicago area to watch in the 2019 year by Chicago Inno. Read More
Winston Makes Built In Chicago List of Startups You Need to Know About
Of all the startups launched in Chicago in 2018, which ones are worth paying attention to? Built In picks their top 5 for Chicago, and Winston Privacy is on the list. Read More
Technori and WGN Radio Interview Winston Privacy's Richard Stokes
Scott Kitun of Technori and WGN Radio interviews Winston Privacy's founder Richard Stokes at WGN's studios in Chicago about internet privacy in the post Cambridge Analytica age, and how Winston Privacy as a combination of hardware and software works. Read More
Winston Privacy Secures Seed Financing
Winston Privacy, a developer of technology to provide consumers with comprehensive online privacy and data protection for devices both in and out of the home, has secured seed financing from New Stack Ventures, with participation from Founder Equity, M25 and Connetic Ventures. Read More