Cloaked Recognized In Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards

The winners of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, highlighting fresh sustainability initiatives, cutting-edge AI and privacy developments, ambitious pursuits of social equity, and other creative projects that are helping mold the world.

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Cloaked, the all-in-one, consumer-first privacy platform, was recognized by Fast Company in the ninth annual awards for its commitment to upholding privacy as a human right by putting individuals in control of what and how they share personal information. Through Cloaked’s technology, subscribers can create unlimited, secure identities, such as working phone numbers, emails, usernames, passwords, and payment methods. It provides information storage, password management, and batch replacement of vulnerable information with AutoCloak™. Most recently, Cloaked added Identity Theft Protection insurance and has a number of new features set to launch in the coming months.

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This year’s World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 50 winners, 127 finalists, and 172 honorable mentions—with health, education, energy, and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners from a pool of more than 1,300 entries across climate, social justice, wellness, politics, technology, corporate social responsibility, and more.

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“It’s an honor for our team to receive this recognition from Fast Company and further highlights the important work we have to reimagine privacy today,” said Arjun Bhatnagar, Co-founder and CEO of Cloaked. “With a privacy-first approach to innovation, we will be able to help protect personal identities and reshape how we all access, use and think about data.” 

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“I was struck this year by the global sweep of the honorees,” says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “It’s endlessly inspiring to see how the world is coming together to devise inventive solutions to our most challenging problems. We need ideas from everywhere, and this year’s World Changing Ideas Awards are an extraordinary encapsulation of the innovation and creativity that is so abundant around the globe.”

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About Cloaked

Founded by brothers Arjun and Abhijay Bhatnagar, Cloaked is a consumer-first privacy company dedicated to helping individuals take control of their personal data in real-time with unlimited, unique identities. Using Cloaked, individuals can choose when, where, and with whom they share personal data from their browser extension or mobile device. To date, the company has raised $34 million in funding and is backed by Lux Capital, Human Capital, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Index Ventures, Jeff Weiner from Next Play Ventures, All Turtles, Khosla Ventures, Michael Ovitz, Marquee Ventures, and the Chainsmokers’ Mantis Fund. Cloaked is based in New York City. To learn more, visit cloaked.com.

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ABOUT THE WORLD CHANGING IDEAS AWARDS: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and bold concepts that make the world better. Judges choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to work on solving the problems that affect us all.

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ABOUT FAST COMPANY

Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.