About us

Privacy shouldn’t be a luxury.

NightShield was founded on a simple belief: strong encryption should be effortless for everyone — not just security experts. We’re a Stockholm-based team of engineers, cryptographers, and designers making that real.

What we stand for

Three principles. Zero compromises.

Privacy by architecture

We don’t just promise not to log — we build systems that physically can’t. RAM-only servers, zero-knowledge DNS, and audits to prove it.

Speed is a feature

Privacy that slows you down is privacy people turn off. We obsess over throughput so protection never gets in the way.

Open with everyone

Twice-yearly audits published in full, quarterly transparency reports, and plain-language legal docs. Trust is earned in the open.

Our story

From side project to 14 million people

  1. 2019

    Founded in Stockholm

    Three engineers frustrated with slow, opaque VPNs start building one they’d actually want to use.

  2. 2021

    First independent audit

    Cure53 audits our apps and infrastructure. We publish the report in full — and commit to doing it twice a year, forever.

  3. 2022

    The RAM-only migration

    Every server in the fleet is converted to run entirely in volatile memory. Persistent logging becomes physically impossible.

  4. 2024

    10 Gbps everywhere

    The full network is upgraded to 10 Gbps hardware. Average speed retention hits 94% — the best result in our lab tests.

  5. 2025

    14 million people protected

    6,400+ servers across 105 countries, unlimited devices on every plan, and a team of 120 across 14 countries.

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Same mission since day one: privacy for everyone, everywhere.

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