Vana

We live in a world where the most valuable thing about you — your data — belongs to everyone except you. Every search, every click, every message feeds models you'll never see a cent from. Vana exists to change that.

Vana is a user-owned data network. It lets people pool their personal data — from social platforms, health apps, financial records — and collectively decide how it's used. The result is a new kind of data economy: one where individuals hold the keys, and AI development can happen with consent rather than extraction.

Why this matters now.

The question of who controls training data is the most important unresolved question in AI. As models grow more capable, the leverage they derive from human-generated data only compounds. Vana is building the layer that makes data sovereignty technically real — not just a legal concept, but an enforced property right.

We're at the frontier of AI and human data rights. What we build here will shape whether AI serves human dignity or erodes it.