The people behind Scroogle Mail
Fourteen people, one office in Zurich-West, zero photos on this page. We build email that can't read you back, and we try to apply the same restraint to ourselves. Here's who we are and why we bother.
We started in 2021 because two of us had spent years inside the ad-tech machine and couldn't look at an inbox the same way afterwards. The plan was simple and hasn't changed: charge a fair price for email, encrypt it so we can't read it, and never take money from anyone whose business is knowing things about you. Five years on we're a team of 14, all in Switzerland, running our own hardware in Zurich and Lausanne, profitable since 2024 and bootstrapped from day one. Ten of us are below. The other four prefer to stay off the internet entirely, which, given where we work, we can hardly argue with.
Why privacy matters to me
We asked everyone the same question. Nobody checked their answer with Communications first, including Communications.
Matthias Keller
I spent eight years in ad-tech building the machine that reads your inbox to sell you trainers. Scroogle Mail is the apology, paid in full, monthly.
Nadia Furrer
I used to write the loggers, so I know exactly what gets recorded when nobody's looking. Now I build systems where there's nothing worth recording.
Reto Brunner
I can take a tram to every machine your mail lives on. If I couldn't physically point at the server, I wouldn't trust it either - and I run the things.
Anna Widmer
My favourite moment in support: someone asks me to just peek at their mailbox to speed things up, and I get to say I genuinely can't. Then we fix it properly.
Livia Schmid
I assume everything I build will eventually be attacked by someone cleverer than me. Zero-access encryption is how you stay honest about that assumption.
Jonas Meier
Your phone already knows where you sleep, what you read and how fast your heart beats. The mail app on it should not be adding to the pile.
Petra Graf
This is the first comms job I've had where I never have to write around what the product actually does. You'd be surprised how rare that is. Or maybe you wouldn't.
Silvan Frei
Good backend code is boring, predictable, and mathematically incapable of reading your email. I am very proud of how boring mine is.
Elena Vogel
Privacy tools fail when they're ugly and confusing, because people quietly go back to the easy thing. I design so the safe choice is also the easy one.
Marco Steiner
Encrypted mail that lands in the spam folder is a broken promise. I spend my days making sure private email arrives exactly like normal email - just unread by us.
We are hiring.
Small team, real product, no crunch. If working on email worth trusting sounds like your kind of job, we'd like to hear from you.
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