About Ad Hoc Labs

We make communication and utility apps including Burner, Firewall, and Dialed.

Our mission

We’re a company of app builders focused on making mobile communication faster, easier, and more intuitive. Our apps put you in control of who can reach you and when. They connect you with the people who matter and block those who don’t. They help you organize your contacts and communicate more productively. And they protect your identity and privacy.

In short, we make apps that make your phone a better phone.

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Our founders

Founded by Will Carter and Greg Cohn, Burner was created as a reaction to the exciting changes in the mobile landscape that were occurring in the early 2010s. Carter and Cohn sensed an opportunity to develop applications that were not only interesting and creative but that also helped users solve problems in their daily lives.

Our accolades

Burner has been downloaded by nearly 10 million consumers to date, and we have been covered every which way from Sunday, from consumer tech coverage in Fast Company, Recode, and VentureBeat, to lifestyle pieces about modern dating in Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, to technology future-think pieces in WIRED and Bloomberg and the M.I.T. Technology Review.

Our investors & advisors

Ad Hoc Labs is privately backed by a group of premier technology investors including Venrock, Founder Collective, Miramar Digital Ventures, TenOneTen, and others.