Tropic Square
Prague, Czech Republic
Tropic Square is a European fabless semiconductor startup, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. Operating in the semiconductor design, manufacturing, and IP licensing industry, the company is dedicated to addressing vulnerabilities in hardware security. Unlike traditional closed-source chips, Tropic Square designs and manufactures secure elements that are fully open, auditable, and continuously tested, allowing independent inspection, testing, and verification. Its flagship product, TROPIC01, enables developers to build systems that are tamper-proof, transparent, and future-proof, suitable for applications such as IoT devices, Web3, crypto wallets, and critical infrastructure. At Tropic Square, they don’t just make chips; they build a living security process that evolves with the threat landscape.
Our Team
Jan Bělohoubek
Researcher
Jan Bělohoubek is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague, and the Security Team Lead at Tropic Square s.r.o.
Jan Pleskač
Researcher
Jan Pleskač is the CEO and Co-founder of Tropic Square s.r.o. He has over 20 years of management and development experience in the ASIC and FPGA design service industries. He led the team that developed the first open-architecture, RISC-V-based secure element, TROPIC01, designed to provide the utmost security for critical applications.
Stanislav Jeřábek
Researcher
Stanislav Jeřábek is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, CTU in Prague, and a Security Researcher at Tropic Square s.r.o. His professional and research focus is on side-channel attack (SCA) evaluation, with particular emphasis on the validation of security primitives and the SCA robustness of secure implementations.