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
Tester
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 Zápeca
Tester
Jan Zápeca is the Head of Engineering at Tropic Square, working on the open-auditable TROPIC01 secure element chip. He has around 13 years of experience in ASIC/SoC design across seven tape-outs, with prior roles at ALPS Electric and ON Semiconductor.
Stanislav Jeřábek
Tester
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.