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Confidential Computing Startup Profian Secures $5 Million In Seed Round In Order To Make Cloud Computing More Secure

Sep 30, 2021•almost 4 years ago

Amount Raised

$5 Million

Round Type

seed

Cambridge

Description

Profian, a Confidential Computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate Financial, and included angel investors: Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer of Datadog; Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer of Fastly; Till Schneidereit, Chairman of Bytecode Alliance; and Sarah Novotny, Board Member of the Linux Foundation.

Company Information

Company

Profian

Location

Cambridge, Maryland, United States

About

Profian is a security company, providing products and services in the Confidential Computing space. The company is committed to open source software basing its products on the open source software project Enarx, which uses WebAssembly, a portable run-time binary format supported on all the major hardware platforms, and which is being standardized by the W3C. Profian allows companies to deploy existing cloud-native applications, without redesign or recompilation, across existing platforms like Intel SGX and AMD SEV, and new platforms as they are rolled out, such as AMD SEV, and new platforms as they are rolled out, such as the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (Arm CCA) and IBM Power Series PEF. For more information about Profian, its products and services please visit profian.com, follow their LinkedIn and Twitter, and subscribe to their Blog.