Edera, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a secure-by-design Kubernetes and AI solution, raised $5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures with participation from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures and Rosecliff Ventures. Angel investors included Joe Beda, Filippo Valsorda, Mandy Andress, Jeff Behl and Kleiner Perkins scout Nikitha Suryadevara, among others.
The company intends to use the funds to build out the team while supporting new customers and partnerships.
Edera is an enterprise infrastructure company that delivers container isolation by using a type 1 hypervisor and a memory-safe Rust control plane. It enables security engineers to achieve multi-tenancy Kubernetes and AI workload security in a way that is secure from the start, simple and cost-effective.
Edera Protect Kubernetes is available to try now. Edera Protect AI is in development and accepting design partners. Edera also hosts Krata, a set of open source components written in Rust for secure hypervisor technologies.
The company was founded by:
- Ariadne Conill, co-founder & Distinguished Engineer, creator of Wolfi and maintainer for Alpine Linux
- Emily Long, co-founder and CEO, former COO at Chainguard and Anchore, among others
- Alex Zenla, co-founder and CTO, an early contributor to the Dart programming language at 13 years-old and founder of the DSA IoT platform at 14
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18/09/2024