Edera, a startup providing secure isolation solutions for Kubernetes and artificial intelligence workloads, this week announced raising $5 million in seed funding.
The investment round was led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures, with additional support from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures, Rosecliff Ventures, and several angel investors.
Founded earlier this year, the Seattle-based startup has built a secure-by-design solution that provides isolation at the container level, treating each container like a virtual machine guest.
Regardless of whether they run on public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises, workloads are further secured by a memory-safe Rust control pane and because there is no shared kernel state between containers.
Instead of focusing on detecting and blocking attacks, Edera secures containers from the start, using a paravirtualization mode that eliminates the need for custom infrastructure or hardware virtualization support.
According to the company, its solution can prevent exploitation of known and unknown vulnerabilities, helping organizations to run multi-tenancy environments by isolating critical infrastructure from container escapes.
In addition to the Kubernetes container isolation solution, Edera is working on an AI protection product and is accepting design partners for it.
The new funding will allow Edera to expand its team and to invest in customer support and new partnerships.
“While companies have struggled for a decade to secure their Kubernetes workloads using a patchwork of tools and procedures that have never really worked, the answer has been sitting in front of us all along. Our product is built on proven technologies and introduces a memory-safe Rust control plane to radically change the Kubernetes security landscape,” Edera co-founder and CTO Alex Zenla said.
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