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Edera Secures $15 Million Series A Funding

Edera, a groundbreaking company specializing in workload isolation technology, recently announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, spearheaded by M12, which is Microsoft’s venture fund. This investment comes shortly after the company’s initial seed funding of $5 million and brings its total fundraising to $20 million. The participation of renowned investors such as Mantis VC, In-Q-Tel, Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, FPV Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures underlines the market's confidence in Edera's innovative solutions.

This substantial backing aims to facilitate Edera in advancing its flagship product, Edera Protect, which empowers organizations to achieve secure workload isolation without compromising efficiency in their cloud infrastructure. As businesses increasingly embrace containerized workloads, they often face the daunting challenge of maintaining both security and efficiency. Containerization commonly leads to resource sharing and kernel utilization, which can expose organizations to various security vulnerabilities.

In a landscape where traditional solutions often require teams to sacrifice performance for security or impose challenging configurations, Edera delivers a unique proposition by embedding security within the very architecture of cloud services. With its focus on AI workloads, where shared GPU resources present additional risks, Edera is addressing a critical need to fortify cloud environments effectively.

The Technology Behind Edera Protect

Edera Protect is recognized as the first industry solution to offer automated workload isolation designed specifically for cloud-native environments. This means that developers can continue utilizing their existing workflows while benefitting from intrinsic security measures, ensuring their workloads are shielded against potential wasteful attacks from the very beginning, without necessitating any changes to their processes.

Emily Long, the CEO and Co-Founder of Edera, emphasized the company's vision: