Today’s cloud infrastructure forces organizations to choose between security and efficiency. Containerized workloads share resources and kernels, creating inherent security vulnerabilities that attackers exploit through privilege escalation and lateral movement. Traditional solutions either compromise performance or require complex configuration changes, leaving platform teams frustrated and security teams alarmed. This problem is especially prevalent in AI workloads, where shared GPU resources amplify security risks. Edera solves these challenges by making workload isolation a reality for the first time.
Edera, the pioneer of strong workload isolation technology, announced $15 million in Series A funding led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, with participation from Mantis VC and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Existing investors Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, FPV Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures also participated in the round.
This investment, arriving just three months after Edera’s $5 million seed round, brings total funding to $20 million, validating the company’s breakthrough solution, Edera Protect, which delivers cloud-native isolation making containers secure by default across all workloads. This round will fund product expansion to include support for AI infrastructure. By embedding security at the architectural level, Edera enables developers to maintain their existing workflows while automatically ensuring workload isolation and protection from the start.
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“This funding accelerates our mission to empower engineers to develop with speed and confidence,” said Emily Long, CEO and Co-Founder of Edera. “We’re eliminating the traditional tension between development velocity and security by making isolation intrinsic to the infrastructure. Platform teams can focus on creating value while knowing their workloads are secure from the start – no workflow changes required, no security burden post-deployment, just native security that scales with their applications.”
“Workload security requires being closer to the hardware than the attacker,” said Tyler Shields, Principal Analyst, Risk & Vulnerability Management at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Edera’s isolation capabilities provide protection at a technical layer low enough to stop lateral movement, protecting the container and workload sanctity. Workload security increases in importance as GPU and AI become more prevalent. Edera is well positioned to secure these modern systems.”
SOURCE: PRNewswire