Anjuna Raises $25M Funding to Fuel Momentum and Expand Confidential Computing Offerings for AI
August 07 2024 - 9:00AM
Anjuna, creator of Anjuna Seaglass, the Universal Confidential
Computing Platform, today announced that it has closed a $25
million Series B2 financing round to propel and expand its
AI-enabling enterprise offerings. The round was led by M Ventures,
the corporate VC of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, SineWave
Ventures, and AI Capital Partners (Alpha Intelligence Capital’s
U.S.-based fund), with participation from existing investors
Founder Collective, Insight Partners, Playground Global, and
Uncorrelated. Additionally, M Ventures’ Ilja Aizenberg and
SineWave’s Patricia Muoio are joining the company’s board of
directors.
Confidential Computing is a novel category of hardware-enabled
infrastructure security. However, its heterogeneous nature has
historically made it complex to implement. The transition to
Universal Confidential Computing unlocked by Anjuna Seaglass, a
software platform that virtualizes this new class of processors,
makes Trusted Execution Environments accessible in minutes,
regardless of cloud service provider, infrastructure and
applications.
“We are delighted to partner with Anjuna, the leader in
Confidential Computing. Anjuna Seaglass provides a multi-cloud
platform for secure AI-driven collaboration, which is critical in
enabling industries such as healthcare and semiconductors to fully
exploit their data's massive potential. This partnership
underscores our commitment to secure collaboration between multiple
parties using highly sensitive or regulated data,” said Ilja
Aizenberg from M Ventures.
Fueling Accelerated Growth and
InnovationBuilding on strong customer and partnership
momentum, Anjuna has achieved substantial growth in revenue and
customer acquisition, with its bookings and customer base more than
doubling year over year.
The latest funding round will help Anjuna expand its AI-enabling
enterprise offerings, highlighted by the launch of Anjuna Seaglass™
AI Clean Rooms, now available in private preview. By uniquely
leveraging Confidential Computing to establish secure data-sharing
environments, it is poised to propel enterprise multi-party
collaboration in AI and other mission-critical use cases.
Shaping Trustworthy AI for U.S. Navy with NVIDIA
CollaborationA member of NVIDIA Inception, a program for
cutting-edge startups, Anjuna is collaborating with NVIDIA to help
advance GPU-accelerated confidential AI for enterprises. By using
Anjuna Seaglass on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs with Confidential
Computing capabilities, organizations are equipped to accelerate
the deployment of high-performing large language models (LLMs)
without compromising trust, security, and privacy.
Leveraging Anjuna Seaglass with NVIDIA LaunchPad, the U.S. Navy
successfully tested Llama3 LLM models on confidential NVIDIA H100
Tensor Core GPUs. The seamless integration enabled the U.S. Navy to
create and deploy confidential environments in less than one hour,
while obtaining high-speed processing with maximum performance.
“We believe in democratizing secure computing, data privacy, and
trustworthy AI,” affirmed Ayal Yogev, CEO & Co-founder of
Anjuna Security. “With NVIDIA accelerated computing and our
flexible Seaglass platform, Anjuna is poised to deliver universal
access to Confidential Computing for businesses worldwide.”
Resources:
- Anjuna Confidential AI, powered by NVIDIA GPUs [Brochure]:
anjuna.io/confidential-ai-brochure
- Anjuna Confidential AI, powered by NVIDIA GPUs [Video]:
anjuna.io/confidential-ai-video
- Anjuna Seaglass AI Clean Rooms [White Paper]:
anjuna.io/seaglass-ai-clean-rooms-wp
- Anjuna Free Trial: anjuna.io/anjuna-free-trial
About Anjuna Anjuna created Anjuna Seaglass,
the first Universal Confidential Computing Platform, capable of
running applications in any cloud with complete data security and
privacy. Anjuna Seaglass isolates workloads in a hardware-assisted
environment that intrinsically secures data in every state to
create a Zero Trust environment for code and data. Anjuna Seaglass
empowers enterprises to directly control application-level trust
policies, ensuring that only trusted code can access sensitive
data. Anjuna works with enterprises around the globe in industries
such as financial services, government, and blockchain. To learn
more about Anjuna Seaglass and its impact, visit anjuna.io
About M VenturesM Ventures is the strategic,
corporate venture capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
From its headquarters in the Netherlands and offices in Germany,
USA and Israel, M Ventures invests globally in transformational
ideas driven by innovative entrepreneurs. Taking an active role in
its portfolio companies, M Ventures teams up with management teams
and co-investors to translate scientific discoveries into
commercial success. M Ventures focuses on investing along the two
extensive investment areas Biotechnology and Technology in
alignment with the strategic interest of the parent company. We
cover the areas of Healthcare drug development, Life Science tools,
Electronics, and Frontier Technology & Sustainability. For more
information, visit m-ventures.com
About SineWave VenturesSineWave Ventures
occupies the valuable space where the Valley, Fortune 500, and the
Public Sector interact. We are an early-stage venture capital firm
dedicated to accelerating technologies across the Fortune 500 and
public sector ecosystems. The firm currently has over $300mm in
committed capital across diversified funds. Our value lies in the
expertise that drives our thesis, our ability to help companies
navigate unfamiliar verticals and generate diverse revenue sources,
and our unique networks that we can draw on to help our portfolio
companies. Our thesis-driven investment has resulted in a
concentrated portfolio focused on computing, cybersecurity,
networking, and data and analytics. For more information, visit
sinewave.vc
About Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC)Alpha
Intelligence Capital (AIC) is a global venture capital platform
that invests in deep Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
(AI/ML) technology-based companies. AIC’s core focus lies in
companies in the Series-A to Series-D stages, developing
breakthrough products and solving real business problems. The teams
at AIC operate out of San Francisco, Paris, and Singapore. For more
information, visit aicapital.ai
Media Contact: Mauricio Barra, VP of Marketing
for AnjunaEmail: mauricio.barra@anjuna.io
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