CAMBRIDGE, England & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Profian, a Confidential Computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate Financial, and included angel investors: Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer of Datadog; Tyler McMullen, Chief Technology Officer of Fastly; Till Schneidereit, Chairman of Bytecode Alliance; and Sarah Novotny, Board Member of the Linux Foundation. As corporate cyber and data breaches continue to accelerate worldwide, there is a heightened requirement for organizations to increase their security for workloads in the cloud. Jim Whitehurst, former CEO of Red Hat and Senior Advisor to IBM, said, “Confidential Computing is a key security technology in the move to broader cloud adoption, and I’m excited by Profian’s open source approach to addressing this growing market.” “Mike and Nathaniel’s exceptional backgrounds make for an amazing pair of founders to take on this challenge,” explains Uwe Horstmann, General Partner at Project A, “and we believe Profian and Enarx will have the same massive impact on Confidential Computing as containers did for cloud native development.” Profian is a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, a Linux Foundation project, which unites hardware vendors, cloud providers, and software developers to accelerate the adoption of Trusted Execution Environment technologies and standards. More than 30 industry innovators including Accenture, Arm, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware are members.