Fortaegis raises $50M to accelerate deployment of secure compute
The investment will enable the Dutch company to scale production and commercial deployment of its FPGA products across the United States, Europe, Singapore and Japan and to advance the ASIC roadmap, while growing its engineering and commercial capacity.
Dutch startup Fortaegis Technologies has announced an oversubscribed USD 50 million Series A, led by Serendipity Capital, as the company accelerates its transition from technology validation into commercial production and global deployment of its Secure Compute architecture across AI infrastructure, defense and autonomous systems, advanced manufacturing, telecommunications, critical infrastructure and automotive.
The Fortaegis Silicon Platform is a full-stack Secure Compute architecture spanning hardware, firmware, cryptography and software. By rooting security in the physical properties of silicon and extending identity, security, policy and orchestration across every enabled node, the architecture is designed to establish trust at machine speed and scale across millions of devices and agents while being naturally and entirely quantum-safe, Fortaegis said in a press release.
“Fortaegis was founded on the conviction that security cannot remain something we add on top of digital systems — it must become part of the foundations of compute itself,” said Boudewijn Wijnands, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortaegis Technologies. “This investment allows us to accelerate that mission globally.”
“Computing infrastructure is the central arena of geopolitical and economic competition today,” said Chris Miller, US Board Member of Fortaegis Technologies and author of Chip War. “As AI advances and quantum computing takes off, security and control of computing foundations are essential. Fortaegis is addressing that challenge at the architectural level.”
Since its inception in October 2023, Fortaegis has expanded across Europe, the United States and Asia and is working with more than 25 enterprises and governments across semiconductor infrastructure, defense, AI infrastructure, telecommunications and other critical industries.
“Having founded and then built Quantinuum, I have seen how technologies that begin at the frontier can become foundational infrastructure,” said Ilyas Khan, Chairman of Fortaegis Technologies and Founder of Quantinuum. “Fortaegis has the technology and ambition to do the same for Secure Compute — making security intrinsic to computing from silicon upward — and will become one of the hottest companies around as it becomes integral and essential for the rollout of compute in the next decades.”
The investment will enable the company to scale production and commercial deployment of its FPGA products across the United States, Europe, Singapore and Japan and to advance the ASIC roadmap, while growing its engineering and commercial capacity, Fortaegis said.
