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Eclypsium Raises $25 Million to Protect Global AI and IT Supply Chain Infrastructure
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Eclypsium announced a $25 million strategic investment round led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital to accelerate its leadership in IT infrastructure supply chain security. The funding includes participation from a top three US bank and Ten Eleven Ventures, alongside returning investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Madrona. This capital injection follows a record fiscal year 2025 as the company expands its reach to safeguard critical hardware and firmware.
Expanding Defense for AI Infrastructure
The company plans to use the new funds to protect the rapidly growing landscape of AI infrastructure. This includes securing GPU servers in data centers and NVIDIA Bluefield DPU-based appliances. By moving into these high value assets, Eclypsium aims to defend the foundational layers of technology that power modern artificial intelligence. Beyond the data center, Eclypsium is targeting the autonomous network edge. Its platform will now cover SASE edge appliances, 5G networking equipment, and CCTV cameras. These devices often operate below the operating system layer, making them invisible to traditional security tools but highly vulnerable to sophisticated attackers.
Research-Driven Market Leadership
The investment follows a year of significant threat research and executive growth. Eclypsium recently uncovered the Framework laptop UEFI vulnerability and the BadCam webcam exploit. Additionally, its research into BMC vulnerabilities led to the first ever hardware management flaw being added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
"As securing critical IT infrastructure and the supply chain becomes a top global imperative, this strategic investment accelerates our mission to deliver the industry's most comprehensive protection."
CEO and Co-Founder Yuriy Bulygin noted that securing the supply chain is now a top global imperative. The company also strengthened its leadership with the addition of veterans from McAfee and Symantec to lead research and product strategy. These hires aim to scale the Eclypsium Supply Chain Security Platform as it becomes a standard for financial services and government agencies.
This funding marks a critical shift in the cybersecurity industry as defense moves from the software layer to the hardware and firmware foundations. As nation state actors increasingly target out of band management chips and UEFI boot sequences to achieve persistence, traditional EDR solutions are proving insufficient. Eclypsium's pivot toward AI infrastructure acknowledges that the AI arms race is as much about securing the physical silicon and supply chain as it is about the models themselves. By integrating into the NVIDIA ecosystem and securing GPU data centers, the company is positioning itself as the essential guardian of the physical infrastructure that underpins the next decade of digital transformation.
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