29 Best Encryption Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Encryption Startups

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There are 29 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $868.7m. The average funding per company in this subset is $30.0m.

Last update to the database: Apr 14, 2026. See changelog.

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$107.8m

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Zama is a privacy-preserving homomorphic encryption platform founded in 2020 by Rand Hindi, Jeremy Bradley Silverio Donato and Pascal Paillier.

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$135.3m

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Fortanix is a Mountain View, California-based cybersecurity company developing cloud security and privacy products.

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$40.0m

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Enveil is a Fulton, Maryland-based data security and privacy security technology company.

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$26.8m

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ISARA is a company developing quantum computer resistant software products founded in 2015 by Scott Totzke.

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$83.0m

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Mimecast is a London-based cybersecurity and email management platform company founded by Neil Murray and Peter Bauer.

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$73.0m

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Wickr is a telecommunications and security company that builds secure communication tools, such as a messaging application. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$89.4m

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Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) is a company that provides software for data security.

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$90.0m

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Duality Technologies combine Advanced Cryptography with Data Science to deliver High-Performance Privacy-Protecting Computing to Regulated Industries.

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$10.0m

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DocAuthority is a Raanana, Isreal-based technology company developing AI-powered data management tools.

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$18.8m

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Decentriq is a company combining machine learning and cryptography to analyze any dataset.

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$40.0m

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Egress is a software company that specializes in compliance and privacy management solutions for unstructured data.

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$35.0m

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Baffle.io provides cloud database encryption for increased security.

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$25.0m

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Delphix is a company founded in 2008 by Charlie Zha.

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$27.0m

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Seclore Technology. is an India-based company founded in 2010 by Vishal Gupta.

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$4.2m

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Confident Security offers CONFSEC, an enterprise-grade private inference platform securing AI interactions with provable guarantees. Founded by Jonathan Mortensen in 2024, the San Francisco-based startup ensures prompts and metadata remain encrypted, never stored or used for model training.

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$14.0m

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Inpher is an analytics company.

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$16.3m

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Dataguise provides a data-centric security solution to detect, protect, and monitor sensitive data in real time across all data repositories, both on premises and in the cloud.

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$6.4m

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Ubiq Security is a cybersecurity and data encryption company.

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$6.0m

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StrongSalt is a United States-based company.

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$4.4m

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Company developing optical communications hardware for strong digital encryption.

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$3.2m

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Cosmian is a blockchain company founded in 2018 by David Gurle, Raphael Auphan, Sandrine Murcia and Bruno GRIEDER.

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$4.5m

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DataFleets is a privacy-preserving data engine that unifies distributed data for rapid access, agile analytics, and automated compliance.

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$4.0m

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GK8 is a cyber security company that offers a high-security custodian technology for managing and safeguarding digital assets.

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$2.3m

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PrivateCore enables enterprises to deploy servers in outsourced environments while maintaining data security.

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FTAPI SecuTransfer is a software solution for end-to-end encrypted data exchange of large and sensitive data with customers and partners.

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Kapalya is a company founded in 2015 by Sudesh Kumar.

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$1.5m

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DataLocker offers both hardware based external storage and software based cloud storage encryption solutions.

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Crown Sterling delivers next generation software-based, AI-driven cryptography in the form of random number generators and encryption products.

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$1.0m

Money raised

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