CyberRidge, which specialises in photonic encryption technology that makes sensitive data disappear, has emerged from stealth mode after raising a total of $26m in funding.
The company secured an initial $10m seed round led by Canadian-Israeli investment group Awz, followed by a $16m extension involving Arkin Capital, Redseed VC, Elron Ventures, and the EU Horizon-EIC programme. The new funding will accelerate the rollout of CyberRidge’s pioneering approach to securing data in transit by making it effectively unrecordable.
CyberRidge’s platform addresses one of the most pressing and often unseen cybersecurity threats: the interception and long-term storage of global data transmitted through optical fibre. As over 95% of the world’s digital communication — including banking records, government data, AI workloads and medical information — travels through fibre cables, the risk of “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks is growing. The rise of quantum computing threatens to render traditional encryption ineffective, enabling hackers to decrypt stored data instantaneously in the future.
The company’s flagship product is a plug-and-play photonic transmission layer that integrates seamlessly with existing fibre infrastructure. It converts data into encrypted optical noise, preventing any traditional tapping or recording attempts. The data can only be restored using a proprietary photonic key that changes every fraction of a second, ensuring it can only be accessed in real time. Without the key, the signal becomes unrecoverable.
CyberRidge founder and CEO Dan Sadot said, “We’ve spent decades building taller walls and stronger vaults to protect data, but what if we could make the vault itself disappear? Encryption assumes your data will be stolen and tries to slow attackers down. We’re taking a fundamentally different approach: eliminate the ability to record the data in the first place. If no raw data exists, there’s nothing to hack, today or years from now, no matter how powerful the computer.”
Unlike post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) — the two leading approaches to quantum-safe security — CyberRidge’s technology operates at the photonic level, protecting both the data and the key itself. It creates a “shield” at the transmission layer, preventing attackers from harvesting or storing any usable data in the first place. This photonics-based solution complements existing PQC and QKD methods while addressing their inherent limitations.
The company’s solution is already being tested by telecommunications providers, defence organisations, and intelligence agencies in Europe, Singapore, and Australia, with further deployments underway, including collaborations with Israel’s military intelligence division.
Awz founder and CEO Yaron Ashkenazi said, “As quantum decryption advances, truly secure solutions are increasingly rare. In a world racing toward quantum threats, CyberRidge’s photonic-layer encryption stands apart: turning data into unrecordable optical noise and eliminating the possibility of interception. We’re proud to back this groundbreaking shift in secure communication.”
Elron Ventures CEO Yaniv Shnieder said, “We’re proud to back CyberRidge, developing breakthrough deep tech solutions with a unique technological edge and strong growth potential. The founding team brings outstanding vision and execution, and we look forward to contributing our deep technological expertise and network of professionals to help accelerate the company’s development.”
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