- AccuKnox, a Menlo Park, CA-based provider of zero-trust kubernetes security solutions built in partnership with Stanford Research Institute, closed a $4.6m seed financing round
- The round was led by National Grid Partners, with strategic participation from SRI, z5Capital and Outliers VC
- In conjunction with the funding, National Grid Partners Director Raghu Madabushi will also join the AccuKnox board
- The company intends to use the funds to expand the engineering team and to prepar to deliver on open source and commercial offerings before the end of this year
- Founded by Asif Ali, Nat Natraj, Rahul Jadhav and Phil Porras, AccuKnox is advancing a Zero Trust run-time Kubernetes security platform that leverages an identity-driven approach
- AccuKnox is the founding team behind KubeArmor, an open source run-time security enforcement system that leverages Linux Security Module (LSM)
