{"id":109729,"date":"2020-07-09T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T23:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/pqshield-raises-7m-for-quantum-ready-cryptographic-security-solutions"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T23:05:54","slug":"pqshield-raises-7m-for-quantum-ready-cryptographic-security-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/pqshield-raises-7m-for-quantum-ready-cryptographic-security-solutions","title":{"rendered":"PQShield raises $7M for quantum-ready cryptographic security solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pqshield-raises-7m-for-quantum-ready-cryptographic-security-solutions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deep tech startup building cryptographic solutions to secure hardware, software, and communications systems for a future when <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/03\/19\/quantum-safe-communication-over-the-internet-infrastructure-yeah-thats-doable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quantum computers may render many current cybersecurity approaches useless<\/a> is today emerging out of stealth mode with $7 million in funding and a mission to make cryptographic security something that cannot be hackable, even with the most sophisticated systems, by building systems today that will continue to be usable in a post-quantum future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pqshield.com\">PQShield<\/a> (PQ being short for \u201cpost-quantum\u201d), a spin out from Oxford University, is being backed in a seed round led by Kindred Capital, with participation also Crane Venture Partners, Oxford Sciences Innovation and various angel investors, including Andre Crawford-Brunt, Deutsche Bank\u2019s former global head of equities.<\/p>\n<p>PQShield was founded in 2018, and its time in stealth has not been in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep tech startup building cryptographic solutions to secure hardware, software, and communications systems for a future when quantum computers may render many current cybersecurity approaches useless is today emerging out of stealth mode with $7 million in funding and a mission to make cryptographic security something that cannot be hackable, even with the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}