Polyverse Raises Additional Funds for Cyber Tech Market Push

Polyverse has brought in $8M through a new funding round led by Japan-based security firm Soliton Systems and other investors.

Bellevue, Wash.-based Polyverse said Thursday it will use the money in efforts to market its cybersecurity technology to the government and enterprise sectors.

The company aims to grow its suite of “polymorphic” tools designed to process operating system source codes to prevent memory-based threats such as the WannaCry ransomware that targeted computers worldwide in 2017.

New funds will also support the development of polymorphic build farms and script engines to support DevSecOps processes.

“Our mission is to solve the cybersecurity problem once and for all. The only way that will happen is if we take a different approach,” Polyverse CEO Alex Gounares said. “By building diversity and uniqueness across multiple system dimensions, Polymorphing increases the complexity and cost for attackers and stops attacks before they start.”

A polymorphing technology the company designed for Linux systems currently runs on millions of servers. The Department of Defense validated the potential of Polyverse's platform to defend against zero-day attacks.