INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
StrongSalt, then known as OverNest, appeared at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield in 2016, and announced a product for searching
encrypted code, which remains unusual to this day
Today, the company announced a $3 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners.StrongSalt founder and CEO Ed Yu says encryption
He said that his company wants to simplify adding encryption to applications, and came up with a new service to let developers add
encryption in the form of an API
part is actually a pretty big deal because, as Yu points out, when you encrypt data it is no longer searchable
what the customer has or wants
If the customer already has AWS S3 storage, for example, then when they use our API, and after encrypting the data, it will be stored in
needed to reconstruct the keys in order to retrieve the data
rounds prior to this, and a contract with the United States Department of Defense, which replaced the need for substantial earlier
In fact, this work was what led them to build the commercial API platform they are offering today.The company, which was founded in 2015,
currently has 12 employees spread across the globe.
