Container Speed.
VM-Level Security.
Zero Compromise.
Edera brings VM-grade isolation to your Kubernetes workloads. No performance tax, no shared kernel, no blast radius. Your containers move at full speed. Attackers hit a wall.
Overview
The Architecture Was Always the Problem
Containers share the kernel by design – and a container escape means host access, lateral movement, full tenant exposure. AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has made that shared surface impossible to defend with patching alone.
VM-based alternatives close that gap, but trade it for syscall compatibility gaps, significant overhead, operational complexity that compounds at scale. Infrastructure security shouldn't require compromise.
Edera's Hardened Runtime eliminates the shared kernel – isolating every workload in its own hardware sandbox while maintaining performance within 5% of native.
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Products
Fast and Secure Aren’t Opposites. We Proved It.
You're running untrusted workloads on infrastructure built to share everything. Every AI agent, every model execution, and every third-party container is a shared kernel away from your host. Edera closes that gap–without the compatibility limitations, overhead, or hardware dependencies of existing alternatives.
Edera for Containers
Container security is broken at the source. Edera is the only proactive security solution delivering per-workload kernel isolation built on KVM or Xen, enforced at the lowest level across any infrastructure you already run. No syscall restrictions, no compatibility tradeoffs, no specialized hardware or nested virtualization.
Edera for GPUs
A vendor-agnostic control plane for GPU infrastructure built on hardware-enforced PCIe passthrough isolation. Slice and share servers across tenants safely, contain GPU failures to a single workload boundary, and spin up in seconds not minutes.
Why Edera
We Exist for the Workloads Everyone Else Calls Too Risky.
Untrusted code. Autonomous agents. Multi-tenant infrastructure. None of them should ask you to choose between safe and fast.
Multi-Tenant Isolation for k8s
Hardware boundaries between every tenant – so shared infrastructure never means shared risk.
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AI Agent Sandboxing
Let your agents run freely in production – inside a boundary they can't cross.
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Untrusted Code Execution
Run any code–AI-generated, third-party, or open source––without trusting it to behave.
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CUSTOMER LOVE
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
We're building a platform for ambitious companies around the world to enable building cloud and AI workloads as secure, simple, and efficient as possible. We help customers of every size of business – from startups to Fortune 100s.
Edera assessed hypervisor technologies, new memory-safe principles, and the Rust programming language to actually solve one of the biggest security challenges of this era.
Hadley Harris
Co-founder and general partner of Eniac Ventures
Secure, isolated workloads are a bigger priority than ever for the industry. We are encouraged to see innovative approaches like Edera and look forward to collaborating on how to bring this critical technology to the ecosystem.
Mandy Andress
CISO of Elastic
Edera’s focus on hardened runtime protections reflects a move toward prevention-oriented architectures to mitigate the root causes of attacks. This may become increasingly relevant as AI agents and modern applications introduce new attack surfaces that traditional tools were not built to defend.
Katie Norton
Research Manager, DevSecOps and Software Supply Chain Security of IDC
Edera fills [the security] gap by using virtualization to both reduce risks and, ultimately, reduce costs. It allows Kubernetes to go places it has never gone before!
Joe Beda
Co-Creator of Kubernetes
Edera’s hardened runtime enables teams to move fast while minimizing exposure risks or eroding customer trust. When you can prevent attacks at the architectural level and make your application secure by design, you transform both security posture and operational efficiency.
Ari Weil
VP of Product Marketing of Akamai
Edera’s advanced isolation technology provides a crucial layer of protection, preventing lateral movement and ensuring data integrity. When GPU-powered AI is becoming the backbone of innovation, robust security is the foundation of a resilient and trustworthy AI ecosystem.
Nick Jones
Head of Engineering of Nscale
Edera's isolation capabilities provide protection at a technical layer low enough to stop lateral movement, protecting the container and workload sanctity. Workload security increases in importance as GPU and AI become more prevalent. Edera is well positioned to secure these modern systems.
Tyler Shields
Principal Analyst, Risk & Vulnerability Management of Omdia
[Edera] built true container virtualization to enable actual container isolation. This ends a massive category of vulnerabilities involving escaping container contexts in order to expand the attack surface.
James Berthoty
CEO and Principal Analyst of Latio
The team behind much of Chainguard's engineering has done it again, disrupting every existing product in the category by cutting to the heart of the issue: proper container isolation...Edera is one of the few [security startups] offering something both genuinely innovative, and of immense security value.
James Berthoty
CEO and Principal Analyst of Latio
FAQ
You’ve Got Questions, We Have Answers
You asked and I shall share the knowledge
Edera is a container-native Type-1 hypervisor that eliminates the trade-off between container security and performance. It isolates every workload in its own lightweight “zone,” preventing container escapes by design while maintaining near-native speed and full Kubernetes compatibility.
Traditional containers share the same Linux kernel, which creates risk of container escapes and lateral movement. Edera replaces that shared foundation with per-container micro-VMs, providing complete workload isolation. This design blocks privilege-escalation attacks and zero-days that exploit the kernel — without needing new tooling or specialized hardware.
Absolutely. Edera provides GPU workload isolation that prevents data leakage between tenants and protects against GPU driver vulnerabilities — critical for secure AI training and inference at scale.
Yes. Edera complements confidential computing models by providing strong software-based isolation that doesn’t depend on proprietary hardware. It helps organizations meet zero-trust and compliance requirements for sectors like finance, healthcare, and government.
Edera is built for platform engineering and security teams running large Kubernetes or AI infrastructures. Enterprises adopt it to enable secure multi-tenancy, reduce infrastructure costs, and achieve security without sacrifice – whether on-prem, in public cloud, or at the edge.
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery means CVEs are weaponized faster than any patch cycle can follow. Edera eliminates the shared kernel surface that most exploits target — so a zero-day is contained to a single zone, not your entire node. You still patch. But you're no longer racing a clock you can't win.
Let's hang
Prevention > Detection (Also True for FOMO)
The team's on the road with demos, talks, and the kind of conversations you can't afford to miss. Check out where we're headed – and secure your spot before it's too late!
OUR BASE
Backed by the very best in the business
Edera is backed by an elite group of investors, including top-tier venture firms, visionary founders & world-class innovators. Together, we share a commitment to shaping a secure future for computing.
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A Curated Collection of Musings & Research
From the quirky minds at Edera come educational tales and diverse reads that get us all thinking. We dedicate a lot of time to our entries – please enjoy following along!
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