AccuKnox, a provider of zero-trust cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), has raised USD 6 million in a seed prime funding round led by MDSV with participation from Avanta Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Dreamit Ventures, 5G Open Innovations lab, and National Grid Partners.

The new funding will be deployed toward commercialization and R&D efforts for its AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP and KubeArmor cloud-native computing foundation (CNCF) open-source platform.

Founded in 2020, AccuKnox was formed in partnership with Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The company offers a zero-trust CNAPP based on patented container security, network security, anomaly detection utilizing unsupervised AI/ML, and data provenance inventions with security use cases for networks, applications, IoT/Edge, and 5G environments.