Fortaegis, an Amsterdam company that builds security into computer chips, announced on September 13, 2026 that it had raised a $50m Series A. The company said the round was oversubscribed.
Serendipity Capital, which had already backed the company, led the round. TEL Venture Capital, the corporate venture arm of Tokyo Electron, joined alongside Dutch research organisation TNO and Prodrive Technologies as strategic and supply-chain investors. NP-Hard Ventures, NovaCapital, Access Ventures and Coalition Capital also took part.
Fortaegis did not disclose a valuation or its total funding to date.
“Computing infrastructure is the central arena of geopolitical and economic competition today.”Chris Miller, US Board Member, Fortaegis
What Fortaegis does
Fortaegis was founded in October 2023 by chief executive Boudewijn Wijnands. Its product, the Fortaegis Silicon Platform, is described by the company as a full-stack secure-compute architecture covering hardware, firmware, cryptography and software. The aim is to give devices a hardware-rooted identity and trust layer across distributed computing systems, rather than adding security on top of existing systems.
The platform comes in several forms: rack-mounted server hardware, ruggedised and compact edge devices, and embedded silicon. Bits&Chips reported that the company describes it as quantum-safe by design.
The company said it has filed 17 patents, with 14 more in preparation, and that internal and customer testing showed connection performance more than 200 times faster than conventional approaches. Those figures come from Fortaegis and were not independently verified.
Fortaegis said it works with more than 25 enterprises and governments as customers or partners in Europe, the United States and Asia. Bits&Chips reported that several customer-funded development projects were moving from technical validation towards product qualification and commercial deployment.
Who invested
Serendipity Capital founder and chief executive Rob Jesudason said in the release that he expected secure compute to become a foundational layer in both commercial and national-security infrastructure.
Several individuals also invested, according to the company: Ilyas Khan, founder of Quantinuum and chairman of Fortaegis; Ian Fujiyama, head of global aerospace, defense and government at Carlyle; and Oxford historian Peter Frankopan.
Chris Miller, author of Chip War, sits on the company's US board and was quoted in the announcement. Peter Janssen, founder and chief technology officer of Prodrive Technologies, said secure compute would become more important across many industries. A separate Bits&Chips headline reported that Prodrive will assemble Fortaegis security chips in Eindhoven.
What the money is for
Fortaegis said the funding will scale production and commercial deployment of its FPGA-based products in the United States, Europe, Singapore and Japan. It will also advance the company's roadmap towards custom chips (ASICs) and add engineering and commercial staff. The release did not give dates for these steps or a headcount.
The funding so far
Before this round, Fortaegis announced a $10m seed round in March 2025, according to funding tracker Signalbase. That report named Serendipity Capital as an investor alongside three undisclosed backers: two venture firms and one strategic investor. The Series A press release itself did not mention earlier rounds or a cumulative total.
Company website: fortaegis.com