Portfolio
Pantherun Technologies
High-speed data protection and encryption technology.
Sector
Cybersecurity
Fund
Fund I
Invested at
Seed Stage
Status
Scaling from product validation to commercial deployment.
Encryption that keeps pace with the data it protects.
Pantherun Technologies is a cybersecurity company building high-performance encryption and data-protection solutions for data-intensive and security-critical environments. Its approach combines hardware and software to secure data in real time, with a focus on high throughput and compatibility with existing infrastructure.
The company’s technology is designed for organisations that cannot compromise on performance or security, including applications across defence, aerospace, telecommunications, smart-city infrastructure, industrial systems and IoT. Pantherun positions its products around AES-based encryption, real-time operation and minimal disruption to data formats and workflows.
A core part of Pantherun’s product strategy is chip-based security. Its Pepper chip-and-software ecosystem is designed for high-speed encryption and embedded/edge deployments, making the company relevant to customers protecting sensitive data while retaining the speed required by connected systems.
FoundersSrinivas Shekar and Tiffany Chan 
What they buildAn encryption board from Pantherun’s hardware line 
What they buildA rack-mounted Pantherun encryption unit
Why we invested
Security will stop being a performance tax.
Encryption is still treated as something you pay for in latency and throughput. As connected systems carry more sensitive data, protection has to run at line rate, in place, without rewriting the formats and workflows around it.
- DEFENCE
- AEROSPACE
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS
- SMART-CITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Pantherun is building for that world.
Company snapshot
Category
Cybersecurity / Advanced Computing
Founders
- Srinivas Shekar Co-Founder & CEO
- Tiffany Chan Co-Founder & COO
Technology highlights
- Real-time encryption and data protection
- Hardware-assisted security architecture
- AES-based encryption for enterprise and critical-infrastructure contexts
- Chip and software platform for embedded and networked deployments
- Relevant to defence, aerospace, telecom, industrial automation and IoT
8X View
Hard environments create hard companies.
We back founders building technology where the barrier is not just software speed, but engineering depth, technical resilience and real-world deployment.
Pantherun reflects that thesis.