Scylos has raised a $3 million oversubscribed seed financing round to accelerate development of its stateless endpoint infrastructure platform and expand pilots across enterprise and public sector environments where uptime, security, and compliance requirements are high. The funding round was led by Galgano family investments, with participation from multiple private investors.
The Nashville-based company said it will use the funding to continue platform development, expand pilots, and pursue strategic partnerships across security-sensitive, always-on endpoint environments. Scylos is positioning its approach as a shift away from traditional endpoint models that rely on persistent operating systems and ongoing patch-and-monitor cycles, arguing that many endpoint security issues stem from devices being deployed in environments for which they were not originally designed.
Scylos said its stateless endpoint platform is anchored by ZeroCore, an operating system-free execution substrate, and centrally orchestrated through Scylos Switchboard, a control plane for deploying, governing, and transforming endpoints at scale. The company said removing local operating systems and persistent state from the trust boundary reduces attack surface, simplifies recovery, and enables endpoints to be deployed, updated, and changed on the fly without reboot, reimaging, or residual state.
The company also described an emerging capability called ShapeShifter that supports policy-driven endpoint persona changes on demand, enabling a single device to take on multiple functions across different security contexts without leaving local data behind. Scylos said its platform is designed for reliability in always-on environments and is intended to support organizations that cannot tolerate downtime or the risk exposure associated with persistent OS layers.
Scylos said the platform can be applied across use cases such as public-facing kiosks and digital signage, industrial control systems and operational technology environments, regulated enterprise access points, and zero-trust network access implementations. The company also said it is commercially available today and supports phased onboarding for enterprise, industrial, and public sector deployments as customers complete internal validation and required compliance and security approvals.
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“Most endpoint security problems exist because devices were never designed for the environments they now operate in. Scylos was built to remove that complexity entirely. The oversubscribed nature of this round reflects deep belief in our team, our architecture, and the long-term future of a stateless approach to endpoints.”
“Instead of managing machines, organizations manage intent; what an endpoint is allowed to do, when it can do it, and under whose authority. That shift is only possible when endpoints are stateless by design.”
“The stateless endpoint approach eliminates entire categories of vulnerabilities that have plagued traditional endpoint management for decades,” added Galgano. “We’re seeing strong interest from organizations that can’t afford downtime or the risk exposure of persistent OS layers.”
Rich Galgano, Founder Of Scylos
“Scylos was designed from day one to operate at scale without the fragility of traditional endpoint stacks,” said Gregg Struve, CEO of Scylos. “This funding allows us to accelerate deployments, expand pilot programs, and continue refining a platform that delivers real-world reliability in always-on and security-critical environments.”
Gregg Struve, CEO Of Scylos
