Aliro today announced a $15 million oversubscribed funding round to advance what is the next major technology paradigm shift in cybersecurity: moving trust from mathematical assumptions to physical law. The round was led by Gutbrain Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Cisco Investments, as well as new investors Argon Ventures and Wonderstone Ventures, the corporate VC of Murata.

Every generational platform shift—from mainframes to PCs, landlines to mobile, on-prem servers to the cloud—shared one trait: it didn’t improve the old model; it made it obsolete.

Security is now at that same inflection point.

For decades, digital trust has been built on encryption derived from computational hurdles. These systems assume attackers are limited by time and resources. That assumption is breaking.

Aliro replaces assumption-based security with physics-based truth enforcement. Location cannot be spoofed. Keys cannot be stolen on the wire. Eavesdroppers are immediately and visibly detected.

“This isn’t about stronger encryption,” said Jim Ricotta, CEO of Aliro. “It’s about changing what trust means. Aliro is transforming digital trust from a mathematical probability into a physical certainty. The TAM for this market is conservatively estimated to be $60B and growing.”

Aliro’s platform runs on existing optical networks, transforming existing routers and switches into transport, while shifting trust to a software-driven, physics-enforced layer. There is no incremental upgrade path for legacy vendors—just as there was none from landlines to mobile or from on-prem hardware to the cloud.

“Aliro enables a fundamental upgrade to the world's core security and connectivity architecture,” said Bob Davoli, Aliro Chairman and Founder of Gutbrain Ventures. “Our ability to deliver deterministic security to classical networks today while preparing for the quantum tomorrow makes this one of the most exciting infrastructure opportunities in tech.”

Every enterprise, bank, defense organization, telco, and cloud provider must choose between trust based on assumptions, or trust based on physics. The new funding will support expanded deployments, ecosystem partnerships, and Aliro’s mission to redefine global security infrastructure.

The investment comes as Aliro reaches significant technical milestones, recently announcing support for over 50 entanglement and classical network devices within its vendor-agnostic software stack. This interoperability allows organizations to deploy fully operational, high-assurance networks immediately using existing fiber infrastructure.

In addition to its run-time software platform, Aliro offers the world’s most capable physics-accurate entanglement network simulator. This “digital twin” allows organizations to understand the value of these new networks in great detail before making long term commitments.

“We look for visionary teams and disruptive technologies that solve immediate, tangible business problems,” added Bob Mason, Managing Partner at Argon Ventures. “As an engineer and former CTO, I see Aliro solving a most fundamental challenge: enabling irrefutably secure network infrastructure, built on a foundation that is immune to future computational threats.”

About Aliro - The Quantum Networking Company^Ⓡ

Aliro is commercializing the world’s first software-driven entanglement platform for physics-based security. By enforcing trust through the laws of nature, Aliro is redefining cybersecurity for the next generation of global infrastructure. Other use cases for Aliro’s entanglement platform include networking quantum computers, blind quantum computing, position verification, enhanced decision coordination, and networking distributed quantum sensors. With a vendor-agnostic approach, Aliro is building the safe, intelligent, and essential fabric for the future global economy.

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“This isn’t about stronger encryption,” said Jim Ricotta, CEO of Aliro. “It’s about changing what trust means. Aliro is transforming digital trust from a mathematical probability into a physical certainty.”