Whiteout Networks, a Germany-based company that provides end-to-end encryption of emails, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding. The seed round saw investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayernkapital.
Oliver Gajek, co-founder and chief executive of Whiteout Networks, said: “People send hundreds of billions of email messages per day, with strongly increasing usage of cloud services and mobile devices. Our mission is to make strong encryption technology easy to use and available on all modern platforms.“
Whiteout Networks’ product is based on OpenPGP and ensures a full end-to-end encryption of important messages. The encryption takes place on the user device which ensures the email service provider does not have access to the message contents.
As the client is implemented as a browser application it will be available on all relevant devices, including desktops, tablets and smartphones.
Whiteout Networks says the funding will be used to boost product development and for market entry.