Strategic cooperation must accelerate the development of a new generation of security where protection is built into the chip itself. This makes storing or exchanging encryption keys superfluous and systems would become intrinsically safer. According to Forteagis, his technology is a self -developed chip and software layer, faster than solutions from other parties.
It is intended that the chip will be on the market in 2028 and will initially be intended for the military and strategic market, but can also protect energy networks and other infrastructure, for example. The technology will therefore be a ‘dual use’ are the product that should not be exported just like that.
As part of the collaboration, TNO, through its private holding company TNO Ventures, also invests financially in Forteagis. Amounts involved in the investment are not disclosed, but according to CEO Boudewijn Wijnands, it is a financing that is ‘significantly greater’ than the round with which the company started in 2023. 53 people now work at Forteagis, but then more than 100 have to be in the coming twelve months.