December 2025 looks quiet if you are skimming. It looks different if you are listening. Scylos just closed a $3M oversubscribed seed round led by Galgano Family Investments, and this is not loud capital chasing logos. This is conviction capital showing up early because the math, the architecture, and the scars all line up. Money like this usually arrives after something breaks. In this case, it arrived because something already proved it would not.
Scylos operates out of Nashville, Tennessee, but the problem set is universal. Endpoints keep failing because they keep remembering too much. Scylos removes the memory. ZeroCore runs workloads without a persistent OS, using immutable containers managed centrally through the cloud. No local residue. No patching marathons. No trusting a machine because it survived yesterday. Endpoints stop being emotional support animals and start acting like instruments that do exactly what they are told.
The backstory matters. Rich Galgano did not wander into cybersecurity chasing buzzwords. After building Windy City Wire and selling it to Diploma PLC for nearly $500M, Rich Galgano entered this space as an investor. When the underlying stateless endpoint tech started wobbling, he stepped in, took ownership, and stabilized it. That is not a pivot. That is someone who understands supply chains, failure modes, and why systems need adults in the room.
Then July 2024 delivered a live-fire test no one would volunteer for. While the CrowdStrike Falcon outage dropped millions of Windows endpoints worldwide, three machines running early Scylos ZeroCore beta inside a major U.S. manufacturer kept operating. No press release theatrics. Just machines doing their job while everyone else reached for recovery plans and caffeine.
Commercial launch followed in November 2025. Deployments now span enterprise, industrial, and public sector environments, gated by real compliance and security reviews, not vibes. Gregg Struve leads execution as CEO, bringing deep security and ops experience from Amazon, Corning, and Aon. Bror Fredrik joined as Director of Ops to make sure scale does not trip over itself. Small team, heavy resumes, zero cosplay.
Scylos Switchboard sits above the fleet as a single-tenant control plane, letting endpoints shift personas without rebooting, reimaging, or leaving forensic crumbs behind. Secure browsers, desktops, kiosks, factory floors, regulated access points, zero trust environments. One device, multiple identities, governed by policy instead of wishful thinking.
The $3M seed is earmarked for platform acceleration, expanded pilots, and partnerships where uptime is non-negotiable. Manufacturing. Public sector. Legacy fleets staring down Windows 10 end of life. When 10 to 15 year old hardware can outperform its former self, depreciation math starts looking optional.
This round did not chase valuation headlines. It validated a thesis. Endpoints fail quietly until they fail loudly. Scylos is betting the future belongs to systems that do not panic, do not persist, and do not forget who they are supposed to be when the lights flicker.
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