Cyphlens just took the cybersecurity world and dialed it up like a system that’s been quietly calibrating for hours before anyone realizes it’s about to unleash full power. The company closed an oversubscribed $3.8M seed round led by Salesforce Ventures, with Rob Keith seeing the signal before the rest of the market could tune in. Motivate Ventures brought their fintech instincts, DCG added crypto gravity, ex/ante leaned into the integrity of information itself, and Cambrian Ventures delivered that early stage fintech precision. This is not a casual syndicate. This is the kind of table where the buy-in requires knowing exactly where the future is headed and being early enough to matter.
The spark for Cyphlens came when a SIM swap attack hit Rocky Motwani, exposing the soft underbelly of modern security. Encryption guards the journey, but the moment data hits a screen, even the strongest systems shrug and hope for the best. Rocky Motwani did not shrug. With 20+ years across finance, strategy, and cybersecurity, from co-founding Jiko and acquiring a Federal Reserve chartered bank to modernizing JPMorgan’s 50B+ payment systems, he understood the stakes. Pair that with the technical firepower of Andrea G. Forte, whose career has revolved around protecting PII and sensitive content at the visualization layer, and you get a founding duo that was not guessing. They were building what the industry should have built 10 years ago.
Lenscryption turns sensitive information into a visual cipher readable only through a secure decoding lens. It is elegant, almost annoyingly so, because it solves a last mile problem the market treated like an unsolvable riddle. SOCOM is exploring the tech under a CRADA for next-gen tactical edge encryption. A $250B asset manager, a major crypto firm, MBM Capital, Lucerna Global, and XTRM are using Cyphlens to protect internal logins, shared files, revocable credentials, and more. XTRM alone is safeguarding 1M+ users by ditching SMS MFA, a method that crumbles the moment your phone number becomes community property.
Look at the advisory roster and you see the pattern. Christopher Moretti brings enterprise scale from Cigna. Chris Novak brings global cyber risk clarity from Verizon. William MacMillan brings national security depth from his years as CIA CISO. Richard Grogan Crane brings payments intelligence from XTRM. These are people who do not lend their names to toys. They align with inevitability.
CypherFile and CypherMFA are on deck, expanding visual encryption from what you see to everything you share. Cyphlens is selling something rare in enterprise security. Not fear. Control. The kind of control that makes zero trust feel less like a slogan and more like a promise.
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