Atombeam, a startup focused on creating more efficient methods of data transmission, recently revealed that it has successfully raised 20 million US dollars.
This investment employed the so-called Reg A+ round structure, a financing method funded by the public rather than institutional investors. Atombeam stated that this investment attracted over 6500 participants.
Based in Moraga, California, Atombeam has developed a data transmission technology named Data-as-Codewords. This software promises to reduce file storage requirements by up to 75%, thereby accelerating their transmission speed over the network. Additionally, Atombeam claims its platform also enhances the security of transmitted data.
Traditional data compression tools decrease storage requirements by identifying repeated patterns within files. These patterns may include letters and number strings that recur multiple times in documents. Repeated strings are replaced with a single copy that occupies less storage space.
Atombeam's Data-as-Codewords technology is based on the same fundamental concept but takes it further.
First, the software identifies recurring patterns in files and consolidates duplicate copies into one. Then, it replaces these consolidated copies with placeholder data points called codewords. If hackers compromise files transmitted using Atombeam's technology, they can only access the codewords instead of the actual content of the files.
Codewords are randomly assigned rather than generated from customer data. According to Atombeam, this means that codewords cannot be reverse-engineered to obtain the protected files. The company states that the technology is lossless, meaning that using Data-as-Codewords for file encryption does not result in any loss of content.
Atombeam plans to commercialize this software through two products.
The first product, Neurpac, is a cloud service that can encrypt files using Data-as-Codewords and decrypt them for users. It utilizes artificial intelligence to accomplish this task. A gateway component allows devices to send Neurpac-protected data using various third-party network protocols.
The company believes customers can apply this service in many scenarios. Agricultural sensors integrated with Neurpac can transmit data to the cloud for analysis more quickly, and vehicles can use the service to send diagnostic information to car manufacturers' backend systems.
Atombeam is collaborating with the US Air Force Research Laboratory to develop its second product, Neurcom. This product will initially focus on speeding up the transmission of radar images. Atombeam expects to release Neurcom in the second half of 2025.
By reducing data size by 75% in just a few microseconds, bandwidth can be expanded fourfold - which means companies can access more data faster and at lower costs, said CEO Charles Yeomans. In doing so, even as the amount of data accessed, transmitted, and used increases, fewer energy and infrastructure resources are needed.
Atombeam will use its newly raised funds to accelerate product development and market expansion plans.
