Conceal, the Augusta, Georgia startup behind a browser‑native take on Security Service Edge, has closed a $26 million Series B round led by Two Bear Capital, with continued backing from Allegis Cyber and Gula Tech Adventures. The fresh capital is earmarked to accelerate product development, expand go‑to‑market efforts, and scale its team.
At the helm is Eric Cornelius, CEO of Conceal, who argues that traditional VPNs, proxies, and legacy SSE architectures introduce unnecessary latency and complexity. “Our direct approach to zero trust and in-browser security finally delivers on the promise of tech‑stack consolidation,” he says.
Lead investor Mike Goguen, founder and managing partner at Two Bear Capital, views Conceal’s browser-native architecture as a necessary pivot for modern enterprises—one that “scales naturally with how people work today.”
Conceal’s core offering embeds access control and threat inspection directly into the browser, eliminating the need for agents, intermediaries, or routing through distant gateways. The result: secure, seamless connectivity with reduced friction and operational overhead. conceal.io+2Epicos+2
Editorial Perspective & Market Outlook
Conceal’s timing is astute. Many organizations are waking up to the limits of legacy VPN and proxy stacks—fragile, slow, and poorly suited for the hybrid, cloud-native era. The drag of routing all traffic through central appliances is increasingly untenable. In that sense, Conceal is not proposing incremental improvement but a rethinking: the browser as the security perimeter.
That said, execution will be everything. Enterprises demand reliability, auditability, and integration with existing tools—a browser‑first approach must still play nicely with SIEM, IAM, endpoint protection, and compliance workflows. The strongest adoption will come from deployments that can show measurable gains in latency, security posture, and cost efficiency.
If Conceal can prove that its architecture empowers IT teams to ditch complexity without relinquishing control, it stands to reshape how zero-trust is delivered across enterprises. For now, this $26M injection gives the startup a runway—but in cybersecurity, credibility is won one contract, one integration, and one breach‑averted day at a time.
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