
Second State offers WasmEdge, a secure, lightweight, and fast WebAssembly runtime designed for cloud-native and edge-native applications. It functions as an open-source operating system for cloud, automotive, and decentralized web environments, enhancing cloud app operational efficiency by providing a secure, portable, fast, and lightweight alternative to traditional Linux containers. WasmEdge enables microservices and serverless applications to 'scale to zero' and 'write once run anywhere', minimizing adoption and migration costs by working with existing container management infrastructure and programming languages. It is particularly effective for running microservices and serverless functions embedded in data pipelines or SaaS platforms, and supports AI inference, data analytics, and cloud-native microservices.

Second State offers WasmEdge, a secure, lightweight, and fast WebAssembly runtime designed for cloud-native and edge-native applications. It functions as an open-source operating system for cloud, automotive, and decentralized web environments, enhancing cloud app operational efficiency by providing a secure, portable, fast, and lightweight alternative to traditional Linux containers. WasmEdge enables microservices and serverless applications to 'scale to zero' and 'write once run anywhere', minimizing adoption and migration costs by working with existing container management infrastructure and programming languages. It is particularly effective for running microservices and serverless functions embedded in data pipelines or SaaS platforms, and supports AI inference, data analytics, and cloud-native microservices.
Product: WasmEdge WebAssembly runtime and related developer tooling (BUIDL IDE)
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA
Founded: 2019
Funding: $3.0M reported (2019)
Team size (reported): Around 10-50 employees
Cloud-native and edge compute performance, portability, secure execution for microservices/serverless and blockchain smart contracts.
2019
Cloud infrastructure / Developer tools / Blockchain infrastructure
$3,000,000
Company communications report participation from Ethereum Classic Labs and other ecosystem grants/support.
“Raised $3M reported in 2019 with participation from Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and Ethereum Classic Labs; additional grants/support from ecosystem organizations reported.”