Mobile networks continue to be the main target of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, Chinese hacker team Salt typhoonContinuous attacks on multiple vectors are just the latest known examples.
Mobile operator starts cape A novel approach is being taken to solve this problem: it has established a service that says it can provide a safer and more private alternative because it simply doesn’t collect any of your data, even if its website does not have a cookie gate. Today, Cape is announcing some major developments in its efforts.
The Washington, D.C.-based company was founded by the former head of Palantir’s national security operations, which worked for the U.S. Army Special Forces and is releasing the public beta of its MVNO mobile service in the form of a $99/month subscription plan; it has a partnership with Proton, a provider of encrypted email, VPN and cloud services; it has raised $30 million in equity and debt funds.
The $30 million stock was lost, with the further sale of the Series B shares of A*, Costanoa, Point72, XYZ Ventures. Silicon Valley Bank has another $15 million in debt facilities. This raises the equity portion of its Series B to $55 million, with the initial $40 million announced April 2024 Leaded by Andreessen Horowitz.
Cape has not disclosed its valuation, but it is worth noting that as startups build military, defense and security services, there will be more and more funds, and when geopolitical changes occur.
Although many of the shifts are involved in war, espionage against officials and officials, and large industrial entities, the main contact between Cape products and their growth is involved in war, the main contact between officials and officials, which is one of this rare example of how some evolutions can be played on the consumer level.
This is not to say that all Cape products are targeted at everyday people. Last year, the new plan followed the company closely behind, with $61 million in fundinglaunching a $1,500 phone called coverThis is a clear design for military and government people and others like them: in the words of the company, “people facing elevated threats.” Then in January 2025, Cape took the first move to launch services for consumers. All open slots in this enclosed beta are filled in within four hours.
CEO John Doyle, who co-founded the company (the head of R&D) with Nicholas Espinoza, said the rapid registration speed notes: “From the wider consumer market, there is a widespread interest in people, they generally desire to reclaim some of their privacy rights, but they do not want to get camp and the lide nevelly and tem sevelly and tem les and tep live and tem les nevelly’’Open Beta.
Apart from promise To track or sell data, the program includes unlimited voice minutes, text and data (Doyle says there is no voice for WIFI yet; this is still going on), as well as encrypted voicemail.
As part of the plan, Cape also provides protection against two other emerging cellular threats. The first is protection from using encryption protection to prevent someone from hijacking your phone number.
It provides what it describes as “advanced signal protection” – reference side channel attacks specified by phone Signal system 7. Tracking via SS7 has been a known issue for years, but December 2024 The U.S. government highlighted the specific issues it is sensitive to call, text and data, and said that using the protocol can be obtained from military and other personnel from spies.
Doyle added that the general availability of its phone plan will be released later this year. Currently, there are more than 1,000 users in its closed beta version, and hundreds of Imbercura phone owners.
Cape’s services are based on USCellular, a program that introduces roaming services to its users to expand to other countries and introduces MNVO-based programs in other countries.
Europe has proven to be a big market for privacy-first services and a market for providing alternatives to large technologies. This leads to the application Signals crawl to the top of the app store In at least one European market. This could provide an interesting addressable market for startups like Cape Town.
During this time, Cape was inclined toward European privacy preferences in another way. Just like mainstream operators like to build marketing partnerships with buzzing consumer services to drive more registrations – a recent example is T-Mobile Partnership with Confusion For “AI phone calls”, Cape is the same as like-minded privacy-first companies. First, a deal was concluded with Protons in Switzerland to send registration to the premium (paid) products of the latter company. Those who sign up for the $99/month phone plan can pay $1 to add to six months Protons are infinite Plans, which include encrypted cloud storage, VPN, extended secure email, and more.
“We conducted a very rigorous investigation into the field and determined that we think protons are clear leaders in terms of credibility and their technology, and how they handle problems [of privacy]He said he said the partnership between the two companies was the “first version.”
