An Opportunity for Investment

The Problem

Despite decades of massive investment and an ever-growing array of security products, the mainstream data protection market continues to fundamentally fail to stop the epidemic of data breaches.

This failure stems from a flawed conceptual model that places a persistent focus on perimeter security and monitoring access control rather than the data itself.

The average total cost per data breach in the U.S. reached a record $10.22 million, up 9% from the previous year. The average cost per lost record reached $308.

92% of organizations increased data protection budgets in 2025, with an average increase of 6.6% year-over-year.

U.S. enterprises, in particular, reported privacy and compliance spend growth of 71% over the prior 12 months — primarily driven by concerns around AI regulation.

Large enterprises (1,000+ employees) often allocate $9–15 million annually on cybersecurity, including data protection. Median spending on data/privacy for substantial organizations (10K+ employees) is around $3.9 million per year.

Kirin’s Solution

Kirin makes all data files self-protecting, intelligent, and self-aware, irrespective of format or type, by allowing data owners to infuse policy and protection rules inside the data file itself.
Kirin enables data owners to dynamically enforce and modify in real time, access and permission control including user identity, network or geolocation, time of day, and device type or device ID – across all copies, no matter where the data resides – in transit, or at rest.
The solution consists of a Windows OS client agent capability and an Azure cloud service API platform that can be deployed into FedRAMP clouds.
The cloud service APIs enable easy integration with enterprise SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) systems for real time telemetry and monitoring.

The Market

The global data protection market
- From 165B in 2024 to $575B by 2032
- A CAGR of 16.89% during the forecast period
Costly attacks and damages continue to grow
- Data exfiltration exploits surged by 39% in 2023
- The data exfiltration market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 9.7% to 14.7% throughout 2031
- The global average data exfiltration cost in 2024 surged to $4.45M per incident
Unstructured data is growing at an annual rate of > 55%
- Represents 80-90% of all new corporate data
- Tracking to surpass 180ZB* in CY2026
- Recent advances in AI are accelerating this trend

* 1 Zetabyte (ZB) is equal to 1,000 Exabytes, or 1 Trillion Gigabytes

Investment Opportunity

Offering an initial SAFE within May 2026 for up to $1,000,000 with a discount on the Round at $15,000,000 pre-money valuation.

Post first tranche, graduated options up to $10,000,000 at $40,000,000 pre-money valuation for extended development of product, platforms, sales and marketing, regulatory approvals, compliance, and specific use case enablement. $10,000,000 allows for 12-18 month runway leading to full commercial platform with 3 vertical revenue generating use case development.