Terra Industries Leads Strategic Investment in Nigerian Cybersecurity Startup Aeon

To address these threats, Aeon is building a cyber defense product suite that secures networks and data as well as monitors and remediates vulnerabilities across code, cloud and endpoints, giving security teams one view of their exposure and one place to act on it.

“Almost every operator we worked with had a dozen security tools and no single view of their exposure. Attackers move across all of those systems at once. We built Aeon so a bank or a grid operator can see and fix its whole attack surface from one place.”

— Samuel Ogbonyomi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Aeon, who founded the company with Ben Eluan and Alex Idowu.

Terra is excited to partner with Aeon and its investment follows a successful pilot earlier this year. The two companies have now formed a commercial joint venture to deploy Aeon’s cyber defense technology across military and commercial operations. Together, both companies will co-execute contracts for government and corporate organizations across the Global South, with Terra protecting physical assets and Aeon protecting digital assets. Customers working with Terra will be able to secure both their physical assets and the digital systems behind them through a single partnership.

“We see Aeon becoming the sovereign cyber defense layer for the Global South, where financial institutions, large corporations, governments and militaries run their cyber operations on Aeon’s infrastructure. That is our goal, where Terra handles physical security, and Aeon handles digital and cyber security.” — Nathan Nwachuku, chief executive officer of Terra Industries.