RunSafe Security, a McLean, Va.–based company that makes a platform to protect embedded systems and devices from cyberattacks, recently closed on $2.4 million in seed funding, said CEO Joe Saunders.

The investment round was led by Alsop Louie Partners, a San Francisco–based venture firm. The Herndon, Va.–based Center for Innovative Technology also participated through its Gap Fund. The company also recently completed CIT’s Mach37 cyber accelerator program.

Saunders said the startup’s work began with a question: “If you assume hardware in the supply chain is compromised, how do you build trusted software on top untrusted hardware?”

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