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Tsecond

Category: AI Infrastructure

A high-performance technology company providing petabyte-scale, ruggedized edge data storage and AI-powered infrastructure for bandwidth-constrained and harsh environments. Tsecond was founded in 2020. The company is led by Sahil Chawla. Based in San Jose, USA. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $24.9M. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include ["MSN Holdings","AEI HorizonX (Boeing)","Solar Industries India","Sandiia Ventures"].

Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Jose, USA
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$24.9M

Value proposition

Eliminates the 'bandwidth bottleneck' by enabling the physical transport and high-speed processing of petabytes of data in a compact, rugged form factor, significantly faster than traditional cloud uploads.

Products and solutions

["BRYCK: Flagship petabyte-scale portable storage (14 lbs, construction brick size)","BRYCK AI: Integrated storage and AI compute (1,600+ TOPS) for edge inferencing","BRYCK Block: Modular, fault-tolerant 128TB U.2 NVMe SSD","BRYCK-FXR: Ruggedized high-performance edge AI flyaway kit","BRYCK Mini: High-performance modular system for large-scale mobile storage"]

Unique value

Achieves extreme storage density (1PB+ in a 14lb device) that is universally compatible and ruggedized for 'disadvantaged, disconnected, intermittent, and limited' (DDIL) environments.

Target customer

Defense agencies, aerospace firms, autonomous vehicle developers, media production houses, and industrial IoT enterprises.

Industries served

["Defense & Tactical Edge","Aerospace & Aviation","Autonomous Systems","Media & Entertainment","Energy (Oil & Gas)","Industrial IoT"]

Technology advantage

Proprietary low SWaP (Size, Weight, and Power) architecture combined with high-speed NVMe performance (up to 5 GB/s) and MIL-STD-810G ruggedization, allowing data-heavy AI models to run at the tactical edge without cloud connectivity.

How they differentiate

Tsecond differentiates through extreme storage density (1PB in a 14lb 'brick' size) and integrated AI compute (1,600+ TOPS) specifically ruggedized for MIL-STD-810G environments. Unlike AWS or Azure solutions, Tsecond is cloud-agnostic and designed for 'disconnected' tactical edges where high-speed physical data transport is faster than satellite or cellular uploads.

Main competitors

["Seagate Lyve Mobile","AWS Snowball","Azure Data Box","Pure Storage (FlashBlade)"]

Key partnerships

["Boeing (AEI HorizonX portfolio company)","BigBear.ai (Strategic partnership for battlefield AI infrastructure)","Solar Industries India (Strategic investment and defense collaboration)","Carahsoft (Government and public sector distribution)","World Economic Forum (Global Innovators community member)"]

Notable customers

["Boeing","BigBear.ai","U.S. Department of Defense (via Carahsoft)","Solar Industries India"]

Major milestones

["Launched flagship BRYCK platform in 2022","Secured strategic investment from Boeing's AEI HorizonX in 2023","Granted US Patent 11,635,903 for large-scale data capture systems in 2023","Closed $21.5M Series A funding round in April 2024","Partnered with BigBear.ai to integrate BRYCK into battlefield AI infrastructure"]

Growth metrics

Expanded from a data storage startup to an AI infrastructure provider; joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community.

Market positioning

High-end tactical edge data infrastructure provider for defense and aerospace.

Geographic focus

North America (USA) and Asia-Pacific (India)

Patents and IP

Holds patented technology for large-scale data capture, transport, and high-density storage systems in disadvantaged environments (e.g., US Patent 11,635,903).

About Sahil Chawla

Sahil Chawla is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in data storage, hardware engineering, and edge computing. Before founding Tsecond Inc. in Silicon Valley in 2020, he founded Tsecond Generation Technology in Nagpur, India, in 2014. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community and is recognized for developing petabyte-scale data movement solutions for the tactical edge.

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