01What AgilePQ is
Built to be built in.
AgilePQ builds SLiM: encryption small enough for the sensors, meters and controllers that cannot carry the security the rest of the internet uses. It licenses SLiM to device manufacturers, who build it in once and carry it into every market they sell to.
AgilePQ was incorporated in Delaware in 2014. In 2017 it raised capital privately from accredited investors. It announced SLiM in 2018, was a finalist in the US Defense Information Systems Agency’s Phase II cryptography evaluation in 2019, and acquired Centri, an IoT security company, in 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic made the years that followed very hard for the company.
Now SLiM is being relaunched through device manufacturers: one integration per product line, carried into every market they sell to.
02Values
What AgilePQ stands for.
AgilePQ names six values. The line under each is what it asks of the work.
Seamless Trust
Security that protects the people who rely on it without asking them to think about it.
Disruptovate
Question what a small device is assumed unable to carry, then build what it can.
Transparency
Say what was measured, who measured it and where every number comes from.
Listen
Start from the customer’s device, network and deadline, not from the product.
Integrity
Claim only what the record supports, and keep the record.
Empower
Give engineers and operators the means to secure what they already run.
03The record
Since 2018. On the record.
Announcements, an evaluation, an acquisition and two granted patents. Each one is dated, and each has its source in the notes.
2018
- 12 Sep 2018
Endpoint security with iBoT
AgilePQ and iBoT announce security work for Class 0 and Class 1 endpoints.
- 27 Sep 2018
SLiM announced
Data-in-transit security for constrained IoT endpoints.
- 12 Sep 2018
2019
- 2019
DISA Phase II finalist
A finalist in the US Defense Information Systems Agency’s Phase II evaluation of cryptography prototypes.
- 2019
2020
- 18 Feb 2020
Partnership with Aegex Technologies
AgilePQ and Aegex announce a partnership.
- 11 Mar 2020
Centri acquired
AgilePQ announces its acquisition of Centri, an IoT security company.
- 18 Feb 2020
2021
- 25 May 2021
US patent 11,018,854
Data conversion systems and methods.
- 25 May 2021
2024
- 5 Mar 2024
US patent 11,924,329
Encryption of standalone data packages.
- 5 Mar 2024
05Sources
Sources and notes14 sources · 9 from AgilePQ’s own records
- 1AgilePQ’s vision: “The world is better for everyone when information is secure.” Its mission: “AgilePQ visibly secures IoT devices worldwide.”AgilePQ.AgilePQ record
- 2RFC 7228: Class 1 devices “cannot easily talk to other Internet nodes employing a full protocol stack such as using HTTP, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and related security protocols”.IETF RFC 7228, section 3.Sourced
- 3AgilePQ designed SLiM’s cipher for RFC 7228 Class 0 through Class 2 devices.AgilePQ cipher design paper (internal draft, 2021), section 2.1.AgilePQ record
- 4AgilePQ licenses SLiM to device manufacturers, who build it into their products and take it into the markets they sell to.AgilePQ management (October 2026).AgilePQ record
- 5AgilePQ, Inc., a Delaware corporation formed in 2014, reported a private offering to accredited investors under Rule 506(b), with its first sale on 27 November 2017.SEC Form D, filed 11 December 2017.Sourced
- 6AgilePQ announced SLiM, data-in-transit security for constrained IoT endpoints, on 27 September 2018.AgilePQ press release, GlobeNewswire.Sourced
- 7AgilePQ was a finalist in the US Defense Information Systems Agency’s Phase II evaluation of quantum-resistant cryptography prototypes (2019).AgilePQ records (DISA Phase II oral presentation, 12 September 2019).AgilePQ record
- 8AgilePQ announced its acquisition of Centri, an IoT security company, on 11 March 2020.AgilePQ press release (11 March 2020, agilepq.com archive).AgilePQ record
- 9AgilePQ: the company raised capital and built SLiM, and the COVID-19 pandemic made the years that followed very hard. It is relaunching SLiM through device manufacturers.AgilePQ management (October 2026).AgilePQ record
- 10AgilePQ’s values: Seamless Trust, Disruptovate, Transparency, Listen, Integrity, Empower.AgilePQ.AgilePQ record
- 11AgilePQ’s main line is 833.244.5377 and its email is info@agilepq.com.AgilePQ.AgilePQ record
- 12AgilePQ and iBoT announced Class 0/1 endpoint security work on 12 September 2018.AgilePQ press release, GlobeNewswire.Sourced
- 13AgilePQ and Aegex Technologies announced a partnership on 18 February 2020.Aegex news (18 February 2020).Sourced
- 14US patents 11,018,854 (Data conversion systems and methods, granted 25 May 2021) and 11,924,329 (Encryption of standalone data packages, granted 5 March 2024) are assigned to AgilePQ.Google Patents assignment records (accessed 14 October 2026).AgilePQ record
