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Byteport

byteport.io

Byteport accelerates secure, large-scale file transfers across enterprise, AI, robotics, satellite, and defense networks.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 5d ago
Specialization
Distributed Computing
Business
Software Applications
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Not classified
Customers
Enterprises
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Not classified
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Distributed Computing
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, On Premise Software
Revenue models
Subscription
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
Not classified

About

Byteport builds mission-critical data-transfer infrastructure for AI, enterprise, robotics, satellite, and defense applications. It sells to businesses ranging from startups to public companies, differentiating through its proprietary DART protocol, which accelerates large-file transfers across unreliable networks and supports cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped deployments.

Market

Byteport competes in enterprise accelerated file transfer and network infrastructure, focused on moving very large files—roughly 1GB to 100TB—between endpoints over demanding or unreliable networks. It differentiates from legacy TCP-based approaches such as FTP, SCP, rsync, and S3 multipart uploads with its proprietary UDP-based DART protocol, built-in AES-256 encryption, lossless transport, high bandwidth utilization, and zero-configuration deployment across land, air, sea, and space networks. Its positioning overlaps with IBM Aspera, Signiant, MASV, and Resilio, but emphasizes mission-critical AI, robotics, satellite, and defense use cases.

Target Customers

Byteport targets organizations operating petabyte-scale AI clusters, satellite ground stations, autonomous drone or robotics fleets, enterprise networks, and classified defense environments. Its likely buyers are enterprise infrastructure, networking, DevOps, and security teams that need reliable, secure data movement across on-premises, air-gapped, hybrid, or cloud environments.

At a Glance

Problem

Byteport addresses the slow, unreliable, and operationally complex movement of very large files—roughly 1GB to 100TB—between endpoints over the internet and other challenging networks. Legacy approaches such as FTP, SCP, rsync, and S3 multipart uploads can require substantial configuration and specialist expertise, while poor utilization of available bandwidth makes large-scale transfers costly in time and infrastructure. The killer use cases are environments where data is both massive and mission-critical: petabyte-scale AI clusters, satellite ground stations, autonomous drone fleets, and classified or air-gapped defense networks.

Product / Service

Byteport’s core product is DART, or Dynamic Accelerated Record Transfer, a proprietary file-transfer protocol designed to bypass the limitations of TCP. It uses UDP-based transport to move files from any source to any destination, with the company claiming typical speeds up to 10x faster than TCP, lossless delivery, 98% bandwidth utilization, and built-in AES-256 encryption. The product is designed for one-click transfers and can be deployed across on-premises, air-gapped, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Byteport sells the service through a tiered commercial model. Its public Growth plan is listed at $500 per month, or $425 per month when billed annually, with enterprise pricing available for organizations requiring unlimited throughput scaling, advanced cloud transfers, compliance packages, custom SLAs, SDK and CLI access, and on-site deployment support. The benefit is faster, secure, and dependable data movement without requiring customers to redesign their underlying networks.

Market

Byteport competes in high-performance file transfer and network infrastructure, particularly for AI, enterprise, media, robotics, satellite, and defense applications. The evidence positions its primary alternatives as legacy TCP-based tools and workflows—including FTP, SCP, rsync, and S3 multipart uploads—rather than naming specific direct commercial competitors. Its differentiation is the combination of high throughput, secure transport, broad deployment flexibility, and support for intermittent, high-latency, or contested networks.

The company says it was founded in 2025 and has become a trusted partner for demanding environments, including AI clusters, satellite ground stations, drone fleets, and classified defense networks. Its public pricing, demo-led sales process, and enterprise deployment offering indicate an actively commercializing company rather than one that is clearly pre-revenue, although the available evidence does not disclose revenue, customer counts, or independently verified traction.

Founders & Leadership

Jayram PalamadaiFounder
Founder & CEO

Funding History

2026-01
Seed / Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund

Recent News

2026-06-27product_launch
Claude’s Corner: Byteport, The Pipe the AI Era Forgot to Build

StartupHub profiled Byteport’s DART protocol, a UDP-based file-transfer system claimed to be up to 1,500 times faster than TCP. The article describes Byteport’s focus on robotics and AI teams and highlights its Stream SDK for live data.

2026-03-28other
From moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day

TechCrunch’s YC Demo Day roundup featured Byteport and quoted founder Jayram Palamadai arguing that legacy file-transfer protocols such as TCP are too slow for AI workloads; he described Byteport’s DART protocol.

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Business Model

Byteport sells subscription-based file-transfer software with monthly and annual pricing; its listed Growth plan is $500 per month monthly or $425 per month annually. It also monetizes enterprise customers through custom-priced plans offering enhanced throughput, compliance packages, custom SLAs, SDK access, and deployment assistance.

Products

DART high-speed file-transfer protocol for large-scale data movementByteport enterprise data-transfer platform, deployable on-premises, in air-gapped environments, or across hybrid and cloud infrastructureVertical solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure, satellites and space, and drones and robotics

Tech Stack

Proprietary DART file-transfer protocolUDP-based transportAES-256 encryptionLossless data transport with 98% bandwidth utilization and zero-config deployment

Competitors

IBM Aspera
Signiant
MASV
Resilio