Cyber startup Zeroport raises $10 million Seed for non-IP remote access solution
The company's technology addresses vulnerabilities that led to the CISA breach and countless VPN compromises.
Cybersecurity startup Zeroport, a provider of secure remote access solutions, has raised $10 million in a Seed round led by lool Ventures, with participation from Clarim Ventures, CyberFuture (backed by Elron Ventures), and Fusion Fund.
The company has developed a secure remote access solution that is not IP-based. According to Zeroport, the secure remote access market suffers from a fundamental flaw: existing solutions rely on IP-based communication, creating attack surfaces that allow malware to infiltrate networks and exfiltrate sensitive internal data.
Zeroport's Fantom platform uses patented hardware that creates a physical non‐IP bridge at network boundaries. Inbound flows are physically limited to human interaction signals; outbound flows are display-only pixel streams. No packets can physically enter or leave the network; therefore, no malware can get in, and no data can get out.
Zeroport was founded in mid-2024 in Herzliya by CEO Joseph Gertz and CTO Lavi Friedman. Friedman and COO Rotem Kalmi are both alumni of the IDF's elite Unit 81 and met during reserve duty where they identified critical gaps in secure remote access solutions.
The company currently employs 25 people across its offices in Israel, New York, and Singapore, and plans to expand its workforce to around 40 employees over the coming year.
"For 40 years, organizations have been forced to choose between staying offline for security reasons or allowing remote connection through cumbersome and vulnerable legacy systems that even the world’s top cyber agencies struggle to secure," said Gertz. "We've already proven our hardware-based approach can save enterprises millions while securing their most critical assets."
