Zeroport Raises $10M to Kill the VPN Era With Hardware-Based Remote Access

Zeroport Co-founder and CTO, Lavi Friedman (Left) and CEO and Co-Founder, Joseph Gertz (Right)

For decades, remote access has carried an uncomfortable truth. The same IP-based plumbing that makes networks usable also makes them dangerously reachable. VPNs, bastion hosts, and layered gateways were supposed to manage that risk, yet breaches tied to exposed remote access infrastructure keep piling up, including incidents that have reached the highest levels of government.

A new Israeli startup now claims it has found a way out of that tradeoff.

This week, Zeroport announced a $10 million seed round to expand its non-IP remote access platform, Fantom, and push into North America and APAC. The round was led by lool ventures, with participation from Clarim Ventures, CyberFuture backed by Elron Ventures, and Fusion Fund.

Zeroport’s pitch is blunt. Remote access is broken at the architectural level. Every mainstream solution relies on IP traffic that can be scanned, exploited, or abused once a foothold is gained. That weakness has played out repeatedly in recent years through VPN vulnerabilities that exposed government agencies, utilities, and global enterprises. Even Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the U.S. body tasked with defending federal networks, has not been immune to compromise through VPN infrastructure.

Rather than hardening IP pipes further, Zeroport removes them entirely.

Its Fantom platform uses patented hardware placed at the edge of a protected network to create what the company describes as a physical non-IP boundary. Human input signals are allowed in. Display-only pixel streams are allowed out. Traditional packets never traverse the boundary in either direction. Malware cannot enter because there is no IP path to exploit. Sensitive data cannot be exfiltrated because the only output is visual.

“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 Joseph Gertz, co-founder and CEO of Zeroport. “We’ve already proven our hardware-based approach can save enterprises millions while securing their most critical assets. With this recent funding, we’re expanding our team and reach to revolutionize how organizations worldwide achieve secure connectivity.”

The timing is not accidental. Remote access has expanded far beyond office IT into operational technology, energy grids, manufacturing plants, and public infrastructure. In those environments, connectivity often means risk exposure that teams would rather avoid altogether. Zeroport argues that its model allows organizations to enable remote operations in places that previously had to remain isolated.

The company says it is already securing access for organizations across power, finance, government, and industrial sectors. In one case, a systems integrator reportedly eliminated $5 million in annual travel costs by using Fantom for remote monitoring and maintenance that could not be performed safely with conventional tools.

Investors see the appeal in a market that Zeroport estimates at $30 billion and growing rapidly.

“When we screened the cybersecurity landscape, we identified that every remote access solution’s fatal flaw is its IP-based architecture, making networks inherently vulnerable,” said Yaniv Golan, managing partner at lool ventures. “Zeroport’s validation from Fortune 500 CISOs and immediate adoption by critical infrastructure providers prove that hardware-based isolation is the paradigm shift enterprises desperately need.”

That validation includes backing from CyberFuture, a CISO-led investment vehicle, and participation in Singapore’s CyberBoost Catalyse program. The company also counts Siemens Energy among the enterprises publicly endorsing its approach.

“As geopolitical uncertainty reshapes the global threat landscape, cyber resilience has never been more critical,” said Judith Wunschik, global CISO at Siemens Energy. “To safeguard our industrial ecosystems, we must fundamentally rethink remote access. Zeroport delivers a paradigm shift for sensitive OT environments, introducing a level of ingenuity and security the industry has not seen before.”

Clarim Ventures echoed that sense of urgency, pointing to strong demand from regulated industries in North America.

“When we presented Zeroport to our IT and security reseller partners across Canada and the U.S., the feedback was unanimous: they categorized this technology as a game-changer for the industry,” said Yishay Waxman, founder and managing partner at Clarim Ventures. “Our partners report that CISOs and CIOs within the insurance, finance, energy, and critical infrastructure sectors are seeking the Zeroport solution immediately to address urgent remote access vulnerabilities.”

Elron Ventures framed the bet as architectural, not incremental.

“We backed Zeroport because the team is outstanding and the product is unmistakably differentiated,” said Uria Lin, principal at Elron Ventures. “Zeroport isn’t just improving remote access; they’re redefining it, with the potential to simplify the enterprise stack by ripping and replacing multiple remote-access components that organizations have been forced to layer on for years.”

That redefinition is rooted in the company’s origins. Zeroport’s founders bring backgrounds in cybersecurity, hardware, and elite military intelligence units, including Israel Defense Forces Unit 81. The idea for Fantom emerged during reserve duty, where the limits of existing remote connectivity models became impossible to ignore.

With fresh capital, Zeroport plans to grow its team from 25 to 40 employees over the next year, expand internationally, and continue hardening a platform that challenges one of the most entrenched assumptions in enterprise security.

If the company is right, the future of remote access may look less like a tunnel and more like a one-way mirror.