Zeroport

Zeroport is an Israeli cybersecurity startup founded in mid-2024 by CEO Joseph Gertz and CTO Lavi Friedman, both alumni of IDF Unit 81, alongside COO Rotem Kalmi. The company takes a hardware-first approach to secure remote access, arguing that the software-defined perimeter model underlying VPNs, bastion hosts, and even most zero trust network access (ZTNA) products still routes an IP packet across the trust boundary, leaving a path malware and attackers can exploit. Zeroport’s Fantom platform instead builds a physical, non-IP bridge at the network edge: inbound traffic is restricted to human interaction signals (keyboard/mouse), and outbound traffic is limited to display-only pixel streams, so no routable packet ever physically crosses into the protected environment.

The product line spans Fantom Core (single isolated-session units), Fantom Edge and Enterprise (appliances supporting hundreds of concurrent isolated sessions), and Moativ, an onboard AI monitor that watches session behavior frame-by-frame and terminates sessions that drift from their sanctioned intent. The company targets sectors where remote access to sensitive or air-gapped systems is both essential and high-risk: energy and utilities, industrial/OT environments, banking and finance, government, and other critical infrastructure operators who have historically had to choose between staying offline or exposing systems through conventional remote-access software.

Zeroport closed a $10 million seed round led by lool Ventures, with participation from Clarim Ventures, CyberFuture (backed by Elron Ventures), and Fusion Fund. The company operates out of Herzliya, Israel, with additional offices in New York and Singapore, and has grown to roughly 25 employees with plans to reach about 40 within a year of the raise. Public market validation is still early-stage: the company cites endorsement from Siemens Energy and adoption interest from Fortune 500 CISOs, along with a systems-integrator case claiming $5 million in annual travel-cost savings from remote-first field access, but these are vendor-supplied claims that CISOs should independently verify during evaluation.

For security leaders evaluating remote access to OT, ICS, and other high-consequence environments, Zeroport represents a genuinely different architectural bet: physics-based isolation rather than policy-based access control. That approach sidesteps an entire class of VPN and gateway CVEs that have driven major incidents (including nation-state intrusions via edge VPN appliances), but it is also new enough that longevity, interoperability at scale, and independent security testing of the hardware itself remain open questions for buyers to press on.