NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vali Cyber^®, the leader in Hypervisor Ransomware Protection, today announced the close of an oversubscribed growth round led by Grotech Ventures. The funding will fuel the accelerating adoption of Vali Cyber’s flagship platform, ZeroLock^®, as demand surges in response to escalating ransomware campaigns targeting hypervisor environments worldwide.

“This investment enables us to scale quickly to meet growing demand and the urgent needs of organizations that can’t afford disruption from groups like Scattered Spider. ZeroLock makes hypervisors resilient by design.” —Anthony Gadient, CEO, Vali CyberShare

High-profile groups such as Scattered Spider have exposed critical weaknesses in VMware ESXi hypervisors, causing billions in damages across industries. As attackers increasingly bypass traditional defenses to strike at the virtualization layer, enterprises and government agencies are urgently seeking new ways to safeguard their virtual infrastructure.

Vali Cyber’s ZeroLock delivers the industry’s first runtime security platform designed specifically to protect VMware ESXi and Linux hypervisors against ransomware, exploits, and zero-day attacks. By combining exploit prevention, virtual patching, and advanced runtime controls, ZeroLock ensures that organizations can keep mission-critical workloads secure without downtime.

“Ransomware at the hypervisor level represents one of the most dangerous threats to enterprise infrastructure,” said Anthony Gadient, Co-Founder & CEO of Vali Cyber. “This investment enables us to scale quickly to meet growing demand and the urgent needs of organizations that can’t afford disruption from groups like Scattered Spider. ZeroLock makes hypervisors resilient by design.”

The round will support Vali Cyber’s accelerating growth by providing the funds needed to expand the engineering, threat intelligence, and go-to-market teams, while expanding partnerships with government and enterprise customers.

“Vali Cyber is addressing a critical gap in enterprise security,” said Steve Fredrick, General Partner at Grotech Ventures. “With ransomware groups targeting hypervisors directly, ZeroLock is delivering an essential capability that every VMware customer needs. As an existing Vali Cyber investor, we’re seeing significant acceleration that warrants doubling down on our existing investment.”

Vali Cyber’s oversubscribed round underscores the increasing demand for hypervisor ransomware protection, growing investor interest around infrastructure security, and the company’s leadership in securing virtualized environments.

About Vali Cyber

Vali Cyber^®, Inc. was founded to solve a growing and underserved challenge in cybersecurity: protecting Linux systems and hypervisors at the virtualization layer. Its flagship product, ZeroLock^®, delivers the industry’s first runtime Hypervisor Ransomware Protection platform for VMware ESXi and other Linux-based hypervisors. By stopping ransomware and exploits at runtime, Vali Cyber helps enterprises and government agencies protect critical systems against today’s most advanced threats.

Learn more at www.valicyber.com.

Contacts

Megan Howard, VP Marketing, Vali Cyber
megan@valicyber.com
+1 412 551 0938

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