Vali Cyber has announced the close of an oversubscribed growth funding round led by Grotech Ventures, marking a significant milestone for the cybersecurity company as it accelerates efforts to protect one of the most vulnerable layers of enterprise IT: the hypervisor. With cybercriminal groups such as Scattered Spider exploiting critical weaknesses in VMware ESXi environments and causing billions in damages across industries, demand for solutions like Vali Cyber’s flagship platform, ZeroLock®, is surging.
ZeroLock is positioned as the industry’s first runtime security platform purpose-built to defend VMware ESXi and Linux hypervisors against ransomware, zero-day exploits, and other advanced threats. Rather than relying on traditional detection tools that attackers increasingly evade, ZeroLock uses exploit prevention, virtual patching, and runtime controls to safeguard mission-critical workloads without downtime. This design makes hypervisors “resilient by default,” a critical advancement as enterprises and government agencies scramble to secure their virtualization layers.
The round provides Vali Cyber with resources to expand engineering, threat intelligence, and go-to-market operations, while also deepening partnerships across both government and enterprise sectors. Anthony Gadient, the company’s CEO and Co-Founder, emphasized that this funding enables Vali Cyber to rapidly scale to meet urgent customer needs. His comments underlined the escalating stakes: ransomware at the hypervisor level is among the most dangerous enterprise threats, and organizations “can’t afford disruption from groups like Scattered Spider.”
Investor enthusiasm for Vali Cyber reflects a broader recognition that hypervisor security is becoming mission-critical in the era of cloud computing and large-scale virtualization. Steve Fredrick, General Partner at Grotech Ventures, described ZeroLock as an “essential capability that every VMware customer needs,” pointing out that the accelerating pace of attacks on hypervisors is creating both urgency and opportunity in the market. Grotech, already an investor, doubled down on its commitment, citing the company’s rapid growth and market traction.
This oversubscribed round underscores two converging trends: the rising investor appetite for infrastructure security and the growing enterprise realization that virtualization layers represent both a crown jewel and an Achilles’ heel. With ransomware groups bypassing higher-level defenses to attack hypervisors directly, Vali Cyber’s ZeroLock has positioned itself not just as a defensive product, but as a strategic necessity for the resilience of modern IT infrastructure.
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