Red Access, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company, has secured $17 million in Series A funding to expand its U.S. presence and accelerate product innovation. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, SentinelOne’s S Ventures, Elron Ventures, and Singtel Innov8 Ventures.
The company offers an agentless, session-based Security Service Edge (SSE) platform designed to protect browsers, SaaS applications, and corporate systems without requiring significant infrastructure changes or the installation of endpoint agents. By integrating directly with existing environments such as firewalls, Red Access enables organizations to extend security beyond the corporate perimeter without the complexity, cost, or delays often associated with traditional SSE deployments.
Operating at the session level, the platform provides precise, real-time protection where users interact with data—whether in browsers, applications, or other enterprise assets. It supports key SSE use cases, including data loss prevention, secure access to corporate applications, and protection for remote or hybrid workers, even on unmanaged devices or untrusted networks.
With growing demand from managed security service providers and value-added resellers, the company is pursuing a channel-led go-to-market strategy to deliver fast, frictionless SSE protection to global enterprises. Its approach aims to bridge the gap between traditional network security and modern work requirements, offering enterprise-grade protection that is quick to deploy, easy to manage, and invisible to end-users.
How the funding will be used: The funding will support U.S. market expansion in 2025, continued R&D investment, and key hires across sales, marketing, product, and engineering.
New board members: Red Access is also strengthening its leadership team, with Douglas Brockett joining as Executive Chairman and Dror Nahumi of Norwest joining the board.
KEY QUOTES:
“While the industry talks about ambitious futures, most companies are struggling to fix urgent problems with constrained teams, tight timelines and misaligned priorities. The future of SSE is evolving, but for many organizations, the priority is finding a clear and immediate path to stronger, simpler security that requires minimal architectural changes. We built Red Access to cut through the noise with fast deployment, seamless integration and uncompromising security that aligns with the way people work today.”
Dor Zvi, Co-Founder and CEO of Red Access
“Red Access has developed fresh technology that eliminates the overhead which has historically hindered SSE adoption. Its agentless approach is already protecting hundreds of thousands of users. It delivers rapid, effective security without requiring application rewrites, intrusive software deployments, or the management of yet another set of agents.”
Dror Nahumi
“Red Access isn’t just improving SSE. They are dismantling the assumptions it was built on. They’ve stripped away the complexity and heavy architecture that have made traditional solutions so painful to deploy.”
Rob Salvagno, SVP of Corporate Development and Head of SentinelOne’s S Ventures
“Red Access brings a rare combination of enterprise-grade protection and ease of use. Its ability to deliver SSE capabilities without adding complexity, slowing performance or disrupting workflows is a major breakthrough, especially for globally distributed workforces that need fast, flexible and secure access everywhere.”
Gil Prashker, Country Director of Israel at Singtel Innov8
