Zaperon | ₹7 Cr / ~$800K (Seed)

Founders: Vineet Gupta (CEO), Sachin Aggarwal(COO)

Founded: 2021

HQ: Delhi

Sector: Cybersecurity / AI Security

What they do

→ Unified cybersecurity platform for the Agentic AI era

→ Combines identity security, data security, and AI governance in a single console

→ Manages how users, applications, and AI agents access sensitive data and cloud infrastructure

→ Already SOC 2 Type II certified, serving banking, healthcare, manufacturing, tech and government clients

→ Recognised by Nasscom and MeitY among India's most innovative cybersecurity products

The Funding

→ Raised ₹7 Cr in a seed round, led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV)

→ Marks Zaperon's first institutional cheque after 5 years of bootstrapping

→ IPV is an angel-investing platform, so the capital is syndicated across its member network rather than a committed fund

Why it matters

→ Founders bring deep pedigree: Gupta from VMware, Juniper Networks, and Norton; Aggarwal from KPMG, POSCO, and Kia Motors

→ Targets the identity + data security market, pegged at $16B globally today, growing to $35B by 2030

→ As enterprises deploy AI agents into real workflows, securing "non-human identities" becomes a genuinely new problem, not just a rebrand of old IAM tools

→ Five years of bootstrapped traction before raising suggests real enterprise pull, not hype-driven funding

Is securing AI agents a genuinely new cybersecurity category, or just identity management rebranded?