Apono Joins 1Password

Seven months ago, we welcomed Apono into the Swisscom Ventures portfolio. Today, we’re proud to share that 1Password has acquired Apono!

When we invested in Apono‘s Series B alongside U.S. Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures US, and 33n Ventures, we saw that the identity layer inside the enterprise was being rebuilt. Cloud, automation, and AI agents were rapidly expanding the number of privileged workflows, and traditional access management could no longer keep pace. Rom Carmel 🚀 and Ofir Stein recognized this early and built the platform to address it.

Their just-in-time access platform gives people, machines, and AI agents access only when they need it, scoped to the task, and revoked automatically when the work is done. No standing privileges, no unnecessary exposure, and no slowdown for the teams that need to move fast. Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and monday.com trusted it. Now 1Password, trusted by more than 180,000 businesses worldwide, has chosen Apono to power the runtime access layer of its Unified Access platform.

Apono earned this outcome, and we were glad to help along the way. Our platform team worked alongside their go-to-market team, generating leads and making the introductions that helped open new doors.

To Rom, Ofir, and the entire Apono team: congratulations on building something exceptional, and on doing it so quickly. Thank you to our co-investors and everyone who backed Apono from the start. Helping teams like this grow is what we’re here to do.

More information here: https://www.apono.io/blog/apono-joins-1password/