ExpressVPN POLITICAL

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

• ExpressVPN’s December 2021 announcement framed its integration with Kape Technologies around privacy, security, digital rights, and an open internet, without addressing Israel, Palestine, Gaza, settlements, or military support ¹.

• ExpressVPN’s Israel-facing product page uses consumer-service language concerning encrypted browsing, public Wi‑Fi privacy, ISP-throttling avoidance, and access to local accounts rather than geopolitical or state-partnership framing ².

• No public evidence identified.

• The reviewed corporate materials did not locate a conflict-specific ExpressVPN or Kape statement addressing the October 2023 attacks, the ensuing war, civilian protection, humanitarian relief, or a conflict-related donation or free-access programme ^{1, 3}.

• A 2025 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre entry recorded social-media calls to cancel or boycott ExpressVPN and stated that Kape did not respond to its request for comment, but the Centre expressly disclaimed responsibility for the accuracy of linked third-party material, so the underlying allegations are not treated here as verified ⁴.

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

• ExpressVPN markets Tel Aviv servers and states that users may select Israel as a server location to obtain an Israeli IP address ².

• ExpressVPN’s virtual-server policy does not list Israel as a virtual location and states that locations omitted from that list are physically located in the specified country, supporting the limited conclusion that the advertised Israel location is physically in Israel ⁵.

• The reviewed sources do not disclose the precise hosting site, hosting supplier, operating legal entity, customers, or use cases for ExpressVPN’s Israel servers ^{2, 5}.

• No public evidence identified of ExpressVPN infrastructure, contracts, resellers, equipment, subsidiaries, or operational activity in Israeli settlements, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, or the Golan Heights within the focused searches and source classes reviewed ^{6, 7}.

• Neither ExpressVPN nor Kape was named in the supplied document-scoped review of the 2023 OHCHR settlement-business database or the 2025 UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23, which does not establish absence from all UN, court, procurement, or civil-society records ^{6, 7}.

• No verified evidence was located of an ExpressVPN or Kape contract, tender, framework agreement, white-label deployment, MDM deployment, or infrastructure mobilisation for the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israeli police, border authorities, settlement entities, or state-aligned conflict-relief organisations ^{2, 6}.

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of ExpressVPN or Kape HR action, litigation, employee discipline, union dispute, or policy enforcement concerning Israel-Palestine speech ^{1, 4, 8}.

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of algorithmic moderation, editorial suppression, app-distribution policy, product labelling, or settlement-origin sourcing by ExpressVPN or Kape connected to the conflict ^{1, 4}.

• ExpressVPN’s available Israel product page presents a retail consumer VPN offering with ordinary subscription and trial terms and does not state a government, military, or state-security procurement arrangement ².

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

• ExpressVPN’s retrieved corporate communications position the brand as a privacy and security service focused on digital rights and an open internet ¹.

• No corporate military heritage, state-security origin, Israeli-government partnership, Brand Israel sponsorship, state-held share, golden share, charter provision, or founding mandate tying ExpressVPN’s mission to Israeli state geopolitical objectives was identified in the reviewed corporate materials ^{1, 9, 10}.

• Kape’s 2021 annual-report disclosure describes its business purpose as digital security and privacy software ¹¹.

• Evidence concerning Kape, Unikmind, or their controlling principal does not itself establish an ExpressVPN state partnership ^{11, 12, 13}.

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

• No verified ExpressVPN or Kape lobbying registration, PAC contribution, anti-BDS advocacy role, corporate donation, or conflict-period asset mobilisation was located within the completed searches, while the relevant U.S., UK, EU, FEC, FARA, and state-register checks were not exhaustive ⁶.

• Reuters/Ynetnews reported that Teddy Sagi’s parents, rather than Teddy Sagi personally or ExpressVPN/Kape, donated US$3 million at a 2016 Friends of the IDF gala, with ongoing status not established in the reviewed sources ¹².

• Globes reported in 2019 that Teddy Sagi donated US$3 million for Israeli student scholarships and described an event involving FIDF and the Association for the Wellbeing of Israeli Soldiers, while also reporting that scholarship recipients were offered jobs in Sagi Group companies ¹³.

• The source describes US$3 million donated cumulatively by April 2019, not a single new US$3 million payment on that date. It identifies the From Uniform to Studies and IMPACT! programmes for discharged soldiers, and reports Sagi thanking the military-welfare organisations and expressing appreciation for the students’ prior army service ¹³.

• The 2019 report concerns personal philanthropy attributed to Sagi and does not establish a payment, donation, or logistical support by ExpressVPN or Kape ¹³.

• A reported 2023 contribution concerning soldier transport was not independently verified from its underlying source and is therefore not treated as an established finding ⁴.

• A supplementary source-body check on 7 September 2026 resolves part of that gap: Globes reported a NIS 1 million Sagi gift to help families evacuated from the Gaza border. The broader Omer Adam project supported evacuees and soldiers on leave, including taxi journeys home, but the article does not establish the allocation of Sagi’s gift or transport to combat positions. Civilian relief, leave transport, and combat logistics should therefore remain distinct factual claims ¹⁴.

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

• ExpressVPN’s Terms of Service identify Express Technologies Ltd. as the service provider ¹⁵.

• ExpressVPN’s Privacy Policy states that Express Technologies Ltd. operates under British Virgin Islands jurisdiction and that ExpressVPN controls and stores user personal data rather than its ultimate holding company or other related entities ¹⁶.

• ExpressVPN announced that it joined Kape Technologies on 16 December 2021 ¹.

• Kape’s December 2021 market announcement stated that the acquisition was expected to complete for approximately US$936 million, while its September 2021 announcement said a wholly owned Kape subsidiary would acquire the ExpressVPN business from Access Global Limited and related entities ^{9, 10}.

• Kape’s 2021 annual report states that it acquired ExpressVPN on 15 December 2021 and characterises the acquisition as including assets, liabilities, and service entities ¹¹.

• ExpressVPN’s Privacy Policy identifies Kape Technologies PLC (UK) as its ultimate holding company, and UK Companies House records Kape as an overseas company ^{16, 17}.

• Kape’s corporate history records its May 2023 delisting from AIM, limiting readily available public-company disclosure after that point ¹⁸.

• The reviewed official materials establish ExpressVPN as a Kape-group brand but do not provide a complete current legal-subsidiary schedule for Express Technologies Ltd. ^{16, 19}.

• ExpressVPN materials describe offerings including ExpressVPN for Teams, holiday.com eSIM, and EventVPN, but those references do not establish that each is a separately incorporated subsidiary ¹⁹.

Executive & Leadership Footprint

• Kape’s 2021 annual report identifies Peter Burchhardt and Dan Pomerantz as ExpressVPN co-founders and states that they received 47,782,800 Kape shares in connection with the acquisition ¹¹.

• Kape’s 2021 annual report identified Unikmind Holdings Limited as holding 53.7% of Kape shares as at 31 December 2021 and identified Teddy Sagi as Unikmind’s sole ultimate beneficiary ¹¹.

• A February 2023 formal offer announcement stated that Unikmind was incorporated in the Isle of Man, wholly owned by Teddy Sagi, and held approximately 54.8% of Kape’s issued ordinary shares at that date ²⁰.

• A May 2023 Kape RNS reported Unikmind holding 98.54% of voting rights, but the reviewed sources did not independently confirm beneficial ownership after Kape became private ²¹.

• A supplementary check of Unikmind’s current website on 7 September 2026 confirms its stated holding of 432,860,855 Kape shares, or 98.63% of issued capital, and states that Teddy Sagi wholly owns Unikmind. This establishes the publicly disclosed controlling-principal link without claiming that Sagi is currently Kape’s chief executive or director ²².

• Kape’s April 2023 offer document recorded that Burchhardt and Pomerantz, through named holding vehicles, held approximately 11.59% of Kape’s issued share capital and committed to accept Unikmind’s offer ²³.

• The current Companies House officers page lists active Kape directors Charles Butler, Elizabeth Chambers, Marios Hadjiyiannakis, Pierre-Etienne Lallia, and Nikhil Singhvi ⁸.

• Kape’s 2021 annual report identified Ido Erlichman as chief executive officer, and Companies House records his directorship ending on 15 June 2023 ^{8, 11}.

• The reviewed sources do not identify a current Kape chief executive officer or chair, nor do they establish Teddy Sagi as a current Kape director or chief executive ^{8, 11}.

• Supplementary first-party verification resolves the CEO gap: Kape’s current leadership page names Charles Butler as CEO and Or Ifrah as CFO. It does not describe Sagi as either officer ²⁴.