NordVPN ECONOMIC

Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

• NordVPN’s Israeli-location page markets an Israel virtual location and instructs users seeking a Tel Aviv IP address to select Israel in the application. ¹

• The same page displays two inconsistent published Israel-server figures - 24 in one location and 20 elsewhere - and does not state whether that fleet is physical, virtual, leased, or company-owned. ¹

• DataPacket states that NordVPN first ordered servers from it in 2018 and describes their arrangement as a long-term, pay-as-you-go infrastructure relationship. ²

• DataPacket reported supplying more than 2,000 NordVPN servers across its locations as of its August 2024 case study. ²

• A network-intelligence record identifies IP address 169.150.226.44 as NordVPN-dedicated, with a datapacket.com hostname and Tel Aviv geolocation; this supports an attributed network endpoint rather than NordVPN ownership of local hardware or a local legal entity. ³

• DataPacket advertises dedicated servers in the Tel Aviv area at Bareket Data Center in Petah Tiqva, with Interhost Networks listed as upstream, but the available materials do not identify that facility as the host of the specific NordVPN-attributed IP. ^{3, 4}

• NordLayer lists Israel (Tel Aviv) as an available dedicated-server location without naming an Israeli host, customer, legal entity, employee base, or local contract. ⁵

• NordVPN publicly offers reseller, affiliate, influencer, and other partnership programmes, while its contact materials describe reseller solutions for distributors, OEMs, telcos, and service providers. ^{6, 7}

• The reviewed first-party partnership materials do not identify an Israeli reseller, distributor, telecom partner, franchisee, or licensee. ^{6, 7}

• No public evidence identified.

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

• Nord Security states that NordVPN launched in 2012 as a Windows configuration, while DataPacket characterises NordVPN as Lithuanian. ^{2, 8}

• NordVPN’s support centre states that the service was created in 2012 by Tom Okman and Eimantas Sabaliauskas and is owned and operated by nordvpn S.A. ⁹

• The cited ownership page does not provide nordvpn S.A.’s incorporation jurisdiction, registered address, shareholder register, or parent-company chain. ⁹

• Nord Security’s current legal notice identifies NordSec B.V. in Amsterdam, including Dutch Chamber of Commerce number 83812385 and VAT number NL862997586B01. ¹⁰

• NordVPN’s June 2026 terms designate NordSec B.V. as the group’s legal representative for European Union Digital Services Act purposes. ¹¹

• The reviewed materials do not establish an Israeli incorporation, headquarters, tax residency, product-origin designation, or Israeli regulatory registration for NordVPN or Nord Security. ^{2, 8, 9, 10, 12}

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

• Nord Security announced a US$100 million financing round on 28 September 2023 led by Warburg Pincus, with Novator Ventures and Burda Principal Investments participating as existing investors. ¹²

• The 2023 announcement reports a US$3 billion valuation after that round and says the company’s first US$100 million external round occurred in April 2022 at a US$1.6 billion valuation. ¹²

• Nord Security’s April 2022 announcement identifies Novator Ventures as lead investor, alongside Burda Principal Investments, General Catalyst, and named angel investors. ¹³

• The cited financing announcements do not disclose investor shareholdings, voting rights, or a complete capitalisation table. ^{12, 13}

• The 2023 release states that Warburg Pincus’s Chandler Reedy joined Nord Security’s board, and the 2022 release states that Novator’s Birgir Már Ragnarsson joined its board. ^{12, 13}

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of Israeli sovereign-bond or Israel Bonds activity, Israeli state financing, acquisition of an Israeli operating company, or controlling ownership of an Israeli company. ^{6, 7, 8, 12, 13}

Operational Presence & Market Activity

• Nord Security reported in September 2023 that it operated in more than 20 markets and employed around 2,000 people worldwide. ¹²

• Nord Security’s published global-team country list names 26 countries and does not include Israel, although the page is not presented as a legal-entity or payroll register. ⁸

• NordVPN’s Israel-location page, the DataPacket relationship, and the Tel Aviv-attributed endpoint support a limited Israeli network-service nexus rather than evidence of an Israeli office, payroll operation, or company-owned infrastructure. ^{1, 2, 3}

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a NordVPN or NordLayer endpoint, reseller, sales operation, or service specifically located in or directed to West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements. ^{1, 4, 5, 6}

• The supplied publisher-verified full-text scan found no mention of NordVPN or Nord Security in the cited UN Human Rights Council reports, a document-scoped result that does not establish absence from other UN records or business activity. ^{14, 15}

• OHCHR describes its 2025 update as a database of enterprises involved in settlement-related activities identified by the 2013 fact-finding mission, rather than a register of all companies doing business in Israel. ¹⁶

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

• Nord Security states that it was founded in Lithuania in 2012 by Tom Okman and Eimantas Sabaliauskas and identified NordVPN, NordPass, NordLayer, and NordLocker as products in its 2023 disclosure. ¹²

• Nord Security’s recruitment privacy notice names affiliated group entities including UAB 360 IT and 720 IT UAB in Lithuania, Radically Better Internet GmbH in Germany, NordSec B.V. in the Netherlands, and Nord Security Inc. in Delaware. ¹⁷

• The same notice states that group companies share infrastructure, systems, web hosting, and technology, but does not establish ownership percentages or a complete entity chart. ¹⁷

• Nord Security said in 2023 that it had formed a group of companies with Surfshark in 2022, without disclosing transaction consideration or ownership and control percentages. ¹²

• Nord Security’s current leadership page identifies Tomas Okmanas, Eimantas Sabaliauskas, and Jonas Karklys as co-founders, but does not disclose beneficial ownership, major shareholdings, or the full board composition. ¹⁸

• A December 2019 US complaint filed by Israeli company Luminati Networks alleged that Tefincom S.A., doing business as NordVPN, was a Panamanian corporation with its principal place of business in Panama City; this was an allegation in a complaint rather than a judicial finding. ¹⁹

• The same filing identifies the plaintiff, rather than NordVPN, as having its principal place of business in Netanya, Israel, and does not establish NordVPN operations in Israel. ¹⁹

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate notices, legal disclosures, leadership materials, and bounded searches that NordVPN or Nord Security was founded in Israel, is headquartered there, holds Israeli PTE or tax status, or has a controlling stake in an Israeli operating company. ^{9, 10, 12, 17, 18}

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

• The available materials establish a marketed Israeli virtual location and evidence consistent with an Israeli network endpoint, but they do not disclose Israeli revenue, contract values, local procurement spend, taxes paid, payroll, profit allocation, or repatriation flows. ^{1, 2, 3, 4}

• Nord Security’s disclosed external financing and named group entities do not provide audited consolidated accounts, a shareholder register, or a legal-entity ownership chart sufficient to trace economic flows between NordVPN operations and Israel. ^{12, 13, 17}

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of Israeli government, IDF, or defence contracts, Israeli R&D facilities, or identifiable Israeli economic contributions beyond the limited network-service evidence described above. ^{2, 6, 7, 8}