Cloud security specialist Upwind raises $100 in Series A Funding

Upwind, a cloud security company, has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round.

The investment will be used to accelerate Upwind’s global expansion and fuel  the company’s mission of building the next-generation cloud security powered by runtime.

Upwind was first started 18 months ago, has since identified a number of pain points in cloud security:

  1. Lack of prioritization — Companies have more critical security findings than they can handle.
  2. Wasted time — Other teams (Developers, DevOps & Platform Engineers) can’t trust the data we export from security tools.
  3. Evolving threats — Traditional approaches EDR/Anti-Virus don’t defend cloud workloads properly, and Static approaches to cloud security don’t provide real-time protection.

To solve the above pressing challenges, we had to rethink the way teams are approaching the problem. We had to “reshape” it, and come up with something simple yet comprehensive, that can bridge gaps across teams – from development to applications to devops and even SREs. We knew we needed to include infrastructure and application context at the same time, something that can justify the investment and effort of a deployment. To do that, our leading principles were:

To solve the above pressing challenges, Upwind has developed a platform approach that encompasses both infrastructure and application context. This approach provides comprehensive cloud security capabilities, such as secret and vulnerability scanning, risk prioritization, identity security, and  monitoring for configurations and external exposures.

With this new $100 million funding, Upwind will accelerate its global expansion and innovation, doubling its workforce to nearly 300 employees by 2025. The company will also expand its operations across its current offices in Israel, San Francisco, the UK, and Iceland.

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