Upwind, a San Francisco, CA-based cloud security provider, raised $100m in Series A funding.
The round was led by David Sacks’ Craft Ventures (SpaceX, Palantir, Uber) and was joined by new investors TCV (Airbnb, Netflix, GoFundMe, Spotify) and Alta Park Capital (Databricks, Nubank, and Toast), as well as all of Upwind’s existing investors including Greylock (Meta, Airbnb, Coinbase), Cyberstarts, Leaders Fund, Cerca and Sheva—founded by NBA Champion Omri Casspi.
The company, which has secured $180m in funding since its founding in 2022, intends to use the funds for global expansion and innovation, with plans to double its headcount to nearly 300 people and enhance its operations across its current offices in Israel, San Francisco, the UK, and Iceland.
Founded by Amiram Shachar and his founding partners from Spot.io (which was sold to NetApp for $450m), Upwind is a cloud security platform that helps organizations run faster and more securely. The company combines cloud security posture with runtime context and real-time protection— enabling security teams to prioritize critical risks and fix them faster.
The platform’s runtime-powered approach consolidates numerous security functionalities, including Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), Cloud Detection and Response (CDR), vulnerability management, identity security, and container security.
FinSMEs
02/12/2024