Cybersecurity startup Native has raised $31 million in a Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures. Other investors, including General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures, also took part. These investors had earlier invested $11 million when the company first started.
Phil Venables, the former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Google Cloud, has also joined Native’s board. With this latest funding, the company has now raised a total of $42 million.
Megiddo said: “I worked for many years at AWS, launching security products. Over time, we saw that cloud providers are building strong security capabilities, but organizations struggle to fully utilize them. We’ve built a system that allows companies to define security policies and automatically translate them into a complete security architecture across all major cloud providers. Our platform turns a company’s intent into enforceable configurations. It enables organizations to manage security across all major clouds, including Google Cloud, Azure, AWS and Oracle Cloud.”
Cloud providers already offer strong built-in security tools, but using them properly is difficult. Setting them up the right way can be complex, and even small mistakes can affect business operations.
The problem becomes bigger when companies use multiple cloud services, because each provider has different systems for managing identity, security rules, and controls.
Because of this, many companies don’t fully use the security features available to them. Even when they do, they may not use them in the best way, which creates a gap between their security plans and actual protection.
Native’s platform helps solve this problem by acting as a central control system. Security teams can set rules, and the platform automatically converts them into the correct settings for each cloud provider and applies them properly.
The company was started in 2024 by three experienced experts in cloud security. CEO Amit Megiddo earlier worked as a product lead for Amazon GuardDuty at Amazon Web Services. Gal Ordo, the Chief Product Officer, also worked as a product lead in AWS Security. CTO Eyal Faingold previously worked as the Vice President of Cloud Security at Check Point.
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