Israel-based Upwind has raised an additional $100 million in a Series A round led by Craft and joined by TCV, Alta Park with amazing existing investors, Greylock, Cyberstarts, Leaders Fund, Cerca and Sheva to accelerate global expansion and fuel our mission of building the next-generation cloud security powered by runtime. To date, startup has raised $180 million in total funding
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This new funding will fuel Upwind’s global expansion and innovation and will help to double headcount to nearly 300 people in 2025, as well as expand operations across current offices in Israel, San Francisco, the UK, and Iceland.
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In the past few weeks, Upwind named to the Fortune 2025 Cyber 60 and The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups for 2024. CRN has named us as one of the top 10 hottest cybersecurity startups of 2024, and analysts list us as a top CNAPP vendor.
“Cloud security is becoming more complex, and organizations need smart solutions to help them move fast, without breaking anything,” said Amiram Shachar, founder and CEO of Upwind. “This investment reflects the growth and confidence we’re seeing from enterprise customers and allows us to give customers tools that make a real difference. Our platform is reshaping cloud security by tackling the constantly changing factors enterprises face in real-time. By offering clear cloud topologies and better visibility, we help teams focus on their most critical threats, not theoretical risks & false alarms, fostering stronger collaboration between security and DevOps while enabling faster, safer growth.”
“We believe Upwind is building a generational cyber security company”, said Michael Robinson, Partner and Head of Growth at Craft Ventures. “The cloud security market is one of the most valuable and rapidly growing sectors within cyber. It’s experiencing a tectonic shift as organizations are maturing from agentless approaches towards Upwind’s platform which brings vital runtime context and real-time protection. Since our initial investment in Upwind 15 months ago, we’ve witnessed the market fully embrace their next generation cloud security platform, which has all the capabilities buyers have come to expect from their CNAPP vendor but all powered by a single eBPF agent at the core.”
“Cloud security is still in the early innings. Over the next decade, we believe it will grow into the most consequential market in security”, said Morgan Gerlak, Partner at TCV. “We also believe demand in cloud security will shift to runtime. Upwind has timed its product expertly, and Amiram and his team have a whole lot to play for.”
“As companies mature in cloud security, they quickly discover that posture management by itself is insufficient,” said Carson Fullard, Managing Director at Alta Park. “Runtime detection and response is critical for identifying the threats that actually matter in real-time and accelerating the path to remediation. We believe that Upwind has built the best runtime-native cloud security platform in the market, and Amiram and the Upwind team are the perfect team to address this rapidly growing customer need.”
About Upwind
Founded in 2022, Upwind Cloud Security Platform bridges intelligence from runtime to build-time, eliminating friction & boosting the productivity of your developers, security engineers, and DevOps. Upwind delivers comprehensive cloud security, precisely when and where it’s most critical.
