Israeli Cloud Security Startup Upwind Nears $900 Million Valuation with Real-Time Protection Platform

Upwind Security is an Israeli startup that develops a security platform that protects cloud infrastructure in real time. The firm is set to hit a valuation as high as $900 million with a new $100 million Series B funding round it expects to close this week.

Upwind seeks to streamline the overwhelming volume of alerts generated by threat detection tools, aiming to reduce them by 90%. This reduction allows security operations teams to concentrate on genuine threats, enabling quicker understanding and response times.

Founded by Amiram Shachar and his founding partners from Spot.io (sold to NetApp for $450 million), Liran Polak, Lavi Ferdman, and Tal Zuri, Upwind Security says that its mission is to empower organizations to run cloud environments and accelerate their businesses by focusing on what is next — helping make cloud-native security simple, effective, and easy to consume.

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Upwind empowers its customers to run secure and efficient cloud environments. This focus on security and efficiency allows businesses to accelerate their operations and dedicate resources to future endeavors. Founded by the team behind Spot.io, the industry leader in cloud infrastructure optimization (acquired by NetApp), Upwind boasts that it brings unparalleled expertise in cloud infrastructure to the realm of cybersecurity.

In a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud reality, Upwind provides comprehensive cloud security to accelerate productivity and empower their development, security and DevOps teams to innovate within a secure and efficient environment, including managed Kubernetes services like Microsoft’s AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).

Upwind’s real-time threat detection capabilities are powered by its high-performance Upwind eBPF sensor, which monitors all traffic in real time at the process, packet, and system call levels. By doing so, Upwind is able to identify threats in real time by monitoring the following:

“At Upwind, we are beginning our journey from a different starting line,” Amiram Shachar said in September 2023, when the company raised $50 million. “We are entering a well-established security ecosystem as underdogs, starting with the very basics and working closely with hundreds of security leaders to understand their pain points better than anyone else on the market. This customer-obsessed approach is not a cliché, it is a strategy. A deep understanding of the issues facing security leaders in the realm of cloud security is the tailwind that is pushing Upwind forward, allowing us to bring something new and needed to the industry.”