About Upwind

We are on a mission to build the world’s best cloud security platform.

Upwind was founded by the team behind Spot.io, the world's first leader in cloud infrastructure optimization (acquired by NetApp). Upwind brings deep DevOps and cloud infrastructure experience to the forefront of cloud security—making it as easy to secure cloud and AI as it is to consume it.

The Team

Taking our history of innovation & success in cloud to new heights.

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Amiram Shachar

CEO
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Liran Polak

Chief Architect
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Tal Zur

CTO
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Lavi Ferdman

SVP, Growth
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Joshua Burgin

CPO
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Rinki Sethi

CSO
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Tomer Hadassi

Chief of Staff
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Yarin Pinyan

Field CTO
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Max Stevens

VP of Sales
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Vik Rozenshtrom

Director of People
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Denise Ashur

Head of Marketing

Cloud and AI are reshaping security. Securing modern cloud environments has become a challenge that spans across security, engineering, and DevOps teams. Our strategy is simple: we listen and work closely with our customers to build the best cloud security product on the planet.”

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Amiram Shachar
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Co-Founder & CEO, Upwind
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Upwind is proud to partner with Olympic and World Champion, Gold Medalist Tom Reuveni (Windsurfing iQFoil)

In a cosmic way, we couldn’t have chosen a better partnership— Upwind is backing a World Champion in windsurfing, where “upwind” is the most crucial technique in the sport.

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What is Upwind?

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Up·wind /ˌəpˈwind/

In the opposite direction to that in which the wind is blowing; against the wind.

In windsurfing, “Upwind” is a basic technique that allows surfers to navigate toward where the wind is coming from and the key skill to come back to where you started.

As a runtime security platform, Upwind enables security professionals to navigate effectively toward the root cause of security issues. Providing a powerful context of applications and infrastructure behavior despite the head wind of cloud chaos and alerting noise.

Greylock co-led the largest seed round we have ever participated in for a software company in Upwind for two simple reasons — securing cloud runtime environments is the single most important problem in cybersecurity, and the Upwind team is a successful repeat entrepreneurial team who’s one of the absolute best we’ve ever backed.”

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Saam Motamedi
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General Partner, Greylock

Backed by the best cyber security investors in the world

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Our Board

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Gili Raanan
Founder & General Partner, 
Cyberstarts

Gili brings his vast hands-on experience to every investment, having built two enterprise software companies from zero to acquisitions by EMC and IBM. He won the coveted Israel Defense Presidential Prize in 1996 for his decade of service for the Israeli intelligence agency and the Israeli Defense Forces Innovation Award in 1992.

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Saam Motamedi
General Partner, 
Greylock

Saam partners with enterprise software entrepreneurs at the seed and early stages who are focused on new opportunities in intelligent applications, cybersecurity, AI, and data infrastructure.

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Gideon Hayden
Co-Founder & 
Managing Partner, Leaders Fund

Gideon is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Leaders Fund, where he works with Upwind, Ada, Drata, Toric, Qwak, CrowdRiff and Spot. He focuses on investing early stage in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and ML/AI.

Partnering with Upwind was easy—the founding team is earnest, has built a Cloud Infrastructure business before, sold it to NetApp, and has domain experience and ambition to build an important company.”

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Gili Raanan
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Founder & General Partner, Cyberstarts

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