Welcoming Salesforce Ventures to the Upwind Family
What started as a visibility problem has become something much more dynamic and urgent: understanding what is actually happening inside modern cloud environments, in real time. As infrastructure becomes more distributed, ephemeral, and increasingly shaped by AI, security teams need more than snapshots. They need context. They need precision. And they need answers that move […]
The Next Wave Is Here: Upwind is now seamlessly accessible within the AWS security operating model
Upwind is now live inside AWS Security Hub Console. I’m incredibly excited to announce one of the biggest milestones in our company’s journey. This tells us we’re on the right path to being the best cloud security company in the world. There isn’t any better validation. Starting today, Upwind is one of roughly ten companies […]
Building the Next Wave of Cloud Security
Two years after coming out of stealth, Upwind has become the unicorn that solves cloud security better than anyone else. Today, we are raising $250M in our Series B funding round, bringing total investment in Upwind to over $430M. This makes Upwind one of the most capitalized companies in the world focused on solving the […]
Upwind Welcomes Chief Security Officer Rinki Sethi
Over the past year, Upwind has grown faster than we could have imagined. As companies race to secure dynamic cloud environments and GenAI workloads, it’s clear that the old ways of doing security with static tools, reactive alerts, fragmented context – just don’t work anymore. That’s why I’m so excited to welcome Rinki Sethi as our new Chief […]
Upwind Acquires Nyx to Redefine Application Runtime Security
Today, I’m excited to announce that Upwind has acquired Nyx Security, a breakthrough startup specializing in real-time application-layer threat detection. This marks Upwind’s first acquisition – and a major leap forward in delivering end-to-end cloud security across both the infrastructure and the applications running on top of it. Application-Layer Runtime Changes Everything Runtime threats are […]
Upwind Secures $100M to Power Next-Generation Cloud Security
Customers have always been our north-star. Being “Driven By Customers” is not just a paragraph written on our Careers page – it’s the way we operate on a daily basis. It is how we hire, promote, and give each other feedback at Upwind. It is also how we build products, prioritize features, and think about […]
The Economist’s Fifth New York – Eastern Mediterranean Business Summit
Upwind CEO Amiram Shachar joins the Economist’s New York – Eastern Mediterranean Business Summit.
$80M in 12 months to Power Cloud Security with Runtime
Today, I’m excited to announce Upwind’s $50M round (following our $30M seed round 10 months ago) to accelerate our journey in helping enterprises secure their cloud-native infrastructure. Continuing Our Entrepreneurship Journey Our last few years have been filled with action. Our story started with Spot.io, which went from an idea that no one believed would […]