What $250M Means for Our Customers and the Future of Cloud Security
I’m proud to share that Upwind has raised $250 million – a strong endorsement of our mission and direction. But this milestone is more than a number. It reflects strong customer confidence in our ability to address evolving AI and cloud security challenges.
Today’s attackers leverage AI and autonomous agents to scan, exploit, and evade defenses at machine speed. This fundamentally changes how threats emerge and how quickly teams must respond. Static, traditional controls can’t keep up. What’s required is real-time visibility, rich context, and actionable intelligence – exactly where Upwind delivers.
At Upwind, we don’t build technology in a vacuum. We build with customer challenges as our starting point. From the earliest designs of our runtime-powered cloud security platform to our latest AI-centric capabilities, customer feedback has shaped every priority. Our mission is to help security, DevOps, and engineering teams secure cloud environments with clarity, confidence, and speed – without noise or fatigue.
Customers First – Real Impact
This customer-first approach isn’t a slogan. It shows up in how Upwind is adopted, trusted, and recommended by the teams that rely on it every day:
- Security and DevOps teams gain dramatically improved visibility and faster threat prioritization, allowing them to focus on what truly matters.
- Teams achieve faster remediation with stronger context across identities, workloads, APIs, and cloud services – reducing risk and operational friction.
- Teams consistently highlight rapid time to value and seamless adoption across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
During a recent zero-day, I was closely involved as our teams worked around the clock with customers and our security researchers to assess impact and drive resolution. Moments like these reinforce what “customers first” truly means in practice. These voices matter – they remind us that our work isn’t about shipping features, but about helping teams protect their businesses and innovate securely.
Standing Up to AI-Driven Threats
AI-powered attacks aren’t theoretical – they’re already here. Security teams need more than alerts, they need context, prioritization, and automated action grounded in real runtime behavior.
Upwind was built for this moment: a runtime-first, cloud-native security platform that detects threats as they happen, prioritizes based on real usage, and enables confident action. By unifying posture, runtime, identity, API, and workload insights in one system, we help teams reduce risk without slowing innovation.
What the $250M Enables
This investment accelerates what matters most to our customers:
- AI-enhanced detection and prioritization focused on real risk, not noise
- Real-time cloud risk insights that help teams act before issues become incidents
- A unified, context-driven cloud security platform that aligns security, DevOps, and engineering team
In an era where AI is transforming both attacks and defenses, the advantage comes from amplifying insight, speed, and clarity. This funding accelerates that mission.
Looking Ahead
Thank you to our customers, partners, and the entire Upwind team for believing in this mission. This raise isn’t a finish line – it’s a recommitment to keeping customers at the center of every decision and every innovation.
We’re just getting started.
Dan Yahav
SVP Platform
Upwind
