The cloud security platform that secures everything you build and run in the cloud
HQ: New York, NY, United States + Tel Aviv, Israel | Founded: 2020 | Employees: ~1,800 | Stage: Acquired by Google ($32B, closed March 2026) | Website: https://www.wiz.io
Wiz is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that provides risk-based visibility from code to cloud. Founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport (CEO), Ami Luttwak (CTO), Yinon Costica and Roy Reznik — all former founders of Adallom (acquired by Microsoft in 2015) and leaders of Microsoft's Cloud Security Group — Wiz is headquartered in New York with major R&D in Tel Aviv. The platform agentlessly connects to AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and Kubernetes in minutes, building a normalized Wiz Security Graph of every cloud resource, identity, vulnerability, secret and exposure. On top of that graph it prioritizes toxic combinations via Attack Path analysis, unifying CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM, container/K8s security, vulnerability management, and IaC scanning. Wiz Code extends security into the SDLC, while Wiz Defend adds real-time threat detection and response.
Wiz pioneered consumption-based pricing tied to cloud assets and grew explosively through product-led and enterprise direct sales to 50%+ of the Fortune 100 including BMW, Salesforce, Slack, Blackstone and Morgan Stanley, plus major cloud-native companies. Investors include Sequoia, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Thrive Capital, Greenoaks and Cyberstarts. After raising $1.9B and reaching a $12B valuation on its $1B Series E in May 2024 led by a16z/Lightspeed/Thrive, Wiz turned down multiple acquisition approaches before accepting Google's $32B offer in March 2025 — the largest ever by Google and one of the largest cybersecurity exits — which closed in March 2026 with Wiz operating as a Google Cloud unit while maintaining multi-cloud support.
Wiz redefined cloud security velocity—going from founding in January 2020 to $100M ARR in 18 months (fastest ever), $500M ARR in 2024, and $1B ARR by late 2025, enabling Google's $32B acquisition (announced March 2025, closed March 2026), the largest in Google's history. Its agentless, graph-based CNAPP consolidated CSPM, CWPP, CIEM and DSPM into a single Security Graph and Attack Path platform that scans entire cloud estates in minutes, giving Wiz 50%+ of Fortune 100 as customers and a $12B private valuation at its $1B Series E in May 2024 before the Google exit.
Browse: Home | Blog | About | All Startups A-Z | View full profile on StartupWiki