Upwind Raises $250 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation

Upwind, a CNAPP company, has announced a $250 million Series B funding round that brings its total raised to $430 million and values the business at $1.5 billion, according to SecurityWeek. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional support from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital, and counts Alta Park, Cerca Partners, Craft Ventures, Cyberstarts, Greylock, Leaders Fund, Penny Jar Capital, Swish Ventures and TCV among its backers.

Upwind offers a runtime-native cloud security platform designed to give organisations greater visibility into networks, APIs and data flows, and the company says its solution can reduce noise and prioritise real risk amid a surge in agentic workflows.

The fresh capital will be used to accelerate product and go-to-market initiatives and to scale its runtime-first cloud security platform across data, AI and code, after doubling its workforce since its Series A in December 2024 and expanding presence in the US, UK and Israel as well as to Australia, India, Singapore and Japan. Upwind was founded in 2022 by Amiram Shachar, who previously founded Spot[.]io.