Cloud security startup Upwind has raised $250 million in a major funding round as it looks to expand its Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) beyond traditional detection and response capabilities. The latest investment values the company at approximately $1.5 billion, underscoring strong investor confidence in the rapidly evolving cloud security market.
Founded to address the growing complexity of cloud-native environments, Upwind has built its platform around runtime-powered security, giving organizations real-time visibility into workloads, identities, and application behavior across dynamic cloud infrastructures. With this new capital, the company plans to significantly accelerate engineering and product development, broadening its scope into AI security and data security, two of the fastest-growing areas of enterprise demand.
As enterprises increasingly deploy AI-driven applications and manage vast volumes of sensitive data in the cloud, security challenges have shifted from static configuration risks to dynamic, behavior-based threats. Upwind aims to address this shift by extending CNAPP coverage to protect AI pipelines, models, and data flows, while also enhancing data posture management and runtime data protection.
The funding will also support go-to-market expansion, customer growth, and deeper integrations with major cloud service providers. By unifying workload security, cloud posture management, identity risk, AI security, and data protection under a single CNAPP framework, Upwind is positioning itself as a next-generation cloud security platform.
With regulatory pressure increasing and cloud attacks becoming more sophisticated, Upwind’s expansion reflects a broader industry trend toward consolidated, runtime-first security platforms that can keep pace with modern, AI-enabled cloud environments.
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