Investing in Upwind Security’s Series B, Triple Down!

We’re excited to triple down on our partnership with Upwind Security and to welcome new partners Bessemer Venture Partners and Picture Capital in the $250M Series B round. We also look forward to continued partnership with Cyberstarts, Greylock, Leaders Fund, Swish Ventures, Alta Park, TCV, Penny Jar Capital, and Cerca Partners.

From day one, founder/CEO Amiram Shachar and the Upwind team had a bold vision to build the world’s best cloud security platform. As practitioners, they had deep conviction that cloud security had to be built on a runtime-first foundation. They were right. Executing on that vision required relentless product velocity and deep customer obsession. It has clearly paid off.

Craft first invested at the seed stage before the market believed runtime belonged at the center of cloud security. Over the past few years, we’ve seen Upwind change that market perception making runtime a critical pillar of modern cloud security strategies. What gives Upwind a durable edge is using runtime context as the unifying signal across the entire CNAPP. By grounding security in what’s actually running in production, the platform dramatically improves prioritization, reduces alert fatigue, and accelerates real-world remediation.

The depth and breadth of the Upwind solution has enabled the team to win head-to-head against the most established players in the market. Upwind consistently delivers the enterprise-grade reliability, scalability, and runtime context that security leaders demand in complex, multi-cloud environments, earning the trust of some of the largest enterprises globally.

With this $250M Series B, Upwind drops into what they call “The Next Wave,” accelerating the scale-out of runtime-first cloud security to support a new era of AI-native, real-time enterprise applications worldwide. We are excited about what the team will deliver next. CNAPP lives where AI is consumed and provides the security building blocks that AI needs: Upwind is providing the security foundation that modern AI powered applications require. With AI, runtime becomes more critical today than ever before. We are starting to see the first use cases of agentic detection and response (CDR) in the cloud. AI agents can leverage runtime sensors which is critical to detecting in runtime and executing response action.

We believe Upwind is poised to not just to compete, but to dominate the next generation of cloud security platforms across application security, API security, AI security, and detection and response.

Up and Upwind.