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Company type | Private |
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Founded | January 2020 |
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Headquarters | , US |
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Number of employees | c. 1200 (2024) [2] |
Website | wiz |
Wiz, Inc. is an American cloud security startup headquartered in New York City. [1] The company was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, all of whom previously founded Adallom. [3] [4] Rappaport is CEO, Costica is VP of Product, Reznik is VP of Engineering, and Luttwak is CTO. The company's platform analyzes computing infrastructure hosted in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Kubernetes for combinations of risk factors that could allow malicious actors to gain control of cloud resources and/or exfiltrate valuable data.
As of November 2024 [update] , Wiz employed about 1,995 people, with most sales and marketing personnel scattered across North America and Europe while most engineering personnel are based in Tel Aviv, Israel. [5] [6] In August 2022, Wiz claimed to be the fastest startup ever to scale from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), from February 2021 to approximately July 2022. [7] In February 2024, the company claimed to have reached $350M in ARR, with a 45% market share of Fortune 100 companies. [1] [8]
Wiz was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, all of whom previously founded Adallom. [3] [4]
Wiz agreed to acquire Tel Aviv-based Raftt, a cloud-based developer collaboration platform, for $50 million in December 2023. [9] In April 2024, the company acquired cloud detection and response startup, Gem Security, for around $350 million. [10] Also that month, reports indicated that Wiz intended to purchase Lacework, but in May the deal fell through during the due diligence process. [11] In November 2024, the company acquired security remediation and risk management startup Dazz for a cash-and-share deal valued at $450 million. [12]
In 2024, it was reported that Google was in talks to buy Wiz at a reported valuation of $23 billion. Still, Wiz turned down the offer in favor of going public. [13] [14]
Wiz has raised a total of $1.9 billion from a combination of venture capital funds and private investors:
Wiz researchers have discovered and responsibly disclosed numerous cloud vulnerabilities that garnered significant media coverage: