US monitoring and analytics firm Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG) is in superior talks to amass Israeli cybersecurity firm Upwind Safety for as a lot as $1 billion, based on sources near the matter. The phrases of the deal are nonetheless being agreed however it’s prone to embody each money and shares.
Upwind operates within the rising cloud functions safety house and is growing options that defend software program methods in actual time – in different phrases when an software is operating within the precise cloud surroundings. Upwind’s answer doesn’t make do with simply static code and configuration evaluation, but additionally identifies and prevents threats whereas in operation, making it notably related to the worlds of micro-services, containers, and dynamic environments.
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Upwind was based in 2022 by 4 well-known entrepreneurs in Israel’s tech scene: CEO Amiram Shachar, Liran Polak, Tal Zur and Lavi Ferdman who beforehand based cloud safety administration firm Spot.io, which was offered to NetApp for $450 million in 2020. Upwind has raised $180 million so far, from outstanding funds corresponding to TCV, Cyberstars, Greylock, and Craft Ventures. The corporate at present has about 200 workers, most of them in Israel and the US.
Datadog is listed on Nasdaq with a market capital of over $50 billion. It presents a platform for monitoring, securing, and analyzing the efficiency of cloud infrastructure and functions, and serves massive company purchasers in a spread of industries. The corporate has beforehand made acquisitions of Israeli startups, together with Secret, however the take care of Upwind is predicted to be its largest and most vital in Israel so far.
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