Tech Company Financing Transactions

Wiz Funding Round

Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital participated in a $1 billion capital raise for Wiz. The financing round was announced on 5/7/2024.

Transaction Overview

Company Name

Wiz

Announced On

5/7/2024

Transaction Type

Venture Equity

Amount

$1,000,000,000

Round

Undisclosed

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz (Lead Investor)

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Lead Investor)

Thrive Capital (Lead Investor)

Cyberstarts (Gili Raanan)

Greenoaks Capital Partners

Greylock Partners

Index Ventures (Shardul Shah)

private investors (Howard Schultz)

Salesforce Ventures

Sequoia Capital (Douglas Leone)

Wellington Management Company

Proceeds Purpose

This funding round will help us continue to solve customers' complex cloud security challenges in an elegant, simple manner while supporting their broader vendor consolidation efforts.

Company Information

Company Status

Private & Independent

Industry

Security

Mailing Address

2345 Yale St.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA

Phone

Undisclosed

Website

www.wiz.io

Email Address

[email protected]

Overview

Wiz was founded by the team who led Microsoft's Cloud Security Group and built the security stack in Azure. They have worked together for more than 15 years and previously founded Adallom (acquired by Microsoft), which is now the #1 Cloud Access Security Broker in the market.

Profile

Social Media

Company News

Facebook

YouTube

Management Team

Title

Name

Email & Social

Chief Executive Officer

Assaf Rappaport

Chief Technical Officer

Ami Luttwak

VP - Marketing

Brandon Cook

VP - Product Management

Yinon Costica

VP - R & D

Roy Reznik

VP - Sales

Colin Jones

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