Tech Company Financing Transactions

Wiz Funding Round

Wiz, operating out of Palo Alto, received $300 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blackstone and G Squared.

Transaction Overview

Company Name

Wiz

Announced On

2/27/2023

Transaction Type

Venture Equity

Amount

$300,000,000

Round

Series D

Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners (Lead Investor)

Blackstone

G Squared

Greenoaks Capital Partners

Index Ventures (Shardul Shah)

Insight Venture Partners (Jeffrey Horing)

private investors (Howard Schultz)

Sequoia Capital (Douglas Leone)

Proceeds Purpose

The funds will also support the continued global expansion in EMEA and APAC.

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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