Orca Security provides instant-on, workload-level security for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Founded by Avi Shua, Ety Spiegel Hubara, Gil Geron, Hadas Amitay, Liran Antebi, Matan Ben-Gur, Shay Filosof, and Wagde Zabit in 2019, Orca Security is backed by investors that include GGV Capital, ICONIQ Capital, YL Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, and StoneMill Ventures and is headquartered in Los Angeles.
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The tech unicorn fever in Israel is showing no signs of subsiding. Three more local cyber companies Wiz, Orca Security, and Axonius are planning to announce in the coming weeks that they have completed large funding rounds at valuations topping $1 billion each.
All three companies raised more than $50 million in 2020 and are taking advantage of the readily available capital to secure additional rounds, while upping their valuations, shortly after their previous ones.
Assaf Rapaport. Photo: Nathaniel Tobias
Wiz is the youngest of the three, having only been founded in 2020 and having just recently completed its series A funding round. According to market estimates, Wiz’s upcoming round will raise over $100 million and catapult the company’s valuation to well over a billion dollars. Wiz completed its first capital raise only in December, in which it secured $100 million from a series of leading investors, including VC funds Index Ventures, Sequoia, Insight Part