5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
For the week ending Dec. 11, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel. By Rick Whiting December 11, 2020, 01:27 PM EST
The Week Ending Dec. 11
Topping this week’s Came to Win list is Nutanix, which scored a hiring coup when it hired a top executive from rival VMware to fill its CEO post.
Also making the list are Hewlett Packard Enterprise for its new high-performance computing GreenLake service; a cybersecurity startup for exiting stealth armed with $100 million in financing; Juniper Networks for a strategic acquisition; and Google Cloud for establishing partnerships with ISVs building 5G applications that can work with the Anthos platform.
Israeli cloud security startup Wiz emerges from stealth with $100M in funding
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Israeli cloud security startup Wiz Inc. has emerged out of stealth with the announcement of $100 million in new funding to allow it to scale up to meet customer demand.
The Series A round included Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners and Cyberstarts. Under the deal, Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia Capital, Shardul Shah, partner at Index Ventures, Jeff Horing, managing director at Insight Partners and Gili Raanan of Cyberstarts are joining the Wiz board.
The company was founded in January by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica and Roy Reznik, former leads of Microsoft’s Cloud Security Group and the founding team of Adallo Inc., a cybersecurity startup acquired by Microsoft for $320 million in 2015. Wiz is developing a cloud security product that is designed to help companies secure their cloud infrastructure.