AWS veterans raise $31 million Series A for cyber startup Native to simplify multi-cloud security
The Israeli startup aims to help enterprises fully utilize built-in cloud protections.
Cybersecurity startup Native, a company developing a platform that enables organizations to define and enforce cloud security policies, has raised $31 million in a Series A round led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from Seed investors General Catalyst, YL Ventures and Merlin Ventures, which together invested $11 million near the company’s inception. At the same time, Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud and now a partner at Ballistic Ventures, has joined the company’s board of directors. The company has raised a total of $42 million to date.
Native currently employs 41 people across Israel, the UK and the U.S., and plans to expand to around 90 employees by the end of 2026. Its investors and advisors include Zohar Alon, founder of Dome9 (acquired by Check Point); Doug Merritt, CEO of Aviatrix and former CEO of Splunk; and Udi Mokady, founder of CyberArk.
The company was founded in 2024 by three veterans of the cloud security sector: Amit Megiddo, CEO, who previously served as a product lead for Amazon GuardDuty at Amazon Web Services; Gal Ordo, CPO, who previously served as a Product Lead at AWS Security; and CTO Eyal Faingold served as VP of Cloud Security at Check Point.
In a conversation with Calcalist, Megiddo said: “I worked for many years at AWS, launching security products. Over time, we saw that cloud providers are building strong security capabilities, but organizations struggle to fully utilize them. We’ve built a system that allows companies to define security policies and automatically translate them into a complete security architecture across all major cloud providers. Our platform turns a company’s intent into enforceable configurations. It enables organizations to manage security across all major clouds, including Google Cloud, Azure, AWS and Oracle Cloud.”
Cloud providers offer advanced native security mechanisms, but implementing them consistently and optimally is complex and operationally sensitive, particularly in environments where errors can disrupt business activity. The challenge is even greater in multi-cloud environments, where each provider uses different models for identity, policy management and security controls.
As a result, many organizations use only a fraction of their built-in security capabilities, and often not optimally, creating a gap between security policy and actual implementation.
Native’s platform is designed to bridge this gap. It serves as a central control and enforcement layer, leveraging the cloud providers’ own native enforcement mechanisms rather than adding another monitoring layer. Security teams define policies, and the platform translates them into vendor-specific configurations and enforces them in practice.
The system also includes simulation capabilities that allow teams to test policies before deployment, reducing implementation risks. It supports phased rollouts and built-in approval processes, enabling enforcement without compromising business continuity.
This approach allows organizations to implement a consistent, pre-secured cloud architecture across multiple providers without significantly expanding security teams or requiring deep expertise in each platform. It addresses the accelerating pace of change in cloud and AI infrastructure, as well as the rapid evolution of cyber threats.
The company says it is already working with Fortune 100 organizations across the finance, technology and media sectors.
