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20 stories about Wiz
Wiz team

Four Wiz founders enter global billionaires list with $1 billion each

03.04.24|CTech
According to Forbes, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, VP Product Yinon Costica, and VP R&D Roy Reznik are now among the world’s 2,781 billionaires. Another new entrant is monday.com co-CEO Roy Mann with $1.3 billion. There are 36 Israelis on the list in total, with Eyal Ofer leading the way with $24 billion
Flow Security

$50 million plus per founder: Cyber M&A flurry creates new list of millionaires

18.03.24|Meir Orbach
The entrepreneurs behind Avalor, Flow Security and Gem Security are set to cash in over $50 million each after being acquired over recent weeks by cyber giants Zscaler, CrowdStrike and Wiz, respectively
אריה זילברשטיין רון קוניגסברג ו אופיר ברוקנר מייסדי Gem Security ג'ם סיטי

Cyber decacorn Wiz acquiring Gem Security for $350 million

13.03.24|Meir Orbach
Israeli startup Gem, which has developed a Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) platform, has raised $34 million to date
מימין דאלי ראג'ק ו אסף רפפורט wiz

Wiz eyeing hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding at over $10 billion valuation

09.03.24|Meir Orbach
According to the Financial Times, the cybersecurity unicorn, which has already raised $900 million to date, is in talks with investors including Thrive, Lightspeed Venture Partners and G Squared
Gali Bloch Liran Maya Elhalal

Wiz hits $350 million in ARR, plans to add 400 employees in 2024

05.02.24|Meir Orbach
The cloud security unicorn also announced the appointment of Dali Rajic, former President and COO of Zscaler, as its President and Chief Operating Officer. “We are eager to reach the future milestone of $1 billion as we look toward an IPO,” said Assaf Rappaport, CEO & co-founder of Wiz
Wiz team

The five biggest megarounds of 2023 in Israeli tech

27.12.23|CTech
Cloud security startup Wiz’s $300 million Series D was the largest funding round by an Israeli startup in the past year, followed by Next Insurance ($265 million), eToro ($250 million), Cato Networks ($238 million), and AI21 ($208 million)
Raftt team

Cyber unicorn Wiz makes first acquisition with purchase of Israeli startup Raftt

04.12.23|Meir Orbach
The value of the deal was not disclosed, but it is estimated that Wiz paid tens of millions of dollars for Raftt, which has developed a cloud-based platform for creating and sharing development environments
תומר וינגרטן מייסד ומנכ"ל סנטינל וואן

SentinelOne CEO downplays takeover talk, calls Wiz "a nice little startup"

02.09.23|CTech and Reuters
Tomer Weingarten was speaking after the cybersecurity company he founded raised its full-year forecast and amidst reports of a potential sale
מימין אסף רפפורט ו תומר וינגרטן

SentinelOne terminates cooperation with Wiz amidst takeover talk

30.08.23|Sophie Shulman
Wiz expressed its intention to acquire SentinelOne this past weekend despite being a relatively young startup while the latter is a decade-old public company employing almost three times its workforce
מימין אסף רפפורט ו תומר וינגרטן

Wiz and SentinelOne merger will create a global cyber giant - What stands in its way?

26.08.23|Sophie Shulman
Market estimations suggest that SentinelOne will not agree to a deal for less than $18-20 per share, equating to around $6 billion and 25% above the current value
בכירי סנטינל וואן בהנפקת החברה בבורסת ניו יורק ביוני האחרון

A huge merger in Israeli cyber? Wiz considers potential bid for SentinelOne

26.08.23|Sophie Shulman
If the deal goes through Wiz will need to raise capital for this move, as it will be worth more than $5 billion. Bloomberg reports that Wiz is already in talks with banks that may finance the bold move
מימין מנכ"ל ומייסד אורקה גיל גרון עם מנכ"ל ומייסד Wiz אסף רפפורט

Orca Security suing Wiz for patent infringement in cloud security unicorn showdown

12.07.23|Sophie Shulman
Orca is seeking a ban on the sale of products that it claims infringe its patents, which it alleges were copied by Wiz. "Instead of facing competition and earning the trust of customers, it seems that the company has resorted to the desperate step of filing a lawsuit," Wiz said in response
מתקפת סייבר רוסיה

Wiz partnering with fellow Israeli unicorns Armis and Salt Security in new WIN platform

18.06.23|CTech
WIN is designed to enable a cloud security operating model where security and cloud teams work collaboratively to understand and control risks across their CI/CD pipeline
מוסף שבועי 20.4.23 ינון קוסטיקה

Wiz co-founder: "We are still at the expansion stage and we will transition to profitability when we decide to do so"

23.04.23|Diana Bahur Nir
Yinon Costica, co-founder of Wiz, explains how the world's fastest growing cyber unicorn was created; why he is not threatened by Nir Zuk and Gil Shwed; why his company is determined to stand at the forefront of the resistance to the judicial coup; and how, as a gay man, he realized he has to stand by other minorities
Noname Wiz

Israeli cyber unicorns Wiz and Noname Security launch partnership to secure cloud infrastructure

20.04.23|James Spiro
Together, the companies aim to provide security, application and cloud technology teams with complete visibility into their entire API ecosystem
אסף רפפורט, מייסד-שותף בוויז

Cloud security startup Wiz hits $10 billion valuation with $300 million Series D

27.02.23|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup said that it will not hold any of the funds in Israel due to the impending judicial coup
אסף רפפורט

Cybersecurity unicorn Wiz to withdraw funds from Israel

06.02.23|Meir Orbach
Wiz co-founders, including CEO Assaf Rappaport and VP Product Yinon Costica, are among the leaders of the protests organized by the high-tech sector against the judicial coup being pushed by the Netanyahu government
Ctech Diversity Yinon Costica

“We are recruiting employees that are not exactly our typecast in order to expand our horizons”

30.01.23|Noa Gadot
Yinon Costica, VP Product and Co-Founder of Wiz, believes that overcoming biases starts with the recruitment process
Raaz Herzberg Wiz

Raaz Herzberg appointed VP of Product Strategy at Wiz

23.11.22|CTech
In her new role, Herzberg will continue to lead the various product aspects, as well as Wiz's marketing and positioning team in the cloud security market
מימין עדי טטרקו ו אלון כהן מייסדי האוז Houzz

Demand for Israeli unicorn shares plummeted in 2022

18.10.22|Sophie Shulman
EquityBee's unicorn stock ranking revealed that most of the recent stars have disappeared from the list which ranks shares sought by investors who trade in private companies, with only four Israeli unicorns making the list: Houzz, Wiz, Gong and TripActions.
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