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Israeli cybersecurity startup backed by Steph Curry’s Penny Jar raises $50M

Upwind is now valued at $300M

Bloomberg NewsbyBloomberg News
September 5, 2023
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Israeli cybersecurity startup Upwind raised funds in a round that values the company at $300 million.

The year-old cloud security firm raised $50 million in the round, which was led by Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts and Leaders Fund, Upwind said in a statement to Bloomberg on Tuesday. Penny Jar Capital, which has four-time NBA champion and perennial all-star Stephen Curry as an anchor investor, and a fund backed by his former Golden State Warriors teammate, Israeli-born Omri Casspi, are also investors in the company, according to the statement.

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Upwind said it works with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and has raised $80 million overall to develop a platform that detects and responds to threats to cloud infrastructure. It has 70 employees with offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco. The new funding will be used to more than double the number of staff within a year, Chief Executive Officer Amiram Shachar said in an interview.

Shachar sold his previous startup Spot.io to NetApp Inc. in 2020 for $450 million. Eight former Spot.io executives, who also served alongside Shachar in the Israel Defense Forces IT unit that oversaw the military’s transition to the cloud, work at Upwind, he said.

Read More: Apex Starts Sports Fund With Lando Norris, Christian Eriksen

In the US, a number of high-profile athletes have been investing in different areas of sport. Eli Manning, a two-time Super Bowl quarterback formerly of the National Football League’s New York Giants, last year clinched his first deal as a partner at investment firm Brand Velocity Group, which acquired a majority stake in youth league apparel company Score Sports.

–By Marissa Newman (Bloomberg)

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