The fastest-growing security company in history — now the crown jewel of Google Cloud.
www.wiz.io ↗Wiz is an Israeli-American cloud security company founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport (CEO), Yinon Costica, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik — all former members of Microsoft Azure's security team. Headquartered in New York City, Wiz built a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that achieves agentless visibility across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud simultaneously. The company became the fastest startup ever to reach $100 million in ARR (18 months), and by mid-2024 had crossed $500 million in ARR, serving approximately 45-50% of Fortune 100 companies.
On March 18, 2025, Google announced an all-cash acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion — the largest cybersecurity acquisition ever recorded and the most expensive acquisition in Google's history. The deal received regulatory clearance from the U.S., EU, Australia, Israel, and five other jurisdictions, and formally closed on March 11, 2026. Wiz crossed $1 billion in ARR in 2025 prior to close. The company had previously turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google in mid-2024, choosing instead to pursue an independent IPO path — a path it reversed as IPO market conditions weakened and M&A conditions improved. Wiz now operates as part of Google Cloud while maintaining its multi-cloud commitment.
Wiz's core technical differentiator is its Security Graph — a unified data model that maps every workload, vulnerability, identity, and misconfiguration across multi-cloud environments without deploying agents. On top of CNAPP, Wiz built AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), which extends the Security Graph to inventory AI services, detect AI misconfigurations, map AI attack paths, and enforce data security posture management for AI workloads. The company made four strategic acquisitions — Raftt ($50M, Dec 2023), Gem Security ($350M, Apr 2024), Dazz ($450M, Nov 2024) — to extend into developer security and AI-driven remediation.
Wiz's $32 billion acquisition price is not simply a market anomaly — it reflects the strategic value of owning the security layer that sits between enterprises and their cloud infrastructure. Wiz has detailed visibility into how roughly half of the Fortune 100 uses cloud environments, including data flows, model deployments, and identity configurations that no other vendor can access. For Google Cloud, this acquisition is a mechanism to close the gap with AWS and Azure on security tooling while gaining an intelligence layer that maps the cloud footprints of Microsoft and Amazon's customers. For the broader AI security market, Wiz matters because AI-SPM as a category was largely pioneered and popularized by Wiz — its agentless approach to discovering AI workloads, training datasets, and LLM deployments established the architectural pattern that competitors are now replicating.
Prior to acquisition, Wiz was the undisputed market leader in agentless CNAPP, with Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Cloud) and Orca Security as its primary enterprise competitors. Wiz's differentiation was speed-to-value: deployment in minutes rather than days, with no agents required. As part of Google Cloud, Wiz retains its multi-cloud positioning — a deliberate choice to preserve the installed base across AWS and Azure customers. The strategic question post-acquisition is whether enterprise customers who rely on Wiz to secure AWS and Azure infrastructure will remain comfortable with Google having visibility into that data. Wiz's competitors will exploit this ambiguity. However, the $1B+ ARR scale, Fortune 100 penetration, and AI-SPM category leadership make it the most formidable CNAPP platform in the market regardless of parent company concerns.
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