初创公司尽调
尽调报告 cybersecurity Late-stage private 2026-10-06

Upwind Security

快速增长的运行时优先云安全厂商,但公开记录仍不足以支撑对 $3.8B 估值的投资判断。

Upwind 是一家真实存在且快速扩张、以运行时安全为核心的云安全厂商,但在缺少 ARR、留存率、利润率和融资条款等私有数据披露的情况下,公开记录仍不足以支撑其 38 亿美元的非公开估值。

覆盖范围与披露说明

公开证据截至 2026 年 10 月,涵盖公司披露、经核实的客户引荐、留存的第三方融资记录和运营监控数据。经审计的 ARR、留存率、毛利率、现金消耗及融资优先权条款仍未公开。

封面要素

预估 ARR 运行速率 03
$50M-$60M USD [CI011]
员工人数 06
300+ employees [CO007]

公司概况

Upwind Security 是一家获风投支持、以运行时为先的云与 AI 安全公司,借助基于 eBPF 的运行时遥测和无代理扫描, 帮助企业发现、排序并响应可被利用的云和应用风险。公司面向希望降低告警噪声、聚焦实时工作负载可利用性,而非静态 安全态势结果的企业安全与平台团队。

官网
www.upwind.io
创始人
Amiram Shachar, Liran Polak, Lavi Ferdman, Tal Zuri (Tal Zur)
总部
San Francisco, California
产品
以运行时为先的云与 AI 安全平台,结合基于 eBPF 的实时遥测、无代理发现和企业工作流集成,在 CNAPP、运行时检测、 API 安全及相关云安全流程中优先处理可利用风险。
客户
企业云、安全、SecOps 与产品安全团队
商业模式
企业年度订阅,配合市场采购和增值服务
阶段
Late-stage private
融资情况
据报道,公司于 2026 年 1 月完成 $250 million B 轮融资,随后在 2026 年 9 月完成一笔据报估值 $3.8 billion、 累计融资约 $727 million 的融资。
[CO005, CO006, CO007, CO008, CI011, CI012]

执行摘要

主要优势

  • 企业采用信号强劲,客户数超过 200 家,并拥有知名标杆客户。
  • 创始人与投资人阵容一流,且多次获得后续融资支持。
  • 产品定位清晰,优先解决实时可利用性,而不是静态噪声。

主要风险

  • 公开记录仍缺少经审计的 ARR、留存率、毛利率和烧钱情况证据。
  • 据报道的 38 亿美元估值,远高于现有公开分母所能支撑的水平。
  • 客户集中度、宕机风险和融资优先权条款仍不够透明。

未决问题

  • 经审计的 ARR、毛利率和烧钱 / 现金跑道仍属非公开信息。
  • 最新一轮融资的股权结构优先权条款及其中是否包含老股转让部分,尚未披露。
  • 尽管公开客户 logo 数量增长,NRR、流失率和客户集中度仍未解决。

目录

Chapter 01

01公司概览

1.1 公司身份与创始基因

Upwind Security Ltd. 是一家 2022 年成立的企业网络安全软件公司,公司高管办公地点位于美国加州旧金山 New Montgomery Street 140 号,主要研发运营则集中在以色列特拉维夫,形成双总部布局。公司由 Amiram Shachar (首席执行官)与联合创始人 Liran Polak、Lavi Ferdman 和 Tal Zuri(Tal Zur)共同创立。四位创始人此前创办并 做大云基础设施优化先驱 Spot.io(原名 Spotinst),该公司于 2020 年以 $450 million 被 NetApp 收购。这段 共同经历让 Upwind 在 DevOps、系统编程和大型企业云基础设施架构方面具备经过实战检验的深厚可信度。作为商业化、 获风投支持的软件公司,Upwind 解决企业安全项目中的核心运营摩擦:静态配置扫描器会制造海量告警,却无法确认 运行时可达性或工作负载是否真的可被利用。公司将运行时技术层定位为一种由内向外的运营模式,把代码直接连接到 生产环境。[CO001, CO002, CO003, CO004, CO014]

Upwind Security 快照 KPI 表
指标数值 / 状态日期 / 期间置信度缺口与尽调考量
最新投后估值$3.8B($1.5B Series B 基准)2026-09中二手来源报道称 2026 年 9 月完成融资;一手经审计 term sheet 尚未验证
累计融资额$727M+($430M 一手来源已确认)2026-09高与 Series B 前累计 $430M,以及随后 2026 年的企业和风险投资轮次相符
年度经常性收入 (ARR)2026-10低严格属于私有数据;公司仅分享百分比增长指标,未披露收入基数
收入同比增长900%2026-01高公司披露的里程碑数字,随 Series B 融资公告发布
客户数量200+ 家企业客户2026-09高已披露客户包括 Waste Management、Siemens、Roku、Peloton 和 Nubank
全球员工数300+ 名员工2026-01高分布在旧金山总部、特拉维夫研发中心、英国和冰岛办公室
净收入留存率 (NRR)2026-10低私有指标;首批企业客户 cohort 的扩张质量尚未确认
毛利率2026-10低私有指标;云计算和运行时传感器基础设施成本未公开

数字反映经核实的公司披露、一手新闻稿和结构化投资数据库记录;null 条目表示非公开财务指标。

[CO001, CO005, CO006, CO007, CO008]

1.2 高管团队与治理结构

Upwind 采用创始人主导的管理结构,并吸纳资深网络安全和云基础设施运营者。首席执行官 Amiram Shachar 负责公司 愿景和战略资金配置;联合创始人 Liran Polak、Lavi Ferdman 和 Tal Zuri 分别领导工程、产品和平台架构。2025 年 6 月,公司任命 Rinki Sethi 为首席安全官,进一步充实高管团队;她此前曾在 Twitter、Walmart 和 PayPal 担任 高级安全治理职务。平台高级副总裁 Dan Yahav 以及 Uber 和 Cloudflare 前首席安全官 Joe Sullivan 等顾问也支持 产品与市场执行。由于 Shachar 及其核心创始圈深度参与知识产权开发和多轮风险投资联合融资,公司对关键人物依赖 很重。公司治理中早期投资者代表性较强,由 Cyberstarts 创始人 Gili Raanan 牵头,成员还包括 Bessemer Venture Partners 合伙人 Elliott Robinson、Greylock 合伙人 Saam Motamedi 和 Craft Ventures 合伙人 Michael Robinson。[CO004, CO009, CO010, CO011, CO012, CO015]

管理层与创始人表
人员职务职业背景职能领域与执行关键人物依赖
Amiram Shachar首席执行官兼联合创始人Spot.io 创始人兼 CEO(2020 年被 NetApp 以 $450M 收购);前 IDF Mamram 部队成员公司整体领导、公司战略、高管招聘和融资关键;是投资者联盟和客户所依赖的核心身份与愿景锚点
Liran Polak首席架构师 / VP 兼联合创始人Spot.io 联合创始人兼架构 VP;拥有深厚的云系统工程背景底层分布式云运行时架构、eBPF 感知和平台可扩展性高;负责专有核心运行时遥测基础设施的开发
Lavi Ferdman工程 VP 兼联合创始人Spot.io 联合创始人并负责工程;曾负责 NetApp 云基础设施工程核心工程运营、持续交付和分布式平台可靠性高;统筹特拉维夫和美国跨区域工程与研发速度
Tal Zuri (Tal Zur)产品 / 架构 VP 兼联合创始人Spot.io 联合创始人兼产品 VP;云成本和基础设施优化资深人士产品管理、用户体验设计和 CNAPP 功能融合高;推动将客户反馈转化为统一运行时安全产品路线图
Rinki Sethi首席安全官曾任 Twitter 首席信息安全官、Walmart 信息安全 VP 和 PayPal 高管内部安全项目、企业信任、监管合规和客户 CISO 顾问工作中;对建立 Tier-1 客户的企业治理可信度至关重要
Dan Yahav平台高级副总裁Upwind 资深平台工程高管;负责云运行时和 AI 安全计划运行时 AI 安全架构、产品部署速度和客户运营影响中;推动 DevOps 与安全团队之间的技术运营协同

画像综合公司公告、经核实的高管任命信息和公司画像登记资料。

[CO004, CO010, CO011]
利益相关方与投资者图谱
利益相关方组织角色与实体类型进入阶段与首轮融资经济重要性与治理尽调考量
Bessemer Venture Partners领投机构投资者 (VC)Series B (Jan 2026)以 $1.5B 估值领投 $250M Series B;对董事会和投票拥有重大影响评估清算优先权、按比例跟投权和后续出资承诺
Cyberstarts种子轮领投方与创始 VCSeed (Sep 2022)领投 $27.4M 首轮 Seed;创始人 Gili Raanan 提供早期战略指导审查早期创始人股权稀释条款和初始持股结构
Greylock主要机构投资者 (VC)Seed 扩展轮(Sep 2023)领投 $50M Seed-1 轮;合伙人 Saam Motamedi 活跃参与董事会和顾问工作评估持股集中度,以及与后期增长投资者的利益一致性
Craft VenturesSeries A 领投投资者 (VC)Series A (Dec 2024)领投 $100M Series A;合伙人 Michael Robinson 是活跃的战略伙伴审查保护性条款、反稀释条款和治理门槛
TCV (Technology Crossover Ventures)成长股权投资者Series A (Dec 2024) / Series B重要的成长资本参与者;提供跨阶段及 IPO 前扩张经验分析估值预期,以及走向公开退出或流动性的预计时间表
Salesforce Ventures战略企业投资者Series B (Jan 2026 / Mar 2026)提供战略商业验证;加速企业 CRM 和云合作伙伴生态的接入评估商业分销协议,以及潜在 ROFR 或收购契约

数据整合自官方融资公告、SEC 文件和风险投资登记追踪;持股比例仍属机密。

[CO005, CO009, CO012]

1.3 资本化历程与商业规模

Upwind 的资本化体现出多阶段估值快速扩张:2022 年 9 月由 Cyberstarts 领投的 $27.4 million 种子轮,发展到 2023 年 9 月由 Greylock 领投的 $50 million 种子轮扩展,再到 2024 年 12 月由 Craft Ventures 领投的 $100 million A 轮。2026 年 1 月,公司以 $1.5 billion 估值获得 Bessemer Venture Partners 领投的 $250 million B 轮融资,累计融资达到 $430 million,跻身独角兽。2026 年后续公司和风投活动——包括 Salesforce Ventures 的战略支持及 2026 年 9 月据报的 $300 million 风投轮——又将据报累计融资推高至 $727M+,投后估值 推至 $3.8 billion。商业势头随资本形成快速扩大:Upwind 报告称截至 2026 年初收入同比增长 900%、客户 logo 数增长 200%,服务超过 200 家企业客户,包括 Waste Management、Siemens、Peloton、Roku、ClickUp 和 Nubank。全球员工数从约 150 人增至 300 多人,分布在美国、以色列、英国和冰岛办公室。不过,ARR、净留存率和 毛利率等私有运营指标仍未披露。[CO005, CO006, CO007, CO008, CO013, CO016]

FO001: Upwind 公司与资本化里程碑时间线

按时间梳理 Upwind 从 2022 年到 2026 年的成立、融资轮、战略收购和生态集成。

日期和里程碑反映正式公司新闻稿、投资追踪数据库和运营遥测日志。

[CO004, CO005, CO006, CO007, CO008, CO010, CO014, CO015, CO016]

1.4 展示

Chapter 02

02市场分析

2.1 市场边界、纳入支出与现状替代方案

随着企业从割裂的安全单点产品转向统一的云原生应用保护平台(CNAPP),云安全可服务市场正在重构。可服务 边界包括企业在云安全态势管理(CSPM)、云工作负载保护平台(CWPP)、云检测与响应(CDR)、云基础设施 权限管理(CIEM)、API 安全以及容器 / Kubernetes 防护上的预算。Upwind 专门切入基础设施态势与实时执行遥测 的交叉地带,靠轻量 eBPF 传感器和无代理云集成搭建“由内向外”的运行时架构。传统无代理扫描器从“由外向内”检查 快照,制造数千条假设性告警积压,却看不到活跃进程执行、内存威胁或实时网络连接。传统终端检测与响应(EDR)、 广义安全信息与事件管理(SIEM)及本地网络防火墙仍是独立预算项,不属于核心工作负载安全范围。现有平台套件、 云厂商原生工具(如 Microsoft Defender for Cloud)以及 DevOps 内部人工分诊,也继续阻碍单独采购。[CM001, CM002, CM003, CM004]

云安全市场范围与边界细分
细分 / 类别纳入支出排除支出买方 / 付款方与 Upwind 的相关性
云安全态势 (CSPM)云资源配置错误扫描、合规审计框架(SOC2、HIPAA、GDPR)、IAM 权限映射通用 IT 合规审计咨询、传统本地漏洞扫描CISO / 云安全架构师核心模块:Upwind 将态势验证与运行时证据结合,以消除误报
云工作负载保护 (CWPP & CDR)eBPF 驱动的工作负载监控、主动容器威胁检测、内存检查、云检测与响应企业笔记本上的传统端点 EDR、本地物理服务器安全SecOps 负责人 / 云安全运营核心差异化:由内向外的运行时执行遥测与实时威胁中和
应用与 API 安全 (ADR)第 7 层 API 流量检查、API 暴露发现、运行时代码异常检测外部 Web 应用防火墙 (WAF) 硬件、手工代码渗透测试AppSec 负责人 / 产品安全 VP相邻扩张:收购 Nyx Security,并在运行时架构内提供 L7 检查
AI 安全态势与运行时 (AI-SPM & AI-DR)AI agent 上下文监控、模型清单、microVM 和 LLM 运行时工作负载隔离基础模型训练基础设施、通用数据科学工具AI 安全负责人 / 首席 AI 官高增长新兴层:Upwind AI Security Lab 以及 Bedrock/microVM 检查能力

细分依据截至 2026 年的行业 CNAPP 框架和厂商平台架构。

[CM001, CM002, CM003, CM010]

2.2 TAM、SAM 与多口径规模分析

评估 Upwind 的市场潜力,必须把广义自上而下的网络安全行业预测,与受证据约束的工作负载细分市场分开。 Frost & Sullivan 估计全球 CNAPP 市场到 2029 年将扩大至 $18.79 billion,年复合增长约 28%。ISMG 汇总的 行业指南显示,当前估值区间为 $3.4 billion 至 $10.6 billion;在 20% 至 35% 的年复合增长率下,激进长期 预测到 2030 年代初可达 $38 billion 至 $88 billion。自下而上估算只计算运行时工作负载代理和态势引擎的软件 许可,上限预测则把云身份治理、软件供应链安全和开发者流水线扫描也算入。对 Upwind 而言,眼下 SAM 受限于在 AWS、Azure 和 GCP 上运行容器化、Kubernetes 及现代 API 架构的企业多云组织。更窄的 SOM 口径聚焦拥有专门 云平台安全团队、饱受告警疲劳且优先运行时可利用性过滤而非被动审计打勾的中大型企业。Gartner 预计,到 2029 年, 在云服务商环境中实施零信任的企业里有 40% 会依赖 CNAPP 平台获得高级可见性和运营控制,说明长期趋势仍强劲, 尽管规模估算分歧很大。[CM005, CM006, CM007, CM008]

市场规模基准与分析师预测
发布方 / 来源时间范围 / 年份地理范围市场价值 (USD)预计 CAGR方法论与范围置信度与局限
Frost & Sullivan2029全球$18.79B~28%跟踪全球 CNAPP 市场,涵盖整合式态势、工作负载和云检测平台中:行业信誉高;假设工具持续整合且多云持续扩张
ISMG Market Guide(下限)当前(2025/2026)全球$3.4B20% - 35%范围较窄,仅限核心专用云原生应用保护平台许可中:代表经核实的商业软件合同;排除传统工作负载现代化
ISMG Market Guide(上限)当前(2025/2026)全球$10.6B20% - 35%范围更广,纳入 CSPM、CWPP、CIEM、IaC 扫描和容器安全模块中:混合了不同的相邻产品线;上界取决于厂商套件定义
ISMG 长期预测(高位)2030 年代初全球$38B - $88B20% - 35%长期范围假设独立 AppSec、API 安全和 AI 防御完全吸收到 CNAPP 中低:方差高且推断具有投机性,取决于云和 agentic 应用的普遍采用

预测汇总 Frost & Sullivan、Gartner 和 ISMG 2025 CNAPP Market Guide 发布的数字。

[CM005, CM006, CM007]
FM001: 云与 AI 运行时安全可服务市场规模金字塔

从企业云支出总额逐层缩小到 Upwind 可服务、可获取机会的云安全可服务市场范围。

各层宽度仅表示层级,不代表数值比例。

TAM 直接锚定 Frost & Sullivan 对 2029 年 $18.79B 的预测;SAM 和 SOM 是受证据约束的估算,反映企业多云组织中可触达的子集。

[CM005, CM006, CM014]

2.3 买方画像、增长驱动与企业约束

企业采购现代云安全产品是多方达成共识的过程,参与者包括首席信息安全官(CISO)、中央云安全架构师以及站点 可靠性 / DevOps 平台工程师。经济预算通常由 CISO 或信息安全副总裁掌握,但运营决策权和否决权在平台工程团队 手中;他们要求性能开销最低,且生产工作负载绝不能中断。主要采用驱动包括严重的告警疲劳——客户称引入运行时 上下文后告警噪声最多降低 98%,无关 CVE 减少 60%——以及关键工作负载快速迁移到短生命周期 Kubernetes 和无 服务器架构。生成式 AI 架构和 agentic 框架也带来静态态势扫描器无法检查的新型运行时攻击面。企业不愿部署工作 负载内核或 eBPF 代理、与现有平台签订的多年协议、漫长的采购周期,以及欧美行业要求生产上线前取得大量合规认证, 都限制了采用。[CM009, CM010, CM011, CM012, CM013]

买方细分、预算归属与采用动态
客户细分关键买方画像主要用户预算所有者工作流集成采用触发因素 / 强制要求
云原生企业(金融科技、科技、电商)信息安全 VP / 云安全负责人云安全工程师与 SRECISO / 安全预算CI/CD 流水线、Kubernetes Helm charts、AWS/Azure IAM无 agent 扫描器带来的告警疲劳、快速生产部署速度、活跃的入侵风险
受监管全球企业(金融、医疗、工业)首席信息安全官 (CISO)SecOps 分析师与合规经理CISO / 企业风险与合规SOC 工作流、SIEM/PagerDuty 集成、合规报告持续监管合规(GDPR、SOC 2、HIPAA)和多云可见性要求
中端市场 / 高增长数字原生企业基础设施总监 / DevOps 负责人DevOps 与基础设施工程师工程 VP / IT 管理层轻量级 eBPF 自动插桩、Terraform/IaC无需管理独立点工具或专门 SecOps 团队即可获得统一保护

根据客户部署画像(Siemens、Peloton、Nubank、Waste Management)和招聘披露整理。

[CM004, CM009, CM010, CM011, CM013]

2.4 展示

Chapter 03

03竞争格局

3.1 竞争格局分类与市场动态

云安全市场正在激烈整合,企业希望把割裂的单点方案合并成统一的云原生应用保护平台(CNAPP)。组织饱受告警 疲劳,常被数万条静态态势告警淹没,而这些告警无法说明漏洞是否能在生产环境中被实际利用。Upwind 以 eBPF 传感器和无代理发现为基础,直接用由内向外、运行时优先的范式对抗现状。竞争主要分四类:靠无代理快照扫描 早早占据优势的态势型 CNAPP 龙头 Wiz 和 Orca Security;通过多产品套件和收购进入云工作负载的传统企业网络与 终端巨头 Palo Alto Networks(Prisma Cloud)和 CrowdStrike(Falcon Cloud Security);AWS、Microsoft Defender for Cloud、Google Cloud 的云厂商原生控制;以及 Prowler、Steampipe、Snyk 等开源或开发者优先工具。 静态扫描器能发现配置错误,但 Upwind 的技术判断是依靠实时执行上下文,将运营噪声降低约 95% 至 98%。[CP001, CP002, CP003, CP004, CP005, CP006]

竞争对手画像全景表
竞争对手类别规模 / 姿态目标细分核心差异化关键战略局限
Upwind Security运行时优先 CNAPPSeries B(已融资 $430M,300+ 名员工)中大型多云企业eBPF 内核级运行时上下文、统一单 SKU 模式需要部署工作负载传感器;合作伙伴生态较小
Wiz无 agent CNAPP / CSPM后期私有独角兽全球企业与云原生客户快速无 agent 部署、全面的图谱可视化缺乏原生内核运行时防护;价格较高
Palo Alto Networks (Prisma Cloud)企业安全平台上市企业厂商全球 2000 强与受监管企业广泛的多领域安全产品组合和企业 MSA 杠杆多模块许可割裂,且多 agent 复杂
CrowdStrike (Falcon Cloud)端点到云安全上市企业厂商企业 IT 与 SOC 团队扎根于企业端点的统一单传感器架构端点中心化积淀;原生云上下文关联较弱

画像依据截至 2026 年的行业对比评测、官方披露和市场目录分析。

[CP001, CP003, CP004, CP005, CP006]
FP001: 竞争格局:运行时深度与平台范围

评估主要云安全厂商,对比运行时深度与整体平台整合范围。

条目平台整合范围 (0–10)运行时防御深度 (0–10)说明
1. Upwind Security 7.5 8.8
2. Wiz 8.5 4.5
3. Palo Alto Networks 9 6.5
4. CrowdStrike 7.8 6.8
5. Prowler / OSS 3 2.5
6. Steampipe 3.5 2

序数评分反映对内核 eBPF 运行时深度和统一多域 CNAPP 范围的技术能力分析。

[CP002, CP003, CP007, CP011]

3.2 竞争对手画像、架构与能力矩阵

将 Upwind 与成熟同行比较,可以看到静态“由外向内”态势评估和持续“由内向外”内核检查之间的根本架构差异。 Wiz 等现有厂商通过无代理 API 连接器检查磁盘快照和配置状态,因而无需工作负载代理即可快速部署并渗透市场。 但静态检查天生看不到活跃内存执行、进程谱系、实时网络连接和无服务器调用。相比之下,Upwind 把轻量 eBPF 传感器直接嵌入 Linux 内核,并接入云厂商 API,在 Kubernetes 集群和无服务器函数中追踪精确的系统调用、文件 访问和网络套接字。它还把实时函数执行映射到 SOC 2、CIS 等合规框架,并自动切断恶意进程。Palo Alto Networks 等传统基础设施巨头则通过连续收购拼出广泛能力,却常让企业面对割裂的代理架构、不同的用户界面和多 SKU 采购复杂度。[CP007, CP008, CP009, CP010, CP011]

功能与架构能力矩阵
能力领域Upwind SecurityWizPalo Alto NetworksCrowdStrike开源工具
eBPF 运行时工作负载防护原生内核 eBPF 传感器运行时 agent 覆盖有限可选 CWPP daemonsetFalcon 主机传感器不支持 / 部分支持 (Tracee)
无 agent 云安全态势 (CSPM)完整 API 遥测摄入市场领先的图谱 CSPM全面的多云 CSPM集成式云态势支持 (Prowler / Steampipe)
告警噪声降低通过运行时上下文降低约 95%基于图谱关联基于策略过滤威胁图谱关联不支持(告警量高)
无服务器函数运行时防护自动运行时验证与终止静态配置与扫描基于层的检查工作负载态势监控不支持 / 手工检查
漏洞优先级排序运行时可利用性关联网络暴露图谱分析CVE 严重性与威胁源数据外泄路径评分仅静态 CVE 列表

技术能力对比依据平台文档、产品拆解和第三方分析师摘要整理。

[CP002, CP007, CP008, CP009, CP010, CP011]

3.3 商业包装、护城河耐久性与不利风险

商业进入市场的方式是企业云安全的关键战场。行业巨头通常采用分层、模块化许可和复杂的多 SKU 目录:核心态势 能力(CSPM)还要为工作负载保护(CWPP)、身份管理(CIEM)或云检测与响应(CDR)购买昂贵增购模块。Upwind 用全包单 SKU 企业定价直接攻打这一摩擦,提供完整套件——包括运行时威胁检测和托管检测与响应(MDR)支持—— 不做功能分级,也不收意外增购费。但它仍面临实质性的运营和架构阻力。独立服务监控在滚动 90 天内记录了 9 次 服务降级和事件,受影响最大的是第三方集成和外部服务。Upwind 依赖 AWS、Azure、Google Cloud 的持续运行时 遥测摄取及云厂商 API 集成,任何上游伙伴中断或代理开销都会直接威胁运营可用性;云厂商和传统平台捆绑也持续 压低独立纯软件挑战者的价格。[CP012, CP013, CP014, CP015, CP016]

定价、包装与商业模式对比
厂商 / 解决方案包装模式许可依据增值模块费用MDR / 运营支持战略采购权衡
Upwind Security全包单 SKU 平台年度定制企业报价无额外模块费用专门监控协助定价可预测,但需要定制化销售沟通
Wiz多层级模块化 CNAPP工作负载 / 云资源消耗量分层增值模块结构由合作伙伴 / MSSP 驱动溢价定价,模块扩张时成本随之上升
Palo Alto Networks多产品积分 / 模块目录消耗积分或容量许可跨模块的增值复杂度高可提供 Unit 42 托管服务以高目录价为基础提供企业折扣捆绑
CrowdStrike按工作负载 / 按端点订阅节点 / 云实例数量云模块另收费用Falcon Complete 托管检测适合已有 Falcon 端点客户
开源替代方案免费 / Apache 许可自托管基础设施无(自由软件)自主管理的内部工程软件许可成本为零,但内部工程维护负担很高

商业模式汇总自供应商访谈、高管声明和第三方定价研究,截至 2026 年 5 月。

[CP012, CP013, CP014, CP016]

3.4 展示

Chapter 04

04财务

4.1 收入模式、定价机制与商业分销

Upwind Security 采用云原生软件订阅模式,核心是云原生应用保护平台(CNAPP)和运行时威胁检测。公司主要通过 年度订阅合同将企业云环境变现,价格随受保护工作负载量、容器规模、虚拟机实例数和活跃 Kubernetes 节点数变化。 企业客户既可直接采购,也可通过主要云厂商市场采购,包括列为可交易方案的 AWS Marketplace。公开采购数据和客户 采购评价显示,Upwind 采用定制报价,而非固定自助套餐;潜在买方须先向销售提交基础设施规模需求,才能获得定制 年度合同金额。客户部署记录表明,采购 Upwind 有助于整合重复监控工具,替代独立的态势管理和工作负载告警工具。 但目录价、折扣矩阵、工作负载计量档位和专业服务收入贡献均未公开,无法独立验证实际合同价格。[CI001, CI002, CI003, CI004]

收入来源与变现结构
收入来源商业机制计量单位当前状态收入质量尽调要求
CNAPP 核心平台订阅按年或多年签订的企业经常性软件许可受保护的云工作负载、VM 实例和 Kubernetes 节点商业化运营中;已部署于企业客户可预测性高;以年度经常性合同为基础索取签约 ARR 明细和合同期限分布
云市场交易超大规模云厂商市场采购(AWS Marketplace)企业定制私有报价和额度消耗承诺商业化运营中;已在 AWS Marketplace 上架并可交易质量高;直接对接企业云支出承诺核实市场交易与直销合同的组合,以及渠道抽成率
运行时 AI 安全模块面向 AI 运行时工作负载和 MCP 服务器的平台附加能力活跃的 AI 应用端点和模型运行时环境已商业化推出;集成进核心运行时平台扩张潜力高;正在形成的企业支出类别评估独立附加率和增量 ARR 贡献
专业服务与客户支持部署上线、企业架构和高级 SLA 支持固定上线费用或高级支持层级附加费已启用;提供控制台内 24/7 聊天和指定 Slack 频道利润率较低;非经常性收入或服务交付转付审核专业服务收入占比及其对毛利率的影响

变现来源取自官方平台能力、AWS Marketplace 上架信息和经核实的客户采购披露;具体 SKU 定价仍按客户定制。

[CI001, CI002, CI003, CI004]
定价与商业合同框架
合同组成定价模式 / 结构标价与实际价格透明度已知条款与折扣商业来源
核心工作负载保护按工作负载层级计价的年度订阅未公开标价;完成范围界定后提供定制销售报价根据工作负载总量承诺给予企业折扣AWS Marketplace 上架信息和经核实的客户部署评价
平台上线与设置自助部署或销售协助部署设置成本打包进年度合同报价经核实买家称客户支持响应 SLA 不到两分钟经核实 AWS 用户的客户评价
云市场定制报价通过 AWS Marketplace 提供定制私有报价(CPPO)按企业账户逐一协商定制价格允许企业从既有 AWS EDP 承诺中消耗额度AWS Marketplace prodview-ff3am62vjukrw
多云与企业机群范围企业级多账户监控未披露的汇总许可层级无需按账户加收费用,即可全局查看异构云账户经核实的客户评价和官方新闻稿更新

公开渠道未提供标价;实际合同取决于企业定制范围和超大规模云厂商承诺额度的消耗。

[CI001, CI002, CI003]
FI001: Upwind 企业收入与毛利率桥接

结构化流程图示意客户基础设施部署如何转化为签约订阅收入和毛利。

节点 / 连接节点 / 起点终点说明
节点 1 企业工作负载:Kubernetes 集群、主机与云账户 [cloud_deployment]
节点 2 eBPF 运行时遥测:本地系统调用拦截与过滤 [ebpf_sensors]
节点 3 采购渠道:直销或 AWS Marketplace CPPO [procurement_channel]
节点 4 签约 ARR:年度订阅许可($50M-$60M 运行率) [contracted_arr]
节点 5 COGS:中心云计算、数据摄取与模型推理 [cogs_infrastructure]
节点 6 毛利:未披露的 SaaS 贡献利润率 [net_gross_profit]
连接 1 企业工作负载:Kubernetes 集群、主机与云账户 [cloud_deployment]eBPF 运行时遥测:本地系统调用拦截与过滤 [ebpf_sensors]
连接 2 eBPF 运行时遥测:本地系统调用拦截与过滤 [ebpf_sensors]采购渠道:直销或 AWS Marketplace CPPO [procurement_channel]
连接 3 采购渠道:直销或 AWS Marketplace CPPO [procurement_channel]签约 ARR:年度订阅许可($50M-$60M 运行率) [contracted_arr]
连接 4 签约 ARR:年度订阅许可($50M-$60M 运行率) [contracted_arr]COGS:中心云计算、数据摄取与模型推理 [cogs_infrastructure]
连接 5 COGS:中心云计算、数据摄取与模型推理 [cogs_infrastructure]毛利:未披露的 SaaS 贡献利润率 [net_gross_profit]

流程图示意架构层面的变现机制;具体美元利润率因公司为非公开企业而未披露。

[CI001, CI003, CI005, CI006, CI011]

4.2 成本结构驱动、交付成本与私有财务指标缺口

Upwind 的成本结构主要由两项运营支出决定:内核级遥测处理基础设施,以及企业市场进入开销。公司把轻量 eBPF 传感器直接部署到客户 Kubernetes 环境,拦截系统调用和网络套接字通信,因此初始遥测过滤和降噪在客户主机边界 内完成。这能缓解传统无代理快照平台常见的云出口和摄取带宽成本压力。但 Upwind 仍在各云厂商维护集中式多租户 云基础设施,用于关联跨工作负载运行时信号、管理全局配置图,并托管 AI 运行时调查模型。公开资料未披露 COGS、 毛利率、获客成本(CAC)或净收入留存(NRR)。第三方监控显示核心服务过去 90 天可用性为 99.95%,但缺乏经审计 的单位经济数据,无法判断毛利率是否达到成熟企业基础设施软件常见的 75% 至 80%。[CI005, CI006, CI007, CI008]

单位经济模型与投资判断核验状态
指标 / 财务维度已披露 / 估算值披露可信度战略重要性尽调信息要求
年度经常性收入(ARR)$50M-$60M(预计为 2026 年中);目标是在 2026 年底达到 $100M中(第三方分析师援引知情人士报道)以 $3.8B 估值为基准的基础收入规模提供经审计的 ARR 台账、月度经常性收入和订单额
同比收入增长900% 同比(2026 年 1 月 Series B 报道)高(公司在 Series B 官方公告中自称)显示企业需求增长速度很快核对绝对收入基数及当前增速放缓轨迹
毛利率null低(未披露的非公开数据)决定长期经营杠杆和云计算效率索取包括 COGS 在内的 GAAP 和 non-GAAP 毛利率拆分
净收入留存率(NRR)null低(未披露的非公开数据)衡量扩张的持续性和存量账户的复合增长检查过去 12 个月的 cohort 留存率和流失率
客户获客成本(CAC)回收期null低(未披露的非公开数据)反映企业直销和渠道 GTM 的销售效率分析各企业层级的全成本 CAC 回收期
平台运行可用性99.95%(过去 90 天)高(独立第三方正常运行时间监测记录)确保符合 SLA,避免触发合同服务罚款返还审阅历史 SLA 正常运行时间报告和客户故障抵扣记录

null 表示公司的专有非公开指标,需要在机构投资判断过程中通过正式保密协议披露。

[CI005, CI006, CI007, CI008, CI011]

4.3 资本充足性、现金续航与企业投资判断障碍

Upwind 的资产负债表和未来资本充足性由大量风险资本支撑。继 2026 年 1 月 Bessemer Venture Partners 领投、 Salesforce Ventures 参与的 $250 million B 轮之后,公司于 2026 年 9 月再融资 $300 million,由 Bessemer Venture Partners 与 TCV 共同领投,估值为 $3.8 billion。自 2022 年成立以来,五轮股权融资使累计融资达到 $680 million 至 $728 million。第三方财务报道显示,Upwind 的 ARR 从 2025 年底不足 $20 million 增至 2026 年中预估的 $50 million 至 $60 million,管理层目标是 2026 年底达到 $100 million。尽管流动性充足、表面增长很快, 未来现金消耗、现金续航和股权结构表中的清算优先权仍属机密。机构投资判断的关键障碍是:当前 $3.8 billion 估值对应超过 60x 历史收入运行率的激进倍数;若增长放缓或企业续约率偏离内部预测,估值将高度脆弱。[CI009, CI010, CI011, CI012, CI013, CI014]

4.4 展示

Chapter 05

05产品与技术

5.1 运行时驱动的 CNAPP 与客户安全工作流

Upwind Security 提供统一的云安全平台,核心是运行时驱动的安全:从传统静态态势扫描和磁盘快照,转向实时执行监控。 现代企业 DevSecOps 和安全运营团队被传统云安全态势管理(CSPM)工具制造的告警疲劳拖垮;这些工具基于理论漏洞或 配置错误生成数千条严重告警,却不验证工作负载是否可达或确实执行。Upwind 把云安全态势管理、运行时上下文和实时 防护结合起来,让安全团队准确排出真实攻击路径的优先级,并压制休眠或不可达软件包的告警。 平台通过集中式 Management Console 使用,统一管理企业安全工作流,覆盖 Inventory、Configurations、Attack Surface、Vulnerabilities、Threats、Code、Identities、API Security、Data Security、Feed 和 AI workloads。 开始使用时,客户需连接 AWS、Azure、Google Cloud Platform 账户,把 Upwind 传感器部署到 Kubernetes 集群和 主机环境,并配置数据源及向现有 DevSecOps、SIEM 流水线转发事件。Upwind 在 Management Console 内提供全天候 在线聊天支持,也提供邮件支持和共享客户 Slack 频道,让安全工程师在部署和调查事件时直接与支持团队协作。[CE001, CE002, CE003, CE004, CE005]

产品模块与能力矩阵
模块主要用户技术成熟度架构差异化尽调缺口 / 局限
运行时云工作负载保护(CWPP / CDR)SecOps 与 SOC 工程师生产环境 / 高借助 eBPF 在内核层拦截系统调用,做到亚秒级自动阻断并以 SIGKILL 隔离需要在工作节点上取得特权 DaemonSet 访问权限,给受限集群带来部署阻力
上下文感知的漏洞优先级排序安全工程师与 AppSec生产环境 / 高对未映射到活跃进程内存或已与网络入口隔离的软件包,抑制其 CVE 告警效果取决于传感器覆盖范围;未插桩的工作负载只能退回静态仓库扫描
云安全态势管理(CSPM)云安全与合规团队生产环境 / 成熟持续摄取多云 API,并与实时运行时流量和身份遥测数据关联如果云 IAM 凭证过期,复杂多云环境仍会产生配置漂移
API 与 L7 应用检测和响应(ADR)AppSec 与平台团队生产环境 / 中等无需 sidecar 或 TLS 终止代理,即可在内核套接字层检查未加密的 L7 gRPC/HTTP 载荷专有协议和定制二进制序列化格式需要专门开发解析器
身份与权限分析(CIEM)身份与云架构师生产环境 / 中等将有效 IAM 权限与观测到的运行时条件键及请求上下文关联自动生成最小权限策略需要大量预发布测试,以免破坏生产 API
AI 安全与 MicroVM 工作负载监控AI 平台与 SecOps 团队新兴 / 主动研发监控自主 AI 代理的运行时行为、MicroVM 隔离,以及流入 Snowflake/Bedrock 的数据管道自主代理的新型攻击模式缺少标准化基准评估套件

模块状态和差异化信息取自 Upwind 官方技术文档及独立架构评审。

[CE001, CE002, CE003, CE006, CE007, CE014]
工作流与运营用例映射
运营任务传统做法Upwind 方案可量化的工程收益技术局限
关键漏洞分诊定期镜像扫描会把磁盘上所有软件包的 CVE 都标成关键追踪共享对象(.so)文件是否已加载进程内存据报无关 CVE 修复工单减少 60%无法为客户集群之外的第三方托管 SaaS 依赖漏洞排序
活跃容器逃逸拦截特权提升后依靠主机 auditd 发出日志告警eBPF 钩子实时捕获异常的 execve、nsenter 或 ptrace 调用在主机持久化建立前,以微秒级速度终止执行自动阻断需要很高的基线置信度,以免意外中断服务
微服务东西向网络可见性部署笨重的 Envoy/Istio sidecar 检查流量内核级套接字追踪捕获 L7 载荷并构建流量拓扑检查 mTLS 服务网格流量的同时,消除 sidecar 资源开销使用旧版内核的非标准 Linux 发行版无法运行现代 eBPF 探针
云审计与态势认证每季度手动将云控制台截图导出到电子表格Automated Configurations 引擎持续将控制措施映射到各类框架通过集中管理控制台持续收集合规证据正式鉴证报告仍需外部 SOC 2 / ISO 27001 审计师核验

运营指标和工作流步骤汇总自已发布的技术分析及 Upwind 文档。

[CE001, CE003, CE007, CE009, CE012]

5.2 内核级架构、eBPF 遥测与跨平台工程

Upwind 的技术底座是 Extended Berkeley Packet Filter(eBPF),以轻量守护进程传感器部署,通常作为 Kubernetes DaemonSet 分布在各主机节点。把沙箱程序直接挂到 Linux 内核 tracepoint 和 kprobe 上,Upwind 无需加载不稳定的 out-of-tree 内核模块或运行沉重的用户态监控代理,就能细致观察系统执行。传感器在底层拦截 execve、connect、 accept4 和 openat 等关键系统调用,让运行时上下文引擎实时检查进程创建、内存映射和网络套接字通信,主机开销 极低(通常 CPU 占用低于 1%)。 除 Linux 容器环境外,Upwind 也在扩展传感器架构,支持 Windows 操作系统和跨平台企业环境。工程团队使用系统编程 语言(C、C++、C#)、Windows Kernel Drivers 和 WMI 安全框架构建原生 Windows 传感器,在异构云环境中提供一致 的网络监控、进程跟踪和文件完整性监控。后端平台服务使用 Go,配合关系型数据库(PostgreSQL、MySQL)、gRPC 通信和分布式消息系统,支持高并发事件摄取、幂等处理与自动重试。 在网络和应用层,Upwind 通过挂接内核套接字函数(如 tcp_sendmsg),在传输加密前或解密后检查 HTTP 和 gRPC 请求载荷,为微服务和加密 Service Mesh(如 Istio mTLS)提供 Layer 7 可见性。原始内核遥测会通过内存中的 Kubernetes 元数据查找表即时丰富,把进程 ID(PID)绑定到 pod 名称、命名空间、服务账户和部署标签。平台随后 根据观测到的 TCP、UDP 流构建动态运行时拓扑图,而不是静态基础设施即代码清单,建立行为基线,并区分活跃的外部 攻击面与仅供内部通信的通道。[CE006, CE007, CE008, CE009, CE010, CE011]

技术与运营架构拆解
架构层核心组件主要依赖运营风险 / 尽调核查
内核遥测eBPF 传感器探针(tracepoint、kprobe、套接字过滤器)现代 Linux 内核(支持 eBPF JIT 编译器)旧版 Enterprise Linux 发行版(CentOS/RHEL)之间的内核版本兼容性
主机端点扩展跨平台传感器(Windows 内核驱动与 WMI 模块)Windows OS API、systemd / launchd 守护进程非 Linux 企业主机上的驱动签名、内核稳定性和内存占用
上下文增强运行时上下文引擎与 Kubernetes 元数据映射Kubernetes API Server 与容器运行时接口(CRI)大型集群扩容事件期间的 API 限流或凭证过期
后端摄取分布式 Go 微服务与事件管道PostgreSQL、MySQL、持久化存储、gRPC海量多集群遥测突发时的摄取吞吐和数据库索引
风险关联基于图的风险引擎与攻击路径分析器云服务商 IAM 与网络 API(AWS、Azure、GCP)云资源高频动态变化期间的图计算延迟
威胁情报AI 安全实验室与行为异常模型专有行为基线与威胁研究工作负载部署重大且未公告的架构更新时,误报风险上升

架构组件识别自系统工程披露、职位说明和技术白皮书。

[CE006, CE007, CE008, CE010, CE011, CE015]
FE001: Upwind 运行时优先云安全架构

分层架构展示从主机内核遥测、上下文丰富到高管安全工作流的转变。

高管工作流与安全运营
统一界面覆盖漏洞、威胁、API 安全、代码和资产清单,并支持事件响应协作
模块
  • 统一管理控制台
  • DevSecOps 与告警集成
态势发现与治理
无代理多云 API 摄取覆盖 AWS、Azure 和 GCP,追踪配置基线漂移和审计框架
模块
  • 云安全态势管理
  • 合规与基础设施即代码扫描
风险分析与异常检测
动态计算攻击路径,并以行为机器学习基线关联配置态势与实时执行
模块
  • 基于图的风险分析
  • 行为 AI 威胁模型
上下文丰富与拓扑
将原始内核 PID 执行数据绑定到 Kubernetes pod、命名空间和云 IAM 身份,同时重建实时 L4/L7 流
模块
  • 运行时上下文引擎
  • 动态拓扑引擎
应用与身份精确性
深入分析第 7 层 gRPC/HTTP 套接字载荷并评估 IAM 条件键,追踪实际资源数据流
模块
  • API 安全与 ADR
  • 身份与权限分析
内核遥测与主机探针
钩取 execve、connect 和 socket 函数的内核跟踪点,CPU 开销低于 1%,并配合跨平台 Windows 传感器
模块
  • Linux eBPF 传感器
  • 跨平台 Windows 传感器

逻辑架构层根据已发布的平台技术文档和工程规格分类。

[CE001, CE003, CE006, CE007, CE008, CE010]

5.3 竞争护城河、信任控制与技术依赖风险

Upwind 与 Wiz、Orca Security 等第一代 CNAPP 巨头及 Sweet Security 等运行时竞争者的差异,在于它执行自动威胁 阻断和执行事实,而不只依赖定期 API 轮询。检测到异常 kill chain 或容器逃逸尝试时——例如非特权 Web 容器调用 nsenter 或 setns,或通过 /proc/self/exe 覆写主机 runc 二进制——运行时引擎可自动触发遏制策略,执行内核 SIGKILL 终止,或隔离已被攻陷的 Kubernetes 节点,在微秒级阻止横向移动。 企业信任与保障控制以 Upwind 官方 Trust Center(由 SafeBase 提供支持)为锚点,向经审核的客户和潜在客户直接 提供合规认证、安全文档和态势更新。Upwind 的安全研究团队还通过 Upwind Feed 发布威胁情报和云研究,揭示包括 未公开 AWS IAM 条件键、AWS Organization 管理账户暴露路径、AWS Bedrock AgentCore microVM 隔离边界和供应链 威胁在内的新型云攻击技术。 但技术尽调也显示出明显的架构和运营取舍。部署特权 eBPF DaemonSet 或 Windows 内核驱动,会让偏好无代理快照 扫描的保守型平台工程团队产生阻力。虽然 Upwind 核心服务过去 90 天的运营可用性为 99.95%,第三方状态跟踪显示 曾发生间歇性降级,最常影响第三方集成流水线和出站事件分发。买方还应注意,刚起步的 CDR 类别尚无公开的独立 第三方 MITRE ATT&CK 基准审计,企业评估者必须通过内部生产环境概念验证,直接验证运行时传感器开销和检测效果。[CE012, CE013, CE014, CE015, CE016]

5.4 展示

Chapter 06

06客户

6.1 客户细分与理想客户画像

Upwind 以运行时为先的云原生应用保护平台(CNAPP)直接面向在 Kubernetes、容器化服务和无服务器架构上运行复杂 现代云基础设施的企业。公司主要面向 B2B 企业技术买方,尤其是首席信息安全官(CISO)、首席安全官(CSO)以及 专职产品安全和 SecOps 工程团队。快速采用微服务和 agentic AI 系统的企业环境是 Upwind 的核心目标市场。公开 记录显示,主要客户垂直领域包括高增长科技公司、数字原生消费平台和全球工业集团。对这些组织而言,首要采购 驱动是急于验证实时运行时可利用性和执行路径,摆脱静态安全告警噪声,而不是继续依赖过时的周期性配置快照。[CU001, CU002, CU003, CU004, CU005]

客户分群表
分群买方 / 用户 / 付款方主要用例目标规模收入 / 战略价值尽调缺口
企业科技与 AI SaaS产品安全副总裁 / CISO / SecOps运行时容器与 API 威胁检测、CI/CD 合规从高速增长到超大市值的 SaaS(如 Sprinklr、Snowflake)核心增长引擎;ACV 扩张潜力高具体合同 ARR 和多模块附加率未公开
全球综合性企业与工业企业 CISO / 云安全架构师多云基础设施可见性、混合云 CNAPP财富 500 强跨国企业(如 Siemens)标杆客户验证;销售周期长,多年期 ACV 规模可观部署范围及从试点转入生产的时间线未知
数字消费与金融科技平台安全工程负责人 / 基础设施负责人实时云威胁缓解、监管数据合规高交易量平台(如 NuBank、Roku、Nextdoor)需要运行时规模扩展能力的高数据吞吐账户工作负载覆盖比例和对流失的敏感度尚未核实

分群依据为已披露客户和 Upwind 的产品定位;客户数量和收入占比属于非公开信息。

[CU001, CU002, CU004, CU011, CU014]

6.2 采用轨迹与规模证据

继 2026 年 1 月 $250 million B 轮及后续 $300 million 融资后,Upwind 的商业势头在 2026 年显著加速,估值从 $1.5 billion 升至 $3.8 billion。公司在官方 newsroom 披露活跃客户超过 150 家,外部风投跟踪则记录超过 200 家 企业客户,同时收入同比增长 900%。管理层称,客户数在最近几个运营周期翻倍。漏斗顶端的许多增速来自快速扩张的渠道策略:超过 100 家托管服务商(MSP)、增值经销商(VAR)和云市场贡献了大多数大客户收购。虽然第三方交易 摘要充分证明客户数增长,但精确的活跃部署使用率、工作负载节点数和每客户平均 ARR 仍属机密。[CU006, CU007, CU008, CU009, CU010]

客户增长 / 采用轨迹表
指标数值日期来源可信度含义缺失分母
活跃企业客户150+ 客户2026-06-01Upwind 官方新闻室高已在各云计算领域形成可观的企业市场覆盖无法获得按层级拆分的合同总价值和 ARR
扩大的企业客户基础200+ 企业客户2026-09-01风投可比公司与融资台账中反映 2026 年后期仍在持续的扩张速度活跃计费账户与免费试用或 POC 部署的区分
同比收入增长900% 同比2026-01-26Business Wire / 新闻稿高Series B 后商业收入势头异常强劲起始收入基数未披露
客户基础扩张客户基础翻倍2026-01-26Multiples.vc 私有可比公司中通过渠道合作伙伴获取企业客户的速度快速提升具体历史客户数未发布

增长轨迹数据汇总自公司公告和风险投资可比公司跟踪;收入跑速未披露。

[CU006, CU007, CU008, CU009, CU010]

6.3 具名客户证明与生产部署

公开客户验证覆盖多家知名全球企业,证明产品适用于不同运营规模的生产环境。公开记录的一项代表性生产部署来自 企业 AI 原生客户体验平台 Sprinklr。Sprinklr 的产品安全团队在多云环境部署 Upwind 运行时传感器架构,用于监控 应用层威胁、获得实时 API 可见性,并把割裂的安全信号关联成上下文威胁调查。财务和企业技术数据库还记录了跨国 工业制造商 Siemens、互联健身平台 Peloton、流媒体服务商 Roku、网页发布平台 Wix、社区网络 Nextdoor 和数字 银行先驱 NuBank 的生产采用。战略顾问任命,尤其是 Facebook、Uber 和 Cloudflare 前 CSO Joe Sullivan,也为企业 CISO 买方提供了高知名度验证。不过,除 Sprinklr 强调的定性工作流收益外,公开客户引荐很少提供经审计的运营指标, 例如量化的平均修复时间(MTTR)下降或误报率下降。[CU001, CU011, CU012, CU013, CU014, CU015]

已点名客户验证表
客户分群部署 / 用例生产环境还是试点结果 / 证据局限
SprinklrAI 原生客户体验 SaaS运行时容器、API 和云应用威胁检测生产环境威胁脉络更清晰,在复杂环境中具备运行时可见性MTTR 或成本下降的量化指标未披露
Siemens全球工业与基础设施多云企业基础设施安全与可见性生产环境商业合作伙伴交易摘要提及已确认的企业采用具体部门或业务单元的部署广度未知
Peloton数字健身与消费科技云工作负载保护和容器运行时安全生产环境行业融资摘要记录了企业客户采用合同期限、续约状态和支出层级尚未核实
NuBank数字银行与金融科技实时云威胁检测和监管合规生产环境已验证其在关键金融云基础设施中的采用具体区域基础设施覆盖和工作负载范围属于非公开信息

覆盖范围是已公开确认企业客户的代表性样本;完整客户名单属于非公开信息。

[CU001, CU011, CU012, CU013, CU014]

6.4 留存、耐久性与集中度动态

Upwind 的长期商业耐久性取决于 land-and-expand 机制和运行时基础设施可靠性。公司采用 API-first,先靠运行时可见性 和威胁检测实现企业初始采用,再扩展到可观测性、态势管理和自主 agentic SecOps 修复模块。“The Lineup”等战略 技术联盟项目,以及通过 Model Context Protocol(MCP)与 Cisco Cloud Control 的集成,把 Upwind 运行时遥测嵌入 既有分析师工作流,推动企业扩张。尽管落地速度很快,Upwind 未公开净收入留存(NRR)、毛收入留存(GRR)、cohort 续约率或平均合同期限。运营可靠性也是重要耐久因素:Statusfield 的第三方监控在截至 2026 年 9 月的 90 天内 记录 9 次服务事件,包括 3 次重大中断和 5 次性能降级,主要影响第三方集成;总体 uptime 可用性为 99.95%。[CU004, CU014, CU015, CU016]

FU001: 客户采用与扩展旅程图

展示企业从运行时评估到生态集成,再到自动化智能体 SecOps 扩展的五阶段旅程。

旅程阶段综合自已发布的客户架构、案例研究工作流和 Technology Alliances 项目结构。

[CU002, CU004, CU011, CU014, CU015]

6.5 展示

Chapter 07

07风险

7.1 估值、资本扩张与竞争压力

Upwind 的估值轨迹体现出商业预期的非凡跃升。公司以 $3.8 billion 估值完成 $300 million 融资,较 2026 年 1 月 $250 million B 轮后、仅八个月前的估值高出一倍以上。Google 以 $32 billion 收购 Wiz 后,顶级独立云原生应用 保护平台退出独立市场,市场重新定位也推动了这次激进重估。但要达到预计 $100 million ARR 运行速率,必须完美 执行市场进入计划;在宏观环境波动时,企业支出收缩、毛利率稀释或高增长网络安全同行估值倍数压缩,都可能造成 严重脆弱性。[CR001, CR002, CR003, CR004]

监管 / 法律风险登记表
规则 / 义务管辖区状态可能性严重性缓解措施剩余暴露尽调路径
跨境研发遥测与数据出口管制美国 / 欧盟 / 以色列持续监测两个美国和以色列工程中心的合规情况中高维持区域数据本地化,并隔离组织账户边界国际监控和隐私制度不断变化,带来中等监管负担审计跨境遥测路由、云 API 元数据留存政策以及 SOC2/ISO 审计报告
云权限与最小权限 IAM 审查美国联邦与商业已发表的 AWS IAM 未公开条件键及管理账户滥用研究低高只读快照扫描结合最低限度的运行时传感器权限管理账户访问令牌配置错误时,第三方客户可能承担责任审查客户部署权限模板、IAM 策略和云端接入指南
反垄断与超大规模云生态捆绑全球Google 收购 Wiz、云安全厂商整合后仍保持独立定位中中支持 AWS、Azure 和 Google Cloud 的中立多云能力,并开展 ISV 合作若超大规模云厂商限制运行时 API 或捆绑原生 CSPM 能力,生态空间可能被挤压查阅云市场分销合同和 ISV 联合销售协议

风险评估样本汇总自公司披露、安全研究信息流和财务报告。

[CR003, CR004, CR010, CR012]

7.2 运营可靠性、遥测脆弱性与架构依赖

Upwind 的核心技术承诺,是把区域无代理快照发现与活跃计算传感器、eBPF 跟踪器结合起来,观察实时进程活动、网络 威胁和 L7 应用流量。这种架构深度带来实质运营暴露:Statusfield 监控数据显示,90 天内发生 9 次服务事件,第三方 服务和集成是降级状态下最主要的故障点。虽然 Upwind 总体可用性为 99.95%,事件解决时间中位数为 1 小时 34 分钟, 但外部集成的任何降级都会损害分布式客户工作负载的实时事件关联、告警路由和现场响应。[CR005, CR006, CR007, CR008, CR009]

运营 / 质量 / 安全风险登记表
故障模式可能性严重性缓解措施成熟度剩余暴露未解决缺口
第三方集成中断与遥测管道停滞中高成熟多云客户环境中的事件关联偶发延迟上游云 API 长时间降级期间的遥测缓冲时长和故障切换保障
内核级传感器开销与 eBPF 兼容性回退低高发展中敏感生产计算集群中可能出现性能摩擦,客户也可能犹豫是否部署代理跨旧版 Linux 内核和多云 Kubernetes 发行版的基准统计
通过特权发现角色导致管理账户失陷低极高成熟若跨账户扫描角色的 assume-role 凭证泄露,影响范围将很大对 KMS 密钥边界、external ID 强制执行和会话令牌轮换进行形式化验证
高速资本投入与估值倍数压缩中高发展中若 ARR 目标落后于激进预期,估值可能在下轮融资中被重置经审计的续约留存率、获客成本和毛利率状况

故障模式排名源自 Statusfield 90 天事件数据、文档架构和风险投资融资披露。

[CR002, CR006, CR007, CR008, CR009, CR010]
FR001: 风险热力图

用严重性对比可能性的矩阵,映射主要运营、财务和架构风险类别。

概率与严重性分类综合了事件指标、融资条款和架构要求。

[CR002, CR006, CR007, CR010, CR011]

7.3 平台生态依赖与供应链攻击路径

Upwind 的覆盖模式要求在 root 或管理账户层级进行特权接入,以编排多云映射和工作负载检查,这使凭据被攻陷成为 高价值运营目标。同时,Upwind 对恶意 npm 包分发的安全研究表明,常用开发者工具的供应链被攻陷后,可以利用安装 时钩子窃取 AWS 凭据和云令牌。尽管 Upwind 已与 AWS、Microsoft Azure、NVIDIA 等云厂商扩大战略联盟,其运营杠杆 仍紧密依赖云厂商 API、未公开的 IAM 引擎行为以及全球部署中的伙伴生态。[CR010, CR011, CR012, CR013, CR014]

合作伙伴 / 依赖风险登记表
依赖项交易对手方角色集中度失效情景严重性缓解措施剩余暴露
云服务提供商基础设施Amazon Web Services (AWS)计算、存储和组织管理扫描的主要目标高API 限流、未公开 IAM 条件键变化或原生 CSPM 功能捆绑高支持 Azure 和 Google Cloud 的多云架构,以及 AWS Security Competency运营上高度依赖 AWS 市场渠道和联合销售计划
软件供应链生态开源注册表(npm、GitHub)受监测客户应用和容器构建所依赖的运行时生态极高恶意上游依赖利用安装时生命周期钩子实施感染高内部安全研究识别受感染软件包,并进行实时运行时检测无代理快照扫描若没有主动传感器,无法检测安装时的实时执行
硬件与 AI 基础设施伙伴NVIDIA面向 AI 工作负载安全和 GPU 环境可见性的战略技术联盟中NVIDIA 专有遥测标准变化或竞争性安全集成中围绕 AI 安全能力和工作负载隔离开展联合工程协同落地依赖企业对本地和云端 AI 集群的采用曲线
领投成长股权投资者Bessemer Venture Partners & Salesforce Ventures主导 Series B 和 2026 年融资轮的主要资本提供方高后续后期或 IPO 前轮次中可能出现联合投资者疲劳或治理摩擦中股权结构表较为分散,包括 Craft Ventures、Greylock、TCV 和机构型天使投资者估值门槛升高,需要持续保持三位数增长速度

评估超大规模云厂商、开源软件包注册表和金融支持方带来的外部依赖。

[CR001, CR011, CR012, CR013, CR014]

7.4 展示

Chapter 08

08估值

8.1 融资背景与价格敏感型决策

独立资料称,Upwind 于 2026 年 9 月以 $3.8 billion 估值融资 $300 million;约八个月前,据报 $250 million B 轮 估值为 $1.5 billion。公司 1 月公告称 B 轮使累计融资达到 $430 million;后续融资后,当前汇总数据在 $700 million 和约 $730 million 之间分歧明显,因此融资额应视为区间,而不是可用现金。私有市场快速重估是投资判断的核心问题。 包括 Bessemer 在内的现有投资者同时出现在 1 月和 9 月轮次中,证明赞助方仍在支持,但不能独立证明公允价值。按 据报 $3.8 billion 估值,建议为 research-more,信心为中等,风险为高,估值判断偏贵,因为公开记录没有披露评估 价格所需的分母。[CV001, CV002, CV003, CV006, CV013, CV014, CV015]

建议摘要
维度评估证据基础决策含义
建议research-more据报道增长势头强劲,但 ARR、盈利能力和收入倍数均未披露仅凭公开证据,不应评估新投资额度
信心medium融资信息有多来源报道;核心运营分母仍属非公开信息改变建议前,必须先完成一手私人尽调
风险评级high非公开市场估值快速重估、财务披露不完整,且有不利同业先例严格执行入场和下行保护纪律
估值立场stretched据报道的 $3.8B 估值无法与已披露经常性收入对应寻求更低价格,或取得足以支撑该估值的经验证经济数据
入场纪律conditional最新轮次的优先权、参与权和二级交易条款尚未公开入场前审查完全摊薄股权结构表和融资文件

评估仅使用截至 2026 年 10 月留存的公开证据;各来源的融资总额不同,且没有任何一行把已募资金视为可用现金。

[CV001, CV005, CV006, CV012, CV014, CV015, CV016]
FV001: 推荐逻辑

这条定性决策链将融资、运营信号,与评估本报告估值所需但尚未取得的证据分开。

节点 / 连接节点 / 起点终点说明
节点 1 $300M 融资 [financing-signal]独立资料称,2026 年 9 月完成了一轮估值 $3.8B 的融资。
节点 2 已报告的增长表现 [traction-signal]公司报告称,收入增长 900%,客户 logo 数增长 200%。
节点 3 产品动向 [product-signal]官方信息流显示,公司继续拓展云、AI、数据、身份和代码领域。
节点 4 缺失的财务分母 [financial-gap]ARR、留存率、利润率、盈利能力和 EV/收入均未披露。
节点 5 缺失的融资条款 [terms-gap]优先权、参与权、老股转让和完全摊薄后持股条款均属非公开信息。
节点 6 继续研究 [decision]置信度中等、风险高;以本报告估值为准,估值立场偏激进。
连接 1 $300M 融资 [financing-signal]已报告的增长表现 [traction-signal]
连接 2 已报告的增长表现 [traction-signal]产品动向 [product-signal]
连接 3 产品动向 [product-signal]缺失的财务分母 [financial-gap]
连接 4 缺失的财务分母 [financial-gap]缺失的融资条款 [terms-gap]
连接 5 缺失的融资条款 [terms-gap]继续研究 [decision]

这条流程是定性的,不赋予权重、转化率、估值区间或概率。

[CV001, CV004, CV007, CV012, CV015, CV016]

8.2 正论、反论与可比证据

正面论据来自异常强劲的公司报告增长和可见的产品活动。Upwind 称,1 月融资前收入同比增长 900%、客户 logo 数 增长 200%;newsroom 列出超过 150 家客户和 300 多名员工,feed 显示数据、AI、身份和代码安全工作流仍在扩张。 这些指标支持产品相关性,但不能替代经审计的经常性收入、留存、利润率或现金消耗数据。反论并不是需求不存在,而是 快速增长的私有估值可能脱离耐久经济性。Value Add VC 的同行比较指出,Lacework 从 $8.3 billion 私有估值跌至 $152.3 million 收购价,说明表面私有估值可能大幅压缩。Upwind 据报的服务事件提供运营尽调信号;同时, Statusfield 的方法还提醒,未记录状态的时期会被计为可用。[CV004, CV007, CV008, CV009, CV010, CV011, CV012]

正面论点与反面论点
观察角度正面论据反面论据或不确定性哪些信息会改变判断
商业势头公司报告收入增长 900%、客户数量增长 200%绝对收入、ARR、留存率和利润率均未披露经审计的订阅收入和客户群留存率与增长说法一致
产品与市场官方信息流显示业务持续扩展至数据、AI、身份和代码发布活动不能证明变现、采用深度或竞争胜率客户层面的使用、续约和替换证据
规模证明官方新闻室列出 150+ 家客户和 300+ 名员工第三方资料中的客户和员工快照彼此不一致带日期的客户普查和核对后的员工人数表
可比退出结果云安全退出案例显示战略估值可能很高Lacework 据报道达到 $8.3B 峰值、最终以 $152.3M 出售,说明非公开市场估值可能严重压缩使用当前经审计指标搭建基于收入的估值桥

公司发布的增长和规模数字以说法呈现,而非独立验证;同业结果来自一份留存的二手分析。

[CV004, CV007, CV008, CV009, CV011, CV012]

8.3 乐观、基准与悲观投资判断

由于 EV/收入未披露,且没有来源提供当前 ARR、经常性毛利率、净留存、现金消耗或优先权条款,无法从指定公开 来源负责任地推导数值估值区间。乐观情景需要私有证据证明报告中的增长能转化为耐久订阅经济性,且 9 月价格为高于 入场价的退出留下可信路径。基准情景是运营继续进步,但公开信息不足以支撑 $3.8 billion 投资判断,因此应继续跟踪 公司,同时寻求更低入场价或更强信息权。悲观情景是收入质量、续约或利润率跟不上增长叙事,导致大幅减记或下轮融资。 这些是条件情景和概率信号,不是概率估计或隐含公允价值区间。[CV001, CV004, CV005, CV011, CV012, CV014, CV015]

乐观、基准与悲观情景
情景假设估值或回报逻辑概率信号下行触发因素
乐观经审计的经常性收入、留存率、利润率和客户证据验证所报告的增长当前 $3.8B 估值只有在有可信的高于入场价退出路径时才可纳入投资判断;没有公开数据区间可供支持独立验证的客户群数据和有利融资条款会强化该情景增长被证明集中度高、利润率低,或主要由促销驱动
基准产品采用继续推进,但财务和股东表证据仍属非公开公开证据无法支持可靠的数值区间;继续研究或寻求更低入场价与当前留存证据最一致下一轮融资前披露没有改善
悲观增长质量、续约或利润率不足以支撑非公开市场重估大幅减记或下轮融资;公开记录无法支持估值下限若融资条款更具保护性或严重事件持续,概率上升下轮融资、续约客户群疲弱,或高级优先权形成压力

情景是有条件的分析框架,不是预测;留存证据没有提供概率、ARR 估计、倍数、目标回报或公允价值区间的地方,不作臆测。

[CV001, CV004, CV005, CV010, CV011, CV012, CV014, CV016]

8.4 退出准备度、条款与论点失效触发器

公司拥有可信的机构投资者支持、连续创业者叙事、已点名的企业客户采用,以及活跃的产品路线图;但这些因素证明的是公司质量,而不是退出经济性。指定来源没有披露清算优先权、参与权、二级交易成分,也没有披露最新一轮的完全摊薄持股结构。来源也未将官方新闻中心披露的客户数和员工数与第三方画像估算对账。入场前,应取得经审计的 ARR 及收入确认口径、续约与扩张 cohort、毛利率与服务收入占比、烧钱速度与现金跑道、客户集中度、完全摊薄股权结构表 以及全部优先权条款。打破投资论点的触发因素包括下轮融资、增长或续约证据显著低于融资叙事、严重服务事故持续发生,或条款将过多下行保护转给高优先级投资者。要形成有依据的退出判断,必须补齐这些私有数据;仅凭公开证据,无法支持目标回报或退出区间。[CV004, CV008, CV009, CV010, CV012, CV016]

8.5 展品

免责声明

本报告仅总结留存的公开及第三方证据,不构成投资建议,也不能替代法律、财务或运营层面的确认性尽调。

证据索引

结论
编号陈述可信度来源
CO001 Upwind Security Ltd. is an enterprise cloud and AI security company founded in 2022 with headquarters in San Francisco and primary R&D in Tel Aviv. 高 SO004, SO006, SO008
CO002 Upwind combines agentless scanning with eBPF-powered runtime sensors to correlate cloud configuration posture with real-time process execution. 高 SO001, SO002
CO003 Upwind was founded by Amiram Shachar, Liran Polak, Lavi Ferdman, and Tal Zuri (Tal Zur). 中 SO004, SO006
CO004 Upwind's founding team previously founded cloud infrastructure optimization startup Spot.io, which was acquired by NetApp for $450 million in 2020. 高 SO003, SO004, SO005
CO005 In January 2026, Upwind raised $250 million in Series B financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $1.5 billion valuation, reaching $430 million in total primary funding. 高 SO004, SO005
CO006 Upwind reported 900% year-over-year revenue growth and 200% customer logo growth alongside its January 2026 Series B financing. 高 SO005, SO006
CO007 Upwind scaled its global workforce to more than 300 employees and serves over 200 enterprise customers, including Waste Management, Siemens, Peloton, Roku, and Nubank. 高 SO004, SO005, SO006
CO008 Investment database records in late 2026 report Upwind raising an additional $300 million venture round at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, bringing cumulative funding to $727M+. 中 SO004
CO009 Upwind's institutional investor syndicate includes Bessemer Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, Greylock, Craft Ventures, TCV, Alta Park, and Salesforce Ventures. 高 SO004, SO005
CO010 Upwind appointed Rinki Sethi, former Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter and security executive at Walmart and PayPal, as Chief Security Officer in June 2025. 中 SO006
CO011 Senior Vice President of Platform Dan Yahav oversees Upwind's cloud runtime and AI platform capabilities, driving customer incident response and platform alignment. 中 SO002
CO012 Salesforce Ventures provided strategic corporate venture funding to Upwind in early 2026, marking increased enterprise ecosystem validation. 高 SO005, SO006
CO013 Operational status monitoring tracked 9 service incident events over a 90-day window through October 2026, including 3 major outages and 5 degraded performance incidents primarily affecting third-party integrations. 中 SO009
CO014 In April 2025, Upwind acquired embedded cybersecurity startup Nyx Security to integrate application-level code anomaly detection directly into its runtime platform. 中 SO006
CO015 In June 2026, Upwind integrated its runtime security platform with Cisco Cloud Control via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to provide live runtime context within Cisco AI Canvas. 中 SO003
CO016 Upwind secured $27.4 million in Seed funding in September 2022, $50 million in Seed-1 funding in September 2023, and $100 million in Series A funding in December 2024 prior to its Series B. 中 SO004
CM001 The CNAPP market boundary encompasses the consolidation of CSPM, CWPP, CDR, CIEM, vulnerability management, and container security into unified cloud-native platforms. 高 SM002, SM003
CM002 Traditional cloud security tools rely on agentless, outside-in snapshot scanning, which creates high alert volumes without visibility into active runtime packages or live execution context. 高 SM001, SM008
CM003 Upwind combines lightweight eBPF sensors with agentless discovery to capture live runtime telemetry, network flows, and API interactions in production environments. 中 SM007, SM008
CM004 Upwind targets large, data-intensive enterprises with significant cloud infrastructure, including customers such as Siemens, Peloton, Roku, Wix, Nextdoor, and Nubank. 高 SM001, SM006
CM005 Frost & Sullivan projects the global CNAPP market to expand to $18.79 billion by 2029, reflecting an annual growth rate of approximately 28%. 中 SM006
CM006 The ISMG 2025 CNAPP Market Guide values current CNAPP spend between $3.4 billion and $10.6 billion, with long-term projections reaching $38 billion to $88 billion by the early 2030s under a 20% to 35% CAGR. 中 SM003
CM007 Gartner projects that by 2029, 40% of enterprises implementing zero trust within cloud service provider environments will depend on CNAPP solutions for visibility and control. 中 SM006
CM008 Analyst valuations of the CNAPP market diverge widely because conservative estimates isolate core workload licenses while high-end projections fold in adjacent AppSec, CIEM, and supply chain scanning. 中 SM003, SM006
CM009 Enterprise cloud security procurement involves multiple stakeholders, requiring engagement across CISOs, CTOs, senior security leaders, and DevOps or platform engineering teams. 中 SM007, SM008
CM010 Enterprise security teams face severe operational alert fatigue, and customers report up to a 98% reduction in alerts and 60% fewer irrelevant CVEs using runtime context. 中 SM006
CM011 Organizations migrating workloads into containers, microservices, and agentic AI architectures require runtime protection because ephemeral infrastructure cannot be comprehensively mapped from external snapshots alone. 高 SM001, SM003
CM012 Adoption of runtime security is constrained by customer reluctance to install software agents on production machines and security teams lacking authority to deploy in internal workloads. 中 SM001
CM013 Highly regulated industries including financial services and healthcare in European and US markets drive demand for continuous cloud compliance over periodic audits. 中 SM003
CM014 Upwind secured a $250 million Series B funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation in January 2026, followed by report tracking indicating an expanded valuation of $3.8 billion by September 2026. 高 SM001, SM002, SM006
CP001 Upwind Security consolidates CSPM, CWPP, CDR, vulnerability management, and API security into a single platform utilizing eBPF kernel monitoring and cloud telemetry. 高 SP001, SP004, SP006
CP002 Upwind claims its runtime-first correlation of kernel activity and build-time vulnerability data reduces actionable security alert noise by approximately 95%. 中 SP001
CP003 Market incumbents including Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security compete with broad enterprise platforms and endpoint-centric architectures. 中 SP001
CP004 Wiz competes as a primary CNAPP alternative emphasizing agentless cloud security posture management and configuration graph visualization. 中 SP001
CP005 Open-source alternatives in the cloud security category include tools such as Prowler, Snyk Cloud Security, and Steampipe Cloud Query. 中 SP003
CP006 Upwind was founded in 2022 by the core team behind Spot.io, which was previously acquired by NetApp for $450 million. 高 SP001, SP006
CP007 Upwind differentiates its detection engine by inspecting Linux kernel activity via eBPF sensors rather than relying exclusively on periodic snapshot scans. 中 SP001, SP004
CP008 Upwind protects serverless functions by continuously tracking multi-cloud functions, validating compliance against live execution, and blocking risky deployments. 中 SP007
CP009 Upwind automates serverless threat containment by terminating malicious processes and blocking propagation in real time. 中 SP007
CP010 Upwind research emphasizes deep identity context including undocumented AWS IAM condition keys and account management vulnerabilities. 中 SP005
CP011 Enterprise accounts adopting eBPF-based security solutions incur switching costs related to sensor deployment and kernel compatibility validation across fleets. 中 SP001, SP004
CP012 Upwind structures its commercial offering around a single-SKU model that includes all core capabilities at an entry-level market price point. 中 SP002
CP013 Legacy competitors typically charge additional premiums of 20 percent or more as customers scale and adopt extra modules. 中 SP002
CP014 Upwind requires custom enterprise pricing quotes and annual contract negotiations based on scope, seats, and deployment scale. 中 SP003
CP015 Independent service monitoring recorded 9 service incidents over 90 days for Upwind Security, with third-party integrations being the most impacted component. 中 SP008
CP016 Upwind conducts approximately 99.9 percent of its regional sales through channel partners and cloud marketplace providers. 中 SP002
CI001 Upwind distributes its Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform through direct sales and the AWS Marketplace, utilizing custom sales quotations tailored to enterprise workload requirements. 中 SI004
CI002 Enterprise customers deploy Upwind to automate vulnerability monitoring and consolidate redundant cloud security posture management tools. 中 SI004
CI003 Public list pricing, itemized discounting schedules, and standalone module metering tiers for Upwind are not publicly disclosed. 中 SI004
CI004 Upwind reported securing more than 150 enterprise customers and growing its customer logo base by 200% year-over-year in 2026. 高 SI005, SI007
CI005 Upwind utilizes eBPF-based runtime telemetry to filter and process system calls directly within customer host boundaries, mitigating raw network egress and centralized data ingestion costs. 中 SI001, SI005
CI006 Centralized infrastructure expenses for cross-workload correlation graphs and AI security model processing represent core components of Upwind's cost of goods sold. 中 SI001, SI008
CI007 Upwind does not publicly disclose its GAAP gross margin, net revenue retention rate, customer acquisition cost payback, or annual churn rates. 中 SI001, SI002
CI008 External reliability tracking records an operational service availability of 99.95% for Upwind over a trailing 90-day period with 9 recorded service degradation events. 中 SI006
CI009 Upwind raised a $250 million Series B financing round in January 2026 led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing cumulative funding to $430 million. 高 SI003, SI005
CI010 In September 2026, Upwind completed or pursued an additional $300 million funding round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and TCV at a $3.8 billion valuation. 中 SI001, SI002, SI003
CI011 Upwind's annual recurring revenue was reported below $20 million at year-end 2025 and estimated at $50 million to $60 million by mid-2026, with an internal target of $100 million ARR by year-end 2026. 中 SI002
CI012 Upwind's cumulative equity financing reached between $680 million and $728 million following its September 2026 capital injection. 中 SI001, SI002
CI013 Upwind's net burn rate, cash runway, and round-specific liquidation preferences remain confidential, leaving forward capital adequacy dependent on private verification. 中 SI001
CI014 At a $3.8 billion headline valuation against estimated mid-2026 ARR of $50M to $60M, Upwind's implied revenue multiple exceeds 60x, posing valuation vulnerability if revenue growth slows. 中 SI001, SI002
CE001 Upwind provides a runtime-first cloud security platform that unifies posture management with real-time threat protection to prioritize risks. 高 SE001, SE005
CE002 Getting started with Upwind requires connecting cloud provider accounts, installing Upwind sensors, and configuring third-party integration pipelines. 中 SE001
CE003 The Upwind platform console organizes cloud security operations across Inventory, Configurations, Attack Surface, Vulnerabilities, Threats, Code, Identities, API Security, Data Security, Feed, and AI. 中 SE001
CE004 Upwind provides customer support through 24/7 live console chat, dedicated email, and shared collaborative Slack channels. 中 SE001
CE005 Upwind pairs eBPF-powered sensors for real-time threat protection and API security with agentless cloud posture discovery. 中 SE003
CE006 Upwind uses eBPF technology to execute sandboxed programs in Linux kernel space, intercepting system calls without modifying kernel source code. 中 SE004, SE005
CE007 Upwind's eBPF probes intercept kernel system calls including execve, connect, accept4, and openat at nanosecond-to-microsecond latency with under 1% host CPU overhead. 中 SE004
CE008 Upwind engineers dedicated sensor components for Windows OS using C, C++, C#, Windows Kernel Drivers, and WMI frameworks. 中 SE003
CE009 Upwind inspects Layer 7 network traffic within encrypted service meshes by hooking kernel socket functions before encryption or after decryption. 中 SE004
CE010 Upwind enriches raw kernel process identifiers with Kubernetes metadata maps including Pod names, namespaces, service accounts, and labels in real time. 中 SE004
CE011 Upwind builds production backend services and cross-platform components in Go, utilizing PostgreSQL, MySQL, and distributed systems integrations. 中 SE006
CE012 Upwind's runtime engine can automatically interdict container escape attempts by sending kernel SIGKILL signals or cordoning the affected Kubernetes node. 中 SE004, SE005
CE013 Upwind maintains a centralized Trust Center powered by SafeBase to share compliance posture and security documentation with customers. 中 SE002
CE014 In 2026 Cloud Detection and Response evaluations, Upwind and Sweet Security compete as venture-backed eBPF runtime specialists against consolidated offerings like Fortinet FortiCNAPP. 中 SE007
CE015 Sweet Security and Upwind offer quote-based annual contracts scoped by workload count without published price lists, reflecting an enterprise sales-led procurement model. 中 SE007
CE016 Upwind maintained 99.95% availability over trailing 90-day tracking periods, experiencing occasional incident degradations primarily impacting third-party integration services. 中 SE008
CU001 Global enterprise technology customer Sprinklr deployed Upwind to monitor cloud, application, and API activity at runtime. 高 SU007, SU002
CU002 Upwind focuses on enterprise SecOps, CISO, and engineering buyers navigating cloud-native containers, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures. 中 SU002, SU004
CU003 Upwind positions its runtime security platform to detect real-time exploits across cloud workloads and data infrastructure such as Snowflake. 中 SU005, SU002
CU004 Upwind utilizes an API-first architecture designed to feed runtime findings, observability telemetry, and agentic remediation into enterprise security workflows. 中 SU003
CU005 Enterprise CISOs are reorganizing security operations around outcome-driven agentic workflows rather than legacy functional handoffs between siloed teams. 中 SU004
CU006 Upwind reported exceeding 150 enterprise customers on its official company newsroom surface in mid-2026. 中 SU006
CU007 Third-party private market data records that Upwind serves over 200 enterprise customers as of late 2026. 中 SU002
CU008 Upwind achieved 900% year-over-year revenue growth leading into its early 2026 Series B financing milestone. 高 SU001, SU002
CU009 Upwind doubled its customer base during 2025, driven in substantial part by more than 100 channel partners including MSPs and VARs. 中 SU002
CU010 The majority of Upwind's major enterprise customer accounts have been originated and closed through channel partnerships. 中 SU002
CU011 Upwind lists verified enterprise customer deployments across Siemens, Peloton, Roku, Wix, Nextdoor, and NuBank. 高 SU002, SU007
CU012 Former Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare CSO Joe Sullivan joined Upwind as a strategic advisor in April 2026 to support enterprise customer engagement. 中 SU001
CU013 Published customer deployments highlight qualitative investigative clarity and runtime context but omit detailed MTTR reduction benchmarks. 中 SU007
CU014 Upwind does not publicly disclose net revenue retention, gross revenue retention, annual churn rates, or average contract duration. 中 SU002, SU006
CU015 Upwind integrated its runtime security platform with Cisco Cloud Control via the Model Context Protocol to enable cross-tool enterprise expansion. 高 SU009, SU003
CU016 Third-party monitoring recorded 9 service incidents on Upwind's infrastructure over a 90-day period ending September 2026, comprising 3 major outages and 5 degraded events. 中 SU008
CR001 Upwind Security closed a $300 million funding round valuing the company at $3.8 billion in September 2026. 中 SR001
CR002 Upwind's valuation increased from $1.5 billion in January 2026 to $3.8 billion eight months later, bringing cumulative capital raised to over $680 million. 中 SR001
CR003 Google's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz eliminated the leading standalone independent cloud security provider from the market. 中 SR001
CR004 Upwind raised a $250 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in January 2026 to scale runtime cloud and AI security capabilities. 中 SR008
CR005 Upwind's architecture combines agentless snapshot scans for posture and asset mapping with runtime sensors and tracers for live system-level activity. 高 SR003, SR004
CR006 Upwind recorded 9 service incidents over a 90-day period, comprising 3 major, 1 partial, and 5 degraded events. 中 SR006
CR007 Third-party services and integrations were identified as the most frequently impacted component across Upwind's recent service incidents. 中 SR006
CR008 Upwind achieved 99.95% overall service availability across monitored cloud components over a 90-day tracking window. 中 SR006
CR009 When Upwind service disruptions occur, the median resolution duration is 1 hour and 34 minutes across 9 resolved incidents over 90 days. 中 SR007
CR010 Upwind requires connecting at the root or management account level, which is the most privileged account in an AWS Organization exempt from Service Control Policies. 高 SR003, SR005
CR011 Upwind security researchers documented malicious npm releases in popular packages like keyv that execute install-time code to harvest cloud credentials. 中 SR002
CR012 Upwind established commercial partnerships with hyperscalers and technology providers including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and NVIDIA. 中 SR008
CR013 Upwind's investor syndicate includes Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Craft Ventures, Greylock, and Cyberstarts. 中 SR001, SR008
CR014 Upwind's co-founder Amiram Shachar and founding team previously built Spot.io, which was acquired by NetApp for $450 million. 高 SR004, SR008
CV001 Independent profiles report that Upwind raised $300 million in September 2026 at a $3.8 billion private valuation. 中 SV001, SV002, SV008
CV002 The September 2026 valuation was reported at more than twice the $1.5 billion January 2026 Series B mark. 中 SV001, SV008
CV003 Upwind's January 2026 company release said the $250 million Series B brought total funding to $430 million. 高 SV001, SV007, SV008
CV004 Upwind reported 900% year-over-year revenue growth and 200% year-over-year logo growth before the January 2026 financing. 中 SV001, SV007
CV005 The retained public sources do not disclose current ARR, net retention, gross margin, burn, profitability, or a revenue multiple for Upwind. 中 SV001, SV008
CV006 Current third-party funding totals diverge, with FundedIQ reporting $700 million and other retained profiles reporting about $730 million. 中 SV001, SV002, SV008
CV007 Upwind's official feed shows continued product expansion across data, AI, identity, and code-security workflows in 2026. 中 SV003
CV008 Upwind's newsroom lists more than 150 customers and more than 300 employees. 中 SV004
CV009 Upwind says it was founded by the team behind Spot.io, which NetApp acquired. 中 SV005
CV010 Statusfield recorded nine Upwind incidents over its 90-day window, including three major incidents, one partial outage, and five degraded events. 中 SV006
CV011 Statusfield calculates availability by counting degraded time as available and periods without recorded status as available. 中 SV006
CV012 Value Add VC reports that Lacework's $8.3 billion private valuation preceded a $152.3 million acquisition by Fortinet. 低 SV001
CV013 Bessemer Venture Partners appears in both Upwind's January 2026 financing announcement and the reported September 2026 investor syndicate. 中 SV001, SV007
CV014 A revenue-based fair-value range cannot be derived from the retained public evidence because the operating denominator is undisclosed. 中 SV001, SV008
CV015 The public evidence supports a research-more recommendation with medium confidence, high risk, and a stretched valuation stance at the reported $3.8 billion mark. 中 SV001, SV006, SV008
CV016 The retained sources do not disclose the latest round's liquidation preferences, participation rights, secondary component, or fully diluted ownership. 中 SV001, SV008
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SO001 Upwind Security Upwind Security: Cloud & AI Security for the Realtime Era By combining agentless scanning and runtime sensors Upwind enables security, developers and devops teams to see their Cloud & AI infrastructure in the same operating picture
SO002 Upwind Security What $250M Means for Our Customers and the Future of Cloud Security Upwind was built for this moment: a runtime-first, cloud-native security platform that detects threats as they happen, prioritizes based on real usage, and enables confident action.
SO003 SiliconANGLE Upwind integrates runtime cloud security with Cisco Cloud Control Upwind integrates runtime cloud security with Cisco Cloud Control
SO004 Silicon Valley Investclub Upwind Security — Company profile Upwind Security is a next-generation cloud security company founded in 2022 by Amiram Shachar and co-founders Liran Polak, Lavi Ferdman, and Tal Zuri
SO005 Business Wire Cloud Security Unicorn Upwind Secures $250 Million Series B Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $430 million. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners
SO006 Startup Nation Central Upwind Security - Startup Nation Finder Founded in August 2022 by Amiram Shachar, Tal Zur, Liran Polak, and Lavi Ferdman, Upwind Security operates with 201–500 employees. The company has raised a total of $428 million across 5 funding rounds
SO007 Upwind Security Feed - Upwind Upwind Now Secures Snowflake from AI Down to the Storage Underneath It
SO008 Upwind Security Newsroom - Upwind Founded October, 2022 in San Francisco, CA
SO009 Statusfield Is Upwind Security Down? Live Status & Outages | Statusfield Upwind Security is currently operational with all systems functioning normally.
SM001 TechCrunch Upwind raises $250M at $1.5B valuation to continue building 'runtime' cloud security “At the beginning, we constantly questioned whether the market needed our solution, whether it would be too hard to integrate into larger systems, or if customers would adopt it,” he recalled. “Developing a new approach was difficult; people are used to installing certain agents on machines, but they don’t like doing it.”
SM002 Silicon Valley Investment Club Upwind Security Company Profile As of Sep 2026 The platform consolidates CSPM, CWPP, CDR, vulnerability management, identity security, and container security into a unified solution.
SM003 Upwind Security 2025 CNAPP Market Guide: Key Takeaways – And Why Upwind Is Positioned to Win Current market valuations range from $3.4 billion to $10.6 billion, with projections reaching $38-$88 billion by the early 2030s. A projected 20–35% CAGR puts CNAPP among the highest-growth segments in security.
SM004 Upwind Security Upwind Blog and Research Feed The management account is the most privileged account in any AWS Organization. It controls SCPs, creates and deletes member accounts, manages IAM Identity Center, and is itself exempt from SCPs.
SM005 Upwind Security Upwind Newsroom and Announcements Upwind was founded by the team behind Spot.io, the world's first leader in cloud infrastructure optimization (acquired by NetApp). Upwind brings deep DevOps and cloud infrastructure experience to the forefront of cloud security—making it as easy to secure cloud and AI as it is to consume it.
SM006 Business Wire Cloud Security Unicorn Upwind Secures $250 Million Series B According to Frost & Sullivan, the global CNAPP market is projected to reach $18.79 billion by 2029, growing at about 28% per year. Gartner also predicts that by 2029, 40% of enterprises that successfully implement zero trust in cloud service provider environments will rely on CNAPP solutions for advanced visibility and control.
SM007 Built In Enterprise Account Executive UK&I - Upwind Security Engage CISOs, CTOs and senior leaders alongside cloud, security and DevOps teams, positioning Upwind against their business priorities
SM008 Craft Ventures Why We Invested In Upwind Security There are a number of categories that are coming together to make protecting the cloud more seamless, and these categories represent billions in end user spend.
SP001 Growth Engineer Upwind Security — Review, Pricing & Alternatives — Growth Engineer Upwind uniquely combines eBPF kernel-level runtime monitoring with cloud API telemetry and vulnerability data to show which threats are actually exploitable in production.
SP002 Tech Achieve Media How Upwind Security is Charting Its Next Growth Phase After $250 Million Unicorn Milestone: Simarpreet Singh With our single-SKU model, customers gain access to the full platform from the outset. Importantly, this is offered at what is effectively the entry-level price point in the market, rather than a premium tier.
SP003 EthicalHacking.ai Upwind Security Pricing 2026 – Plans & Cost Breakdown This means pricing is custom and quoted per organization. Expect to contact sales, sign an annual contract, and negotiate based on seats, scope, and SLA requirements.
SP004 BeBee Enterprise Account Executive UK&I - Upwind Security Powered by eBPF sensors and agentless discovery, our CNAPP brings together cloud posture, real-time threat detection and response, vulnerability management and API security in one platform.
SP005 Upwind Security Feed The management account is the most privileged account in any AWS Organization. It controls SCPs, creates and deletes member accounts, manages IAM Identity Center, and is itself exempt from SCPs.
SP006 Upwind Security Newsroom Upwind was founded by the team behind Spot.io, the world's first leader in cloud infrastructure optimization (acquired by NetApp).
SP007 Upwind Security Serverless Security Prove Serverless Compliance with Runtime Evidence Map compliance controls to real activity Validate SOC 2, ISO, and CIS benchmarks against live execution.
SP008 Statusfield Is Upwind Security Down? Live Status & Outages | Statusfield 9 incidents over 90 days83 clear days · worst 2 on Aug 17
SI001 RuntimeWire Upwind pursues $300M at $3.8B, seven months after its Series B Upwind must turn a respected founding team, a timely AI-security message and its roster of large customers into revenue that can support a $3.8 billion price.
SI002 KuCoin Upwind Security Raises $300M in New Financing, Valuation Surpasses $3.8B | KuCoin Upwind’s annual recurring revenue sat below $20 million at the end of 2025. By mid-2026, that figure has ballooned to an estimated $50 million to $60 million. The company is targeting $100 million ARR by the end of this year.
SI003 Silicon Valley Invest Club Upwind Security Raises $300 Million at a $3.8 Billion Valuation Upwind Security raises $300M in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and TCV, with participation from Craft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Greylock, Cyberstarts, Leaders Fund, Alta Park Capital, and Penny Jar Capital.
SI004 AWS Marketplace Upwind Cloud Security Platform | AWS Marketplace My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was really easy to figure out. I received a request from the support team or the sales team asking for what my needs were, and right from that email, I automatically received a quote.
SI005 Business Wire Cloud Security Unicorn Upwind Secures $250 Million Series B Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $430 million.
SI006 Statusfield Is Upwind Security Down? Live Status & Outages | Statusfield 90 day period · not affected by the range above Availability 99.95 % Last Incident Degraded Sep 23, 2026 10:34 AM UTC Incidents 9 3 major , 1 partial , 5 degraded Most impacted Third-Party Services / Integrations Longest 3h 16m
SI007 Upwind Security Newsroom - Upwind 300+ Employees 150+ Customers Our Company History Founded October, 2022 in San Francisco, CA
SI008 Upwind Security Feed - Upwind The management account is the most privileged account in any AWS Organization. It controls SCPs, creates and deletes member accounts, manages IAM Identity Center, and is itself exempt from SCPs.
SE001 Upwind Security Introduction | Documentation | Upwind Security Run faster and more securely with Upwind's next-generation cloud security platform. Combine the power of cloud security posture with runtime context and real-time protection - enabling your security team to prioritize accurately and respond fast to your most critical risks.
SE002 Upwind Security Upwind Security Trust Center | Powered by SafeBase Welcome to Upwind Security's Trust Center. Our commitment to data privacy and security is embedded in every part of our business. Use this Trust Center to learn about our security posture and request access to our security documentation.
SE003 Upwind Security Job opportunity: Windows Engineer With industry-leading efficiency and eBPF-powered sensors, Upwind delivers comprehensive capabilities, including agentless cloud posture discovery, real-time threat protection, and integrated API security.
SE004 Penligent AI Beyond the Noise: A Technical Deep Dive into Upwind Security and the eBPF Runtime Revolution Upwind Security’s core architectural bet is placed firmly on eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). eBPF is a revolutionary Linux kernel technology that allows engineers to run sandboxed, high-performance programs within the kernel space without modifying kernel source code or loading fragile kernel modules.
SE005 Nearbound Upwind review | Runtime security and CSPM insights At its core, Upwind operates on a fundamentally different principle than traditional cloud security tools. The platform leverages what the company calls “runtime-powered security,” which means it continuously monitors and analyzes the actual behavior of applications and infrastructure components in real-time, rather than relying solely on static configuration analysis or periodic scans.
SE006 Built In Senior Software Engineer - Go - Upwind Security The role combines backend development, systems programming, and operating-system integrations, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and security.
SE007 Tech Insider Sweet vs Upwind vs Lacework: $310M Funding Gap [2026] Technically, Upwind pitches itself as “runtime-first”: sensors that observe what is actually happening inside a live cloud environment or AI workload, rather than relying solely on periodic scans of stored configuration.
SE008 Statusfield Is Upwind Security Down? Live Status & Outages | Statusfield Availability counts operational or degraded time as available, averaged equally across all monitored components. Partial outages count as half downtime and major outages count in full, scheduled maintenance is excluded from the calculation, and periods with no recorded status are counted as available rather than assumed down.
SU001 Business Wire Upwind Security Names Joe Sullivan, Former CSO of Facebook, Uber, and Cloudflare, as Strategic Advisor Coming off 900% year-over-year revenue growth and a $250 million series B led by Bessemer Ventures, Upwind is investing boldly at the forefront of cloud and AI security
SU002 Multiples.vc Upwind Security Valuation, Funding & Investors serving global enterprises such as Siemens, Peloton, Roku, Wix, Nextdoor, and Nubank. Most major accounts came through channel partnerships.
SU003 Upwind Security The Lineup: Where Partnerships Become Real Value Upwind is built API-first, because we believe security data should be open, accessible, and actionable, not locked inside a single platform.
SU004 The Security Digest The Security Org Chart Is About To Reorganize Around Outcomes, Not Handoffs The autonomous agent that breached Hugging Face in July, chaining real vulnerabilities and running thousands of actions across a single weekend with no human directing the individual steps, is the kind of public, undeniable event that reorders a lot of calendars.
SU005 Upwind Security Upwind Feed - Product and Architecture Insights Ask a security team where the company's most sensitive data lives and they'll say Snowflake without pausing. Ask who can reach it and the room goes quiet, because that answer belongs to the data team.
SU006 Upwind Security Upwind Newsroom Snapshot 150+ Customers
SU007 Upwind Security Sprinklr Gains Runtime Visibility into Application-Layer Activity Sprinklr uses Upwind to understand cloud, application, and API activity at runtime, detect application-layer threats, and turn disconnected signals into clearer stories for investigation.
SU008 Statusfield Upwind Security Status & Service Outage History Availability counts operational or degraded time as available, averaged equally across all monitored components. Partial outages count as half downtime and major outages count in full
SU009 SiliconANGLE Upwind integrates runtime cloud security with Cisco Cloud Control The integration, built through the open Model Context Protocol, lets joint customers pull Upwind’s live cloud and artificial intelligence runtime context into Cisco AI Canvas, part of Cisco Cloud Control.
SR001 Crypto Briefing Upwind Security valued at $3.8B as it raises $300M in new financing Upwind Security is closing a $300 million funding round that values the company at $3.8 billion, more than doubling the valuation it carried just eight months ago.
SR002 The San Francisco Tribune Upwind Security Reveals How One Poisoned Package Put a Third of the JavaScript World at Risk - The San Francisco Tribune The collection scope covers AWS credentials, GitHub tokens, npm registry credentials, and HashiCorp Vault tokens, drawn from workstations and continuous integration runners alike.
SR003 Upwind Security Upwind Coverage Model | Documentation | Upwind Security The first step is connecting Upwind to your environment at the root or management account. Instead of connecting each account, project and subscription manually, you connect at the highest level, where Upwind can analyze your organizational hierarchy best.
SR004 Upwind Security Newsroom Upwind brings deep DevOps and cloud infrastructure experience to the forefront of cloud security—making it as easy to secure cloud and AI as it is to consume it.
SR005 Upwind Security Feed The management account is the most privileged account in any AWS Organization. It controls SCPs, creates and deletes member accounts, manages IAM Identity Center, and is itself exempt from SCPs.
SR006 Statusfield Is Upwind Security Down? Live Status & Outages | Statusfield Availability 99.95 % Last Incident Degraded Sep 23, 2026 10:34 AM UTC Incidents 9 3 major , 1 partial , 5 degraded Most impacted Third-Party Services / Integrations
SR007 Statusfield Upwind Security Incident History | Statusfield When Upwind Security breaks, it is typically resolved in 1h 34m — median across 9 resolved incidents over 90 days.
SR008 Business Wire Cloud Security Unicorn Upwind Secures $250 Million Series B Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $430 million.
SV001 Value Add VC Upwind Security Valuation: $3.8B After $300M Round Upwind's $3.8 billion valuation came from a $300 million round announced September 2, 2026, roughly eight months after a $250 million Series B priced the company at $1.5 billion in January 2026.
SV002 FundedIQ Upwind Security: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026) Upwind Security has raised $700M across 4 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Private Equity of $300M announced in Sep 2026.
SV003 Upwind Security Feed Today, Upwind Code adds support for Azure DevOps and Bitbucket Cloud.
SV004 Upwind Security Newsroom 300+ Employees 150+ Customers
SV005 Upwind Security About Upwind was founded by the team behind Spot.io, the world's first leader in cloud infrastructure optimization (acquired by NetApp).
SV006 Statusfield Is Upwind Security Down? Live Status & Outages Upwind Security is currently operational with all systems functioning normally.
SV007 Upwind Security via Business Wire Cloud Security Unicorn Upwind Secures $250 Million Series B Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security leader, today announced that it has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $430 million.
SV008 Silicon Valley Investclub Upwind Security - Funding, Valuation & Leadership EV/Rev is not disclosed for any round.