McAfee vs Wiz
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Consumer cybersecurity brand providing antivirus, VPN, and identity protection; McAfee+ emphasizes dark web monitoring and identity theft recovery services.
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McAfee is a consumer cybersecurity company providing antivirus, identity protection, VPN, and privacy management tools to individuals and households globally. The company was originally founded in 1987 by John McAfee as one of the first commercial antivirus software companies, subsequently went through multiple corporate iterations including acquisition by Intel (2011) and spinout, was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) in 2021, and has since repositioned entirely as a consumer-focused security brand after STG separated the enterprise business as Trellix.
Cloud security platform acquired by Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) for $32B in March 2025 — cybersecurity's largest-ever acquisition; grew from $0 to $500M ARR in 4 years with agentless Security Graph competing with Orca.
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Wiz is a New York-based cloud security platform — acquired by Alphabet/Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) in a $32 billion deal announced in March 2025 (the largest cybersecurity acquisition in history) — that had raised $900 million at a $12 billion valuation from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Index Ventures before the acquisition. Founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport and four co-founders (former Unit 8200 cyber intelligence officers and Microsoft Azure security alumni), Wiz grew from $0 to $500 million ARR in four years — the fastest SaaS company to reach $500M ARR in history — by providing agentless cloud security visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
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