Upwind vs Tracecat
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SF CNAPP with runtime intelligence for 90% false positive reduction; $180M total ($100M Craft Ventures/TCV Series A Dec 2024 at $900M valuation) serving 200+ enterprises including Peloton and Bill competing with Wiz for cloud security.
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Upwind is a San Francisco-based cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) — backed with $180 million in total funding including a $100 million Series A extension in December 2024 led by Craft Ventures with TCV and Alta Park Capital at a $900 million valuation, following an $80 million seed round — providing enterprise security teams with runtime-powered cloud security that combines cloud security posture management (CSPM), workload protection, vulnerability management, identity security, and container security by correlating live workload runtime activity with configuration and vulnerability context to eliminate the false positive noise that plagues legacy cloud security tools. Serving 200+ enterprise customers including Peloton, Bill, Fiverr, and Agoda with 4,000% year-over-year revenue growth, Upwind claims 90% false positive reduction versus traditional CNAPP tools. Founded in 2022 by Amiram Shachar and team from Spot.io (acquired by NetApp for $450 million).
SF YC W24 open-source SOAR security automation deployed by 200+ orgs (Fortune 500 + federal); $500K-$2M seed on Temporal's durable execution with 100+ integrations competing with Splunk SOAR and Tines for security incident response.
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Tracecat is a San Francisco-based open-source security automation platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000-$2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Pioneer.app, Pioneer Fund, and SurgePoint Capital — providing security operations, IT, and infrastructure teams with a modern, cost-effective alternative to commercial SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) tools for automating security alerts, incident response, and IT workflows. Deployed by 200+ organizations from Fortune 500 companies to federal agencies, Tracecat is built on Temporal's durable execution platform (used by Datadog, Netflix, and Stripe) and offers 100+ integrations, AI-assisted runbooks, case management, and lookup tables. Founded in 2024 by Chris Lo and Daryl Lim.
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