According to Crunchbase data, Israeli startups have made great capital strides in this category in Q1 2019: at least 13 companies, mostly seed and early stage, have raised more than $196 million in 2019 to date. Those results include Tel Aviv-based cloud security company Aqua Security, which raised $62 million in a Series C led by Insight Venture Partners last week.
Aqua Security is the pioneer in securing containerized cloud native applications from development to production. Aqua's full lifecycle solution prevents attacks by enforcing pre-deployment hygiene and mitigates attacks in real time in production, reducing mean time to repair and overall business risk. The Aqua Platform, a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), integrates security from Code to Cloud, combining the power of agent and agentless technology into a single solution. With enterprise scale that doesn’t slow development pipelines, Aqua secures your future in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, IL protecting over 500 of the world’s largest enterprises.
