Upwind, a San Francisco, CA-based cloud security provider, acquired Nyx Security, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based embedded cybersecurity startup.
The mount of the deal was not disclosed.
Founded in 2024 in Tel Aviv by Gili Yankovich and Alon Saban, Nyx has developed a technology platform that allows to locate vulnerable code that is loaded into memory and to identify behavioral anomalies that change the way the code operates in real time. This capability allows the solution not only to locate vulnerable code that is loaded into memory, but also to identify behavioral anomalies that change the way the code operates in real time.
Founded by Amiram Shachar, Upwind provides a cloud security platform that helps organizations to detect threats and secure their environments with better precision. The company has secured $180m in funding since its founding in 2022 by Greylock, Cyberstarts, Leaders Fund, Craft Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Sheva.
The acquisition will expand Upwind’s runtime protection to include application-level insight, helping customers detect and remediate more threats in real time.
The Nyx Security acquisition allows Upwind users to understand application code-level anomalies in runtime, giving them the added ability to identify and mitigate threats to the applications running on the cloud. The more comprehensive offering provides organizations with an additional layer of security across their cloud workloads and applications, without adding tools to their technology stacks.
With the acquisition, the Nyx team will be brought on board to strengthen Upwind’s development capabilities in eBPF, runtime detection and application-layer observability.
FinSMEs
28/04/2025