Wiz Inc.
Wiz Inc. is a cybersecurity software company whose platform provides cloud and AI security, connecting code, cloud, and runtime into a unified security graph to help organizations identify and reduce risk, detect and block threats, and secure cloud and AI applications.www.wiz.io
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Sep 17, 2026
Jonathan BakerHOST
Google Sites internal validation Chrome security saw 2.6x more correct patches versus larger commercial models.
Jonathan BakerHOST
Wiz, which clearly is now part of Google, reports 7.5 to 9.7% higher recalls at a 2.3 to 5.2x lower cost.
Jonathan BakerHOST
And Google Cloud vulnerability research team found a critical vulnerability in under two hours using the model, which makes me question Google Cloud, but We'll bypass that.
Jonathan BakerHOST
Access points span the developers and enterprise stack.
Amir OfekGUEST
That's kind of what I've been doing over the last eight years.
Amir OfekGUEST
I worked at the early days of CSPM before Wiz was Wiz.
Amir OfekGUEST
I was CEO of a company called Alcide in the Kubernetes security space.
Amir OfekGUEST
All of that kind of cloud to SaaS to identity, I think is a very nice kind of experience I bring together with my co-founders to the table of really tackling AI.
YuvalHOST
We've seen this pattern before.
YuvalHOST
We saw it with Wiz in cloud security, Snyk in open source security, and CrowdStrike in endpoint protection.
YuvalHOST
But looking at the sheer volume of money in companies, this AI agent wave feels like that dynamic on steroids.
AmitHOST
Oh, absolutely on steroids.
AmitHOST
Entro and Asterix, which were built to manage permissions for automated tools, now offer agent protection.
AmitHOST
Even the decacorn Cyera has expanded from data protection into AI security.
YuvalHOST
It seems like everyone wants to be the Wiz of AI security, but Wiz entered a somewhat defined cloud market with few rivals.
YuvalHOST
These startups are fighting hundreds of competitors in a market that is still being invented.
Peter HighHOST
Shardul joined the firm in 2008 and focuses on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and infrastructure.
Peter HighHOST
He's developed a remarkable track record of identifying category-defining companies early, leading investments in Datadog and Wiz, among many others.
Peter HighHOST
Recently, Datadog is now a public company, actually not so recently, but Google recently completed a $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, the largest acquisition in the company's history.
Peter HighHOST
Shardul's investment philosophy centers on backing exceptional founders with conviction and partnering with them over the long term.
Peter HighHOST
That philosophy has earned him repeated recognition on the Forbes Midas list and a reputation as one of the leading investors in enterprise technology, including his current ranking on that list at number 10.
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Shardul ShahGUEST
I'm not sure if he named it after our firm, but his latest product, Index, is actually a really disruptive take on the industry.
Shardul ShahGUEST
And I think that only comes from someone who takes action and takes the bull by its horns.
Peter HighHOST
While we're in the process of personifying some of the ideas that you're expressing, I'd love to have you take us back into the point at which you invested in Datadog and Wiz.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Amiga strongly believes that selling a company is essentially a form of giving up.
YuvalHOST
He brings up Wiz and CyberArk as examples of great exits at high valuations.
YuvalHOST
Wiz famously rejected early acquisition offers.
YuvalHOST
Amiga says Wiz set a new precedent for what a truly impactful company is worth.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Investors are not pushing Island to sell either.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Funds like Sequoia and Insight know that holding on to a successful company long term yields much better returns.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
It's pretty good.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
And actually what's really exciting is there's this company called Wiz.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
And so they actually were the first company in the world to hit zero to 100 mil in five years.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
And that only happened, they were founded in 2020 and that just happened two years ago.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
So how do you find and be a part of that? That is where you do need to understand the tech and parts of that as well.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
But that's what we help advise people on.
Caelah StanleyGUEST
And ultimately back to Wiz, they just now got acquired from Google for $32 billion.
Ben HandlerHOST
As you do.
Ray RikeHOST
... that wasn't enough apparently because th- they went ahead and made sure they hired a pretty good enterprise class executive, Dolly Rajakari.
Ray RikeHOST
He was the president and CEO at Wiz.
Ray RikeHOST
But then not too s- soon thereafter, the VP of sales, Cailin Voss, who by the way came from Salesforce where Denise, you know, of course was there with Slack, she quit after only five months to return to Salesforce.
Ray RikeHOST
And the rumor has it another 22 former Salesforce salespeople and staffers are in talks to follow her out the door back to Salesforce.
Brenon DalyGUEST
Every other studio has to develop a superhero movie, right? And we saw it in cloud.
Brenon DalyGUEST
Google bought Wiz, right? For $32 billion, largest venture capital exit in history, 30 times trailing sales at the time, unheard of multiple.
Brenon DalyGUEST
Now in the AI era, that's a down round, honestly.
Brenon DalyGUEST
But acquirers look around at their comparables and they see movement and they see dollars flowing and they say, hey, you know, it's kind of FOMO.
Brenon DalyGUEST
So they just had this business and they used the cash flow that this generated, spit out this cash, go buy this next part.
Eric HanselmanHOST
Flywheel keeps spinning and life is good.
Brenon DalyGUEST
And even if they wanted to dust off that playbook, even when Microsoft said, okay, or Google said, hey, we want to go buy Wiz again.
Brenon DalyGUEST
They couldn't do it.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
And it became a crowded space very quickly.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
Like Wiz spun up the same service very quickly and put it out there.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
I think once Wiz jumped into it, it was much harder to be pure play.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
Secure container image, like that's a feature now, right? Yeah.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
Yeah, you know, this one,
Adrian SanabriaHOST
And it became a crowded space very quickly.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
Like Wiz spun up the same service very quickly and put it out there.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
I think once Wiz jumped into it, it was much harder to be pure play.
Adrian SanabriaHOST
Secure container image, like that's a feature now, right? Yeah, you know, this one
Tyler ShieldsHOST
from a business vantage standpoint is interesting, right? Because these founders were not first time founders.
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