Native

Native is a cybersecurity firm that provides a unified operational platform to manage and enforce security across multiple cloud environments. The company was established in 2024 by cloud security veterans Amit Megiddo (CEO), Gal Ordo (CPO), and Eyal Faingold (CTO). The founding team possesses extensive experience from major cloud and security companies; Megiddo was a product lead for Amazon GuardDuty at AWS, Ordo was a product lead for AWS Security Hub, and Faingold served as VP of Cloud Security at Check Point. Their collective background at the forefront of cloud security services highlighted a common challenge for enterprises: the difficulty in effectively utilizing the powerful, built-in security tools offered by different cloud providers.

Emerging from stealth mode in March 2026, Native announced it had raised a total of $42 million in funding. This included an $11 million seed round from investors General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures, followed by a $31 million Series A round led by Ballistic Ventures. Concurrent with the funding announcement, Phil Venables, the former CISO of Google Cloud and now a partner at Ballistic Ventures, joined Native's board of directors. The company, with employees in Israel and the U.S., announced plans to use the capital to more than double its headcount from 41 to approximately 90 by the end of 2026.

Native's core product is a cloud security control plane that helps organizations operationalize the native security controls within AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It addresses the complexity and operational risk of managing security consistently across these diverse environments. The platform allows security teams to define their security objectives in natural language, which Native then translates into the specific, enforceable policies and configurations for each respective cloud provider. This "security-by-design" approach focuses on prevention by embedding security into the cloud architecture itself, rather than relying solely on post-event detection and response. Key features include the ability to simulate the impact of policy changes before deployment to prevent business disruption, staged rollouts, and structured approval workflows. By consolidating and abstracting security capabilities, the platform provides a single authoritative control plane for complex, multi-cloud operations. The company targets large enterprises and already counts Fortune 100 companies in the finance, technology, and media sectors as clients.

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