Category: Wiz

  • Wiz leases five floors in renovated Sarona building

    Israeli cloud security company Visible She revealed for the first time that she plans a new university campus in the heart of Tel Aviv. The campus is currently being built in the Sarona area on Arbana Street, behind the BSR buildings. “Globes” has learned that Wiz has rented all the…

  • Check Point teams with Wiz to challenge Palo Alto

    The veteran Israeli cyber security company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdak: TrapIt announced a strategic partnership with the Israeli cloud security company Visible To provide cloud safety from end to end. The leading company in the field of cybersecurity in the field of cloud security is Palo Alto Networks…

  • Wiz finds serious information leak at DeepSeek

    Researchers at Cyblessecurity Wiz revealed a dangerous security vulnerability in the systems of Chinese company Deepseek, which they called Deepleak. Wiz found that a full database of the Chinese company that contains user chats, secret switches, and sensitive internal information were exposed to anyone on the Internet. According to the…

  • Dazz CEO: Wiz has potential for $100b valuation

    The CEOs of the Israeli cybersecurity companies that merged in a massive deal last November go back a long way. Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport and dazzle CEO Merav Pahat built Microsoft’s cloud security system together and remained close friends after their split. Wiz, which completed the largest funding round of…

  • Wiz appoints CFO with IPO on the horizon

    After extensive research and a series of interviews, it has become the most valuable private technology company in Israel Wiz He appointed an experienced CFO. Fazal Merchant has been named CFO and president of the cybersecurity company, which last July rejected a $23 billion takeover offer from Google. Merchant gained…

  • Wiz buys Israeli cybersecurity co Dazz for $450m

    Cloud security company WizIsrael’s most valuable private company valued at $12 billion, announced today that it has acquired a consolidated Israeli security processing company. dazzlewhich was co-founded by CEO Merav Pahat, one of Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport’s closest friends since they worked together at Microsoft. Both entrepreneurs, Rappaport and Bhatt,…

  • Wiz buys Israeli cybersecurity co Dazz for $450m

    Cloud security company WizIsrael’s most valuable private company valued at $12 billion, announced today that it has acquired a consolidated Israeli security processing company. dazzlewhich was co-founded by CEO Merav Pahat, one of Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport’s closest friends since they worked together at Microsoft. Both entrepreneurs, Rappaport and Bhatt,…

  • Wiz in talks on shareholders selling part of stakes – report

    Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz The company is in talks to sell existing shares worth up to $20 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. According to the report, the cybersecurity startup, which in July rejected a $23 billion takeover offer from Google, is in negotiations with the aim of offering…

  • Regulatory risk thought factor in Wiz deal cancellation

    But what prompted cloud security company Waze to pull out of negotiations to acquire the company for $23 billion by Alphabet, Google’s parent company? Presumably, there was no binding agreement between the two parties, and the talks were at a fairly early stage, otherwise Alphabet, as a public company, would…

  • Google talks to cybersecurity firm Wiz break down

    Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:) discussions to potentially acquire cybersecurity company Wiz for $23 billion have fallen through, according to a report Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wizz CEO Asaf Rappaport said in an email to employees sent on Monday and seen by The Wall…

  • Wiz turns down Google’s $23b acquisition offer

    Israeli cloud security company Weez Apple has rejected Google’s $23 billion offer to buy it and will instead focus on its plan to float shares on Wall Street. “It’s hard to turn down such modest offers,” Asaf Rapaport, Waze’s co-founder and CEO, wrote in a memo to the company’s 1,200…

  • Treasury can expect tax bonanza from Wiz sale

    How much of the $23 billion reported by Alphabet (Google’s parent company) to buy Israeli cloud security startup Wiz will the Israeli tax authority take? The low estimate is $2.5 billion, while the high estimate is $3.5 billion. The Israeli tax liability arising from the acquisition lies with Waze’s Israeli…

  • Google in advanced talks to buy Wiz for $23b – report

    Google parent company Alphabet is in advanced talks to buy an Israeli cloud security company. Weez The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Amazon intends to buy a stake in Amazon for $23 billion, in what could be its largest acquisition ever. People familiar with…

  • Google near deal to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion

    Alphabet Inc., the parent of Google, is in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity company Waze for about $23 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. If the deal closes, it would be the company’s largest acquisition ever. The news comes days after reports…

  • Orca and Wiz to meet in court

    Last July, the Israeli cybersecurity company Orca Security File a lawsuit against WizShe is also Israeli. Orca demanded that Wiz stop selling its products, which Orca claimed infringed its patents, and also demanded financial compensation for their use. Orca also alleged that along with copying its technology, Wiz copied its…

  • Israeli cloud security co Wiz raises $1b at $12b valuation

    Israeli cloud security company Wiz The company announced the completion of a $1 billion financing round at a company valuation of $12 billion. This brings the total amount raised by the company to $1.9 billion. The latest round is led by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Thrive Capital, with…