Orca Security provides an agentless platform that identifies and protects cloud-based assets, offering what its CEO describes as an “MRI for the cloud.” The company built a new platform intended to move security environments to the cloud in minutes rather than months. Orca has more than 200 employees and reports revenue growth of 800%. It is operating in over 15 countries and has launched localized websites in German, French, Chinese and Japanese. The company recently hired Meghan Marks as chief marketing officer to support go-to-market efforts. Orca plans to use new funding to invest in engineering, extend its global reach, and accelerate go-to-market activities, including opening a London office and R&D center staffed with about two dozen employees by year-end. Orca Security provides an agent-less cloud security platform that uses its proprietary "SideScanning" technology to map entire cloud environments and file systems and prioritize risks based on business impact. The product aims to cover an organization’s full cloud estate without agents and to help security and DevOps teams focus on the most consequential exposures. Its customer roster includes Robinhood, Databricks, Unity, Live Oak Bank, Lemonade and BeyondTrust. Orca says it outperformed its own revenue forecast last year by more than 50% and has rapidly expanded headcount from about 20 to nearly 100, with plans to double again by year-end. The company is using new funding to expand the product organization, add capabilities (including post-breach functionality and identity/access management) and ramp go-to-market activities. Orca recently completed a large financing at unicorn valuation, further strengthening its financial position. Orca Security provides an agentless cloud security platform that maps a customer's cloud environment and reconstructs file systems by analyzing workloads' interactions with block storage and cloud metadata. Its SideScanning technology enables full-coverage discovery and scanning across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and container services without installing agents. The platform consolidates detection of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and malware and surfaces context-aware, business-impacting alerts to reduce noise. Orca emphasizes quick, frictionless deployment so customers can achieve higher coverage without deploying many disparate tools. The company has grown rapidly—more than 10x year-over-year—and expanded headcount from roughly 50 to about 70 employees. Orca plans to use new funding to continue building product, increase R&D, expand sales and marketing, and open additional global sales offices. CEO Avi Shua (formerly at Check Point) and co-founder Gil Geron lead the company. Orca Security is a SaaS multi-cloud security platform that provides workload-level visibility across AWS, Azure and GCP by using agentless access to low-level cloud APIs. The platform scans for vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, password issues and exposed secret keys and PII. Orca emphasizes rapid, agentless discovery to give security teams visibility without slowing engineering. The founders come from backgrounds as architects and CTOs at firms including Check Point and from Israel’s Unit 8200. The company is roughly a year and a half old and counts customers such as Flexport, Fiverr, Sisene and Qubole. Orca positions its product to return control to CISOs facing fast-moving, software-driven cloud environments. Orca Security is a cloud-native security platform that secures customers' cloud-native applications and legacy workloads migrated to the cloud without requiring agents, using a method the company calls "SideScanning." The approach comprehensively examines the entire deployed software stack to discover vulnerabilities, outdated and deprecated software versions, misconfigurations, and other risks. It is built for containerized environments and Kubernetes orchestration and is positioning itself against established vendors like Rapid7 and Tenable. The company was founded by two former Check Point Security executives and is led by co-founder and CEO Avi Shua. Orca currently operates with a 15-person staff and has several beta customers. The recent seed funding is intended to help build out the product and support customer deployments.

Total raised

$842M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Oct 2021