Cloud Security Startup Native Exits Stealth With $42 Million in Funding

Cloud security startup Native announced on Tuesday that it raised $42 million in total funding as it emerged from stealth, aiming to address the growing challenge of enforcing security policies consistently across multi-cloud environments.  The latest raise is a $31 million Series A led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures. Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud and now a venture partner at Ballistic Ventures, has joined Native’s board of directors. Native has developed a platform designed to translate a company’s security policies into provider-specific controls that can be enforced across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Rather than layering on additional monitoring or detection tooling, the platform works through the native enforcement mechanisms already built into those cloud providers. The problem Native is addressing runs deep in enterprise cloud security. While AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure each offer extensive built-in security capabilities, organizations routinely struggle to deploy and maintain those controls at scale. In multi-cloud environments, inconsistent configurations across accounts and services are common, and complexity only compounds as cloud footprints grow. Native’s approach centers on giving security teams a single layer through which to express policy intent, which the platform then converts into the appropriate configurations for each cloud provider. To reduce the risk of breaking production workloads, the platform includes safeguards such as impact simulation before any change is deployed, staged rollout mechanisms, and structured approval workflows.  The company was co-founded in 2024 by three cloud security veterans: CEO Amit Megiddo, who previously led Amazon GuardDuty at AWS; CPO Gal Ordo, who worked on AWS Security Hub; and CTO Eyal Faingold, who served as VP of cloud security at Check Point.  The company currently employs 41 people across Israel and the US, with plans to expand to around 90 employees by the end of 2026. “Cloud providers invest heavily in security controls. The irony is that most enterprises struggle to use them effectively, especially across multiple clouds,” said Megiddo. “We built Native so that security teams can define security policy intent and have it enforced everywhere, staying aligned as environments change. 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