Native Raises $42M to Expand Cloud Security Control Plane
Native just came out of stealth with $42M in total funding, including a $31M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures, with General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures back in the mix. That is not just a capital event. That is the market tapping the mic and checking whether anyone in cloud security still understands the difference between more noise and more control. Native does, and that distinction matters when multi-cloud complexity has turned “built-in security” into one of the most expensive things companies already own and still struggle to use.
What Native is selling is not another shiny layer perched on top of the stack, grinning like it solved the problem because it found the problem. Native’s Cloud Security Control Plane is built to translate security intent into actual enforcement across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by using each provider’s native controls. No agents. No overlays. No extra architectural costume jewelry. Just policy expressed clearly, then operationalized where the work actually lives. In a market drunk on detection, Native is betting that prevention should probably show up before the fire.
That thesis gets a lot more interesting when you look at the people behind it. Congratulations to Amit Megiddo, Co-Founder and CEO, who previously led Amazon GuardDuty within AWS and saw firsthand how often enterprises failed to operationalize the controls they already had. Congratulations as well to Eyal Faingold, Co-Founder and CTO, who led cloud security at Check Point Software Technologies, and to Gal Ordo, Co-Founder and CPO, who worked on AWS Security Hub. That is not a random startup roster. That is a group of builders who have spent real time inside the machinery, then walked out and decided the machinery needed fewer dashboards and more discipline.
The early traction makes the story hit harder. Native has 41 employees across the United States and Israel, with the majority in the Tel Aviv area, and already counts Fortune 100 enterprises across finance, technology, and media as customers. One of the largest streaming services in the world used the platform to simulate and enforce preventive controls across cloud environments. One of the world’s top chip manufacturers used Native while running sensitive AI experiments across 3 major clouds. That is where the company name starts pulling double duty. Native is not asking customers to abandon the cloud for something foreign. Native is making cloud security act native, which sounds obvious right up until you realize how rare that is.
There is also a reason Ballistic Ventures leaned in here, and why Phil Venables joined the board. The attack surface is expanding, AI infrastructure is accelerating, and the old habit of finding misconfigurations after the fact is starting to look like bringing an umbrella to a hurricane and calling it resilience. Native’s approach is about turning intent into architecture before drift, scale, and entropy make everyone pretend alerts are a strategy.
There is a business lesson sitting right in the middle of this round for every founder paying attention. Native did not raise by pitching abstract fear. Native raised by identifying a painful operational gap, building around how enterprises actually run cloud, and proving that secure-by-design can be made practical instead of preachy. Congratulations again to Amit Megiddo, Eyal Faingold, Gal Ordo, Ballistic Ventures, General Catalyst, YL Ventures, Merlin Ventures, and Phil Venables for backing a company that understands a simple truth about modern infrastructure: the cloud is only “native” when the security is too.
