Native, a cloud security control plane designed to embed security directly into cloud architecture, has emerged from stealth with $42m in total funding.
The company’s $31m Series A was led by Ballistic Ventures, with continued participation from seed investors General Catalyst, YL Ventures, and Merlin Ventures. Phil Venables, former chief information security officer of Google Cloud, has also joined Native’s board of directors.
Native’s platform is built to translate security intent into enforceable, secure-by-design cloud architecture that continuously adapts across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Rather than adding another detection or monitoring layer, the platform works through provider-native enforcement mechanisms, allowing security teams to define policy intent and have it applied consistently across environments. The platform also includes pre-deployment impact simulation, intelligent rollout strategies, and built-in approval workflows to avoid disrupting business operations.
The funding will support Native’s efforts to help enterprises accelerate their path to secure-by-design cloud architecture, enabling consistent enforcement across cloud providers without requiring organisations to scale their security teams or develop deep multi-cloud expertise.
The launch comes at a time when the gap between cloud security strategy and what teams can reliably maintain at scale is widening, particularly as adversaries increasingly leverage AI to accelerate attacks. Google’s Mandiant reported that the average time-to-exploit reached minus one day in 2024, meaning vulnerabilities were being exploited before patches were even publicly available. Native’s preventive approach aims to address this challenge directly.
Native co-founder and CEO Amit Megiddo said, “Cloud providers invest heavily in security controls. The irony is that most enterprises struggle to use them effectively, especially across multiple clouds. We built Native so that security teams can define security policy intent and have it enforced everywhere, staying aligned as environments change. When security is native to the infrastructure, it enables the business to move faster within a secure framework.”
Ballistic Ventures venture partner and former Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables said, “Cloud security is entering a new era where the unit of work is not ‘finding’ problems, it’s safely enforcing the right architecture at speed. What will matter most is whether a platform can translate intent into real, provider-native enforcement across clouds and keep that enforcement aligned as environments evolve. That’s the step-change: security that can keep up with the business.”
Ballistic Ventures co-founder and general partner Jake Seid said, “The tradeoff between being more secure and business moving faster is a false choice. Native helps customers raise the security bar while staying nimble across multiple clouds, even as AI changes the speed and scale of attacks.”
YL Ventures senior partner Ofer Schreiber said, “Cloud security has reached an inflection point where reactive detection can’t keep up. Native’s unified enforcement layer is becoming an essential pillar of secure-by-design infrastructure.”
Merlin Ventures managing partner Shay Michel said, “Enterprise AI adoption will require security that scales from within the cloud, not tools trying to look in from the outside.”
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