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

"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."

Native, a cloud security startup, emerged from stealth with $42 million in total funding, including a $31 million Series A led by Ballistic Ventures. The company addresses the critical challenge of maintaining consistent security policies across multi-cloud environments. Native's platform translates security policies into provider-specific controls for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, leveraging each provider's native enforcement mechanisms rather than adding external monitoring tools. The platform helps organizations overcome common struggles with deploying and maintaining controls at scale, reducing inconsistent configurations across accounts and services. It includes safeguards like impact simulation, staged rollouts, and approval workflows to prevent production disruptions. The company was founded by cloud security veterans from AWS and Check Point.

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