Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which offers a subscription-based consumer security service that protects digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation
Israeli cybersecurity startup Guardio raised funds from investors including Assaf Rappaport, the founder of cloud security firm Wiz …
Context & Ripple Effects
Guardio had already progressed from a browser-extension business with more than 1 million users in its $47 million 2021 financing to reporting 500,000 paying users and $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025. The new financing follows a separate $80 million round reported in 2025, giving the company a sequence of capital raises behind its consumer subscription model.
Assaf Rappaport’s participation connects Guardio to the Israeli cyber-investor network around Wiz, which reached a $6 billion valuation in its 2021 $250 million round. On the same date, Upwind raised about $300 million for cloud-application security, highlighting investor appetite across distinct security markets rather than a direct product rivalry.
First-order effects
- Guardio adds $40 million and investor backing from Rappaport at a $1.1 billion valuation, establishing a new financing benchmark after its 2025 $80 million round.
Second-order effects
- Guardio’s $1.1 billion valuation gives consumer-facing security vendors a clearer private-market comparison point, while Perimeter 81’s earlier $1 billion valuation shows that investors have also assigned unicorn prices to network-security software.
- Rappaport’s investment gives Guardio a prominent cloud-security founder on its investor roster, potentially strengthening its credibility with later-stage cyber investors without implying any commercial tie to Wiz.
Third-order effects
- If this pattern persists, cybersecurity funding will increasingly distinguish between specialized deployment surfaces—consumer digital accounts, cloud networks, and cloud applications—rather than treating security as a single venture category.
- Billion-dollar valuations for Guardio, Perimeter 81, and Upwind point to a market structure in which focused security products can command standalone valuations without serving the same buyer or use case.
The trend: Israeli cybersecurity financing is extending billion-dollar valuations across specialized consumer, network, and cloud-security providers.