Upwind, a next-generation, runtime-first cloud security provider, today announced an expansion of its presence in India to meet rapidly growing demand for real-time cloud risk management as cloud and AI adoption accelerates across the country. Building on its momentum in India’s fast-growing cloud market, Upwind plans to invest significantly over the coming years to scale its presence in the country. This includes expanding its already established engineering and go-to-market teams, strengthening local operations, and deploying an in-country SaaS instance to support data residency, performance and regulatory requirements for Indian enterprises, reinforcing India’s position as a strategic growth market within Upwind’s global expansion roadmap.
India is rapidly scaling secure, scalable cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure under Digital India, with cloud-first delivery of public services, modernized digital infrastructure, and expanding domestic data center capacity to support AI growth and data localization. As more critical workloads move to shared cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, the number of users, access points, APIs, and short-lived workloads expands dramatically, increasing the risk of misconfigurations, unintended access, and real-time exploitation.
That risk is already material. In a 2025 study, 85% of large enterprises in India experienced at least one cloud security incident, and the average total cost of a data breach in India reached ₹220 million. In this environment, periodic checks and traditional controls are no longer sufficient. Runtime cloud security is becoming essential, enabling organizations to focus on what is actively running, reachable, and exploitable in dynamic cloud environments. Upwind is already seeing strong traction across India’s BFSI, digital commerce, media and SaaS sectors, where enterprises are rapidly prioritizing real-time visibility into cloud and AI workloads.
“India’s Digital India agenda is accelerating cloud adoption at national scale, from modern enterprises to critical public services, and that makes runtime cloud security a strategic imperative,” said Amiram Shachar, Co-founder and CEO of Upwind. “Attackers operate in real time, and today’s cloud environments change by the minute. Upwind was built to give teams an inside-out view of risk grounded in runtime context so they can cut through noise and identify what truly matters to the business, to focus on actual risk and act decisively. As cloud and AI become foundational to India’s economic growth and digital resilience, security must evolve to match that speed and scale. We’re doubling down on India with local infrastructure, regional expertise, and a partner ecosystem to help customers protect the cloud as it operates in production and drive secure innovation with confidence.”
“As someone who has closely watched India’s cloud evolution from both the boardroom and the front lines of security leadership, the shift is clear: cloud risk is no longer theoretical, it’s operational, immediate, and directly tied to business resilience,” said Rinki Sethi, CISO, Upwind. “In India, organizations are rapidly scaling cloud-native applications, APIs, containers, and AI-driven workloads while navigating evolving requirements like the DPDP Act, CERT-In directions, and sector-specific cybersecurity expectations. At this scale, security is no longer just a technical function, it is a strategic enabler and a governance priority. Decisions have to happen at runtime, with real-time visibility into what’s live, reachable, and at risk. That level of clarity and precision is essential to protecting modern cloud infrastructure, safeguarding customer trust, protecting revenue and reputation, and maintaining regulatory confidence. Upwind’s runtime-first approach delivers that clarity for India enterprises, backed by local presence and the expertise teams need to respond at the pace and complexity of modern cloud.”
Local Infrastructure, India-Based Expertise, and Partner-Led Growth
Upwind’s India expansion is anchored in an in-country SaaS instance designed to support enterprise requirements around data residency, performance, and operational resilience. The company is also investing in scaling on-the-ground teams across engineering, field sales, solutions architecture, marketing, and customer support to ensure customers and partners have access to regional expertise aligned with India’s market realities.
Upwind’s India expansion is built on a partner-first approach. Over the past year, Upwind has added 100+ new partners across ISVs, MSPs and resellers, strengthened its strategic partnership with NVIDIA and hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, and recently announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), further strengthening its expansion. As a select CNAPP partner integrated into the Extended Plan for AWS Security Hub, Upwind is embedded within AWS’s consolidated security operating model, enabling customers to procure, deploy, and operate runtime-first cloud security through a simplified single-vendor AWS experience.
Together, this ecosystem approach enables enterprises across India to integrate runtime intelligence seamlessly into their existing cloud environments, reduce operational friction across security and engineering teams, and prioritize active, real-time risk that matters most to their business, strengthening security outcomes while supporting sustainable growth across the region.
$250 Million Series B Funding: Powering Upwind’s next phase of growth and Innovation
Upwind recently closed a $250 million Series B round, marking an important step in the company’s continued growth. The funding is not just a financial milestone, but a clear reflection of the trust customers place in Upwind to address increasingly complex AI-driven and cloud security challenges. With this investment, the company will further strengthen its product capabilities, enhance AI-powered threat detection and prioritization, and expand its global footprint, continuing to support security, DevOps and engineering teams in securing cloud environments with greater clarity and speed.
“As our cloud and Kubernetes footprint expanded, we needed a single, real-time console to manage our overall security posture,” said Vishal Arora, Head of DevOps, Cloud & Platform Engineering at Times Internet. “Upwind provided unified visibility, deep workload intelligence, and actionable risk prioritization across environments. This significantly reduced alert fatigue, improved response times, and enabled us to innovate securely at scale while staying aligned with evolving compliance and resilience needs.”
“For a digital platform like CRED, where millions of members rely on us to protect sensitive financial data, cloud security has to be precise, responsive, and embedded into how we build,” said Himanshu Kumar Das, CISO at CRED. “As our infrastructure scaled, we needed stronger alignment between security and engineering around what truly poses risk to the business. Upwind helped us filter out noise and focus on the issues that could directly impact security, service integrity, availability, customer trust, or regulatory posture. That clarity has enabled faster decision-making, tighter execution across teams, and a more resilient foundation as we continue to scale.”
Supporting India’s Digital Growth and Evolving Enterprise Requirements
Upwind’s continued investment in India reflects the country’s accelerating cloud and AI adoption and the growing enterprise need for real-time security outcomes tied to availability, revenue, and customer trust. Upwind accelerates Viksit Bharat via secure AI/cloud infrastructure as India’s digital economy scales and regulatory expectations evolve. Upwind’s runtime-first approach is designed to help organizations protect modern cloud environments as they operate in real time.