Wiz

Wiz made headlines by rejecting Google’s $23 billion acquisition offer, betting its cloud security platform can outperform #4 Datadog in revenue growth. The startup’s agentless scanning technology identifies vulnerabilities across 90% of cloud environments in under 15 minutes, reducing threat mean-time-to-detect by 70% versus the average legacy tool. Wiz protects over 4 million cloud workloads, serving 40% of the Fortune 100, and has tripled annual recurring revenue to $500 million — growing 2.5× faster than the typical security unicorn. By choosing an IPO over acquisition, Wiz signals that its platform’s data-driven threat intelligence, which blocks 99.9% of critical exploits, is worth betting on long-term.