A Historic Move
On March 18, 2025, Alphabet Inc.—Google's parent company—announced a
definitive all-cash agreement to acquire Wiz, a rapidly scaling
cloud-security startup, for a staggering $32 billion, marking the
largest acquisition in Google's history . This acquisition not only
surpasses prior deals like Motorola Mobility in 2012, but also
outshines Google’s 2022 purchase of Mandiant for $5.4 billion .
Why Wiz? Why Now?
Wiz, founded in January 2020 by Israeli entrepreneurs Assaf
Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, rapidly rose
to prominence with its innovative cloud-native application
protection platform (CNAPP), capable of analyzing infrastructure
across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Kubernetes
environment. In just 18 months, Wiz soared from $1 million to
$100 million in annual recurring revenue—one of the fastest growth
rates in SaaS history Wikipedia . By 2024, it had reached about
$350 million ARR, serving nearly 45 percent of Fortune 100
companies. Google aims to harness Wiz’s multicloud capabilities to
bolster its cloud security suite—particularly vital as organizations
increasingly adopt AI-infused, multicloud infrastructures. The goal:
a unified, scalable, and more affordable security platform spanning
Google Cloud and beyond