New Delhi, April 24 -- Cloud security is entering a more demanding phase. For years, enterprises have focused on posture management, configuration checks, compliance gaps and vulnerability lists. Much of this has come together under CNAPP, or Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, which brings cloud security, workload protection, compliance and vulnerability management into one platform. Those controls remain important, but they do not always answer the question that matters most during an attack: what is actually happening inside a live cloud workload right now?

That is the space Upwind is trying to define for itself. In January 2026, the runtime-first cloud security company raised $250 million in Series B funding, taking its tot...