Google has successfully completed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli-American cybersecurity startup that provides comprehensive protection for everything a company builds and runs in the cloud. The company will join Google Cloud but "maintain its brand and commitment to securing customers across all cloud environments."
In its announcement blog post, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian promised that the company will combine the Wiz Cloud Security Platform with Google Security Operations and that the firm will continue to work with other major cloud providers.
Google Cloud will continue to partner with other leading cloud security providers in our Marketplace to offer customers choice. We will enable system integrators, resellers, and managed security service providers to offer broader solutions and services to our customers, as well as provide new integration opportunities for our technical partners. We maintain our full, longstanding commitment to industry standards and the open source community.
Wiz was founded six years ago by four Israeli cybersecurity veterans. The company maintains a massive research and development presence in Israel, though it is headquartered in New York. Its elite "Wiz Research" team, which operates largely out of Israel, is responsible for uncovering major industry vulnerabilities, like the recent Moltbook "hack" that exposed millions of API keys.
Google"s $32 billion acquisition of the company represents the single largest exit in the Israeli high-tech sector, far higher than Intel"s $15.3 billion acquisition of the Israeli autonomous driving company Mobileye in 2017. It is also the biggest purchase in Google"s corporate history, a long journey from when Wiz rejected a lower $23 billion offer from Google back in 2024. By the way, Wiz threw a $3 million party in Tel Aviv to celebrate this acquisition.
The road to the acquisition was plagued with antitrust scrutiny, partially because Wiz"s software secures infrastructure across Google"s main rivals, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. In November 2025, however, the deal finally got the green light from the US Department of Justice. This approval was followed by the European Union"s unconditional approval for the merger last month.