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Combine the power of cloud security posture with runtime context and realtime protection— enabling your security team to prioritize accurately and respond fast to your most critical risks. observed
No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.
The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is listed in the ranked index, but not in its Early-stage view: its latest round is $100M or more and no source states its stage. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.
We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.
Assessed 2026-11-12 for seed/Series-A sourcing.
Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.
↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (25% of the score).
↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.
The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened
Not evaluated ≠ false — the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. A forecast with no target date cannot be graded and is counted as insufficient temporal evidence. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.
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The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake observations. Where one was recorded before a raise, the gap is shown; that is an observation, not a prediction.
VentureSignalScore 75.3/100 for upwind, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage
| Component | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| funding_recency | 0.2 | 0.9549 | |
| funding_magnitude | 0.3 | 0.8408 |
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-28 artifact ↗ funding.round.amount_usd 2026-10-28 artifact ↗ An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.
A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.
A reported round dated 2026-10-28 by its own source.
Gray-market attention, not quality. 3+ HN mentions (peak 8 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 8 Ask HN: Freemium: how far upwind should I stay 2010-03-12 ↗
Showing the 29 current records. Full observation history — 20 superseded records →
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ai.document.claims | {"claims": [{"claim": "Upwind raised a $400M Series C funding round.", "quote": "Upwind raises $400M Series C funding round to secure the cloud & AI for the world →", "topic": "Funding", "section": 0, | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-11-13 | promoted | 0.50 |
ai.technical.assessment | {"council": {"dissent": true, "members": [{"agent": "technical_specialist", "domain": "technical", "signal": 0.7, "signal_source": "model"}, {"agent": "product_docs_specialist", "domain": "product_doc | derived | council | 2026-11-13 | promoted | 0.27 |
buyer_fit.assessment | {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. | observed | readiness | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.90 |
buyer_fit.status | unknown | observed | assessment | 2026-11-12 | normalized | 0.90 |
common_name | Upwind | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.90 |
common_name | Upwind | Cloud & AI Security for the Realtime Era | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.60 |
community.hn.max_points | 8 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 3 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [] | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1188084", "title": "Ask HN: Freemium: how far upwind should I stay", "points": 8, "created_at": "2010-03-12"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2010-03-12 | normalized | 0.20 |
description | Combine the power of cloud security posture with runtime context and realtime protection— enabling your security team to prioritize accurately and respond fast to your most critical risks. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.70 |
domain | www.upwind.io | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.95 |
funding.round.amount_usd | 400000000 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.announced_on | 2026-10-28 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.lead_investors | [] | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.source_url | https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/28/cloud-security-startup-upwind-raises-400m-at-3-8b-valuation-as-revenue-quadruples/ | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.90 |
gate.accumulation | {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 14, "source_id": "01M7BM4Y9WZTVPG8CW85Q2G0RE", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.60 |
jobs.board_url | https://www.upwind.io/careers | observed | page | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.85 |
jobs.postings.engineering | 33 | observed | page | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.85 |
jobs.postings.observed | {"url": "https://www.upwind.io/careers", "basis": "job_links", "method": "read automatically from the job links on the company's own careers page (two or more distinct titles required)", "titles": ["C | observed | page | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.85 |
jobs.postings.total | 89 | observed | page | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.85 |
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd | 400000000 | derived | calc | 2026-10-28 | derived | 0.90 |
metric.venture.funding_recency_days | 17.0808 | derived | calc | 2026-11-14 | derived | 0.90 |
platform.visibility | published | observed | inclusion | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 1.00 |
score.venture_signal | 75.3 | derived | calc | 2026-11-13 | derived | 0.60 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "document", "title": "upwind: Upwind Security: Cloud & AI Security for the Realtime Era", "source_id": "01M7BM4Y9WZTVPG8CW85Q2G0RE", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:73a8ac2018a0b636bfbb8cc96b | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-11-13 | normalized | 0.95 |
website_url | https://www.upwind.io | observed | enrichment | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.75 |
website_url | https://www.upwind.io | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.95 |
website.homepage.has_pricing_link | false | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-28 | normalized | 0.80 |