Dreeze Emerges From Stealth With $33 million to Rebuild Cloud Apps After

Dreeze, a cloud application recovery startup founded by veterans of Zerto and Kashya, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $33 million seed round and a platform built to restore entire cloud applications after a cyberattack — not just the data inside them. As SecurityWeek's report details, the round was led by Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Claltech also participating.

This article covers the company's founding story, how its Application Revival platform works, the current state of its cloud support, and what problem it is actually trying to solve — aimed at enterprise security and IT teams responsible for incident response and business continuity.

01$33 Million Seed Round Led by Norwest and Bessemer

Dreeze was founded in 2025 by Avi Raichel and brothers Ziv and Oded Kedem, all three of whom previously worked together at Zerto — a disaster recovery company HPE later acquired — and at Kashya. The company's staff is split between Israel and the United States, reflecting its dual-country operating model from the start.

The $33 million seed will be deployed across product development, expanded sales and marketing teams, and broader enterprise adoption. That is a substantial seed for an infrastructure security startup, and the participation of both Norwest and Bessemer signals early institutional confidence in the founding team's thesis about where cloud recovery has fallen short.

02Recovery Gap Between Data and Running Applications

The core argument Dreeze is making is that recovering data after an incident is not the same as recovering an application. A cyberattack or even a misconfigured AI agent can leave a company's underlying data completely intact while destroying the configurations, secrets, infrastructure definitions, and service connections the application depends on to function.

That gap — data back but application still down — is the problem Dreeze is trying to close. CEO Ziv Kedem framed it directly: "Companies have spent years getting better at backing up data, but getting the data back doesn't mean the business is back." He added that with cyber threats increasing and AI introducing new operational risks, enterprises need to assume that critical applications will go down.

03Application Revival Platform and Its Vault Architecture

Dreeze's platform is called Application Revival. It continuously scans a customer's cloud environment, maps which resources and dependencies belong to which application, and generates a recovery plan from the live environment rather than from a static snapshot taken at a fixed point in time.

Backups of both data and configurations are stored alongside those recovery plans in an immutable, isolated vault that remains under the customer's control. In a live recovery scenario, Application Revival automatically reconstructs the full application, not just its data layer. Customers can also run recovery tests in an isolated cloud account with no production impact, allowing them to validate their recovery plans before they actually need them.

04AWS Generally Available, Azure in Early Access

The AWS version of the Application Revival platform is generally available as of the company's public launch. Microsoft Azure support is currently in early access, with general availability expected in early 2027.

That roadmap means enterprises running primarily on AWS can adopt the platform immediately, while Azure-heavy organizations face a roughly one-year wait for full support. No timeline was given for other cloud providers. Dreeze has not disclosed pricing or the number of enterprise customers it had in private deployment before the stealth exit.

05AI Agents as a New Recovery Risk Category

Ziv Kedem's comments introduced AI agents specifically as a new threat vector for application integrity, not just external attackers. An AI agent operating inside an enterprise environment could make configuration changes or trigger sequences of actions that leave an application's supporting infrastructure in an inconsistent or broken state — with no data loss to trigger traditional backup alerts.

"We started Dreeze because recovery needs to go further," Kedem said. "Our goal is to make Application Revival the new standard, so companies know they have a proven path to bring their applications back when something goes wrong." The pitch positions Application Revival as a response to both ransomware and the operational failures that autonomous software agents could introduce as enterprises deploy more of them.