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TechCrunch — Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer
Upwind, a cloud security startup, raised $400M in Series C funding at a $3.8B valuation after declining a Datadog acquisition offer at the same price. The company chose to remain independent and continue growing rather than accept the acquisition deal.
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Summary
Upwind, a cloud security startup, raised $400M in Series C funding at a $3.8B valuation after declining a Datadog acquisition offer at the same price. The company chose to remain independent and continue growing rather than accept the acquisition deal.
Tags
cloud-security · funding · startup · acquisition · series-c · valuation
Key entities
Upwind (organization, 0.99) · Datadog (organization, 0.99) · TechCrunch (organization, 0.95) · cloud-security (concept, 0.95) · Series-C-funding (concept, 0.98)
Classification
news · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 2 Nov 2026