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Google completes its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, the cloud security company built by Israeli founders.

The deal announced on 18 March 2025 closes on 11 March 2026, and Wiz joins Google Cloud under its own brand.

The story in numbers.

  • $32billion

    all-cash price, subject to adjustments

    SourceGoogle

  • $320million

    Adallom's sale price to Microsoft in 2015

    SourceCalcalist

  • 4

    founders who met on a 2001 bus

    SourceCalcalist

Here is how it happened.

  • July 2001

    Four future Wiz founders meet on a bus to the army induction center.

    Yinon Costica says the team has worked together ever since. The four serve in the Intelligence Corps, in Units 8200 and 81.

    SourceCalcalist

  • 2012 to 2015

    They found Adallom and sell it to Microsoft for $320 million.

    The group then takes over Microsoft's R&D center in Israel, with Assaf Rappaport as general manager.

    SourceCalcalist

  • 2020

    They leave Microsoft and found Wiz.

    Rappaport is the chief executive and Ami Luttwak the chief technology officer. Roy Reznik leads research and development, and Costica leads product.

    SourceCalcalist

  • 18 March 2025

    Google agrees to buy Wiz for $32 billion in cash.

    The price is subject to closing adjustments. Google describes Wiz as a cloud security platform headquartered in New York.

    SourceGoogle

  • A glass office building with the Google name on its facade, seen through trees and tall grass, with a few people sitting on the lawn

    11 March 2026

    Google completes the acquisition of Wiz.

    Wiz joins Google Cloud and keeps its brand. Its products continue to work on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.

    SourceGoogle

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Here is why it matters.

The four founders had already sold their first company to Microsoft for $320 million. Google says Wiz products will keep working on all major clouds.

Three more milestones to read next.

  • A Mobileye camera mounted behind a car's windscreen

    2017

    Intel agrees to buy Israel's Mobileye for about $15.3 billion.

    Read the story

  • 2021

    monday.com lists on Nasdaq, valuing the Israeli company at $6.8 billion.

    Read the story

  • Uri Levine, a co-founder of Waze, speaking into a microphone

    2013

    Google confirms it is acquiring Waze, the Israeli navigation app.

    Read the story

Where each fact was read.

Sources read on 1 November 2026.