Dreeze has emerged from stealth with $33 million in seed funding and launched a cloud recovery platform designed to restore complete applications rather than data alone. Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners led the funding, with participation from Claltech. Dreeze will use the capital to accelerate product development, expand its sales and marketing teams, and bring its Application Revival technology to additional enterprise customers.
Modern cloud applications depend on infrastructure, configurations, identities, security keys, secrets, connections, and other resources operating alongside their underlying data. Traditional backup products may successfully restore information while leaving technology teams to reconstruct the remaining dependencies manually.
Dreeze developed its platform to automate that process. It maps the resources and dependencies associated with an application, protects the components required for operation, executes recovery in the necessary sequence, and allows customers to validate the process before an outage occurs.
The platform’s dependency-mapping capability monitors live cloud environments and generates recovery plans as applications evolve. Its vaulted backup system protects data, configurations, keys, and other dependencies in immutable, isolated storage, with optional replication across regions.
Revival Automation rebuilds application data, infrastructure, identities, configurations, and connections in dependency order. Customers can then run automated end-to-end tests that create a functioning application without affecting production systems or requiring manual cleanup.
Dreeze for Amazon Web Services is generally available. Its Microsoft Azure product is in early access and is expected to become generally available in early 2027.
The company was founded in 2025 by backup and recovery executives Avi Raichel and brothers Ziv and Oded Kedem. The founders previously built Zerto, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Kashya, which was acquired by EMC.
Dreeze has 70 employees across Israel and the U.S. Its launch comes as cyberattacks, AI adoption, and growing cloud complexity increase the operational risks associated with application outages.
KEY QUOTES
“Our customers have moved production workloads into the public cloud, and most of them can back up that data without much trouble. Recovery is what worries them: getting a whole application running again, with every dependency in the right order. Dreeze was built around that problem, which is why we wanted to work with them from the start.”
Jeremy Miller, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coravant
“Companies have spent years getting better at backing up data, but getting the data back doesn’t mean the business is back. With cyber threats increasing and AI introducing new risks, enterprises need to assume that critical applications will go down. We started Dreeze because recovery needs to go further. 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.”
Ziv Kedem, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dreeze
“At Kashya, Zerto and now at Dreeze, Ziv, Oded and Avi have spent decades together building recovery technology that enterprises rely on. They know first-hand how the market needs to evolve. As cloud environments grow more complex and the cost of downtime rises, enterprises need a better way to prepare for failure. Few teams understand the recovery problem as deeply as this one.”
Dror Nahumi, General Partner at Norwest
