Mike Moritz

Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever

Gili Raanan, Molly O'Shea, Assaf, Doug Leone, Mike Moritz

CyberStarts founder Gili Shlomo highlights Wiz's $32 billion valuation as a pivotal moment while warning that the coming decade will usher in autonomous agent warfare that renders traditional human-in-the-loop security measures obsolete. His firm distinguishes itself through a people-first investment thesis that prioritizes founder grit and emotional intelligence over technical pedigree, recently mentoring thirty seed-stage companies toward becoming billion-dollar enterprises. Shlomo projects that this strategy will produce ten new unicorns by year-end, even as he forecasts a volatile interim period where over-provisioned systems and human error create critical vulnerabilities against self-aware threat actors.