OLIGO Security Crosses $140M in Total Funding with $60M Round to Stop AI-Driven Attacks
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Wiz specializes in cloud posture and inventory: agentless-first, built around a unified security graph connecting configs, identities, and vulnerabilities across cloud accounts. Oligo specializes in runtime protection across code, apps, AI, and cloud, seeing what's actually executing inside a live application as it happens.
Wiz's graph is built from periodic snapshots and, more recently, a lightweight runtime sensor. Oligo continuously observes the application itself, catching execution, function calls, and library behavior on a live basis, not a scan cycle. Customers usually run both: Wiz for cloud posture and account-wide inventory, Oligo for the runtime and app-layer depth Wiz's platform wasn't built to provide.
CNAPPs watch the cloud from the outside: posture, configuration, identity. They don't see what's executing inside a running application.
Oligo goes one layer deeper. That means Oligo prioritizes vulnerabilities by what's actually exploitable, catches zero-days by behavior and technique rather than signatures, and blocks attacks at the function level, without killing the container.
Customers usually don't replace their CNAPP with Oligo. They pair the two: the CNAPP handles cloud posture, Oligo handles runtime and app-layer protection.
CWP tools protect the workload itself, the VM, container, or host, watching for malware and known threats at the OS layer. That's real protection, but it stops at the workload boundary and doesn't see what's happening inside the application process running on top of it.
Oligo picks up from there. Instead of watching the host for signs of compromise, Oligo watches the application's own function calls and libraries directly, so it catches exploits that never trip a workload-level alert and can prove exactly which vulnerable code path was hit.
CWP and Oligo aren't fighting for the same job. CWP secures the workload, Oligo secures what's running inside it.
AppSec tools (SCA, SAST, DAST) analyze code before it runs: scanning manifests, source, or a staging build to flag what could theoretically be a problem. They're built to catch issues before deployment, not to watch what happens after.
Oligo picks up where that analysis stops. Instead of flagging every declared dependency or theoretical code path, Oligo confirms what's actually loaded, executed, and reachable in production, then proves exploitability with the exact call stack. That turns a long list of possible issues into a short list of real ones.
Most teams keep their AppSec tools and add Oligo alongside them. AppSec catches issues pre-deployment, while Oligo confirms which of those issues are real once the app is running.
APM and observability tools trace latency, errors, and performance signals to keep applications fast and reliable. They're built for uptime and troubleshooting, not for detecting or stopping an attack.
Oligo uses similar runtime depth, but points it at security instead of performance. The same function-level visibility that could explain a slow request also reveals a malicious one, and Oligo can act on it: blocking exploitation at the function level without the outage-style response most tools default to.
APM is for performance and reliability, while Oligo covers the runtime security layer APM was never built to provide.
