Dreeze Exits Stealth With $33M Seed to Revive Whole Cloud Apps

Dreeze launched out of stealth with $33 million in seed funding and a platform that restores entire cloud applications, not just their data. Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Claltech. That's a serious seed check for a company founded only in 2025 — and it signals how hot the recovery problem has become for enterprises running production workloads in the cloud.

The company will spend the capital on product development, expanded sales and marketing teams, and pushing its Application Revival technology to more enterprise customers.

What problem does Dreeze actually solve?

Modern cloud applications don't run on data alone. They depend on infrastructure, configurations, identities, security keys, secrets, connections and other resources operating alongside the underlying data. Traditional backup products can restore the information while leaving technology teams to reconstruct every remaining dependency by hand.

That manual reconstruction is the gap Dreeze targets. Its platform:

• Maps the resources and dependencies associated with an application
• Protects the components required for operation
• Executes recovery in the necessary sequence
• Lets customers validate the process before an outage ever occurs

The dependency-mapping capability monitors live cloud environments and generates recovery plans as applications evolve. A vaulted backup system protects data, configurations, keys and other dependencies in immutable, isolated storage, with optional replication across regions.

How does 'Revival Automation' work in practice?

The core engine, Revival Automation, rebuilds application data, infrastructure, identities, configurations and connections in dependency order. Customers can then run automated end-to-end tests that produce a functioning application — without touching production systems or requiring manual cleanup afterward.

For practitioners, that last part matters most. DR testing has historically meant weekend war rooms and cleanup scripts. Dreeze turns it into a routine, repeatable check.

Availability is split across the two major clouds. Dreeze for Amazon Web Services is generally available today. Its Microsoft Azure product sits in early access, with general availability expected in early 2027.

Who's behind it?

The founding team brings serious recovery pedigree. Avi Raichel and brothers Ziv and Oded Kedem founded Dreeze in 2025 after careers as backup and recovery executives. They previously built Zerto, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Kashya, acquired by EMC.

Ziv Kedem, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dreeze, framed the thesis bluntly: "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."

Jeremy Miller, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coravant, described the customer view from the start: "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."

Dror Nahumi, General Partner at Norwest, backed the founders' track record: "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."

What does this change for the market?

Dreeze enters at a moment when cyberattacks, AI adoption and growing cloud complexity are all raising the operational risk of application outages. Backup vendors have treated data restoration as the finish line; Dreeze is betting that enterprises will pay for full application recovery as a distinct discipline.

The company currently employs 70 people across Israel and the U.S. With AWS availability now, an Azure roadmap running into early 2027, and founders who have sold recovery companies to HPE and EMC before, the question isn't whether Application Revival gets a hearing — it's whether the incumbents in backup move fast enough to match it.