Wing Cloud, an Israeli developer of the open-source Winglang cloud programming language, has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Battery Ventures, which has offices in New York and Boston, and other Israeli venture firms and angel investors.
The stealth startup, which has its U.S. headquarters in Wilmington, Del., is backed by Israel’s Grove Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners and Operator Partners. Angel investors include Datadog president Amit Agarwal, HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar, Salto co-founder Benny Schnaider, and Stedi’s Zack Kanter.
Winglang integrates infrastructure and application code, easing development of cloud-native apps that work across varied cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
“We’re abstracting away a lot of the gritty details of building applications on top of cloud infrastructure,” said Wing Cloud co-founder and CEO Elad Ben-Israel, a former AWS and Microsoft engineer. “The cloud has evolved into an incredibly powerful computing platform, but customers still find themselves having to deal with burdensome tasks across security, networking, deployment and operations to build and manage even the simplest systems.”
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Wing Cloud was co-founded by Ben-Israel, who has built multiple open-source cloud projects, and Shai Ber, a former Microsoft software developer. Shai Ber, who is Wing Cloud’s chief operating officer, also founded Aniways, which was acquired by Verizon in 2015.
Winglang “provides cloud developers with a simple experience as if they were building monolithic applications, without having to compromise on the scalability, availability, and flexibility the cloud has to offer,” said Barak Schoster Goihman, venture partner at Battery. Goihman was previously a software architect at Palo Alto Networks.
Wing Cloud on Tuesday also announced the launch of a private beta of its first commercial offering — a visual cloud management solution that provides developers and operators a shared, real-time view of an application’s architecture and data flow.
