Tel Aviv, November 10, 2026 – Dreeze today emerged from stealth with $33 million in seed funding led by Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Claltech, and announced the general availability of its Application Revival platform, pioneering a new approach to cloud backup and recovery that brings back an entire application, not just its data.
Even when traditional backup works exactly as promised, a business can still be left unable to operate. Today’s cloud-native applications depend on far more than data. Infrastructure, configurations, identities, secrets, keys and connections all have to come back together with the data, and in the right order. When those pieces are missing, IT teams are left hunting down credentials, digging through old runbooks and rebuilding dependencies by hand. Dreeze calls this the ‘recovery scramble’. Hours can become days or even weeks while the data is back, but the application remains down.
“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,” said Jeremy Miller, founder and CEO of Coravant. “Dreeze was built around that problem, which is why we wanted to work with them from the start.”
Dreeze is pioneering Application Revival to solve that problem. Instead of waiting for an outage to discover what’s missing, the platform maps everything an application needs, protects those resources, automatically executes a recovery and allows organizations to validate recoverability in advance. When something goes wrong, the path back is already there.
“Companies have spent years getting better at backing up data, but getting the data back doesn’t mean the business is back,” said Ziv Kedem, co-founder and CEO of Dreeze. “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.”
“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,” said Dror Nahumi, general partner at Norwest. “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.”
Introducing Application Revival: ‘Back Means Back.’
Dreeze’s Application Revival platform is built around four capabilities that help enterprises prepare to recover complete cloud applications:
- Know – Autonomous Dependency Mapping
- Maps every resource and dependency to the application it serves and automatically generates a recovery plan built from your live environment as it evolves.
- Protect – Vaulted Backup
- Backs up everything an application needs to run, including data, config, keys, and every other dependency. Stored in an immutable, air-gapped vault with optional replication across regions for resilience.
- Orchestrate – Revival Automation
- Executes the end-to-end recovery plan. Rebuilds data, infrastructure, config, identity and connections in dependency order.
- Validate – Revival Confidence
- Proves recoverability by running the whole plan as an automated, end-to-end test resulting in a fully working application. No production impact or manual cleanup afterward.
Together, these capabilities give enterprises a tested recovery plan to revive their applications when an outage or disruption hits.
Dreeze has 70 employees across Israel and the United States and plans to use the funding to accelerate product innovation, grow its sales and marketing teams, and bring Application Revival to more enterprises as demand grows for a better way to recover cloud applications.
Dreeze for AWS is in General Availability. Dreeze for Microsoft Azure is in Early Access and will GA in early 2027.
To learn more about Dreeze, sign up for our on-demand webinar and visit us at booth #2126 at AWS re:Invent November 30 – December 3, 2026.
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FAQs
What is Application Revival?
Application Revival is an approach to cloud backup and recovery that brings back an entire application, not just its data. Pioneered by Dreeze, it maps everything an application needs to run, protects all of those resources, automatically generates a recovery plan in dependency order, and lets organizations test that plan before an outage. It represents a fundamental shift in cloud recovery, where success is measured by whether the application is back up and running, not simply whether the data has been restored.
What did Dreeze announce on Nov 10, 2026?
Dreeze announced their exit from stealth with $33M in seed funding from Bessemer, Norwest, and Claltech, plus the launch of their new cloud-native backup & recovery platform. Dreeze has created a unique SaaS offering for Application Revival focusing on orchestrated recovery of entire applications, with all their dependencies, and not simply a restore of the underlying data.
Why could my cloud application still be down after I restored it from backup?
Traditional backup restores data, but cloud-native applications also depend on infrastructure, configurations, identities, secrets, keys and connections. If those aren’t restored together, and in the right order, the application can’t run even though the data is back. IT teams are then left hunting for credentials, digging through old runbooks and rebuilding dependencies by hand. Dreeze calls this the “recovery scramble,” and it can turn hours of downtime into days or weeks.
Can AI agents cause outages and how do I recover from them?
Yes. As AI agents gain the ability to act inside production environments, a faulty or misdirected agent can break an application without any cyberattack. Recovering from that kind of incident is the same challenge as any other outage: restoring the full application and all its dependencies in the right order, which is what Application Revival is designed to do.
How is Dreeze different from traditional backup solutions?
Traditional backup tools treat recovery either as a simple data restore or a restore of individual cloud resources, leaving teams to reassemble the application themselves. Dreeze is organized around the application: it autonomously learns which resources belong to each application, protects all of them, orchestrates recovery in dependency order, and validates the result. The approach, called Application Revival, goes beyond just getting the data back and enables enterprises to bring back entire working applications just as they were before. It’s the reason Dreeze says Back Means Back.
Who founded Dreeze and who are its investors?
Dreeze was founded in 2025 by Ziv Kedem, Oded Kedem, and Avi Raichel. Brothers Ziv and Oded Kedem previously founded Zerto (acquired by HPE) and Kashya (acquired by EMC and became Dell RecoverPoint). Avi Raichel was CIO at Zerto and previously served as VP Infrastructure at Amdocs. Dreeze emerged from stealth on November 10, 2026 with $33 million in seed funding co-led by Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Claltech. The company has 70 employees across Israel, the United States, and Canada.
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