Dreeze wants to solve a problem traditional backups often leave behind: recovering an entire functioning application, not just its data.
Dreeze has emerged from stealth with $33 million in seed funding co-led by Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Claltech.
The company was founded in 2025 by Ziv Kedem, Oded Kedem and Avi Raichel.
The founding team previously worked together on enterprise data protection technology, including Zerto, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2021.
Backing Up Data Isn't the Same as Recovering an Application
Modern cloud applications depend on many interconnected components.
Beyond databases, a working application may require cloud infrastructure, network configurations, identities, credentials and integrations with external services.
Traditional backup products can restore data while leaving engineering teams to reconstruct the systems surrounding it.
Dreeze calls its approach Application Revival.
The platform maps application dependencies, prepares recovery plans and orchestrates restoration across the resources needed to bring an application back online.
It also supports recovery testing before an actual incident occurs.
Why the Market Is Changing
Cyberattacks, cloud outages and increasingly complex infrastructure create demand for reliable recovery systems.
AI-driven development may accelerate this complexity as software and infrastructure change more frequently.
Dreeze is entering a competitive market that includes major cloud providers and established backup vendors.
Its potential advantage is focusing on the entire application rather than individual databases or virtual machines.
The company has made its AWS offering generally available and is developing broader cloud support.
The next test will be demonstrating consistently faster and more reliable recovery across complex enterprise deployments.
Founders: Ziv Kedem, Oded Kedem and Avi Raichel. Investors: Norwest, Bessemer and Claltech.