Dreeze, a cloud backup and recovery specialist, has come out of stealth with $33m in seed capital and made its Application Revival platform generally available, aiming to restore entire cloud applications rather than only the data behind them.
Norwest and Bessemer Venture Partners co-led the round, with Claltech also taking part. The company will put the capital towards faster product development, expanding its sales and marketing functions and reaching a wider base of enterprise customers as appetite grows for stronger cloud application recovery.
The startup argues that conventional backup leaves a dangerous gap. Even when data is successfully restored, a business may still be unable to function, because modern cloud-native applications rely on far more than stored information.
Infrastructure, configuration settings, identities, secrets, keys and connections must all be reinstated alongside the data and in the correct sequence.
Where any element is absent, IT staff are forced to track down credentials, consult outdated runbooks and reconstruct dependencies manually. Dreeze describes this as the “recovery scramble”, a process that can stretch outages from hours into days or weeks while applications stay offline despite the data being available.
Application Revival is designed to remove that uncertainty before an incident occurs. The platform charts every component an application requires, safeguards those resources, runs recovery automatically and lets organisations confirm in advance that recovery will work.
Its functionality rests on four pillars. The Know module uses autonomous dependency mapping to link each resource to the application it supports, producing a recovery plan drawn from the live environment that updates as systems change. Protect provides vaulted backup of data, configuration, keys and other dependencies, held in an immutable, air-gapped vault with optional cross-region replication.
Orchestrate carries out the full recovery plan, rebuilding data, infrastructure, configuration, identity and connections according to their dependencies. Validate tests recoverability by executing the entire plan as an automated end-to-end exercise that produces a working application, without affecting production systems or requiring manual clean-up. Combined, these tools give enterprises a proven plan for reviving applications after an outage or disruption.
Dreeze co-founder and CEO Ziv Kedem said, “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.”
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