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Google Parent Alphabet is in conversations to buy Cyber Security Start-up Wiz for about 30 billion USD and to create the prerequisites for the greatest acquisition in the history of the search giant, according to the persons familiar with the matter.
Alphabet held talks last year on the takeover of Wiz in the amount of USD 23 billion, although the negotiations collapsed After some of the directors and investors of the Cyber Security Company worried about antitrust contracts. Alphabet has now returned with an offer of more than $ 30 billion, one person said.
The new conversations with deal talks continued and an agreement could soon be made, three people said. A takeover of WIZ would be one of the largest business of the year and would probably still be exposed to examination of the Federal Trade Commission under President Donald Trump, whose new chairman Andrew Ferguson has retained guidelines to give the agency the opportunity to block large deals that is used by its predecessor Lina Khan.
Alphabet did not respond to inquiries about comments on the conversations. Wiz refused to comment.
WIZ was founded by alumni of the Israel’s elite cyber intelligence unit in 2020. Cyber security Services for the cloud. The company is one of the fastest growing software start-ups of all time and benefits from an increase in sales, since companies are increasingly moving their business to the cloud.
According to the co-founder Roy Reznik, $ 500 million in recurring income of $ 500 million was achieved in recurring recurring earnings-a profit meter that was doubled last year in 2025. The group offers Cloud Safety services for almost half of the 100 largest largest companies in America, according to his website.
The possible connection, which was reported for the first time by Wall Street Journal, takes place in a slow environment for dealmaking, since the uncertainty of trade policy under Trump’s new administration and market turbulence has cooled hope for fusions and an acquisition boom.
The dealmakers had feared that large tech takeovers in the context of the current administration may be particularly difficult, as Vice President JD Vance said that he believes that Big Tech has “too much power”.
In 2022, 1 billion USD was recently collected by a group of $ 12 billion by a group of investors under the direction of Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Thrive Capital. The company is also supported by investors such as Index Ventures, Insight Partners, G Squared, Sequoia Capital, Greenoaks, Cyberstarts and Wellington.
Wiz had said after the talks alphabet Last summer it bubbles that it would follow an initial public offer.
A takeover of Wiz would be far greater than all previous Alphabet offers. The company’s largest offer to date was the acquisition of Gadget Maker Motorola Mobility in the amount of USD 12.5 billion, which it has sold since then. In 2022, Alphabet paid USD 5.4 billion to acquire the cyber security company Mandiant to improve its Google Cloud product.
Alphabet has searched for opportunities to increase its income from cloud computing services in order to compensate for its dependence on searched advertising revenue. Google Cloud remains a distant third in Global market share With about 12 percent behind Microsoft’s Azure with 21 percent and Leader Amazon Web Services with almost a third.
