Yinon Costica

Origins and early life

Yinon Costica is a co-founder of Wiz and its vice-president for product.

Work and career

It is he who tells how the four met: on the bus to the induction centre, 'and we have been working together ever since'. Sources disagree on whether he was among the founders of Adallom: Wikipedia's article on Wiz counts all four, while its article on Adallom names only Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik. He and his three future partners met in July 2001 on the bus to the IDF induction centre and served together in the Intelligence Corps, in Units 8200 and 81.

In January 2020 the four founded Wiz, a cloud security company that scans infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and Kubernetes for combinations of risk that would let an attacker take control or carry data off. Wiz claimed in 2022 to be the fastest company ever to go from one million to a hundred million dollars of annual recurring revenue; by late 2024 it employed some two thousand people, most of its engineers in Tel Aviv.

In March 2025 Alphabet announced it would buy the company for about 32 billion dollars, and the sale closed on 11 March 2026: the largest acquisition of an Israeli technology company to date. The Jerusalem Post placed the four founders tenth in its list of the fifty most influential Jews of 2025.