Arpio Raises $15 Million to Advance AI-Native Automated Recovery Platform for Cloud Environments

Arpio, an AI-native recovery and resilience platform for cloud environments, announced the close of a $15 million Series A financing co-led by S3 Ventures and Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Draper Associates, Uncorrelated, Valor Ventures, CreativeCo Capital, and Lookout Ventures. As cyberattacks, cloud disruptions, and infrastructure failures become more frequent, Arpio enables enterprises to rapidly recover its critical systems from ransomware, outages, and other disruptive events in minutes rather than days, and validate resilience before incidents occur.

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The new capital will support continued expansion of Arpio’s recovery and cyber resilience platform, deepening capabilities across AWS and Microsoft Azure while expanding support to Google Cloud and other AI-native services.

Founded in 2020 by Doug Neumann and Shaw Terwilliger, Arpio was designed from the ground up to provide native recovery for cloud applications. The platform enables enterprises to automate disaster recovery and rapidly restore operations following ransomware, cloud provider outages, accidental errors, destructive attacks, and failures across increasingly complex AI-native environments.

“Over the last decade, we’ve seen cloud-hosted applications become an integral part of every facet of life and business. Ensuring that when disaster strikes, there is a plan to rapidly recover that workload and take downtime from days and weeks to hours and minutes has never been more important,” said Doug Neumann, CEO of Arpio. “This funding will allow us to expand our market presence among AWS & Azure customers, bring critical new capabilities into the platform including our AI roadmap, and grow our world-class team to advance our cloud resilience mission.”

In addition to supporting automated recovery when incidents occur, Arpio enables organizations to automate end-to-end failover testing to validate that recovery plans will work when needed. Testing can be performed without production impact, eliminating what has historically been a painful, manual process. As cyber resilience expectations continue to rise from customers, regulators, and boards, enterprises face growing pressure to demonstrate recoverability and prove business continuity before incidents occur.

“Ransomware has permanently raised the bar for resilience. It’s no longer enough for a workload to come back. Recovery has to be automated, near instantaneous, and trusted, and legacy disaster recovery tools simply can’t do that,” said Tom Clute, a Principal at Paladin Capital Group. “Nearly every day brings another headline about an organization that couldn’t recover when it mattered most. Arpio is one of the few cloud-native platforms built from day one for this challenge, combining AI, automation and continuous testing so enterprises can prove recovery works before they need it.”

“As each day passes, AI technologies are increasing the vulnerability of cloud workloads—from both external threats and internal errors. It’s not a matter of if, but when an enterprise has downtime for critical services. At that crucial moment, enterprises using Arpio will be the best at responding quickly and seamlessly—thereby avoiding the financial and reputational damage suffered by peers who are slower to recover from such incidents,” said Eric Engineer, General Partner at S3 Ventures.

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