Arpio, a Durham, North Carolina company that automates disaster recovery for cloud environments, raised a $15m Series A, announced on 3 June 2026. S3 Ventures and Paladin Capital Group co-led the round, and Draper Associates, Uncorrelated, Valor Ventures, CreativeCo Capital and Lookout Ventures also took part.
The company did not disclose a valuation. VC News Daily dated its report on the announcement 4 June, a day later than the date used here.
Chief executive Doug Neumann said the funding will allow the company to expand its market presence among AWS and Azure customers, add capabilities including an AI roadmap and grow the team.
What Arpio does
Arpio describes itself as an AI-native recovery and resilience platform for cloud environments. It replicates and recovers cloud workloads, and runs failover tests without affecting production systems. The company says enterprises can use it to recover critical systems after ransomware, outages and other disruptive events in minutes rather than days, and to check their resilience before an incident happens.
The platform currently supports Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Fundraise Insider reported that the new money will deepen those capabilities and extend support to Google Cloud and other AI-native services.
Arpio was founded in 2020 by Neumann and Shaw Terwilliger.
Who invested
Paladin Capital Group's principal Tom Clute said ransomware has permanently raised the bar for resilience. Eric Engineer, a general partner at S3 Ventures, said it is not a matter of if, but when an enterprise has downtime for critical services.
S3 Ventures also led Arpio's previous round, which the company announced on 14 August 2023. Drawing on the company's 2023 post, that round was $8.2m, with Companyon Ventures, TDF Ventures and CreativeCo Capital joining as new investors and Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures, Triangle Tweener Fund and Valor Ventures participating as existing ones.
How the earlier money was used
In the 2023 announcement Neumann wrote that the company would use the capital primarily to build out sales and marketing to match its technical talent. It also hired Andrew Black, previously at Google, Okta and Pendo, as chief revenue officer, and planned to hire product managers and engineers.
That post said Arpio had enterprise customers on every continent except Antarctica and that its product covered more than 100 AWS resources, with more added weekly. These were the company's own claims at the time.
The funding so far
The 2023 post also referred to an earlier pre-seed round and to the company's time in Y Combinator, though it gave no amounts. None of the sources opened gave a total funding figure, and published totals from data aggregators conflicted, so none is stated here.
The sources also did not report Arpio's headcount or customer names. Fundraise Insider cited market figures of 24 days of average downtime for ransomware victims and recovery costs, excluding ransom, averaging $1.53m in 2025, but did not say where they came from, so they are not relied on here.
Company website: arpio.io