Cloud-Native Disaster Recovery, Built for the Way Modern Infrastructure Actually Runs

Founded: 2019

Valor Investment: Lead / largest investor in first institutional round (2021)

Category: Cloud Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, DevOps, Cyber Resilience

Why Valor Invested

Valor was the largest single investor in Arpio’s first outside financing in 2021 because we believed disaster recovery was overdue for a cloud-native reset.

As enterprises moved from on-prem infrastructure to cloud platforms, disaster recovery tooling failed to keep up. Legacy solutions were built for servers and data—not for the dynamic, distributed, service-oriented architectures that power modern applications. The result: fragile recovery plans, manual processes, and unacceptable downtime risk.

Arpio stood out because it didn’t attempt to retrofit old ideas onto the cloud. The team built the first disaster recovery platform designed specifically for cloud-native environments, starting with AWS and expanding deliberately across hyperscalers.

What Arpio Does

Arpio protects cloud environments from catastrophic downtime caused by:

• Cloud region failures

• Ransomware and malware

• Human error and misconfiguration

• Infrastructure and dependency failures

Arpio’s SaaS platform provides total environment recovery, not just data backup. It understands and rebuilds the full cloud operating environment—compute, storage, networking, identity, managed services, and dependencies—so applications can be restored quickly and correctly.

Today, Arpio is an emerging category leader in disaster recovery for:

• Amazon Web Services

• Microsoft Azure

Built Differently: Cloud-Native by Design

Total Environment Recovery

Unlike legacy DR tools that focus only on data and servers, Arpio captures and restores the entire cloud application stack—supporting virtualized, containerized, and serverless workloads, as well as managed data services.

Unmatched Cloud Coverage

Arpio supports over 100 cloud-native resources across dozens of AWS and Azure services, with new services added continuously. No other provider comes close in breadth or depth.

Best Practices, Out of the Box

Arpio is built around the Well-Architected Frameworks of AWS and Azure, embedding resilience best practices by default—without requiring customers to become cloud experts.

Industry-Leading Security Model

Arpio operates as a secure orchestration layer on top of native cloud services. It:

• Cannot see or exfiltrate customer data

• Requires no destructive or privileged access

• Is SOC 2 certified and HIPAA compliant

This design makes Arpio suitable for highly regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, and government.

Automated, Continuous Replication

Arpio automatically discovers application dependencies, detects infrastructure changes in real time, and continuously replicates environments to a secure recovery region—without manual reconfiguration.

Ransomware-Ready Recovery

With immutable, air-gapped backups and quarantine-mode recovery, Arpio enables safe forensic analysis and rapid restoration after ransomware attacks.

Who It’s For

Arpio serves cloud-forward enterprises and technology-driven organizations that run mission-critical workloads in AWS and Azure, including:

• Travel and hospitality leaders

• Global manufacturing and logistics firms

• Healthcare and regulated services

• High-growth SaaS companies

Momentum Since Valor Invested

Since Valor invested in Arpio's first round:

• Product expansion:

  • Deepened AWS platform capabilities

  • Successfully launched Azure disaster recovery, extending Arpio’s multi-cloud footprint

• Ecosystem validation:

  • Recognized by G2 as a Top Performer and Easiest-to-Use solution in its category

  • Strengthened its partnership with Amazon, solidifying its role in the AWS ecosystem

• Commercial growth:

  • Adoption by large, cloud-native enterprises with complex environments

  • Attracted major customers including Choice Hotels, Finnair, Ricoh, and Scotts Miracle-Gro, validating the platform at scale.

  • Expansion beyond early adopters into regulated and global customers

• Follow-on capital:

  • Raised a significant growth round led by S3 Ventures, alongside strong existing investors

These milestones reflect Arpio’s transition from category pioneer to trusted infrastructure layer for cloud resilience.

Why It Matters

Region-wide failures, security incidents, and simple human errors routinely take down applications that businesses—and customers—depend on.

Arpio matters because it makes resilience practical:

• Disaster recovery becomes automated, testable, and fast

• Engineering teams can focus on innovation instead of contingency planning

• Businesses gain confidence that critical services will survive the unexpected

In a world where downtime equals lost revenue, broken trust, and operational chaos, Arpio turns disaster recovery from a liability into a competitive advantage.

Valor’s Perspective

Arpio reflects exactly what Valor looks for in early investments:

a clear technical inflection point, founders with lived domain insight, and a product that defines a mission-critical category.