Tall Poppy

Tall Poppy protects individual employees rather than corporate networks. Its product walks employees through reducing their exposed personal footprint (data broker removal, credential hygiene, authentication hardening with tools like YubiKey and 1Password) before anything happens, and then provides trained, trauma-aware incident responders if an employee is doxxed, harassed, or targeted online. The company frames this as an employee benefit and risk-reduction tool for organizations whose staff, executives, journalists, moderators, researchers, public-facing employees, face a real and growing risk of being personally targeted because of their jobs.

Co-founded in 2018 by Leigh Honeywell (previously a security engineer at Slack and Microsoft) and Logan Dean, and now based in Ottawa, Ontario, Tall Poppy grew out of Honeywell’s earlier volunteer work tracking down online harassment campaigns. The company has reported reaching roughly $2.7 million in revenue in 2024, up from $1.4 million the prior year, with a team of around a dozen to seventeen people, growth that appears to be organically funded rather than driven by large venture rounds.

Tall Poppy sits outside the conventional network- or endpoint-centric security categories: its unit of protection is a person’s personal digital exposure rather than a corporate asset. That makes it a genuinely different offering from traditional data-protection tools, though it also means its efficacy is inherently harder to benchmark than a product with a measurable detection or prevention rate.