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AI Security

Securing AI/ML systems, models, pipelines, and defending against AI-driven threats.

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Adaptive Security

AI-driven platform that simulates deepfake, voice, and multichannel social-engineering attacks to train and test organizations against next-generation phishing.

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Zenity

Governance and security platform for AI agents and low-code/no-code development, securing agent identity, permissions and behavior across the…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Quilr

Early-stage agentic AI security startup building a 'Service-as-Software' platform to guard against human-related breaches and secure AI agent…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Tenzai

An agentic AI penetration testing startup building autonomous 'AI hackers' to find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities at a…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Gray Swan AI

Carnegie Mellon-linked startup building automated red-teaming and runtime guardrails that frontier AI labs use to stress-test their models…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Charm Security

Agentic AI workforce that investigates and intervenes on scams and fraud in real time, reading manipulation and intent…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Reco

Reco secures the "agentic ecosystem" — mapping what AI agents can access across SaaS and enterprise apps, detecting…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Alice (formerly ActiveFence)

Israeli AI security company (rebranded from ActiveFence in January 2026) offering a lifecycle platform to test, guard, and…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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HiddenLayer

AI security platform unifying ML supply-chain scanning, runtime defense, posture management and automated red-teaming for enterprise AI systems.

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Palo Alto Networks (Prisma AIRS)

Major cybersecurity incumbent's unified AI security platform (Prisma AIRS) for discovering, assessing and protecting AI models, agents and…

Incumbent AI Security
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Crogl

Fully autonomous, private AI SOC analyst that automates triage, investigation, and documentation of security alerts for enterprise SOCs.

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Zenity

Security platform for AI agents and low-code/no-code applications, covering posture, runtime detection and governance.

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Airia

An Atlanta AI-governance platform, founded by AirWatch's John Marshall, giving CISOs visibility and policy enforcement across every AI…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Noma Security

AI and agent security platform that discovers, governs and red-teams AI assets across cloud, code and AI development…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Cisco AI Defense (Robust Intelligence)

AI security product line built on Robust Intelligence's algorithmic red-teaming and AI Firewall technology, now integrated into Cisco's…

Incumbent AI Security
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Airrived

Agentic AI platform purpose-built for enterprise security operations, orchestrating composable multi-agent workflows for identity governance, incident response, and…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Outtake

Outtake uses autonomous AI agents to detect and take down AI-driven impersonation, spoofed domains, and fraudulent brand abuse,…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Fravity

Fravity is an Austin-based agentic AI startup that automates fraud, risk, and anti-money-laundering compliance investigations, offering more than…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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GetReal Security

GetReal Security builds multimodal deepfake detection and continuous identity verification technology to help enterprises and governments counter AI-generated…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Vega Security

A New York/Tel Aviv company building an AI-native security operations platform with its own purpose-built model, positioned as…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
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Lakera

LLM security platform providing prompt-injection detection and real-time guardrails for generative AI applications, acquired by Check Point.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Protect AI (now part of Palo Alto Networks)

AI/ML security company (model scanning, MLSecOps, AI-SPM) acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $634.5M and folded into Prisma…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Virtue AI

Virtue AI builds an enterprise security and governance platform for AI models, conversational applications, and autonomous agents, offering…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Microsoft (AI Security portfolio)

Major cloud/software incumbent extending its Purview, Defender and Security Copilot products to cover AI-specific data-security, posture and threat-detection…

Incumbent AI Security
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Beacon Security

AI-native cybersecurity platform building a trustworthy data foundation and library of specialized security agents for automated detection, investigation,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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DataKrypto

Fully homomorphic encryption technology that keeps data and AI models encrypted throughout training, inference, and deployment.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Straiker

AI agent security platform covering discovery, adversarial testing, and runtime defense for enterprise AI agents and MCP servers,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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SurePath AI

Denver startup that discovers shadow AI and agentic activity at the network layer; acquired by F5 in 2026…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Geordie AI

London-based startup building an agent-native security platform for discovering, monitoring, and governing autonomous AI agents inside the enterprise.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AllTrue.ai

AllTrue.ai is an AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM) startup founded in 2022 by Ron Bennatan,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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sgnl

SGNL, based in Palo Alto, California, builds continuous identity security technology that governs privilege and access dynamically across…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Realm Labs

AI security startup inspecting model internals — attention patterns and reasoning traces — rather than just prompts and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AIUC

AIUC certifies and insures AI agents, tying an audit standard directly to underwritten coverage for enterprise deployments.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Stacklok

Kubernetes-native, open-source platform for governing and securely running enterprise AI agents and MCP servers.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Acuvity

A GenAI and agent governance startup, acquired by Proofpoint in early 2026.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Prompt Security (now part of SentinelOne)

Runtime GenAI and agentic-AI security company preventing AI-related data leakage and protecting AI agents, acquired by SentinelOne for…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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MITRE

The nonprofit federally funded research center behind ATT&CK, CVE, CWE, and STIX.

Incumbent AI Security
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Harmonic Security

AI-native data protection startup that classifies and blocks sensitive data from leaking into generative AI tools.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Netarx

Netarx builds real-time deepfake detection for voice, video, and email communications, aimed at stopping AI-generated social-engineering attacks as…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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CyTwist

Deductive-AI threat detection engine designed to identify AI-generated and previously unseen malware within minutes using counterintelligence methods.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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NeuralTrust

NeuralTrust is a Barcelona-based AI security startup that builds a Generative Application Firewall and agent-permissioning controls to protect…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Galileo

Galileo is an AI evaluation and observability platform that catches hallucinations, tool-call errors and safety regressions in LLM…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Dynamo AI

Dynamo AI (formerly DynamoFL) provides enterprise AI security and compliance tooling — DynamoGuard runtime guardrails, DynamoEval red-teaming across…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Corma

Corma is building what it calls the first foundation model purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity — rather than selling…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Arize

Arize is a San Francisco-based AI observability company whose platform automatically monitors, troubleshoots, and improves the performance of…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Ent AI

A San Francisco seed-stage startup building 'intent-aware' AI-native endpoint security, founded by the creators of RiskIQ and Microsoft…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Neo Security

Neo builds a discovery-and-control-plane platform for governing AI agents, MCP servers, and browser extensions as a distinct asset…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Modulate

Modulate builds voice AI models that detect fraud, deepfakes, and toxic behavior in real time across gaming, contact…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Ocean

Ocean is an AI-native email security platform where autonomous agents investigate sender intent and conversation context to catch…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Noma Security

AI security posture management (AI-SPM) platform for continuous discovery, risk prioritization and attack simulation across enterprise AI systems.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Mindgard

Academic-spinout AI red-teaming platform providing continuous automated testing, shadow-AI discovery and real-time threat protection for AI systems.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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WitnessAI

Unified AI security and governance platform enforcing behavioral-intent-based policy control to block prompt injection and unsafe agent actions.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Bonfy AI

AI-native platform that classifies and protects unstructured data as it moves through email, SaaS apps, copilots, and AI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Singulr AI

Enterprise AI and agentic control plane for discovering, governing, and enforcing runtime security policy across in-house agents, public…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Polygraf AI

Polygraf AI defends enterprises against AI-driven fraud and data exposure, using proprietary small language models to flag AI-generated…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Deep Instinct

Deep learning-based malware and ransomware prevention platform that scored 100% in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations, now…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Advai

UK-based adversarial AI testing and assurance specialist that red-teams machine learning systems for the FCA, UK Ministry of…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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TrojAI

AI/LLM security platform that scans models for vulnerabilities before deployment and inspects prompts and outputs at runtime to…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AiStrike

A seed-stage AI-native SOC platform unifying threat intelligence, detection engineering, investigation, and response.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Cranium

KPMG-spun-out AI governance and red-teaming platform that inventories AI models and tests them across the supply chain.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AIR Security

AI agent firewall that vets skills, plugins, and MCP servers for malicious instructions and supply-chain risk before agents…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Aim Security (now part of Cato Networks)

Platform governing and securing enterprise adoption of generative AI applications, acquired by Cato Networks at a reported $350M…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Onyx Security

A New York AI-agent control plane with a Series B and an Anthropic integration.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Andesite AI

AI-native security operations startup building a "bionic SOC" that pairs AI copilots with human analysts to speed up…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Daxa

AI governance and security platform, formerly the CNAPP vendor CloudDefense.io, that controls how AI agents access and act…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Holistic AI

Holistic AI is an enterprise AI governance platform that discovers shadow AI systems, runs bias/safety/security testing on models,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Arthur AI

Arthur provides enterprise AI agent security and governance — discovering agents across an organization, tracing their reasoning and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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imper.ai

imper.ai detects deepfake and AI-generated impersonation in real time across enterprise communication platforms like Zoom, Teams, Slack, WhatsApp,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Prevalent AI

Prevalent AI builds a security data fabric that unifies fragmented enterprise data — asset, vulnerability, identity, and exposure…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Clarity

Clarity is a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time, targeting…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Irregular

Frontier AI security lab that red-teams advanced models for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Scantist

Singapore/NTU spinout that evolved from open-source vulnerability scanning into autonomous AI penetration testing and AI runtime security governance.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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GetReal Security

A deepfake-forensics company co-founded by UC Berkeley researcher Hany Farid, offering API-based detection to screen AI-generated fraud and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Frame Security

A Tel Aviv/New York startup building AI-generated deepfake and voice-clone phishing simulations to train employees against AI-driven social…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Enkrypt AI

A Yale-PhD-founded LLM security and red-teaming specialist, acquired by Anaconda in 2026.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Knostic

Need-to-know access control platform stopping enterprise AI assistants like Copilot from oversharing sensitive internal data.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Lasso Security

AI security platform discovering shadow AI usage and governing autonomous agent behavior with an 'Intent Security' model.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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DeepKeep

Tel Aviv-based AI security vendor offering a model-agnostic platform that scans, red-teams, and firewalls LLM and agentic AI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Glasswing AI

AI discovery and security platform giving enterprises real-time visibility into every AI tool, vendor, and shadow-AI service in…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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MCP Manager

MCP Manager, based in New York, is an AI security company focused on bringing consent and trust controls…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Alias Robotics

A Spain-based cybersecurity AI lab that started by securing robots and has become a recognized CVE Numbering Authority…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Patronus AI

Patronus AI builds automated evaluation and security tooling — including its Lynx hallucination-detection model — that tests LLMs…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Operant AI

Operant AI secures cloud-native and AI workloads at runtime, with a particular focus on the Model Context Protocol…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Opaque Systems

Opaque Systems builds confidential AI infrastructure that lets enterprises run AI models on sensitive data using hardware-enforced privacy…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Radiant Security

A Series A AI SOC analyst platform automating triage, investigation, and response, backed by Next47.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Anchor

Anchor (Anchor.dev) was a stealth-stage startup building infrastructure to make certificate issuance and validation automatic, founded by engineers…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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ONA

A 79-person secure cloud-execution vendor (formerly Gitpod) acquired by OpenAI to harden infrastructure behind Codex.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Sensity AI

Amsterdam-based deepfake detection company providing forensic-grade analysis of AI-manipulated images, video and audio for enterprise and government customers.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Aurascape

A Santa Clara startup inspecting employee generative-AI interactions in real time to stop shadow-AI data leakage without blocking…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AIM Intelligence

Seoul-based AI security platform combining automated red-teaming and real-time guardrails, used by major Korean banks and telecoms.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Tenet Security

A seed-stage startup from former Cisco AI Defense researchers building predictive simulation that blocks risky AI agent actions…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Zepo Intelligence

Madrid-based agentic platform that simulates AI-driven social engineering (deepfakes, voice cloning, phishing) to find and fix human-layer security…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Resemble AI

Toronto-based voice-AI company that pivoted into multimodal deepfake detection, offering real-time detection and watermarking for enterprise and government…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Confident AI

A YC-backed startup commercializing DeepEval, a widely-used open-source framework for unit-testing, red-teaming and guardrailing LLM applications.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Pluto Security

Security platform that monitors and governs AI tools, agents and MCP servers that employees adopt or build inside…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Verisoul

An Austin startup using device, network, and behavioral signals to tell real users apart from bots and fake…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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CalypsoAI

AI security validation and guardrail platform for testing, monitoring and governing enterprise LLM deployments, acquired by F5 in…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Adversa AI

Bootstrapped AI red-teaming and adversarial-vulnerability research firm offering continuous red-teaming for agentic AI and coding-agent security.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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LatticaAI

Very early-stage Israeli startup building fully homomorphic encryption infrastructure to let AI systems compute on sensitive data without…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Opsin Security

Opsin gives enterprises visibility and risk scoring for the AI tools and agents employees adopt on their own,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Protecto

Protecto builds APIs for data discovery, classification, and de-identification purpose-built to protect sensitive data across the AI training…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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SEWORKS

A San Francisco-based application security firm founded by former competitive white-hat hackers, offering AI-driven penetration testing (Pentoma), mobile…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Protopia AI

Austin-based AI security startup whose Stained Glass Transform technology obfuscates sensitive data before it reaches AI models, letting…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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FireTail

FireTail is a McLean, Virginia security company that pivoted from API security into AI security and governance, helping…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Trustwise

Trustwise builds an AI runtime control plane that intercepts and evaluates agentic AI actions before execution, authorizing, blocking,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Monitaur

Monitaur is an AI governance platform specialized in highly regulated industries (insurance, financial services) that automates model inventory,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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PVML

PVML provides a differential-privacy-based secure data access layer that lets AI agents and LLMs query enterprise databases via…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Prime Security

A Series A New York startup using agentic AI to catch security design flaws before code is written.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Jericho Security Inc

A venture-backed security-awareness startup using generative AI for personalized phishing and deepfake simulations.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AIR

AIR builds a runtime context firewall that vets and monitors the skills, plugins, and MCP tools enterprise AI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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SplxAI

A Zagreb-founded startup that automates red-teaming for AI agents, running simulated attacks to catch prompt injection before deployment.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Eve Security

Austin startup building "agent-in-the-loop" runtime policy enforcement that restricts what AI agents are allowed to do based on…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Dreadnode

An offensive-security startup that red-teams AI models and agentic systems before and after deployment, founded by former NVIDIA…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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DeepTempo

A seed-stage San Francisco startup running a deep-learning log model natively inside Snowflake.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Google (Cloud Security AI portfolio)

Major cloud incumbent applying its Secure AI Framework and Google Cloud security products, including Model Armor, to protect…

Incumbent AI Security
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Portkey

A San Francisco AI Gateway startup processing trillions of tokens monthly, acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $140M.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Zendata

An AI risk intelligence and data privacy platform tracing how sensitive data flows into and through AI applications,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Ray Security

Ray Security discovers shadow AI tools and monitors real-time data interactions between enterprise data and LLMs, copilots, and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Palantir Technologies

Publicly traded big-data and AI-analytics platform (Gotham, Foundry, AIP) used by government and large enterprises for data fusion,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Portal26

AI application governance platform that discovers shadow AI usage and enforces data-leak guardrails across an organization's generative AI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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RedCarbon

An Italian AI-agent vendor building automated SOC and NIS2 compliance tooling, including an AI Compliance Analyst that monitors…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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TrueScreen

Italian data-authenticity platform that certifies photos, video, audio, and documents at the moment of capture, plus a GenAI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Vijil

Vijil provides trust infrastructure for AI agent development, letting engineering teams test agent reliability and resilience before deployment…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Fiddler AI

Fiddler AI provides a control plane for monitoring, governing, and securing both predictive and agentic AI systems in…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Credal AI

Credal (Y Combinator W23) is a governance and security layer for enterprise AI agents — scoped tool access,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Cotool

Cotool is a Y Combinator-backed AI co-pilot for security operations teams that automatically assembles investigation context across a…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Promptfoo

A San Francisco open-source LLM and agent security-testing tool, used by over 25% of the Fortune 500, acquired…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Velatir

Danish AI-governance platform adding human-in-the-loop review and control over enterprise AI agent actions.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Outerlimit

A pre-seed New York startup building a decentralized, cryptographic authorization layer that fragments credentials so no single compromised…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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DetectifAI

DetectifAI builds compact, on-device AI models that detect AI-generated and cloned voices in real time during phone calls,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Modulos

AI governance platform that discovers shadow AI systems and continuously checks them against EU AI Act, ISO 42001,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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OpenAI

A leading AI lab that acquired AI red-teaming tool Promptfoo in March 2026 to embed security testing in…

Incumbent AI Security
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Gray Swan

A Carnegie Mellon-born Pittsburgh AI red-teaming and safety vendor used directly by frontier AI labs.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Kai

Newly launched agentic AI security platform from Claroty and SecurityMatter co-founders, using autonomous agents to detect and respond…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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AIShield

AIShield tests and protects machine-learning models against adversarial attacks — model theft, evasion and data poisoning — through…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Armilla AI

Armilla AI is a Lloyd's-backed managing general agent offering AI liability insurance, performance warranties, and independent AI model…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Gecko Security

Gecko Security is a Y Combinator-backed AI security testing platform that uses LLMs and custom code indexing to…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Variance

Variance builds AI agents for fraud review, identity verification, and investigations, serving Fortune 500 companies, marketplaces, and regulated…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Cofide

A six-person, 2024-founded London startup issuing short-lived identities to AI agents, acquired by Keyfactor in July 2026.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Attestable

Attestable builds zero-knowledge proof technology that lets organizations cryptographically verify what an AI system actually computed — which…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Capsule Security

Runtime guardrail platform that monitors and controls AI agent actions the instant before they execute, across tools like…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Arrakis Security

Autonomous workforce governance platform that discovers AI agents, monitors their behavior, and blocks policy violations across SaaS, cloud,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Eve Security

Austin-based startup building EveGuard, a runtime observability and policy-enforcement layer for securing autonomous AI agents in the enterprise.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Confident Security

Confident Security builds CONFSEC, a confidential-computing layer that lets enterprises use third-party AI models while cryptographically proving prompts…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Manufact

Manufact is a YC-backed startup building open-source SDK and cloud hosting infrastructure for deploying MCP servers that connect…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Manetu

A Ridgewood, NJ seed-stage startup that pivoted from privacy-preserving knowledge graphs to AgentVisor, a hypervisor-style authorization layer that…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Neural Defend

Techstars-backed API that detects deepfake audio, video, image, and document manipulation for identity verification and fraud teams.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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BeeSafe AI

Y Combinator-backed San Francisco startup deploying AI agents that directly engage scammers to expose and disrupt their infrastructure.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Bloom Security

A seed-stage Tel Aviv endpoint-security startup for AI agents and browser extensions on employee devices.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Glow

A Palo Alto AI-era endpoint-security entrant built on data-platform architecture by Meta, Snowflake, and Claroty veterans.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Neo

A Boston agentic-software governance vendor led by former SentinelOne COO Nick Warner.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Runlayer

A New York AI-tool governance control layer with Instacart, Gusto, and Opendoor among named customers.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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1Security

AI-native permission manager for Microsoft 365 that maps who and what — including Copilot and other AI tools…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Trustlook

AI-driven mobile security SDK vendor providing malware detection, junk cleaning, and WiFi threat scanning embedded into OEM devices…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Discern Security

Early-stage AI platform that uses agentic 'loops' to continuously assess, prioritize, and verify remediation of security-control gaps.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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MCPTotal

Secure hosting and monitoring platform for Model Context Protocol servers, pivoted in 2025 from PII-vault maker Piiano to…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Augur Security

A San Diego-based predictive threat intelligence company, rebranded from SecLytics in 2025, that analyzes internet infrastructure to flag…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Redcoat AI

San Francisco Bay Area seed-stage startup defending against AI-generated deepfake and social-engineering attacks across SMS, WhatsApp, and other…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Preamble

Preamble is a veteran-led AI security firm best known for discovering and responsibly disclosing the original GPT-3 prompt-injection…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Guardrails AI

Guardrails AI provides an open-source-rooted platform for detecting and blocking hallucinations, policy violations and data leakage in production…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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ValidMind

ValidMind is an AI model-risk governance platform for regulated industries, automating testing, documentation, validation and monitoring of AI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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SURF Security

SURF Security builds a zero-trust enterprise browser and extension that discovers shadow AI usage, enforces data-loss prevention directly…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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SECAI

A Singapore AI threat-detection vendor with a threat-intelligence API and digital risk protection service.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Anaconda

A Python and data-science platform that acquired Enkrypt AI in August 2026 to embed AI red-teaming and guardrails.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Koi Security

A 2024-founded Tel Aviv agentic endpoint-security startup reportedly acquired by Palo Alto Networks for about $400M.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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General Analysis

A seed-stage San Francisco AI red-teaming lab whose adversarial agent extracted $10M+ in fabricated perks from 50 live…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Evoke Security

Pre-seed platform for continuously inventorying, threat-modeling, and monitoring AI agents across the enterprise.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Ciphero

AI-native verification layer that captures and governs every AI interaction across employees, agents, and models to catch shadow…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Giskard

Open-source and open-core platform for testing, evaluating and red-teaming LLMs and AI agents, aimed at pre-deployment quality and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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LatticeFlow AI

An ETH Zurich-founded AI-governance startup that added AI-system discovery by acquiring AI Sonar.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Repello AI

AI red-teaming startup running continuous automated adversarial testing and runtime guardrails against generative AI applications.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Elemendar

Elemendar builds AI models that convert unstructured cyber threat intelligence reports into structured, machine-readable STIX and MITRE ATT&CK…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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SparkCognition DeepArmor

DeepArmor is SparkCognition's AI-native endpoint protection product line, using machine learning models instead of signatures to detect novel…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Private AI (now Limina AI)

Limina AI (rebranded from Private AI) builds PII/PHI de-identification technology that strips personal data out of text, images,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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PrivacyPal

PrivacyPal (Privacy Pal LLC / PrivacyPal.ai), based in Miami, Florida, builds AI governance and ‘shadow AI’ detection technology…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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Lumia Security

A Team8-backed platform giving enterprises visibility and policy control over how employees and AI agents use thousands of…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
50 /100

PointGuard AI

PointGuard AI is a San Jose startup selling a unified platform to discover, govern, and protect enterprise AI…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
50 /100

Resaro

An independent, third-party AI assurance firm that tests mission-critical AI systems for safety, robustness and security on behalf…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
48 /100

Pillar Security

Early-stage platform securing AI applications and infrastructure across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Usercentrics

A KKR-backed Munich privacy-consent platform extending governance to AI agents by acquiring MCP Manager in January 2026.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Arcade.dev

A San Francisco AI-agent authorization and action layer backed by Morgan Stanley and Wipro.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Frame

A 2025-founded New York human-risk security startup defending against phishing and deepfakes, launched by Wiz and Team8 operators.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Veria Labs

Veria Labs is a Y Combinator-backed continuous AI pentesting company whose LLM-based agents actively exploit vulnerabilities to confirm…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Multifactor

Multifactor provides authentication, authorization, and auditing infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents, letting organizations share account access with both…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Ent

A seed-stage San Francisco intent-aware workspace security startup from RiskIQ's co-founders, with one of cybersecurity's largest seed rounds.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Symbiotic Security

A New York developer-security startup embedding scanning and secure-coding training in IDEs, backed by Hugging Face co-founder Thomas…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

JetStream Security

A seed-stage Santa Clara AI governance platform with founders from CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Cohesity.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Helmet Security

Washington DC startup securing the Model Context Protocol layer that lets AI agents connect to enterprise tools and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Lyrie

Lyrie is a Dubai pre-seed startup building an open cryptographic trust protocol and autonomous pentesting tools to secure…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

Aegis

Israeli AI-security startup founded in early 2026 by two Unit 8200 veterans; acquired by Upwind nine months later…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
48 /100

OmniSpeech

University of Maryland spinout whose zero-shot model flags AI-generated voice deepfakes in real time inside Zoom calls.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Nullify

A San Francisco AI-agent product-security startup (about $16.9M raised) that ships merge-ready fixes.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Asenion (formerly Fairly AI)

Asenion (formed when Fairly AI acquired Sweden's Anch.AI) is an AI governance, risk and compliance platform built to…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

PromptArmor

PromptArmor is a Y Combinator-backed LLM security and compliance platform focused specifically on prompt injection, the top-ranked vulnerability…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Cyata

A Tel Aviv AI-agent identity-governance startup acquired by Check Point in February 2026.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Natoma

An MCP-focused AI-agent governance startup acquired by Snowflake alongside Observe and Select Star.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Manifold

San Diego startup providing AI detection-and-response (AIDR) that monitors autonomous AI agents at runtime on enterprise endpoints.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Scalekit

Scalekit provides an OAuth 2.1-based authentication and token-management stack purpose-built for AI agents calling tools and APIs.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Neuramancer

Bavarian startup building forensic deepfake-detection and attribution tools aimed first at the insurance industry's fraud exposure.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Voxmind

Early-stage London startup building on-device software to flag AI voice deepfakes on live phone calls in real time.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Tolmo

A Y Combinator- and Accel-backed San Francisco agentic AppSec startup built by the Sqreen team.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Deepchecks

An Israeli open-source ML validation pioneer acquired by Check Point to validate AI-driven security actions.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Skypher

Skypher uses AI agents to automate the flood of security, privacy, and vendor-risk questionnaires enterprises exchange with each…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

White Circle

A seed-stage Paris real-time AI control layer endorsed by senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepMind.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Trent AI

A seed-stage London startup using multi-agent architecture to secure AI agents across their lifecycle, built by ex-AWS engineers.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

AI Sonar

A Dublin shadow-AI discovery platform, spun out of CloudSphere and acquired by LatticeFlow AI in January 2026.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Opsin

A San Jose startup that maps what enterprise AI agents like Copilot and Gemini can access, flagging data…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

Casco

A Y Combinator-backed San Francisco AI red-teaming platform that maps findings to SOC 2, NIST AI RMF, and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

Pi

A 2025-founded agentic AppSec startup backed by CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz and Armis's founders.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

ZySec AI

An Abu Dhabi sovereign, self-hosted AI platform absorbed into Infinia Technologies.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

Nebula Security

Nebula Security builds VEGA, an autonomous AI cybersecurity agent that continuously discovers vulnerabilities in codebases, monitors code changes,…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
42 /100

AironWorks

AironWorks is a Japanese-Israeli startup that built its business on AI-driven phishing simulation and is now repositioning around…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
42 /100

Fabraix

Fabraix builds AI red-teaming agents, led by its product Nyx, that test customer-facing AI systems by directly interacting…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
42 /100

deepidv

A young Toronto-based startup bundling AI identity verification, document fraud checks, and layered deepfake detection into one API.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
40 /100

Agentic Fabriq

Agentic Fabriq provides identity, governance, and visibility infrastructure for AI agents, managing authentication, permission enforcement, and audit trails…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
40 /100

Malloc Inc

Malloc provides AI-driven mobile cybersecurity that monitors and blocks unauthorized data recording or transmission from mobile devices, using…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
40 /100

Traceforce

Traceforce is a YC S26 startup that installs on employee devices to inventory and control AI apps and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
38 /100

LogosGuard

LogosGuard is a Y Combinator-backed sensitive-data redaction layer for AI, helping enterprises safely adopt tools like ChatGPT and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
38 /100

Cipher

A 2025-founded New York agentic-application security startup acquired by Soxton to secure its own legal workflows.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
38 /100

Aiceberg

Aiceberg built a risk-mapping and monitoring platform focused specifically on agentic AI — the autonomous, multi-step AI agents…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
38 /100

ContextFort

Y Combinator-backed startup whose Chrome extension gives security teams visibility and rule-based controls over AI browser agents.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
35 /100

Probo

Probo is a Y Combinator-backed AI compliance platform that acts as an automated compliance team for startups pursuing…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
35 /100

InfoHawk

InfoHawk is an AI platform that maps online scam and fraud infrastructure to detect and block deception in…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
35 /100

QAILinks

Deep-technology company building secure execution and orchestration infrastructure for AI and quantum computing workloads, per its own description.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
33 /100

TouchBrick

TouchBrick is a Tampa-based pre-seed startup building AI privacy agents that scan enterprise databases to flag sensitive data…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
32 /100

Infinia Technologies

An Abu Dhabi technology group diversifying into AI security by acquiring ZySec AI in May 2026.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
28 /100

Soxton

A New York AI-powered law firm that acquired agentic-security startup Cipher in March 2026 to secure its own…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
0 /100

HydroX AI

San Jose, California startup building an AI trust, risk, and security management (AI TRiSM) platform for evaluating and…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security