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Application Security

Securing web applications, mobile apps, and software throughout the development lifecycle.

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ThreatLocker

CISO Reviewed

Zero Trust endpoint protection platform that blocks unknown applications by default through allowlisting, ringfencing, and storage control.

Transformational Innovator Application Security
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Endor Labs

Reachability-based software composition analysis that filters open-source dependency risk down to what code paths are actually exploitable.

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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JFrog

Public software supply chain security platform (Xray plus Advanced Security) that scans binaries and artifacts end-to-end from the…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Apiiro

Builds a continuous 'code risk graph' that maps code, developers, and cloud deployment to prioritize AppSec findings by…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Socket

A software supply chain security platform that combines automated dependency analysis with human verification to catch malicious and…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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ArmorCode

Tool-agnostic ASPM layer that correlates findings from 300+ existing security tools into one prioritized backlog, without running its…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Snyk

Developer-first application security platform combining SAST, SCA, container, IaC, and API/DAST scanning inside the developer workflow.

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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HUMAN Security

Bot mitigation and digital fraud prevention platform, formerly White Ops, protecting ad, application, and enterprise traffic from automated…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Truffle Security

Truffle Security, maker of the widely used open-source TruffleHog scanner, finds and helps remediate leaked secrets and non-human…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Chainguard

Software supply chain security company providing minimal, continuously rebuilt container images and packages built from source.

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Aikido Security

Aikido Security is a Ghent, Belgium-based unicorn ASPM platform that consolidates 15+ AppSec scanners into one developer-facing tool…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Blockaid

A Tel Aviv Web3 security vendor screening wallet and dapp transactions in real time before signing, with MetaMask…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Certora

A Tel Aviv formal-verification leader whose Certora Prover has mathematically verified smart contracts securing over $100B in total…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Kong

A San Francisco API infrastructure company, a five-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, extending its API gateway into an…

Incumbent Application Security
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Lineaje

Full-lifecycle software supply chain security platform generating trusted open-source packages, autonomously fixing vulnerabilities, and managing SBOMs/AIBOMs.

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Appdome

No-code mobile app security and fraud prevention build system that lets developers add protection layers to iOS and…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Zimperium

AI-powered mobile threat defense and application protection guarding enterprise mobile devices and apps against phishing, malware, and zero-day…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Imperva

A veteran application and data security vendor — WAF, API security, bot management, and data protection — now…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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PortSwigger

Maker of Burp Suite, the de facto standard toolkit for web-application penetration testing, bootstrapped and profitable for 15-plus…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Checkmarx

Unified 'Checkmarx One' application security platform spanning code, software supply chain, and cloud infrastructure scanning with SecOps integrations.

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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cside

Client-side web security platform that watches scripts, users, and AI agents live in the browser session to stop…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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MedCrypt

MedCrypt builds embedded cybersecurity and FDA-compliance software that helps medical device manufacturers secure connected devices and pass premarket…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Halborn

A Miami blockchain security firm staffed by offensive-security professionals, auditing smart contracts and infrastructure for crypto-native and traditional…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
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Sonar

Code quality and security platform built around SonarQube's static analysis engine, widely adopted via a free Community Edition…

Incumbent Application Security
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Contrast Security

Instruments applications from within using IAST and RASP to find and block vulnerabilities as code actually executes, rather…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cycode

Unified ASPM platform with its own proprietary SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, and container scanners covering the pipeline from…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Socket

Software supply chain security platform that analyzes open-source packages for malicious behavior before they enter codebases.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Bright Security

Developer-first dynamic application security testing (DAST) platform built to catch and auto-remediate vulnerabilities in CI/CD.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Oligo

Oligo uses eBPF-based runtime analysis to catch active exploits and prioritize only the vulnerabilities actually reachable during execution,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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ONEKEY

ONEKEY is a Germany-based product cybersecurity platform that automatically analyzes device firmware binaries for IoT, IIoT, and OT…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith is a cloud-native artifact management platform that adds SBOM inspection, dependency quarantine, and exploitability-based policy controls to…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Dynatrace

Publicly traded observability platform whose Application Security module uses runtime instrumentation, rather than standalone scanning, to detect and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Crash Override

Engineering Relationship Management platform that auto-catalogs software builds for real-time supply-chain traceability.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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C2A Security

C2A Security builds a risk-driven DevSecOps platform, EVSec, that automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers use to secure connected-vehicle…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Mend.io

Software composition analysis platform, formerly WhiteSource, that uses reachability analysis to prioritize which open-source vulnerabilities are actually exploitable.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Semgrep

Open-source-led static analysis platform for code scanning, supply chain and secrets detection, powering GitLab's SAST engine.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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ImmuniWeb

Swiss AI-powered application security testing and attack surface management platform offering continuous threat exposure management (CTEM).

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Anchore

SBOM-powered software supply chain security platform generating and managing software bills of materials, scanning containers for vulnerabilities, secrets,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Aptori

AI-native application security platform providing autonomous offensive testing to detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across code, applications, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Sonatype

Software supply chain security vendor behind Nexus Repository, offering malicious package blocking, SCA and dependency governance.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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DataDome

Real-time bot and fraud protection platform using machine learning to distinguish malicious automated traffic from legitimate users.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Miggo Security

Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform providing runtime visibility, exploitability proof, and one-click virtual patching for application vulnerabilities.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Clover Security

AI-agent platform that analyzes software architecture and design documents to catch security design flaws before code is written.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Styra

The creator of Open Policy Agent, Styra sells the commercial control plane and enterprise tooling for policy-as-code authorization…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Source Defense

A client-side web security platform that monitors and controls third-party JavaScript to prevent digital skimming, Magecart-style attacks, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Exein

Embedded runtime security platform that builds real-time threat detection directly into IoT and connected-device firmware.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Qodo

Tel Aviv company (formerly CodiumAI) building AI agents that review, test, and govern code quality across enterprise engineering…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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GitGuardian

Secrets detection and non-human identity security platform that scans code, CI/CD, and collaboration tools for exposed credentials in…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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OX Security

'Active ASPM' platform combining native SDLC scanning with attack-path analysis and a software bill-of-materials lineage (PBOM) to prioritize…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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RunSafe Security

Hardens embedded and industrial software against memory-corruption exploits at build time using patented load-time function randomization, without source…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Jscrambler

Portuguese client-side security vendor providing JavaScript obfuscation and third-party tag monitoring to protect browser-side code from tampering and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Endor Labs

Application security platform using function-level reachability analysis to prioritize open-source and supply chain risk.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Sonatype

Software supply chain security pioneer behind Nexus Repository and component intelligence, helping organizations vet and manage open-source dependencies…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Kodem Security

Kodem Security runs a dynamic software composition analysis platform that uses runtime memory forensics to determine which open-source…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Huskeys

AI-driven edge security management platform that orchestrates and tunes existing WAFs and CDNs across multi-cloud environments instead of…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Konvu

AI agents trace real code and runtime data flow to prove which flagged vulnerabilities are actually exploitable.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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SCI Semiconductor

SCI Semiconductor builds memory-safe computer chips designed to eliminate the vulnerability class behind roughly 70% of cyberattacks.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Pangea

API-based security platform for application developers, now including AI guardrails, acquired by CrowdStrike in 2025.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Snyk

Developer-first application security platform that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in code, open source dependencies, containers and infrastructure as…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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AdaCore

Safety-critical software toolmaker combining Ada/SPARK formal verification with the CodeSonar/CodeSentry static-analysis and binary SCA platform.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Legit Security

AI-native ASPM platform for discovering, prioritizing, and remediating risk across the software supply chain, with a separate module…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Harness (Application Security Testing)

Pipeline-native DevSecOps module from CI/CD platform Harness that unifies SAST, SCA, and vulnerability triage in the delivery pipeline.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Traceable AI (a Harness company)

API discovery, runtime protection, and API security testing built on distributed tracing, now integrated into Harness's software delivery…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Manifest

Software supply chain security startup founded by former CISA and DoD veterans, operationalizing SBOMs and AIBOMs to secure…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Nokod Security

Nokod Security governs and secures low-code/no-code applications, detecting vulnerabilities and malicious activity in a fast-growing app-development category traditional…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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ForAllSecure

Pittsburgh-based creator of Mayhem, an autonomous fuzzing engine born from DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge, now securing DoD and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Checkmarx

Application security platform, Checkmarx One, offering SAST, SCA, API, container and supply chain security with AI-assisted remediation.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Xygeni Security S.L

An AI-powered application security posture management platform unifying SAST, SCA, secrets detection, and software supply chain protection with…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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NowSecure

Automated mobile application security testing platform used across DevSecOps pipelines and by numerous US federal agencies for NIAP-compliant…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cequence Security

Cequence Security provides unified API security and bot management, combining API discovery with runtime protection against credential stuffing,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Security Compass

Toronto-based application security firm whose SD Elements platform automates secure development requirements and maps them directly into developer…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Feroot Security

Client-side web security platform that monitors browser JavaScript for skimming, script injection, and supply chain threats, aligned to…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Onapsis

Application security platform purpose-built for SAP and Oracle business-critical ERP applications, backed by a research team credited with…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Trail of Bits

Elite application security research and auditing firm known for deep code review, original vulnerability research, and widely used…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Semgrep

Application security platform built on an open-source static analysis engine, combining code scanning, supply chain and secrets detection…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Black Duck

Software composition analysis and static analysis platform (formerly Synopsys Software Integrity Group) focused on SBOM generation and open-source…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Salt Security

API security platform using machine learning to baseline normal API behavior and catch attacks that signature-based tools miss.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Wallarm

API security platform extending discovery and runtime enforcement to AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Guardsquare

Leuven, Belgium-based mobile app security leader offering code hardening and runtime protection for Android and iOS, rooted in…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Backslash Security

Cloud-native application security platform unifying code and cloud risk context to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities and reduce developer alert…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Qwiet AI (a Harness company)

Qwiet AI provides AI-powered application security testing — combining SAST, SCA, IaC, container, and secrets scanning in one…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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wolfSSL

wolfSSL builds a lightweight, portable embedded TLS/SSL and cryptography library used to add encryption and secure communication into…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Green Hills Software

Real-time operating system vendor whose EAL 6+ NSA/NIAP-certified INTEGRITY RTOS provides hardware-enforced partitioning for safety- and security-critical embedded…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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TestifySec

Open-source-rooted software supply chain security platform providing cryptographic build attestation, SBOM generation, and CI/CD policy enforcement.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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TrustInSoft

Paris-based formal-methods static analysis vendor that mathematically proves the absence of specific critical bugs in C, C++, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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YesWeHack

Paris-based crowdsourced security platform coordinating bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, and pentest management programs for enterprises and public-sector agencies,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Data Theorem

Palo Alto-based application security vendor combining mobile, API, and cloud testing into a single full-stack platform, ranked #1…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Impart Security

San Francisco API and application security vendor built by former CDN and WAF engineers, offering runtime enforcement across…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Autonomous Plane

Autonomous Plane was a cloud-native application security startup founded by Kyle Quest, creator of the widely used open-source…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Veracode

SaaS-delivered application security platform offering static, dynamic, and software composition analysis with an annual industry benchmark report.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Aikido Security

Unified developer-first security platform covering code, cloud and runtime, with automated AI pentesting.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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CMD+CTRL Security

Application security training platform using hands-on labs and cyber ranges built from intentionally vulnerable software.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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ThreatModeler

AI-assisted, DevSecOps-integrated threat modeling platform that recently combined with IriusRisk under Invictus Growth Partners ownership.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Mobb

Tel Aviv-based application security startup that automatically generates code fixes for vulnerabilities flagged by SAST tools like Snyk,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Seal Security

Generates backported, drop-in security patches for open source vulnerabilities so teams can remediate CVEs without forced major-version upgrades.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Intigriti

A European crowdsourced security platform connecting organizations with vetted ethical hackers for bug bounty programs and continuous penetration…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Root

A Boston AI vulnerability-patching startup (originally Slim.AI) acquired by Aikido Security for an estimated $70M-$100M.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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MindFort

Y Combinator-backed swarms of AI agents that continuously attack live applications and ship validated exploits instead of scanner…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Secure Code Warrior

Developer-first secure coding platform that builds security skills through hands-on training, aiming to prevent vulnerabilities before they ever…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Patchstack

Estonia-based application security vendor that runs a WordPress vulnerability database, coordinated disclosure program, and virtual patching to close…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cleafy

Milan-based real-time banking fraud detection vendor protecting mobile and web banking sessions from malware, overlay attacks, and social-engineering…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cytix

Manchester-based continuous offensive security testing platform that analyzes code changes in real time to predict and test for…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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StackHawk

A CI/CD-embedded API and application security testing platform built on ZAP, designed to catch vulnerabilities as developers write…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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OpenZeppelin

Widely used smart contract security firm providing audits, a standard open-source contracts library, and continuous monitoring for blockchain…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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IriusRisk

IriusRisk, headquartered in Huesca, Spain, built an automated threat modeling platform used by application security teams to identify…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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CHEQ

A Tel Aviv 'go-to-market security' vendor blocking bots and invalid traffic from corrupting ad spend, lead pipelines, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Protectt.ai

Mumbai-based mobile security vendor whose runtime app protection and fraud prevention tools serve Indian banks and fintechs under…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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OpenText

A public information-management giant bundling Fortify, ArcSight, NetIQ, and Webroot under one security portfolio.

Incumbent Application Security
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Seraphic (now part of CrowdStrike)

Browser-native security technology that blocks phishing, malware, and browser-based attacks across Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, acquired by…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Red Balloon Security

Red Balloon Security builds firmware reverse-engineering and embedded-device defense tools, including the OFRAK binary analysis platform, grown out…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Pixee

AI-powered application security platform that automatically triages vulnerability findings and generates production-ready code fixes directly into GitHub, GitLab,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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eShard

French security testing vendor whose esDynamic platform finds side-channel, fault-injection, and software vulnerabilities in chips, embedded systems, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Star Lab

Embedded-systems security software vendor, now part of Mercury Systems, providing secure boot, Linux hardening, and anti-tamper protection for…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Conviso Application Security

A Brazilian application security specialist, formed from Conviso's 2020 acquisition of DAST/WAF vendor N-Stalker, offering a unified platform…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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CertiK

Large-scale Web3 security platform combining formal verification, smart contract audits and compliance tooling, reporting a $2 billion valuation…

Incremental Innovator Application 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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Quantstamp

Y Combinator-backed blockchain security firm whose smart contract audits have covered protocols securing hundreds of billions in value.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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DryRun Security

AI-native application security platform that reviews pull requests with full code context to catch logic-level vulnerabilities SAST tools…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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build38

build38, based in Munich, Germany, builds mobile application shielding and in-app protection technology (App Shielding) that defends mobile…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Security Journey

Developer secure-coding training platform with 800+ hands-on lessons and an AI-guided coding assistant, used by companies including HackerOne…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cycode

Application security posture management platform covering code, pipelines and supply chain, with SAST added through its Bearer acquisition.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Equixly

Florence, Italy-based startup using autonomous AI agents to continuously penetration-test APIs for business-logic and authorization vulnerabilities.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Arnica

Behavior-based application security platform that validates developer identity and activity to catch supply-chain compromises that code and dependency…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Indusface

Indusface is an India-based application security vendor whose AppTrana platform delivers fully managed web application and API protection…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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CodeLock

A DevSecOps startup building automated software-supply-chain integrity tooling that links every code change to a verifiable developer chain…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Wabbi

Application security posture management (ASPM) platform that embeds continuous security testing and policy enforcement directly into the software…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cybeats

Cybeats builds SBOM Studio, a software bill of materials management and software supply chain security platform focused on…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Arcjet

Developer-first application security library that embeds bot detection, rate limiting, and AI/prompt-injection defenses directly into JavaScript and TypeScript…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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42Crunch

An API security platform that audits OpenAPI specifications for weaknesses and enforces those contracts at runtime to stop…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Pynt

API security testing platform that discovers documented and shadow APIs from live traffic and runs context-aware, business-logic-focused security…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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APIsec

AI-powered, continuous API security testing platform that models an application's behavior and generates real attacker-style exploits to validate…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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LayerX

A browser-security and AI-usage-control vendor acquired by Akamai for about $205M and rebranded Akamai Workforce Protector.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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CodeIntegrity

Runtime guardrail platform for production AI agents, built by offensive-security researchers who publicly compromised the Notion app in…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Hacken

Tallinn-based blockchain security firm providing smart contract audits, penetration testing and proof-of-reserves services to web3 protocols and exchanges.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Grego AI

Miami startup using 'Deep Invariant Analysis' to hunt for software vulnerabilities that manual code review typically misses.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Kodem Security

Application security platform using runtime intelligence in dynamic software composition analysis to determine which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Scribe Security

Software supply chain security platform that generates signed SBOMs and tamper-evident build evidence to enforce policy-as-code gates from…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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ThreatX (an A10 Networks company)

Behavioral, risk-based API and web application protection with automated blocking and 24/7 managed monitoring, now integrated into A10…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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F5 (Application Delivery and Security Platform)

Seattle-based ADC leader whose BIG-IP and distributed platform protect apps and APIs from zero-days, DDoS, bot attacks, and…

Incumbent Application Security
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Emproof

Emproof protects embedded software at the binary level against reverse engineering and exploitation, without requiring source code access…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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BitNinja

Hungarian server-security platform for web hosting providers and agencies, using a crowd-sourced defense network to block malware, brute…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Virsec

San Jose-based runtime workload-protection platform that maps and enforces expected application memory and control-flow behavior to block exploitation…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Ghost Security

Austin-based AI-native application and API security startup whose Exorcist agent automates API discovery and vulnerability remediation.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Codacy

Portuguese code quality and security platform combining static analysis, secret scanning and software composition analysis with newer AI…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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DeepSource

Y Combinator-backed code review platform combining hybrid static analysis and AI to catch security vulnerabilities and code quality…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Promon

Norwegian application shielding company protecting mobile, desktop and web apps against tampering, reverse engineering and repackaging attacks.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Appknox

Mobile application security testing platform combining automated SAST/DAST binary analysis with manual penetration testing for enterprise and financial…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Cantina

Cantina is an agentic security platform, formerly Web3-audit firm Spearbit, that automates vulnerability triage and remediation for enterprises.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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NightVision

NightVision is an application security startup providing AI-assisted dynamic testing that discovers and exploits API and web vulnerabilities…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Ossprey

Ossprey continuously scans open-source dependencies with an AI code analyzer to catch malicious packages before they reach production,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Gitar

San Mateo startup deploying AI agents to review, validate, and secure AI-generated code inside CI/CD pipelines.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Dedge Security

Madrid-based application security posture platform designed specifically for Web3 smart contracts and decentralized applications.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Invicti Security

A DAST-first web and API application security platform, formed from the 2018 merger of Netsparker and Acunetix, now…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Guardrail

A runtime blockchain security engine that protected $30B+ in assets, acquired in-house by stablecoin platform Rain.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Chainloop

Open-source evidence store and policy platform for software supply chain attestations, SBOMs, and CI/CD compliance.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Zast AI

An AI agent platform that validates application vulnerabilities through active exploit generation rather than pattern matching, aiming to…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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GeoEdge

Real-time ad security and malvertising protection for publishers and ad exchanges, scanning creatives at the impression level to…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Fastly

Public edge cloud platform whose Next-Gen WAF, born from the 2020 Signal Sciences acquisition, provides web application, API,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Approov

Mobile app attestation and API-security platform (formerly CriticalBlue) that verifies genuine, untampered app instances at runtime to block…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Irdeto

Naspers-owned software security vendor whose Cloakware product line protects applications, credentials, and embedded/connected-device software from tampering and reverse…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Netacea

Server-side bot management platform that detects and blocks credential stuffing, scraping, and account-takeover automation across websites, apps, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Start Left Security

Start Left Security (formerly Tauruseer) is a Jacksonville, Florida ASPM company combining a patented behavioral analytics engine with…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Phoenix Security

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform that aggregates SAST, SCA and cloud vulnerability findings and prioritizes them by…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Quokka

Mobile app and firmware security firm, formerly known as Kryptowire, providing binary-level analysis without source code and supply…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Ostorlab

Automated mobile and web application security testing platform combining attack surface discovery with AI-powered vulnerability scanning and remediation…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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RevEng.ai

A London binary-analysis startup backed by the NATO Innovation Fund and In-Q-Tel that finds hidden vulnerabilities without source…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Oplane

A Malmö, Sweden startup that automates security threat modeling for engineering teams building software with AI coding assistants…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Heeler Security

Application security platform that unifies code, runtime behavior, and business context to prioritize which software risks actually matter.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Interlynk

A Menlo Park SaaS platform automating SBOM generation and software supply chain compliance for medical device makers and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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MONITORAPP

South Korean WAF and WAAP vendor whose AIONCLOUD service extends its appliance-based web application firewall business into cloud-delivered…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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AppSealing

No-code mobile app shielding (RASP, anti-tampering, anti-piracy) for Android and iOS, a product line of Seoul-based INKA Entworks,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Alma Security

A New York-based application security startup building runtime protection focused on business-logic and data-flow risks across APIs, microservices,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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CDNetworks

APAC-strong global CDN provider whose Cloud Security 2.0 platform bundles WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot management and API protection…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Ammune.ai

Ammune.ai (formerly L7 Defense) is an Israeli API and AI security vendor whose AMMUNE platform uses self-learning, air-gapped…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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Syhunt

A veteran Brazilian application security vendor offering hybrid DAST, SAST, API, and mobile security scanning under the Syhunt…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
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FOSSA

San Francisco-based software composition analysis and SBOM platform helping engineering and security teams manage open-source license, vulnerability, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
50 /100

Astra Security

Continuous penetration testing and vulnerability scanning platform combining automated scanning with manual pentest expertise for web, mobile and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
50 /100

Depthfirst

A San Francisco applied AI security lab training its own vulnerability-detection models, with two large rounds in 90…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
50 /100

echo

A secure-by-default container-image vendor led by Twistlock founder Ben Bernstein, which absorbed rival Minimus's assets in August 2026…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
50 /100

Rein Security

Israeli AppSec startup providing runtime, in-production visibility and protection for applications, including agentic AI and MCP-based systems.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
48 /100

OpenText Fortify

Long-established static, dynamic, and interactive application security testing suite, now an OpenText product line after passing through HP…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Avocado Systems

Application and API security vendor providing runtime threat modeling and process-level microsegmentation for cloud workloads via its Avocado…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Inspectiv

Unified application security testing platform combining crowdsourced bug bounty, penetration testing, DAST, and vulnerability disclosure management.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

PreEmptive Solutions

A Cleveland-based application protection vendor, now operating within Idera's DevOps business unit, whose Dotfuscator and DashO products obfuscate…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Cycurion

Publicly traded (NASDAQ: CYCU) McLean, Virginia cybersecurity firm whose ARx platform bundles WAF, DDoS, bot mitigation, and API…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Fluid Attacks

Application security testing provider combining SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning and manual penetration testing into one continuous, all-in-one…

Emerging / Unranked Application 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

BlueFlag Security

A Sunnyvale identity-centric SDLC security vendor extending governance to AI coding agents.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Corridor

A San Francisco AI-coding security startup with Alex Stamos as CPO, reportedly valued at $200M on its Series…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

Codesealer

Codesealer, founded in 2010 and based in Copenhagen, provides a specialized web and mobile application security solution built…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
48 /100

RiskFront Lab

New York startup that adds runtime tamper, root/jailbreak, and debugging defenses to finished mobile apps without an in-code…

Emerging / Unranked Application 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

Korbit.ai

A Montreal AI pull-request review startup integrated into Boost Security's SDLC platform.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Xygeni

Software supply chain security platform covering code, dependencies, CI/CD and malware detection in open-source packages.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Sucuri

Website security platform providing a WAF, malware scanning and removal, and DDoS mitigation, widely adopted in the WordPress…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

STEALIEN

STEALIEN is a Seoul-based mobile application security company whose AppSuit runtime application self-protection (RASP) product holds Korea's top-level…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

ESNC

Specialized SAP security vendor providing vulnerability scanning and real-time attack detection for SAP NetWeaver environments, a niche generalist…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Revenera

Revenera, Flexera’s software monetization and supply-chain division, provides Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tooling that scans codebases for open-source…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Parasoft

Long-established software testing and static analysis vendor whose SAST and code quality tools help enterprises catch security vulnerabilities…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Klocwork (Perforce)

Long-established static application security testing tool for safety-critical embedded software, originally a Nortel spinoff, now owned and developed…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

SecureFlag

Hands-on secure coding training platform using virtualized, real-world development environments to teach developers, DevOps and QA engineers to…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Boost Security

A Montreal AppSec startup that acquired SecureIQx and Korbit.ai in May 2026 to prioritize reachable, exploitable vulnerabilities.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Jit

A Boston AI context-graph startup acquired by Torq for a reported $50M to underpin an Enterprise AI SOC…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

SOOHO

SOOHO began as a Korean smart contract security auditor and has since expanded into broader stablecoin and digital-asset…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Dam Secure

AI-native AppSec platform built to catch logic-level security flaws in AI/LLM-generated code that traditional scanners miss.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Staris

AI-driven continuous penetration-testing platform using 'virtual security engineers' to find, prove, and patch exploitable application vulnerabilities.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Hacktron

An AI-native platform, built by competitive CTF hackers, that reviews pull requests and runs autonomous penetration tests on…

Emerging / Unranked Application 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

SecureIQx

An MIT-founded SCA reachability engine acquired alongside Korbit.ai by Boost Security.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

Raven

A Palo Alto signature-less runtime defense startup from Javelin's founding team, backed by a well-subscribed seed round.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

Waratek

Compiler-based RASP and IAST platform that virtually patches Java applications at the JVM level, including legacy runtimes, without…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

SOOS

Flat-rate software composition analysis, container scanning, and SBOM management platform.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

Quarkslab

A Paris reverse-engineering and offensive-security research firm (QShield) acquired by Airbus Defence and Space.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

WhiteHawk

An ASX-listed Australian micro-cap pivoting into AI governance through its AUD 3.5M acquisition of Quixxi.

Emerging / Unranked Application 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

Rain

A stablecoin payments platform that internalized Guardrail's runtime on-chain monitoring technology, which protected $30B+ in assets.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Allegro Software

Embedded software vendor licensing the RomPager web server and TLS/certificate-management toolkits that device manufacturers build into routers and…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Digital.ai

DevOps platform whose Application Security line (formerly Arxan) provides build-time app shielding, anti-tampering, and white-box cryptography for mobile…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

OnSystem Logic

Small application-hardening vendor building a non-bypassable, in-memory reference monitor for Windows endpoints to block trusted-tool abuse and memory-safety…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Minimus

Minimus built hardened, minimal container images from scratch directly from upstream open-source sources, aiming to eliminate more than…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
43 /100

Akto

Akto is a San Francisco API and AI-agent security platform that discovers APIs and MCP tools and continuously…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

FortifyWP

A bootstrapped boutique offering flat-fee manual WordPress security audits and hacked-site recovery.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

Secure Annex

A Kansas City browser and IDE extension-risk specialist acquired by Socket.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

SafeStack

An Auckland developer secure-coding training specialist acquired by NINJIO in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

Verimatrix

Publicly-traded content protection and mobile app shielding vendor whose XTD suite hardens Android and iOS apps against reverse…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

APPVISORY (mediaTest digital)

German SaaS provider of mobile app risk management, using static and dynamic analysis to screen mobile applications for…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

AppSecAI

Los Altos-based early-stage startup from Contrast Security's founders, using AI to triage and auto-fix SAST vulnerability findings.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

Pluribus One

An Italian University of Cagliari spin-off with a Made-in-Europe application detection and response product, now part of Alfa…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

Quixxi

An Australian patented mobile-app security vendor acquired by ASX-listed WhiteHawk in a scrip-for-scrip deal.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

GuardRails

Singapore-based DevSecOps platform that integrates static analysis, secret scanning and dependency checks directly into developers' existing CI/CD workflows.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

VoidZero

The open-source company behind Vite and Vitest, acquired by Cloudflare in June 2026; tracked for software supply-chain relevance…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
40 /100

CodeAnt AI

AI-powered code review platform that flags security vulnerabilities and quality issues directly in pull requests across 30+ languages.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
37 /100

Alfa Group

An Italian IT firm building sovereign European application-security capability through a majority stake in university spin-off Pluribus One.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
37 /100

Kiuwan (Sembi)

Static application security testing and software composition analysis platform originating in Spain, now part of Idera's Sembi software…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
37 /100

Gitar

An early-stage AI code-review startup acquired by Sonar to combine agentic reasoning with code verification for AI-generated code.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
35 /100

Trusted Knight

Cloud-delivered, agentless malware and fraud prevention for web transactions via Protector AIR.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
35 /100

Yogosha

A decade-old French invite-only bug-bounty pioneer rescued from receivership by IT group Creative in 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security