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Cloud Security

Cloud security posture management, workload protection, and container/Kubernetes security.

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Wiz

Agentless, graph-based cloud security platform that maps multi-cloud risk end-to-end, now owned by Google after a record $32B…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
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Chainguard

Provides hardened, minimal, continuously-rebuilt container images and software packages to eliminate vulnerabilities before they reach production.

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
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Second Front Systems

A Wilmington, DE defense-tech company whose Game Warden platform deploys commercial SaaS into DoD classified networks in 90…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
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Sysdig

The company behind Falco, the CNCF's runtime security standard, offering an eBPF/kernel-level CNAPP built on live syscall-based threat…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
72 /100

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft's built-in cloud-native application protection platform, unifying CSPM, workload protection, and DevOps security natively across Azure, AWS, and…

Incumbent Cloud Security
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Obsidian Security

Obsidian Security provides a SaaS security posture management (SSPM) platform that detects identity-centric threats and misconfigurations across enterprise…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Tenable Cloud Security

An agentless, graph-based cloud identity and posture platform, born as Israeli startup Ermetic, now folded into Tenable's exposure-management…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Illumio

Zero trust segmentation platform that maps application traffic and enforces policy to contain breaches across data center, cloud…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Tigera

Creator and commercial steward of Project Calico, the most widely adopted Kubernetes networking and network-policy engine, extended into…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Upwind

Runtime-powered CNAPP that prioritizes cloud risk using live workload behavior instead of static configuration scans.

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Act Security

Action-centric cloud security platform that eliminates excessive access paths at the infrastructure layer instead of just flagging vulnerabilities…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
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CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Hybrid agent/agentless cloud security module inside CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, pairing posture management with endpoint-grade runtime detection.

Incumbent Cloud Security
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Datadog Cloud Security Management

Cloud security module embedded in Datadog's observability platform, correlating posture, identity risk, and workload telemetry via a shared…

Incumbent Cloud Security
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ConductorOne

ConductorOne (rebranded C1) is an AI-native identity governance platform that manages access and entitlements for human, non-human, and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
68 /100

Sysdig

Cloud and container runtime security platform built around the open-source Falco detection engine, correlating runtime signals with cloud…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
68 /100

Upwind Security

A cloud-native application protection platform that layers runtime context onto traditional CNAPP capabilities to prioritize and stop real…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Orca Security

Agentless cloud security platform built on patented SideScanning technology, an early co-pioneer of the agentless CNAPP category alongside…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Cast AI

Automates Kubernetes cost optimization and security posture management, continuously right-sizing and hardening clusters without manual tuning.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Sweet Security

Israeli startup providing runtime-based cloud detection and response (CADR) plus AI agent security, layered on top of traditional…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
65 /100

Tamnoon

A hybrid human-plus-AI managed service that remediates cloud security findings from tools like Wiz and Prisma Cloud instead…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
65 /100

AppOmni

SaaS security posture management platform that finds misconfigurations and excess access across Salesforce, Microsoft 365 and other enterprise…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Hypori

Reston, VA-based virtual mobile infrastructure vendor delivering a cloud-hosted, isolated Android workspace for secure BYOD in government and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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iboss

Boston-based Zero Trust SASE vendor consolidating secure web gateway, CASB, SD-WAN, and browser isolation into a single cloud…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Copperhelm

Agentic cloud security platform where AI agents monitor cloud environments, investigate threats, and perform autonomous remediation with engineer-level…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Eaglys

Eaglys builds homomorphic-encryption and confidential-computing infrastructure that lets Japanese enterprises analyze sensitive data without ever decrypting it.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Oligo Security

Runtime application detection and response (ADR) that inspects live open-source library and function behavior to catch exploitable threats…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Stream.Security

Cloud detection and response platform built around a continuously updated model of the production environment, called a cloud…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Theom

Agentless platform that maps sensitive cloud data, identity access, and AI usage to show which data-risk findings actually…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Native Security

An Israeli-US startup building a cloud security control plane that operationalizes AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI's own native…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Code-to-runtime CNAPP from Palo Alto Networks, built through acquisitions and now being merged into the AI-driven Cortex Cloud…

Incumbent Cloud Security
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Uptycs

AI-native CNAPP unifying CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and XDR on a single eBPF-based telemetry and data model, agentless plus…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Sweet Security

Runtime-first cloud and AI security platform that unifies cloud detection and response with application and AI workload protection.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Averlon

AI-powered cloud exposure and attack-path management platform that identifies critical, exploitable exposures and autonomously triages, analyzes, and generates…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Anjuna Security

A confidential computing company that lets enterprises run sensitive workloads and AI models inside hardware-based secure enclaves without…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Permiso Security

Permiso Security is an identity-centric cloud detection and response (CDR) platform, founded by former FireEye/Mandiant executives, that tracks…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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RAD Security

eBPF-driven, agentic-AI cloud and Kubernetes runtime detection and posture platform, rebranded from KSOC in 2024.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Orca Security

Agentless cloud security platform that reads workload block storage via cloud APIs to find risks across infrastructure, identities…

Incremental Innovator Cloud 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
60 /100

Skyhigh Security

Security service edge (SSE) and CASB vendor spun out of McAfee Enterprise in 2022, protecting data and access…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Blast Security

Tel Aviv startup building a preemptive cloud defense platform that compiles security policy into guardrails to block risky…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Cloud Storage Security

Cloud Storage Security provides multi-engine malware scanning and data security posture management for cloud object storage, protecting Amazon…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Edera

Edera builds a lightweight Type 1 hypervisor that gives each container or AI workload true virtual-machine-grade isolation inside…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Edgeless Systems

A German confidential-computing company whose open-source Constellation platform runtime-encrypts entire Kubernetes clusters using hardware trusted execution environments.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
60 /100

CoreStack

AI-driven multi-cloud governance platform unifying cloud security posture management, application security, FinOps, and CloudOps under one console.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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ARMO

Tel Aviv-based cloud-native security vendor and creator of Kubescape, a CNCF open-source Kubernetes security scanner, offering a commercial…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Trend Micro (Trend Vision One – Cloud Security)

A veteran Japanese security vendor whose Trend Vision One platform bundles cloud posture management, workload, and container protection…

Incumbent Cloud Security
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Lacework (FortiCNAPP, a Fortinet company)

Once an $8B-plus unicorn built on behavioral cloud anomaly detection, Lacework is now Fortinet's CNAPP (branded FortiCNAPP) after…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Skyhawk Security

Cloud detection and response vendor using simulated 'digital twin' attack modeling to prioritize which cloud vulnerabilities are actually…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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enclaive

Berlin-based confidential computing startup whose multi-cloud platform provisions hardware-isolated trusted execution environments across cloud providers without requiring code…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Gomboc.AI

New York-based cloud security startup applying deterministic AI, not generative-AI guesswork, to auto-remediate cloud misconfigurations at scale, aiming…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Material Security

Material Security protects Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environments by hardening email, files, and account access after the…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Aqua Security

Cloud-native application protection vendor and steward of the widely used open-source Trivy scanner, covering build-to-runtime security.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Aqua Security

Container and Kubernetes-native cloud security pioneer combining commercial CNAPP tooling with the widely used open-source Trivy scanner.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Sangfor Technologies

Chinese publicly traded vendor delivering cloud security, network security, and managed detection and response, with especially strong footprint…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Stacklet

Cloud governance-as-code platform, built by the creators of the open-source Cloud Custodian project, that codifies and automates security,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (StackRox)

Red Hat's commercial Kubernetes-native container and cloud-security platform, built on the open-sourced StackRox project acquired in 2021.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Wing Security

Wing Security provides an automated SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform that discovers shadow SaaS and AI apps,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Cisco Panoptica

Panoptica is Cisco's cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), covering code and build security, IaC and CSPM, API security,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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CoreView

CoreView provides a SaaS management and governance platform specifically for Microsoft 365 and its surrounding SaaS ecosystem, helping…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Atlantic.Net

Atlantic.Net is a three-decade-old, privately held cloud and hosting provider best known for HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant infrastructure, now extending that…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Red Access

A Series A Tel Aviv agentless browser-security vendor backed by Norwest, S Ventures, and Singtel Innov8.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Inforcer

A London multi-tenant Microsoft 365 management and security platform for MSPs, with a Series C.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Lookout

Mobile and cloud security vendor combining endpoint threat defense, mobile EDR, and security service edge (SSE) capabilities to…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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ManagedMethods

K-12-focused cloud security platform providing API-based visibility into Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 for cybersecurity, data safety, and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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DoControl

A New York-based SaaS data access governance platform, backed in part by CrowdStrike's Falcon Fund, that automates discovery…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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CYSEC

CYSEC builds ARCA Trusted OS, a confidential-computing platform that protects containerized workloads and data-in-use for critical infrastructure, defense,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Vorlon

Vorlon provides agentless visibility into SaaS-to-SaaS data flows, secrets exposure, and posture risk across an organization's third-party SaaS…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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ClearDATA

ClearDATA provides cloud security posture management and managed compliance services purpose-built for healthcare organizations running on AWS, Azure,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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AccuKnox

AccuKnox is a zero-trust Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) securing containers, Kubernetes, and cloud workloads from build…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Nightfall AI

Nightfall AI is a data loss prevention platform rebuilt for cloud SaaS, generative AI tools, and endpoints, using…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Symmetry Systems

Symmetry Systems maps the relationships between every identity, data object, and AI agent across an organization's cloud environment…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Nudge Security

Nudge Security discovers SaaS, AI tools, and cloud accounts across a distributed workforce and layers identity governance and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Formal

Formal is a programmable reverse proxy that sits in front of databases and infrastructure, parsing 15+ wire protocols…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Plerion

Sydney-based CNAPP consolidating CSPM, CIEM, workload scanning, DSPM, and cloud detection and response into one platform, backed by…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Ericom

Cloud security division of Cradlepoint (owned by Ericsson) offering a remote-browser-isolation-based Security Service Edge platform covering SWG, CASB,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Deepfence

Cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) built around the open-source ThreatMapper scanner and its commercial ThreatStryker runtime protection layer.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Valence Security

Valence Security is a SaaS security posture management platform that discovers and remediates misconfigurations, risky OAuth integrations, and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Opal Security

Opal Security is an AI-native access management platform that automates least-privilege enforcement across cloud infrastructure, SaaS apps, and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Zluri

Zluri is an identity governance and administration platform, built on its IRIS risk-scoring engine, that discovers and governs…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Afi

Afi provides cloud-native backup and data protection for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure, delivering cyber-resilient…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Nirmata

Nirmata builds an AI-assisted Kubernetes governance and security platform on top of Kyverno, the Kubernetes-native policy engine its…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Stealthium

Stealthium extends cloud security down to the GPU layer, monitoring VRAM, kernels, and CUDA execution to catch threats…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Circumvent

AI-driven cloud security platform that correlates alerts across existing tools to cut alert fatigue and surface validated, human-verified…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Qualys TotalCloud

Public vulnerability-management incumbent's CNAPP, unifying agentless cloud scanning with its long-standing Cloud Agent and TruRisk platform.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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BetterCloud

SaaS management and security posture platform automating access lifecycle and policy enforcement across an organization's cloud application portfolio,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Sonrai Security

Cloud identity and data governance platform that maps identities, permissions and data access paths across AWS, Azure and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Sonet.io

Sonet.io is a San Jose-based startup delivering browser-based, agentless zero trust application access for distributed and remote workforces.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Indent

Indent is a lightweight, Slack-native just-in-time access management platform that automates time-bound, least-privilege access requests and approvals for…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
52 /100

Plexicus

Plexicus is a European AI-native application security posture management platform that auto-generates fix pull requests for vulnerabilities across…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Caution

Cayman Islands-based Y Combinator startup building a verifiable compute platform that cryptographically proves production code matches its reviewed…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Spyderbat

Cloud-native runtime security platform using eBPF to trace process, network and identity activity across Linux VMs and Kubernetes.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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YourSix

Cloud-native physical security platform unifying video surveillance, access control, audio and sensors under a single cloud-managed operating system.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Rapid7 InsightCloudSec

Agentless, real-time multi-cloud CSPM/CIEM/KSPM platform from public vendor Rapid7, built on its 2020 acquisition of DivvyCloud.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Doppler

Doppler is a centralized secrets management platform that lets engineering, DevOps, and security teams sync API keys and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
50 /100

Aryon Security

A Tel Aviv preventive cloud-security startup claiming up to 95% CSPM alert reduction, built by Project Nimbus security…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Surf AI

A 2024-founded Tel Aviv agentic security-operations startup already selling to Fortune 500 customers.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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KTrust

A Tel Aviv startup that automatically red-teams Kubernetes environments, simulating real attack paths to find exploitable exposures instead…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Mitigant

Potsdam-based platform that emulates real adversarial attacks against cloud and Kubernetes environments to validate security controls with evidence.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
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Symmetrium

A Tel Aviv startup streaming an encrypted virtual mobile workspace to keep corporate data off personal devices.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
48 /100

Check Point CloudGuard

Cloud security suite from veteran network-security vendor Check Point, bundling CNAPP posture management, WAF and multi-cloud network protection.

Incumbent Cloud Security
48 /100

TerraZone

An Israeli seed-stage ZTNA vendor focused on micro-segmentation, with strategic backing from WHEN Group.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Pvotal Technologies

Pvotal Technologies combines infrastructure management, cybersecurity consulting, and AI-driven agents to help organizations run cloud and hybrid infrastructure…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Kloudle

Self-hosted cloud security posture management scanner built for developers, running entirely on the customer's own infrastructure rather than…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Secberus

Miami-based cloud security posture management (CSPM) vendor offering a risk-driven, policy-as-code platform for multi-cloud compliance.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Matano

Matano is a Y Combinator-backed, open-source cloud-native SIEM built as a zero-ops security data lake deployed directly inside…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Valarian

A London sovereign infrastructure control layer for governments and enterprises seeking independence from US hyperscalers.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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CloudQuery

A New York cloud asset-inventory company that merged with env0 to combine real-time visibility with IaC governance.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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ZeroPath

ZeroPath is a Y Combinator-backed developer tool that autonomously detects, verifies, and submits pull-request fixes for code vulnerabilities…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Antigen

Antigen is a Y Combinator-backed continuous offensive security platform that runs nightly automated attack simulations against an organization's…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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GhostEye

GhostEye is a Y Combinator-backed continuous red-team service that simulates real-world social-engineering attacks — help-desk vishing, deepfaked executive…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Dawnguard

Dawnguard builds an AI-native security-architecture-as-code platform that lets engineering teams design, validate, and continuously enforce secure cloud architecture…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Fairwinds

Fairwinds provides managed Kubernetes services and open-source governance tooling (Polaris, Goldilocks) that enforce security and resource policies on…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Detexian

Melbourne-based SaaS security posture management startup helping mid-market organizations find shadow IT and SaaS misconfigurations.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Perimeters.io

A multi-tenant SaaS security platform for MSPs, acquired by WatchGuard after becoming a customer.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Native

A Seattle multi-cloud security control plane with former Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables on its board.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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MetCloud

Birmingham-based sovereign cloud provider pairing UK-hosted private cloud infrastructure with built-in cyber defense, targeting public-sector and defense customers.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
45 /100

Andromeda Security

Andromeda Security is an AI-powered identity security platform that uses behavioral analysis to automate permission right-sizing and lifecycle…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Tatum Security

A Seoul-based CNAPP vendor bundling cloud posture, workload, and entitlement management for Korean banks and public-sector agencies.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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PanIAM Cloud

A Luxembourg startup offering an agentless, EU-hosted CNAPP that maps cloud attack paths and ranks fixes by risk…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Astralas

A Sydney-area cloud-security architecture and IAM consultancy (60+ advisors) acquired by Bastion Security Group.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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TrustLayer

A UK cloud security vendor (rebranded from CensorNet) bundling secure web gateway, email security, SaaS posture management, and…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Cyscale

Cyscale is a European cloud security posture management (CSPM) vendor built around a graph-based model of cloud assets,…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Corgea

Corgea is a Y Combinator-backed AI SAST platform that finds and auto-fixes application vulnerabilities with a stated focus…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Trustle

Trustle is a just-in-time cloud access platform that lets security teams enforce least privilege and zero standing privileges…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Common Fate

Common Fate is an Australian identity-security startup giving cloud-native teams just-in-time, policy-as-code access to AWS and GCP via…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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env0

A Boston infrastructure-as-code governance company that merged with CloudQuery to add cloud-asset discovery.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Cavirin Systems

Cloud security posture management platform that continuously assesses hybrid cloud and container configurations against compliance benchmarks like CIS,…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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SecureSky

Omaha, Nebraska-based managed cloud security provider specializing in Microsoft Sentinel/Defender deployment, CSPM/SSPM, and 24x7 managed detection and response…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Cloudanix

Cloudanix is a Y Combinator-backed CNAPP that combines cloud posture management, code security, workload protection, and just-in-time access…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Caveonix

Virginia-based vendor offering hybrid multicloud vulnerability and misconfiguration management, now a small, steady niche player.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
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Syrix Security

A Tel Aviv pre-seed startup building continuous SaaS security posture enforcement focused on Microsoft 365 environments.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security