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Data Protection

Data encryption, backup, classification, loss prevention, and privacy compliance.

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Cyera

AI-powered, agentless data security platform combining DSPM, DLP, and AI-activity monitoring, and one of the fastest-funded startups in…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Cyberhaven

Data detection and response platform that tracks data lineage to detect and prevent data exfiltration and insider risk.

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Fireblocks

The category-defining institutional digital-asset custody platform, combining MPC and hardware chip isolation to move roughly $2 trillion in…

Incumbent Data Protection
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Varonis

Data-centric security platform that monitors file, email, and cloud activity to detect insider threats and ransomware before data…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Halcyon

Ransomware-focused cyber resilience platform combining endpoint prevention, automated recovery, and data exfiltration protection.

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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SandboxAQ

Alphabet spinout building AQtive Guard, a cryptographic management platform helping enterprises inventory, assess and migrate to quantum-safe encryption.

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CyberRidge

Photonic-layer encryption that converts transmitted data into optical noise, defending fiber communications against quantum-era decryption.

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Cyera

AI-native data security platform that discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS and on-prem and extends into…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Varonis

Data security platform that discovers sensitive data, maps access and detects abnormal activity across cloud and on-premises stores.

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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MIND

AI-native data loss prevention and insider risk management platform built to automate DLP detection and response with far…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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AWS Wickr

AWS Wickr is Amazon's end-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, video, and file-sharing platform for regulated and government environments, holding…

Incumbent Data Protection
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Matter Labs

A leading zero-knowledge rollup infrastructure provider (zkSync) for Ethereum, offering cryptographically verifiable scaling without fraud-proof challenge windows.

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Rubrik

Cloud data security company providing immutable backup, ransomware recovery, and cyber resilience across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS workloads.

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Keepit

Danish independent SaaS backup vendor protecting Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and other cloud data outside the source…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Utimaco

Utimaco builds FIPS-certified hardware security modules and post-quantum key-management technology that serve as the cryptographic root of trust…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Ledger

The Paris-based incumbent hardware crypto wallet maker, with 7.5M+ units sold on certified secure-element chips and a potential…

Incumbent Data Protection
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Zama

The first fully homomorphic encryption unicorn, building open-source FHE libraries that let computations run directly on encrypted data…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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QuintessenceLabs

A Canberra, Australia-based quantum cybersecurity company providing hardware QRNG, quantum key distribution and post-quantum-readiness tools, backed by a…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
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Securiti.ai

Unified 'Data Command Center' platform combining data security, privacy, governance, and AI compliance across hybrid multicloud environments, now…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Sentra

Cloud-native DSPM vendor evolving into a broader data security platform, focused on data hygiene and identity/access controls at…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Infinidat (InfiniSafe Cyber Resilience)

Enterprise storage vendor Infinidat's InfiniSafe technology delivers immutable snapshots, air-gapping, and near-instant ransomware recovery for primary storage.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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360 Privacy

Digital executive protection platform that scans the surface, deep, and dark web to find and remove leaked personal…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Fortanix

Confidential computing pioneer decoupling data security from infrastructure via encryption, key management, tokenization, and secure enclaves.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Duality Technologies

Provides a fully homomorphic encryption platform that lets organizations analyze and collaborate on sensitive data while it remains…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Privacera

A cloud data access governance company, founded by Apache Ranger's creators, that centralizes fine-grained data security policy enforcement…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Bluefin Payment Systems

PCI-validated point-to-point encryption and tokenization provider that shrinks PCI DSS scope by encrypting card data at the point…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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TigerConnect

A Santa Monica secure clinical-messaging pioneer (launched as TigerText in 2010) serving 4,000+ healthcare organizations with over 10M…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Eon

A Tel Aviv startup reframing cloud backup as a queryable, auditable data layer rather than passive insurance, raising…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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BigID

Data intelligence platform for discovering, classifying, and governing sensitive data and AI datasets across structured, unstructured, and SaaS…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Object First (a Veeam company)

Object First's Ootbi appliance delivers out-of-the-box, ransomware-resistant immutable backup storage purpose-built for Veeam customers, now owned by Veeam…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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BlackCloak

Digital executive protection platform providing concierge-style personal cybersecurity for corporate executives, board members, and high-net-worth individuals.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Proton Mail

End-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland's Proton AG, now majority-controlled by a non-profit foundation, serving over 100 million…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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AvePoint

Nasdaq-listed data security, governance and resilience platform for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce, now expanding into governance…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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CryptoLab

CryptoLab commercializes homomorphic encryption and post-quantum cryptography, founded by the inventor of the CKKS encryption scheme now used…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Odaseva

A San Francisco data-protection vendor offering five-layer encryption and purpose-built backup for Salesforce, serving Fortune 500-scale customers since…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Virtru

Data-centric encryption platform built on an NSA-originated open standard that binds access policy directly to files and email.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Netwrix

Netwrix provides data access governance, identity, and Active Directory security so organizations can find and lock down sensitive…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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ID Quantique

Geneva-founded Quantum Key Distribution and quantum-safe cryptography pioneer, acquired by Nasdaq-listed IonQ in 2025 to anchor its quantum…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cyberhaven

AI-native data security platform that traces the full lifecycle of data to power DLP, insider-risk management, and shadow-AI…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Safetica

Czech-built data loss prevention and insider risk management platform combining DLP, UEBA, and encryption for over 5,000 organizations…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Teramind

A behavioral analytics platform for insider risk management and data loss prevention that monitors user activity, data movement,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Kiteworks

FedRAMP-authorized private content network unifying secure file sharing, managed file transfer, and email data communications for compliance-heavy industries.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Duality Technologies

Privacy-enhancing technology platform using homomorphic encryption and federated learning for secure data collaboration.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Spin.AI

SaaS security platform combining backup, ransomware detection, browser security, and data security posture management for Google Workspace, Microsoft…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Relyance AI

A data governance platform that maps data lineage in real time from code and infrastructure to power privacy…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Securosys

Swiss maker of Primus hardware security modules and cloud HSM services protecting banking and digital-asset keys.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Enveil

Enveil builds privacy-preserving computation technology, including homomorphic-style encryption, that lets organizations search, analyze, and share sensitive data without…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Mine

AI-driven data privacy and governance platform (MineOS) that automates data discovery, mapping, and compliance workflows for enterprises, having…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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LightBeam.ai

Palo Alto-based data security posture management vendor whose Data Identity Graph unifies sensitive-data discovery, access mapping, and privacy…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Didomi

A Paris-based consent and preference management platform that helps organizations collect, manage, and prove GDPR/CCPA-compliant user consent across…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Yardstik

Yardstik combines background screening, identity verification, and continuous fraud monitoring into a single platform aimed at closing what…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Infisical

Open-source platform for managing secrets, certificates, and privileged access across dev, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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enQase

U.S. quantum-safe security platform unifying post-quantum cryptography, key governance and hardware-rooted entropy.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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TYCHON

Fairfax cybersecurity software company focused on cryptographic discovery, inventory and post-quantum readiness for enterprises and agencies.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Skyflow

API-delivered data privacy vault that isolates and tokenizes sensitive PII, PHI and PCI data instead of encrypting it…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Rewind

SaaS data backup and recovery platform protecting business-critical cloud applications like GitHub, Shopify, and Jira from accidental deletion,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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NAKIVO

NAKIVO is a bootstrapped backup and ransomware-recovery vendor known for broad platform coverage (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, physical, cloud)…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cigent

Embedded storage-level ransomware and data-theft prevention using hidden drives, hardware encryption, and zero-trust file access.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Anjuna

Confidential computing platform that runs applications and AI workloads inside hardware-secured enclaves across clouds.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Optery

Optery automatically finds and removes personal information from data broker and people-search sites, reducing exposure to identity theft,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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ISARA Corporation

Canadian cryptographic-discovery and post-quantum migration vendor, an early NIST PQC standards contributor now selling into US federal and…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cloaked

Consumer privacy platform (disposable identities, data-broker removal, dark web monitoring) that raised $375M in 2026 while expanding into…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Tausight

A healthcare-focused data protection platform that uses AI to discover and continuously monitor protected health information (PHI) risk…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Venn

New York-based data protection vendor whose Blue Border technology creates a secure, isolated enclave on BYOD Macs and…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Arpio

Automated disaster recovery and ransomware recovery platform for AWS and Azure, replicating cloud infrastructure to restore operations rapidly…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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PKWARE

A data discovery, classification, and encryption provider whose PK Protect and Smartcrypt products embed persistent, data-level protection directly…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Index Engines

Maker of CyberSense, a byte-level ransomware and data-corruption detection engine embedded inside major enterprise backup platforms including Dell…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Superna

An Ottawa-based unstructured data security company that defends NAS storage systems against ransomware at the storage layer; its…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Elastio Software

A Reston, VA-based data resilience company whose Active Cyber Resilience platform hunts for hidden ransomware inside backup data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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QNu Labs

QNu Labs builds quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure — quantum key distribution, quantum random number generation, and post-quantum key management…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Slide

A Datto founder's new venture building a modern backup and disaster-recovery platform for managed service providers, built from…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Quantum Bridge Technologies

Toronto company building quantum-safe key distribution infrastructure to protect government, finance, and telecom networks against future quantum decryption.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cryptomathic

Danish cryptography vendor providing key management, mobile app security, digital signing and payment issuance software to banks and…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Microsoft Purview

Microsoft's built-in data security and governance suite, unifying DLP, information protection, DSPM, and compliance across Microsoft 365 and…

Incumbent Data Protection
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Immuta

Data access governance platform that enforces fine-grained, attribute-based access policies dynamically across data warehouses and lakes like Snowflake…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Druva

Fully managed, SaaS-delivered cyber-resilience platform providing backup and recovery for data centers, cloud workloads, SaaS, and endpoints with…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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HYCU

SaaS-delivered backup and ransomware recovery platform with purpose-built connectors for dozens of cloud and SaaS applications.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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NeuShield

NeuShield takes a data-protection-first approach to ransomware defense, using "Mirror Shielding" to preserve access to original files even…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Secturion Systems

An NSA-certified hardware encryption vendor for defense platforms, acquired by Carlyle in July 2026.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Normalyze (a Proofpoint company)

Normalyze's data security posture management (DSPM) technology, now part of Proofpoint, maps where sensitive data lives across cloud…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Baffle

Baffle provides Encryption-as-a-Service, applying field-level encryption and tokenization to databases and AI data pipelines to limit breach exposure.

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Post-Quantum

UK cryptography vendor building quantum-safe encryption, VPN, and identity products, with an IETF-standardized post-quantum VPN protocol trialed by…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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1touch.io

1touch.io builds an enterprise Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform that discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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ALTR

ALTR is a data access governance and security platform, purpose-built for Snowflake and other cloud data warehouses, that…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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SpiderOak

No-knowledge encryption and zero-trust data protection company that pivoted its core technology into securing satellite and space communications.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Ground Labs

Ground Labs is a Singapore-based data discovery and classification vendor whose Enterprise Recon and Card Recon products locate…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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RackTop Systems

RackTop Systems' BrickStor SP embeds real-time ransomware and insider-threat detection directly into the storage layer, rather than relying…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Qohash

A Quebec-based data security posture management vendor whose Qostodian platform discovers and classifies sensitive data down to the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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CTERA

Enterprise file services platform combining global file access with built-in, ML-based ransomware detection and air-gapped immutable snapshot recovery.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Acronis

Global cyber protection vendor combining backup, disaster recovery, anti-malware, and endpoint management into a single platform used heavily…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Zerto

Continuous data protection and disaster-recovery platform for virtualized and cloud environments, offering near-real-time replication and journal-based recovery, now…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Enquantum

Enquantum is a quantum-security company based in Holon, Israel, founded in 2020 and backed in part by the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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DryvIQ

DryvIQ specializes in intelligent unstructured-data management, helping organizations discover, classify, and govern content spanning more than 40 cloud…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Orion Security

AI-driven, policy-free data loss prevention that analyzes data, systems, and business context instead of static rules.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Quantum Bridge Technologies

Quantum Bridge Technologies builds quantum-safe key distribution infrastructure that protects data now against future 'harvest now, decrypt later'…

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Bedrock Security

Data security posture management platform aiming to classify and govern sensitive data across cloud and on-prem environments with…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Fortaegis Technologies

An Amsterdam startup building hardware-rooted, quantum-resistant security keys derived from physical silicon variation rather than stored secrets.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cohesity

Backup and data management platform that merged with Veritas's enterprise data protection business in 2024 to become the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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OVHcloud

A European cloud provider that integrated ANSSI-certified zero-knowledge encryption from Seald as OVHcloud E2EE in January 2026.

Incumbent Data Protection
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Rubrik Zero Labs

Rubrik's dedicated data-threat research unit that publishes independent, vendor-agnostic research on ransomware, identity attacks, and data-security risk trends.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Swissbit (Cybersecurity Products)

A European storage-hardware maker whose hardware-encrypted USB, SD, and security-key product line protects data and devices in industrial…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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X-PHY Inc

AI embedded directly into storage hardware to detect and block firmware-level threats in real time, without relying on…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Teleskope

Data security platform that discovers, classifies and automatically remediates sensitive data across cloud, SaaS and on-premises systems.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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xorlab

Swiss behavioral-AI email security platform offering on-premises and sovereign deployment options, used by Julius Bär, Swisscom, and CERN.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Informatica

Informatica is a major enterprise data management vendor, now operating as a Salesforce subsidiary, whose Data Governance, Access…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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ShelterZoom

ShelterZoom is a New York-based SaaS company that uses blockchain-based document tokenization to give document originators verifiable control,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Echoworx

Cloud-based email encryption and secure delivery platform built for regulated enterprises, operating from Toronto since 2000 with a…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Nasuni

Cloud-native file data platform providing continuous, versioned backup and rapid ransomware recovery for enterprise unstructured file data, positioned…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Fortaegis

Amsterdam-based chip security startup using silicon physical unclonable functions to generate hardware-rooted, quantum-safe cryptographic keys without digital certificates.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Relativity

A Silver Lake-backed eDiscovery leader relevant to breach response, litigation, and compliance workflows.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Concentric AI

Data security governance vendor using semantic/contextual AI to understand data meaning rather than relying on regex or rule-based…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Fasoo

Seoul-based, publicly-traded data security pioneer offering enterprise DRM, data discovery, and zero trust content protection since 2000.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Coviant Software

Secure managed file transfer software automating encrypted, compliant transfer of sensitive business files at enterprise scale.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Mattermost (Government & Defense Collaboration)

Open-source, self-hostable collaboration platform whose government edition offers air-gapped, self-sovereign deployment for defense and public-sector agencies.

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IXOPAY

Payment tokenization and orchestration platform formed by the 2024 merger of TokenEx and IXOPAY, letting merchants remove raw…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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DataStealth

Agentless, in-line data security platform that tokenizes, masks, and encrypts sensitive data in real time without code changes.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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SecuPi

Data-centric security platform providing discovery, real-time monitoring, and fine-grained enforcement across enterprise data and AI workloads.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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11:11 Systems

11:11 Systems bundles backup, disaster recovery, and managed security into a single cyber-resiliency stack, built by combining Green…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Becrypt

A London-based data protection specialist, now a Leonardo subsidiary, building NCSC-certified secure operating systems and endpoint encryption for…

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DataGrail

A San Francisco-based data privacy automation platform that continuously maps personal data and automates DSAR fulfillment and consent…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Anonos

Data protection vendor whose Data Embassy platform generates purpose-specific, de-identified "Variant Twin" copies of data to enable GDPR-…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Crypta Labs

A London-based hardware company building Quantum Random Number Generators that extract true entropy from quantum photonics, with an…

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Project Eleven

A 2024-founded New York post-quantum migration specialist for crypto networks that raised a $20M Series A at a…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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JetStream Software

JetStream Software builds cloud-native disaster recovery and migration technology for VMware environments, giving cloud service providers and enterprises…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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EasySend

A Tel Aviv no-code platform replacing insecure paper/email data collection with encrypted digital journeys for regulated financial and…

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Manta Network

A Boston-based zero-knowledge Layer-2 network (Manta Pacific) focused on privacy-by-design blockchain applications.

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Oblivious

Dublin-based confidential computing startup letting organizations run machine learning on sensitive data without ever exposing it in the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Veeam

Privately held backup and ransomware-recovery software vendor whose Data Platform protects VMware, cloud, SaaS, and Kubernetes workloads at…

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MagicCube

A Santa Clara software-defined secure-element vendor that closed a $10M round in January 2026 to expand beyond payments.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Metomic

A London-based SaaS data security platform that discovers, classifies, and remediates sensitive data exposure inside collaboration tools like…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Arcserve

Arcserve provides backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware-resilient immutable storage (OneXafe) across on-premises, appliance, and SaaS form factors, under…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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SafeGuard Cyber

Digital risk protection and compliance archiving platform securing collaboration and social channels (Teams, Slack, Zoom, WhatsApp) against phishing,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Egnyte

Cloud content platform that unifies secure file storage/sharing with data classification, governance, and ransomware detection at the storage…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Tresorit

Tresorit is a Swiss-Hungarian end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and collaboration company, majority-owned by Swiss Post, that lets businesses…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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FenixPyre

An Ohio State University spinout (formerly Anchor/DAtAnchor) that bakes FIPS 140-2 encryption directly into files to protect data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cossack Labs

UK-headquartered data security firm building open-source and commercial cryptographic tools, including the Acra database encryption proxy and the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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TrustLogix

AI-powered data security posture management platform that unifies data discovery, access-policy enforcement, and compliance across cloud data warehouses,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Very Good Security (VGS)

Payment and sensitive-data tokenization platform that lets businesses handle, store, and route payment card and other regulated data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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pQCee

pQCee is a Singapore-based post-quantum cryptography company building tools to help organizations prepare for the eventual arrival of…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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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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KETS Quantum Security

Bristol-based developer of chip-scale quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation for satellite, naval, and telecom networks.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Irreducible

A San Francisco cryptographic infrastructure startup (formerly Ulvetanna) building hardware-accelerated zero-knowledge proof generation via its open-source Binius proof…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Strac

Strac unifies data security posture management and data loss prevention to find and remediate exposed sensitive data across…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Seclore

A Series C information rights management vendor whose file-level controls travel with data.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Commvault

One of the oldest data-protection vendors, offering operational, cyber, and autonomous recovery software for hybrid and cloud environments.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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LeapXpert

A New York communications-governance leader for WhatsApp, iMessage, and Signal, a two-time Gartner Visionary.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cosmian

Paris company building privacy-by-default encryption, searchable encryption and confidential-computing tooling for protecting data in use.

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Futurex

A privately held, four-decade-old Texas encryption vendor providing FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and PCI HSM-validated hardware security modules…

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KoolSpan

A secure mobile communications vendor whose FIPS 140-2 validated TrustCall platform delivers end-to-end encrypted calls, messaging, and file…

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High Sec Labs

High Sec Labs builds secure KVM switches and peripheral-sharing hardware certified to NIAP/EAL4+ standards, letting users share a…

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Datacloak

Datacloak is a Shenzhen-based zero trust data security vendor whose DACS platform and HyperCloak technology protect endpoint, cloud,…

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FTAPI Software

Munich-based secure data exchange platform for GDPR-compliant encrypted email, file sharing, and process automation, backed by Tikehau Capital…

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FinalCode

FinalCode is a file encryption and enterprise digital-rights-management product, owned by Japan's Digital Arts Inc., that keeps protection…

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Internxt

Valencia-based zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage provider building an open-source, post-quantum privacy ecosystem for consumers and small businesses.

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NVISIONx

NVISIONx is a data security posture management (DSPM) platform that discovers, classifies, and reduces risk in an organization's…

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Lorica Cybersecurity

Lorica Cybersecurity develops high-performance fully homomorphic encryption technology that lets organizations compute on encrypted data without ever decrypting…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Smartlockr

Smartlockr is an Amsterdam-based secure email and file-sharing platform that adds encryption and human-error safeguards to outbound email…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Cognni

Tel Aviv-based data classification and governance platform that uses AI to autonomously discover, map, and classify sensitive data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Paubox

HIPAA-compliant email encryption vendor whose inbound and outbound protection works without recipient portals or extra login steps for…

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Quantropi

Ottawa-based post-quantum cryptography company selling quantum-secure encryption for data in transit and at rest, currently completing a reverse…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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DataLocker

A Kansas-based maker of FIPS-validated hardware-encrypted USB drives and centrally managed portable storage for government, military, and regulated…

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Titaniam

Data-in-use encryption platform designed so that even if attackers breach a system and exfiltrate data, the stolen data…

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Alchemi Data Management

A NAS-layer insider-threat and ransomware appliance, ShieldCRS, with agentless detection and instant file rollback.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Evervault

A Dublin data-encryption vendor for payment data, with 7,000+ banking and payments integrations and 100M+ monthly encrypted tokens.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Libraesva

An Italian email-security specialist (about 40 employees) extending into awareness training through its Cyber Guru acquisition.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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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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DriveLock SE

Munich-based endpoint security specialist offering device control, application control, and data protection built to European digital-sovereignty standards.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Data Rudder

A 2018-founded Brazilian fraud and AML detection startup being acquired by Nuclea, pending Central Bank approval.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Seald

Seald, based in Paris, France, built end-to-end encryption technology and developer-friendly encryption SDKs that let software teams add…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Aurva

Early-stage data security posture management and data detection-and-response platform built to track human, service, and AI-agent data access…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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ShardSecure

Data fragmentation and resilience startup that shards sensitive files across storage locations to make stolen or ransomed data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
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Kriptos

Kriptos uses a multi-AI classification engine to automatically discover, classify, and govern unstructured data across endpoints, file servers,…

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52 /100

Algemetric

Colorado Springs-founded, now internationally expanding privacy-tech company applying fully homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation to encrypted-data analytics…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Code-X

St. Petersburg-based data security firm behind a DoD-validated lattice-based data protection platform for high-sensitivity environments.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

CipherStash

Application-layer searchable encryption and data-level access control for Postgres, letting queries run against encrypted fields without decrypting them…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

eperi

eperi builds an encryption and tokenization gateway that lets enterprises use SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Salesforce…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Cryptsoft

A Brisbane, Australia specialist that licenses KMIP encryption key-management SDKs embedded by major storage, security, and cloud vendors…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Zertificon Solutions

Berlin-based, owner-managed email encryption vendor whose Z1 SecureMail Gateway is used by more than a quarter of Germany's…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Tall Poppy

Employee digital-safety vendor combining proactive personal-exposure hardening with trauma-aware incident response for workers targeted by online harassment or…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

SealPath

Bilbao, Spain-based, bootstrapped EDRM/IRM vendor offering persistent, file-following encryption and access control across on-prem, SaaS and MSP deployments.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Panzura

Hybrid-cloud file data platform providing immutable, ransomware-resistant storage and AI-driven data management for enterprises with large distributed unstructured-data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Vaultree

Encryption-as-a-service platform enabling searchable and computable encryption over data using standard hardware, so organizations can query and process…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Datto

Backup, disaster recovery, and business-continuity (BCDR) platform built specifically for managed service providers serving small and mid-sized businesses,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Cloudian

S3-compatible object storage software vendor whose HyperStore platform provides immutable, ransomware-resistant on-premises and hybrid-cloud storage for enterprise data-intensive…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Xtn Cognitive Security

An Italian fraud-prevention vendor combining behavioral biometrics and device intelligence for banks and fintechs.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

NetApp

A NASDAQ-listed storage vendor adding VMware disaster-recovery technology via its August 2026 acquisition of JetStream Software.

Incumbent Data Protection
52 /100

Sodot

A Tel Aviv self-hosted MPC key-management startup acquired by MoonPay for roughly $100M in stock.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Babylon Labs

A Bitcoin-security protocol company ($111M+ raised) that received a $15M strategic investment from a16z Crypto in early 2026.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

AllSecureX

AllSecureX is an Indian startup building a software-defined platform to discover cryptographic assets and manage the transition to…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Tinfoil

Open-source confidential computing platform that lets sensitive data be processed by AI models without exposing it to the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Honeycake

A Philadelphia-based seed-stage startup building client-side-encrypted "self-protecting files" that carry their own permissions, redaction, and revocation, founded by…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

OneAxiom

A bootstrapped Naples data-monitoring vendor reportedly generating around $28M in revenue with a small team.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Forcepoint

Legacy data-loss-prevention and insider-risk vendor, descended from Websense and Raytheon ownership, now focused on enterprise DLP under Francisco…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Ryft

A New York and Tel Aviv AI-agent data lake startup acquired by Cyera for an estimated $100M-$130M.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Fortra

Eden Prairie-based cybersecurity portfolio company (rebranded from HelpSystems) spanning data protection, DLP, DMARC, and vulnerability management.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Bloombase

Storage-layer encryption vendor whose intelligent storage firewall applies agentless, application-transparent encryption to data-at-rest, now extending into post-quantum cryptography.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Encryption Consulting

Applied-cryptography firm offering PKI, key management and code-signing services plus its CodeSign Secure platform.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Privacy Tools

Brazilian privacy governance platform built around LGPD compliance, offering cookie consent management, DSAR handling, and supplier compliance tracking…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

NetSfere

Encrypted enterprise messaging, voice, and video platform built for regulated industries, recently adding post-quantum ML-KEM 1024 encryption and…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Atakama

Atakama is a New York-based data protection vendor providing decentralized, multifactor encryption key management to prevent data-at-rest exfiltration…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Somansa

Somansa is a Korean data loss prevention (DLP) vendor providing endpoint, network, and database-focused solutions to detect and…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Privacy Analytics

An IQVIA-owned, Ottawa-based platform that automates de-identification and anonymization of structured and unstructured patient-level healthcare data for research…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

ExaGrid

Tiered backup storage appliance vendor whose scale-out architecture combines a fast disk-cache landing zone with a separate, delayed-deduplication…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

WAMNET Japan

WAMNET Japan K.K. is Japan's most established provider of secure managed file transfer and enterprise file-sharing services, serving…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Anametric

Austin startup developing chip-scale quantum photonic integrated circuits for post-quantum and quantum-based cybersecurity.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
48 /100

Jazz

A 2024-founded New York startup reinventing DLP with an AI Agentic Investigator, backed by Glilot, Team8, and Ten…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

SIMS Software

SIMS Software, based in Carlsbad, California, builds Secret Information Management System (SIMS) software used by defense contractors and…

Incumbent Data Protection
48 /100

Arqit

London-based public company (Nasdaq: ARQQ) building quantum-safe encryption key distribution and, more recently, cryptographic discovery tools for post-quantum…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Data Resolve Technologies

Data Resolve Technologies is a Noida, India-based vendor of insider threat management and data loss prevention software, best…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Cord3

Ottawa-based data-centric encryption company that binds protection directly to files and emails to defend against privileged-credential theft and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Myota

A cyberstorage vendor whose Princeton-research-derived Shred and Spread data fragmentation approach keeps data available and confidential even after…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Matters.AI

San Francisco-based AI-native data security startup consolidating DLP, DSPM, and data lineage into a single autonomous policy layer.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Continuity Software

Storage and backup security posture management platform that continuously audits backup and storage infrastructure for misconfigurations and ransomware-related…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Antimatter

A San Francisco enclave-based data control plane for AI agents ($12M raised), acquired by Databricks to support Lakewatch.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

SmarterD

SmarterD is an AI-powered data convergence platform that unifies IT, security, and compliance data scattered across an organization's…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

AgileMark

Singapore-based insider-threat vendor whose adaptive screen watermarking deters photo-based data leaks across regulated Asian industries.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
48 /100

Dasera

A California data security platform, developed out of UC Berkeley research, that automates governance and risk management across…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Thales (CipherTrust Data Security Platform)

Thales's enterprise encryption, tokenization, and key-management platform, built from the Vormetric and SafeNet KeySecure acquisitions into a unified…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

PrivacyHawk

Consumer personal data protection service that automates opt-out and removal requests against data brokers, passing one million users…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Nillion

Switzerland-based decentralized "blind computation" network that lets applications process encrypted sensitive data without ever decrypting it on any…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Trustonic

Cambridge, UK-based provider of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology embedded in Android device chipsets, used to hardware-isolate sensitive…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

HyperBunker

Croatian hardware startup building an air-gapped, data-diode-based offline vault designed to keep backup data physically unreachable by network-based…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Beachhead Solutions

MSP-focused cloud-managed encryption and remote data-wipe platform, BeachheadSecure, built to help small businesses meet device-security compliance requirements.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

SOTI

Large, profitable Unified Endpoint Management vendor whose MobiControl platform bundles device compliance, remote wipe, and lockdown controls for…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

LifeLock

LifeLock is Gen Digital's consumer identity-theft protection and dark-web/credit monitoring product line, bundled with Norton and sold to…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

IDX

Portland-based data breach response and identity protection provider handling post-incident notification, call center support, and monitoring services for…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

SnippetSentry

SnippetSentry captures and archives mobile messaging traffic (iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp) natively from employee devices for regulated firms that…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Spirion

St. Petersburg, Florida-based sensitive data discovery and classification platform (formerly Identity Finder), acquired by archTIS in September 2025.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Sotero

Data-security-as-a-service platform that centralizes encryption of data at rest, in transit, and in use, aiming to give organizations…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Turnkey

A New York embedded-wallet and key-management infrastructure provider for crypto applications, expanding into verifiable computing.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

EigenQ

An Austin quantum-technology company going public via a SPAC merger with Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Everpure

The NYSE-listed infrastructure company formerly known as Pure Storage, now building AI-ready data governance via its acquisition of…

Incumbent Data Protection
45 /100

Privacybee

A bootstrapped Atlanta data-removal company (about $21.9M ARR) that consolidated a competitor by acquiring EraseMe.app.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

MoonPay

A crypto-payments company that acquired MPC key-management firm Sodot for $100M in April 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

DeleteMe

A Boston personal data-removal service that added social-media privacy controls by acquiring Block Party in March 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

QIZ Security

A seed-stage New York cryptographic-asset inventory startup for post-quantum migration.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

FileFlex (Qnext Corp)

Zero trust data access platform that federates remote access, sharing, and governance of unstructured file storage across on-prem…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

DataSunrise

Bootstrapped database security platform providing activity monitoring, data masking, and compliance controls across a wide range of on-premises…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

Prey

Cross-platform device tracking and anti-theft software providing remote lock, wipe, and location history for organizations without a full…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

SecureData

Maker of FIPS 140-2 Level 3-validated hardware-encrypted portable drives (SecureDrive, SecureUSB) with an adjacent digital forensics and data…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

HUB Security

Israeli confidential-computing and hardware security module vendor, publicly traded on Nasdaq, now pivoting toward regulated-finance compliance infrastructure amid…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

689Cloud

Vietnam-based information rights management vendor whose SecureMail and SecureDrive products add encryption, tracking, and copy protection to shared…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

SyncDog

Reston, Virginia mobile security vendor whose Secure.Systems platform containerizes corporate data on personal devices without a full MDM…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

Piiano

PII data privacy vault that lets engineering teams centralize, tokenize, and control access to personally identifiable information, keeping…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

N-able

Publicly traded MSP-focused cybersecurity and IT-management platform whose Cove Data Protection product provides Microsoft 365 and endpoint backup…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

Alpha 2

A Chantilly, VA cryptographic and secure-communications engineering firm for space and intelligence systems, acquired by Aurex.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

ParallelChain

A Hong Kong enterprise blockchain design with a dual public/private ledger architecture aimed at regulated-industry compliance requirements.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Lepide

Austin-headquartered data security platform providing continuous auditing and anomaly detection across file servers, Active Directory, and cloud data…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

GTB Technologies

GTB Technologies is a self-funded, independent data loss prevention vendor covering network, cloud, and endpoint data channels since…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Safestate

Stockholm-listed identity-theft protection and white-label security suite for consumers and SMBs, formerly known as Eyeonid Group, rebranded twice…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

SIKUR

São Paulo-based vendor of encrypted communications, a hardened Android device, and a passwordless-authentication SDK aimed at Latin American…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

WinMagic

Full-disk and endpoint encryption vendor whose SecureDoc product provides centralized encryption key management and authentication across Windows, macOS,…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Iron Mountain

Publicly traded information-management company providing records management, secure information destruction, and data backup and recovery services, increasingly extended…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

MSP360

Backup, remote access, and RMM platform for managed service providers, rebranded from CloudBerry Lab, offering cloud-agnostic backup that…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Quantum Corporation

Publicly traded data storage and protection company providing deduplication-based backup appliances, tape archival systems, and unstructured-data management for…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

QTrino Labs

An IIT-incubated Indian post-quantum startup with a source-code CBOM tool, majority-acquired by Satin Technologies in 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Universal Digital

A small public company acquiring pQCee, a commercially validated quantum-safe encryption vendor already integrated with Thales, Microsoft, and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Candor Security

A San Francisco YC startup (formerly branded Haleum) building agentic AI that monitors internal communications to catch insider…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Calamu

A New Jersey company that fragments and self-heals backup data into unusable 'Digital Sludge' so stolen or ransomed…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
43 /100

Hilt

Early-stage San Francisco startup building kernel-level monitoring to catch insider data breaches that look like normal, permitted activity.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Halo Privacy

A small Seattle privacy and digital-investigation specialist being absorbed into Cycurion.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

HANDD Business Solutions

A Reading, UK managed file-transfer and data-security specialist folded into Acora.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

PrivaSapien

A Bengaluru-based privacy engineering startup offering automated privacy-risk auditing and data anonymization tools for organizations handling sensitive personal…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Sekur Private Data

Publicly traded Swiss-hosted secure communications provider offering encrypted email, messaging, and VPN services under Swiss data protection law.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Arexdata

Madrid-based data security posture management (DSPM) startup helping enterprises locate, classify, and monitor sensitive data across cloud and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

InfoWatch

Moscow-based data loss prevention (DLP) pioneer and long-time Russian DLP market leader, now adding AI-assisted analysis to its…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Zecurion

Zecurion is an on-premises data loss prevention platform, originally founded in Russia, that targets banking and regulated-sector buyers…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Raz-Lee Security

Raz-Lee Security has spent four decades building the iSecurity suite, a dedicated firewall, audit, and compliance platform purpose-built…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Awareness Technologies

Maker of InterGuard, an insider threat and employee activity monitoring platform combining DLP controls with comprehensive user activity…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

DatChat

Publicly traded secure messaging platform giving users encrypted, self-destructing, screenshot-resistant control over messages even after they've been sent.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

eGlobal Systems

Seoul-based database encryption specialist behind CubeOne, a Common Criteria-certified column-level DB encryption platform with encrypted-index search.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Software Diversified Services

Privately held mainframe software vendor providing z/OS security, multi-platform encryption, and compliance tools to Fortune 500 and Global…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

StealthMail

StealthMail is a secure email and communications vendor built around a patented protocol that removes message content from…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

NetLib Security

Stamford, Connecticut-based maker of Encryptionizer, a FIPS 140-2 validated, transparent database and file encryption platform requiring no application…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

TransferChain

A blockchain-authenticated, zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage and file transfer platform that splits data across a distributed multi-cloud backend.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Actifile

Herzliya-based SaaS data protection platform that automates data risk discovery and dollar-value risk quantification for MSPs and their…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

MessageSolution

Unified enterprise archiving and eDiscovery platform for email, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

Reliance Global Group

A Nasdaq-listed insurance holding company taking a staged controlling stake in post-quantum encryption firm Enquantum.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
42 /100

InfiniQuant

Erlangen-based quantum cryptography developer building metropolitan and satellite quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Carlyle

A global private equity firm that acquired NSA-certified encryption vendor Secturion Systems in July 2026.

Incumbent Data Protection
40 /100

Revyz

A San Francisco Jira and Confluence backup and resiliency vendor absorbed into Spin.AI.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Cybral

An early-stage, Miami-based AI-driven data security posture management and threat exposure management platform for classifying and protecting sensitive…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Randtronics

Australian software-only encryption, tokenization, and data masking platform for databases and cloud environments, focused narrowly on data privacy…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

digitronic computersysteme

Chemnitz, Germany-based encryption and authentication software vendor providing network-drive data encryption and two-factor login protection for government and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Rosberg Systems

Norwegian vendor of Verji, an end-to-end encrypted enterprise messaging and file-sharing platform aimed at accounting, legal, audit, and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Block Party

A Palo Alto social-media privacy-exposure tool acquired by DeleteMe as a complement to data-broker removal.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
40 /100

Fortyx Security

A Bristol, UK startup building AI agents that read email context in real time to catch mis-sent messages,…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

Layer27

A Microsoft-focused regional MSSP serving healthcare, acquired by Katalyst in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

Garner Products

Garner Products manufactures NSA-listed hard drive and tape degaussers and physical media destroyers for verifiable end-of-life data destruction.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

Blind Insight

Encryption-in-use platform that lets regulated organizations query and run AI on sensitive data without decrypting it, using a…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

ULedger

A Seattle-based data integrity company running a proprietary Layer 1 blockchain, best known for Blockmail, an immutable email…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

Infrascale

Cloud-based backup and disaster recovery platform serving MSPs and mid-market businesses, providing both file/folder backup and full system…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
38 /100

EraseMe

EraseMe.app is a consumer personal-data removal service that helps individuals identify and remove their personal information from data…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
37 /100

Data443 Risk Mitigation

Data443 Risk Mitigation is a publicly traded (OTC: ATDS) data security and privacy company offering a suite of…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
37 /100

Konsilix

A Bethesda, MD data-in-place conversational AI vendor combining with Fasoo's US data-security unit to form AI-governance company Symbologic.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
37 /100

Secludy

San Francisco startup generating differentially-private synthetic data so regulated companies can train AI models without exposing real customer…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
35 /100

Don’t Be Breached

Niche vendor of Database Cyber Security Guard, an AI/ML-based deep packet inspection tool detecting database breaches and zero-day…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
35 /100

Virgil Security

Small, long-running developer-focused encryption and PKI SDK vendor; no new funding since a 2019 bridge round but still…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
35 /100

Nubo Software

Virtual Mobile Infrastructure that streams a remote corporate workspace to personal devices as pixels, so no corporate data…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
35 /100

itWatch

Long-running Munich-based DLP and endpoint security vendor offering device, content, and media control for German-speaking enterprise and public-sector…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
35 /100

Lokdon

Columbia, SC-based vendor offering keyless, post-quantum encryption (ECSMID, DataShieldAI) as a developer SDK; thin independent evidence of scale…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
35 /100

QuantumIQ

A Vancouver post-quantum readiness vendor absorbed into Redwood AI via an all-share deal with milestone escrow.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
33 /100

Atriarch

A small attribute-based-encryption IP holder acquired by CyberCatch in a CAD $2.5M all-share deal in February 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
32 /100

Redwood AI

A small Canadian public AI company diversifying into quantum-resistant cybersecurity via its milestone-based acquisition of Quantum.IQ Technologies.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
32 /100

InfoBay

Tel Aviv-based secure email and data-distribution platform for regulated industries, encrypting sensitive attachments and adding lightweight GRC tooling.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
30 /100

Satin Technologies

An Indian microfinance group (Satin Creditcare Network) diversifying into deep-tech cybersecurity via a majority stake in quantum-safe startup…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
28 /100

Active Cypher

A small Newport Beach, California vendor offering crypto-agile file encryption for cloud collaboration platforms (SharePoint, OneDrive, Dropbox) and…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
25 /100

Genie

A 2025-founded Israeli data-security startup acquired by Cyera for a reported $50M about five months after founding.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
23 /100

Vocodia

An OTC micro-cap conversational-AI company planning 51% stakes in PrivacyPal.ai and WEB3 REX.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
17 /100

Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp.

A SPAC taking quantum-security firm EigenQ public as EigenQ Inc. (EIGQ), expected to close in Q4 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection