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Governance, Risk & Compliance

Cybersecurity governance, risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and regulatory reporting.

87 /100

Chainalysis

The dominant, decade-plus incumbent in blockchain analytics, tracing illicit crypto flows and screening sanctions/AML risk for exchanges, banks,…

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
85 /100

Vanta

Continuous automated compliance monitoring platform that replaces manual audit evidence-gathering with live, integration-based control checks.

Transformational Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
78 /100

Arcova

Cybersecurity advisory and managed services firm, rebranded from MorganFranklin Cyber, offering GRC, IAM, OT security, and a cloud-based…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
77 /100

Credo AI

AI governance platform that discovers, assesses, and continuously monitors enterprise AI systems and agents against regulations like the…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
77 /100

Level 6 Cyber

CISO Reviewed

Continuous decision-intelligence platform (LISN) that replaces point-in-time security audits with a live digital twin of a CISO's program.

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
75 /100

Drata

Continuous compliance automation platform, Vanta's closest direct competitor, covering SOC 2, ISO 27001/42001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DORA, and…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
75 /100

Coalition

A San Francisco 'active insurance' pioneer pairing cyber insurance with continuous attack-surface monitoring, having raised ~$860M total.

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
75 /100

Elliptic

A London blockchain-analytics and AML compliance vendor with a 13-year track record, backed by Nasdaq Ventures and Deutsche…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
73 /100

OneTrust

Privacy-management pioneer that expanded into a broad trust and risk platform spanning AI governance, data governance, and third-party…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
73 /100

BitSight

Security ratings pioneer that scores organizations' cyber risk on a 300-820 scale using continuously collected external telemetry.

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
73 /100

Fortress Information Security

Orlando-based supply chain and third-party cyber risk management provider that secures a reported 40% of the U.S. power…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
73 /100

Ontic

An Austin protective-intelligence platform unifying insider-risk, workplace-violence, and executive-protection signals for corporate security and HR teams, backed by…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
73 /100

Hawk AI

A Munich AML vendor layering machine learning onto traditional rules engines to cut false positives for banks, with…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
72 /100

Cynomi

AI-powered vCISO platform that lets MSPs and MSSPs deliver virtual CISO services and risk assessments to SMEs at…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
72 /100

CyberCube

The de facto standard cyber-risk-analytics provider for the insurance industry, powering underwriting and catastrophe modeling across brokers, MGAs,…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
72 /100

Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions

A San Francisco cyber insurer running an in-house risk-operations center that ties underwriting and pricing directly to policyholders'…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
70 /100

Fravity

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

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
70 /100

At-Bay

At-Bay is a San Francisco-based cyber InsurTech that has grown into a top-10 U.S. cyber insurer, combining cyber…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
70 /100

Behavox

A New York RegTech vendor using proprietary language models to surveil employee communications for insider risk and market…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
70 /100

ThetaRay

An Israeli AI-driven AML platform (SONAR) using unsupervised anomaly detection, built on applied mathematics, to catch money-laundering patterns…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
70 /100

Optro

Optro is AuditBoard's 2026 rebrand: an AI-powered GRC platform used by over half the Fortune 500 and named…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
68 /100

Panorays

Third-party cyber risk management platform combining continuous external attack-surface scanning with context-based, AI-assisted vendor questionnaires.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
68 /100

Norm AI

New York startup whose AI agents convert regulations into executable compliance logic, now valued at $1.2 billion.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

RegScale

AI-driven continuous controls monitoring platform that automates GRC evidence collection, audits, and compliance for regulated industries.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

BreachRx

Incident-response orchestration platform that automates breach-notification workflows and legal-compliance obligations, backed by a $15M Series A with Kevin…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

Coalfire

A Colorado-based cybersecurity and compliance advisory firm and accredited assessor (PCI QSA, FedRAMP 3PAO) serving cloud, healthcare, finance,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

Onspring

A no-code governance, risk, and compliance platform out of Overland Park, Kansas that lets teams configure risk registers,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

Rencore

Rencore is a governance, security, and compliance platform for Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and enterprise AI (Copilot and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

Theta Lake

Theta Lake provides AI-driven compliance, security, and archiving for modern communication and collaboration platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
67 /100

AllTrue.ai

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

Incremental Innovator AI Security
67 /100

Cowbell

A Pleasanton, CA cyber-insurance MGA offering continuously underwritten, telemetry-informed coverage for SMEs, backed by Zurich Insurance.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

ServiceNow (Governance, Risk & Compliance)

ServiceNow's GRC and Integrated Risk Management module extends its enterprise workflow platform to unify risk, policy, and vendor…

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

Secureframe

Automated compliance platform for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks, competing with Vanta and Drata but at…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

DigitalXForce

Irving, Texas-based AI-powered platform unifying governance, risk, compliance, and security posture management into one real-time system.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

MITRE

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

Incumbent AI Security
65 /100

CyberSaint Security

Boston-based cyber risk management platform that automates control assessments and translates cyber risk into financial terms for executives…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

Riskified

A publicly traded ecommerce fraud and risk decisioning platform that guarantees approved transactions against chargebacks, used by many…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

Risk Ledger

Risk Ledger is a London-based third-party risk management platform that replaces one-off vendor security questionnaires with a shared…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

Defense Unicorns

A founder-led defense software-supply-chain company that reached unicorn status on a $136M Series B.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

Oneleet

Compliance automation platform bundling penetration testing, code scanning, cloud security, attack surface monitoring, and security training to make…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
65 /100

Lema AI

Lema AI runs an autonomous, agentic system that continuously investigates how third-party vendors actually access and move enterprise…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

Kovrr

Cyber risk quantification platform that uses Monte Carlo simulation to translate technical risk into financial-loss estimates for boards…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

6clicks

AI-assisted governance, risk, and compliance platform offering all-inclusive pricing and sovereign/air-gapped deployment options for global organizations.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

A-LIGN

Large-scale compliance and cybersecurity audit firm delivering SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related assessments, now majority-owned by private…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

Black Kite

Third-party cyber risk rating platform (formerly NormShield) providing continuous, automated vendor risk assessment across technical, financial, and compliance…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

Onyxia

Onyxia gives CISOs a unified operational view across 40+ security tools to identify coverage gaps, benchmark performance, and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

Mitratech Prevalent

Third-party and vendor risk management platform, formerly independent as Prevalent, now operated as a product line inside Mitratech's…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

Arco Cyber

Arco Cyber is a UK-based cybersecurity assurance company, founded in 2022 and led since inception by CEO Matt…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
63 /100

DataGuard

A Munich compliance-as-a-service platform pairing software with outsourced privacy/security officers for mid-market GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Immersive

A Bristol cyber-resilience platform with hands-on labs and crisis simulations, expanding into AI-agent readiness.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Cybervergent

AI-native continuous governance, risk, and compliance platform helping African enterprises replace periodic manual audits with ongoing posture monitoring.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Ethoca

A Toronto-founded, now Mastercard-owned network that lets merchants and card issuers share real-time data to resolve card fraud…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Vanta

Compliance automation platform that continuously collects evidence for frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and extends…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Whistic

AI-assisted third-party risk management platform that lets vendors publish standardized security profiles once and reuse them across buyer…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Censinet

Censinet runs a healthcare-specific third-party and enterprise risk management platform used by hospital systems to assess vendor, medical…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

CyberVadis

CyberVadis provides standardized, evidence-based third-party cybersecurity and data-privacy risk ratings, letting enterprises assess suppliers once and share the…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Interos

Arlington, Virginia-based AI supply chain risk management platform mapping cyber, operational, and geopolitical risk across an organization's extended…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Secfix

Berlin-based AI-powered compliance automation platform helping European SMBs and mid-market companies manage ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Vendict

Israeli GRC startup using generative AI to automate security questionnaire responses and third-party vendor risk assessments for enterprise…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

DeNexus

A Sausalito-based cyber risk quantification vendor specializing in operational technology and industrial environments, backed by insurer AXA XL…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Corvus Insurance

A Boston cyber insurer using proprietary risk scanning to underwrite, backed by Travelers since its 2023 acquisition.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

TRM Labs

A San Francisco blockchain-intelligence unicorn that doubled its valuation to $2B through a Series C extension.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Prevalent AI

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

Incremental Innovator AI Security
62 /100

OutThink

London-based human risk management platform founded by ex-CISOs that scores and reduces employee cyber risk using behavioral data…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Cyesec

A PE-backed Israeli exposure-management vendor combining attack-path automation with human-led pen testing.

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
60 /100

Sprinto

Compliance automation platform for cloud and tech companies, automating framework monitoring and audit readiness with a growing India-US…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Squalify

Munich Re venture translating cyber exposure into financial-loss estimates using Monte Carlo simulation and a reinsurer-scale historical cyber-loss…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Tenchi Security

Tenchi Security's Zanshin platform automates continuous, evidence-based third-party cyber risk assessment for insurers, MSSPs, and consultancies managing risk…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

MCP Manager

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

Incremental Innovator AI Security
60 /100

Drata

Compliance automation and trust management platform that continuously monitors controls and automates audit evidence collection.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Telos Corporation

Telos Corporation is a publicly traded cyber risk management company best known for Xacta, a cyber GRC automation…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Anecdotes

An AI-powered GRC data platform, founded by Israeli 8200-unit alumni, that automates evidence collection and control monitoring for…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Transcend

A privacy and data-governance platform, founded by Ben Brook and Mike Farrell, that helps enterprises manage personal-data inventories,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Vespia

Vespia is an Estonia-based Know Your Business (KYB) technology provider founded in 2021 by Julia Ront — Veriff’s…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Envelop Risk

A Bristol, UK cyber risk-modeling and underwriting firm backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with a reinsurance track…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Certa

A Saratoga, CA-based no-code third-party risk management platform, named a Leader in Gartner's inaugural 2026 TPRM Magic Quadrant.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Hoxhunt

Hoxhunt is a gamified human risk management platform that runs adaptive phishing simulations and security training, used by…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

VikingCloud

A global cybersecurity and PCI compliance platform serving distributed enterprises across 70+ countries with managed security, threat detection,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

Supply Wisdom

Supply Wisdom operates a continuous, AI-driven third-party and location risk intelligence platform that folds cyber risk monitoring into…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

NAVEX

GRC and ethics compliance software platform built around whistleblower hotlines, policy management, and risk oversight, majority-owned by a…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

TrustArc

TrustArc is a privacy and AI risk management platform offering consent management, data governance, and compliance certification, recently…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

Conveyor

A San Francisco AI-driven platform that automates vendor security-questionnaire responses and runs an agentic customer-facing trust center, backed…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

Comp AI

Comp AI (Bubba AI, Inc.) is an open-source, AI-agent-driven compliance automation platform that helps companies achieve and continuously…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

ZeroRisk

ZeroRisk gives banks and payment providers a unified view of cyber risk and compliance across their merchant portfolios.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
58 /100

SoSafe

A Cologne-based, GDPR-native security-awareness training platform with ISO 27001:2022 certification, built for European compliance from the ground up.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

RSA Archer (Archer IRM)

Long-running enterprise GRC platform used by half of the Fortune 500 to run integrated risk, compliance, and audit…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

LogicGate (Risk Cloud)

No-code risk and compliance workflow platform, Risk Cloud, letting enterprises build and connect custom GRC applications without heavy…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Relativity

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

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
57 /100

Findings (CloudVRM)

CloudVRM automates real-time third-party cloud risk auditing, connecting directly to vendor AWS/Azure/GCP environments for continuous compliance data.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

GM SECTEC

San Juan-based payment security leader with 50+ years of history, serving 50,000+ clients across Latin America, the U.S.,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Quantifind

A Palo Alto financial-crime risk intelligence vendor (Graphyte) serving six of the top 10 Tier 1 banks.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Axio

A cyber risk quantification platform, named a Leader in Forrester's 2025 Cyber Risk Quantification Wave, that translates cyber…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

nsKnox

nsKnox is an Israeli cyber-fintech company that verifies banking details before B2B payments are sent, preventing vendor-impersonation and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Cyvatar.ai

A cybersecurity-as-a-service provider selling fixed-price, subscription-based compliance and security program management to small and mid-sized businesses.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Meditology Services

Healthcare-focused cybersecurity and GRC consultancy offering HITRUST, SOC 2, and HIPAA compliance assessments, backed by Primus Capital.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Finosec

Automated cybersecurity governance platform helping community banks and credit unions manage exam-ready infosec, access, and vendor risk programs.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

ComplyAdvantage

A London-based financial crime risk data company providing AML transaction monitoring, sanctions/PEP screening, and KYC/KYB tooling used by…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Zurich

A global insurer whose roughly $11B Beazley acquisition and BOXX deal build a leading cyber-insurance and incident-response business.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Red Alert Labs

French independent cybersecurity laboratory and EUCC-accredited certification body for IoT and connected products; acquired by Fime in September…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
57 /100

Trustible

Arlington, VA AI governance platform that gives enterprises a unified inventory of AI systems and agents to manage…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Cyber Guru

A Series B Roman awareness-training leader with over one million active users and a 2025 Mantra acquisition.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

ProcessUnity

Dedicated third-party risk management (TPRM) platform covering vendor sourcing, due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and remediation.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Resolver (a Kroll Business)

Cloud-based GRC platform connecting enterprise risk, compliance, audit and third-party risk data into one risk intelligence view.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

MindPoint Group

A federal-focused managed cybersecurity and compliance advisory firm, accredited as a FedRAMP 3PAO, acquired by systems integrator Tyto…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Mitigata

A Bangalore cyber-resilience platform bundling insurance, SecOps, and compliance, with a Bessemer-backed Series B.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Copla

Copla (formerly CyberUpgrade) is a Lithuanian GRC and compliance automation platform that combines AI-driven evidence collection with CISO-as-a-service…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Ideagen

A long-established UK governance, risk, and compliance software provider used across audit, quality, and regulatory-compliance workflows in regulated…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Diligent

The largest GRC SaaS platform for boards, audit and risk teams, which acquired AI-native third-party risk startup 3rdRisk…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

3rdRisk

3rdRisk is an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based third-party risk management platform that helps organizations assess, monitor, and manage risk across…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Clearly AI

Clearly AI uses AI to continuously review new products, features, vendors, and AI deployments for security and privacy…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Palqee Technologies

London-based compliance and AI governance platform, originally built for GDPR privacy management and now offering continuous runtime monitoring…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Avertro

Sydney-based GRC platform, CyberHQ, that converts security telemetry and compliance data into board-ready cyber risk quantification and automated…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

CYRISMA

A Rochester, NY-based cyber risk and compliance platform built for MSPs, consolidating vulnerability management, data discovery, attack surface…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Ketch

A San Francisco-based data privacy and governance platform, founded by the former founders of Krux (acquired by Salesforce),…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

StrongKeep

Singapore SMB cybersecurity platform, founded by the country's former Deputy Cyber Chief, bundling compliance, protection, training, and response…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

CyberUpgrade

Vilnius-based AI compliance copilot helping small and mid-sized businesses manage ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA requirements.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Breach Secure Now

A bootstrapped, MSP-channel security-awareness and compliance training vendor.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

CYBERDISE

A Swiss seed-stage awareness-training startup with multi-channel simulations and over 80,000 reported users.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Hyperproof

Compliance-operations platform serving as a system of record for controls, risk, and vendor data across 160+ supported frameworks.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Scrut Automation

Compliance automation platform that maps shared controls across 60+ frameworks to cut duplicate audit and evidence work.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Axiom GRC

A London Inflexion-backed GRC and assurance platform (1,300+ specialists, 40,000+ clients) built from a GBP 500M carve-out.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Strike Graph

AI-native compliance automation platform helping companies achieve and maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and other framework certifications…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

LeapXpert

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

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
53 /100

Osano

Data privacy management platform combining consent/cookie compliance, data subject request automation, and vendor privacy risk assessment in one…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

MedStack

A healthcare compliance automation platform that gives digital health developers infrastructure-as-code tooling and pre-built policies to meet HIPAA…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Clearwater

Healthcare-focused cyber risk management and HIPAA compliance provider combining risk-assessment software with 24x7 SOC services, majority-owned by Sunstone…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Paramify

Compliance automation platform that generates and maintains FedRAMP and other security authorization documentation.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

CyberSheath Services International

CyberSheath is a Registered Practitioner Organization providing CMMC 2.0, DFARS, and NIST 800-171 compliance implementation and managed security…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Upfort

Upfort combines a small-business cyber risk mitigation platform with streamlined access to cyber insurance underwritten by partner carriers.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Venminder

Third-party/vendor risk management SaaS platform covering the full vendor lifecycle, from onboarding and due diligence through contract and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

X-Analytics

Arlington, Virginia cyber risk quantification platform from Secure Systems Innovation Corporation that translates technical security posture into financial…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Fusion Risk Management

A Chicago-based operational resilience platform covering business continuity management, disaster recovery planning, third-party risk, and crisis management, backed…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Exiger

An AI-driven supply chain and third-party risk platform used to map risk down to the 'nth tier' of…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Workiva

A publicly traded (NYSE: WK) connected-reporting and compliance platform, founded in 2008 in Ames, Iowa as WebFilings and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Spektrum

Spektrum Labs builds a cyber resilience platform that generates cryptographic proof — Cyber Resilience Tokens — that an…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

MedSec

MedSec provides cybersecurity research, penetration testing, and risk-assessment services focused specifically on medical devices and hospital environments.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

IntelliGRC

IntelliGRC is a compliance automation platform built specifically for MSPs, MSSPs, and small defense contractors navigating CMMC and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

GAN Integrity

GAN Integrity is a two-decade-old GRC platform, recognized by Gartner as a Challenger in third-party risk management, used…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Quod Orbis

A London continuous controls monitoring specialist, acquired by Deda Group.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Red Education

A Sydney vendor-authorized cybersecurity training partner with over 100,000 seats delivered.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

SPHERE Technologies Solutions

An Edison Partners-backed identity-hygiene specialist automating access cleanup across large identity estates.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Riskassure

RiskAware platform scans networks to locate and value sensitive data, helping businesses right-size cyber insurance coverage and quantify…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

SecurityMetrics

Longstanding Utah-based provider of PCI compliance, vulnerability scanning, and forensic services purpose-built for small and mid-sized merchants.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Wolters Kluwer

A listed information-services company that acquired GRC platform StandardFusion for about EUR 32M to unify audit and GRC.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

PECB

PECB is a global certification body providing ISO 27001, cybersecurity, and compliance training and professional certification used by…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

ZINAD

AI-driven cybersecurity awareness training combining adaptive learning, VR simulations, and psychology-informed phishing protection to reduce human-factor risk.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Balance Theory

A Columbia, MD platform tying cybersecurity investment planning to market intelligence and procurement.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Trustpair

Paris-based platform that validates vendor payment details and flags anomalies to prevent wire fraud, increasingly positioned against AI-generated…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Providence Consulting Group

Australian protective-security and risk advisory firm serving Defence and government clients, now part of Tetra Tech's global advisory…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

heyData

A Berlin compliance and security SaaS platform (2,000+ customers) that raised a $16.5M Series A.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Stoik

A Paris cyber-insurtech pairing coverage with active prevention (10,000+ clients, ~EUR 50M premiums).

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Anitian

Compliance automation platform that helps SaaS companies achieve FedRAMP authorization inside their own AWS or Azure environment, with…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

TĂśVIT

Accredited German IT security testing and certification body (TUV NORD Group) issuing Common Criteria, Security Qualification, and ISO…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Cypago

Cyber GRC Automation platform that connects directly to cloud and on-prem systems to automate compliance evidence collection and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Data Rudder

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

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Onlayer

Onlayer (formerly PCI Checklist) is a London-based merchant risk platform combining PCI DSS compliance automation with fraud, AML,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

StandardFusion

StandardFusion, based in Vancouver, Canada, provides governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software that helps organizations manage risk assessments,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

StackAware

AI governance and security advisory firm helping companies reach ISO 42001 readiness and manage AI cyber, privacy and…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Ostendio

Ostendio is an Arlington, Virginia GRC company whose MyVCM platform helps organizations, especially in healthcare, manage compliance across…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Regulativ.ai

Regulativ.ai is a London-based RegTech platform that uses AI agents to automate regulatory compliance work such as control…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Evolver

A 25-year-old Reston federal systems integrator with a $500M DOJ blanket purchase agreement.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

iDNA

iDNA (Groupe IDNA, encompassing IDNA and AURA iT) is a Paris-based cybersecurity consulting and engineering specialist with roughly…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Xamin

Xamin is a Chicago-based managed services provider with more than 25 years of experience serving banks, credit unions,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Milou

Milou is an AI-first platform that orchestrates penetration-testing workflows end to end — centralizing raw scanner and tester…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

CyberPilot

CyberPilot is a Danish security awareness training and phishing simulation company, employing around 50 people and working with…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Complyance

A New York agentic GRC platform that automates evidence review and vendor risk assessment, backed by a $20M…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Kertos

A Munich-based no-code platform that automates GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, TISAX, and NIS2 compliance evidence-gathering for European…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Logiq Consulting

NCSC-assured Bristol cyber consultancy and managed-services provider for UK defence, government and critical infrastructure; acquired by IBM in…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Zania

A Palo Alto company whose AI 'teammates' automate GRC busywork—controls testing, evidence collection, and security questionnaires—for compliance teams.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Evolve Security

A Chicago offensive-security firm pairing continuous pen testing with its Evolve Academy bootcamp.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Apptega

GRC automation platform that maps a single control set across dozens of frameworks (SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, CMMC,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Astelia

A Tel Aviv exposure-management platform founded by former leaders of Israel's National Red Team, backed by Index Ventures…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
50 /100

ValueMentor

Dubai-headquartered security services firm holding PCI QSA, SWIFT and CERT-IN accreditations, offering managed security, VAPT, DFIR and compliance…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Ostrich Cyber-Risk

Cyber risk quantification platform using Monte Carlo simulation and the Open FAIR ontology to translate security findings into…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Carbide

Nova Scotia-based GRC and compliance automation platform (formerly Securicy) mapping evidence across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Thoropass

Compliance automation platform combined with in-house auditors for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and other frameworks.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Perimeter

Minnetonka, Minnesota-based vendor and third-party risk management platform (rebranded from ProcessBolt in 2025) automating security questionnaires, evidence review,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

SafeGuard Privacy

Privacy compliance management platform combining assessment workflows, vendor risk tracking, and an AI assistant, used as the backbone…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Compyl

AI-guided governance, risk, and compliance platform automating control testing and evidence collection across 70+ frameworks including SOC 2,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Sign In Compliance

Sign In Compliance (formerly ThreatSwitch) is a NISPOM insider-threat and compliance management platform for cleared federal contractors, now…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Chino.io

Italy-based GDPR/HIPAA/AI Act compliance platform and outsourced DPO service for digital health, acquired by Sicuro.it in March 2025.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Riskonnect

A Thoma Bravo-owned integrated risk management (IRM) suite spanning enterprise risk, third-party risk, business continuity, ESG, and claims/insurance…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

ZenGRC

A cloud GRC platform (originally launched by Reciprocity, briefly rebranded RiskOptics, and reverted to the ZenGRC name in…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Centraleyes

An AI-powered cyber GRC platform, formerly known as CyGov, that automates risk and compliance data collection to help…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Panacea Infosec

Panacea Infosec is a New Delhi-based information security firm founded in 2012 by CEO Ajay Kaushik, with more…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

PrivacyPal

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

Incremental Innovator AI Security
50 /100

HelmGuard AI

London-based agentic GRC platform where AI agents monitor controls, manage third-party risk, and govern other AI agents.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

SPECTRA

MSP certification and cyber-resilience warranty platform linking managed service providers to insurance carriers and brokers.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Phished

Belgian security awareness training company offering AI-personalized phishing simulations and gamified training to reduce human-error breach risk.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Fime

Paris testing, consulting and certification group for payments, smart mobility and digital identity; acquirer of Red Alert Labs…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Pulse Security

AI-driven operational management platform that acts as a system of record for the cybersecurity program, built for CISOs.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

MetricStream

One of the oldest enterprise GRC vendors, offering a low-code/no-code cloud platform spanning risk, compliance, audit, and third-party…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Destination Certification

A bootstrapped Victoria training provider specializing in CISSP, CCSP, and CISM, co-founded by a CISSP Study Guide co-author.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

ThriveDX

A well-funded Miami cybersecurity training provider spanning corporate, higher-education, and consumer programs.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Munich Re

A global reinsurer whose HSB subsidiary acquired cyber insurer At-Bay for $575M.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

ControlCase

A PE-backed compliance-certification firm that added CMMC assessment capability by acquiring CyberNINES in April 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Flagright

A San Francisco explainable-AI financial-crime compliance platform with a Series A and multi-country customers.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

CyberGuard360

White-label compliance-as-a-service and vCISO platform built for managed service providers to manage cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance across…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Tevora

Tevora is a cybersecurity and compliance consultancy providing penetration testing, GRC program development, and PCI/HIPAA compliance advisory services…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Quantivate

Governance, risk, and compliance software for banks and credit unions, now operating as a distinct product brand within…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Nova Leah

Nova Leah automates FDA cybersecurity risk documentation for medical device manufacturers, replacing manual spreadsheet-based compliance processes.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

SecurityStudio

Minnetonka, Minnesota SaaS platform built around the S2Score, a 300-850 credit-score-style measure of organizational information security risk, paired…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Aravo Solutions

A San Francisco-based third-party risk management (TPRM) platform used by large global brands to onboard, assess, and continuously…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Cority

A Toronto-based EHS (environment, health, and safety) and GRC software provider, originally founded as Medgate in 1985 and…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Trustero

A Palo Alto-based AI-driven compliance platform that automates gap analysis, remediation guidance, questionnaire responses, and evidence collection for…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Kovr.ai

A FedRAMP-authorized agentic compliance platform (Agent Artemis) acquired by Gryphon-backed Fortreum in April 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Beazley

A major Lloyd's specialty insurer with an in-house incident-response cyber offering, being acquired by Zurich for GBP 8.1B.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Summit

Summit Security Group is a Pacific Northwest-based cybersecurity consultancy founded in 2011, delivering services across the security spectrum:…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
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

AssurancePoint

AssurancePoint is an Atlanta-based CPA firm specializing in independent security and compliance assessments, issuing attest and compliance reports…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

DSShield

A Riyadh-based, PE-backed national cybersecurity integrator serving Saudi government and critical-infrastructure clients under Vision 2030 mandates.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
48 /100

Elm AI

A New York startup (formerly Esger) that deploys AI agents to automate supplier compliance, due diligence, and third-party…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

HyperCube

Board-reporting SaaS from Cyberseconomics that translates technical security posture into business-relevant metrics for CISOs and boards.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

SGS

A Geneva-based certification giant that acquired PCI DSS specialist Panacea Infosec in January 2026.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Hackmetrix

Santiago-based compliance automation platform helping Latin American startups and mid-market companies reach ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Midship

A Y Combinator-backed San Francisco AI SOX-automation startup being folded into Optro's GRC platform.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Compleye

Amsterdam-based compliance automation platform helping small and mid-sized businesses achieve ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR compliance without…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Bastion

AI-driven compliance and security automation platform for startups, built by former Palantir engineers to get companies SOC 2,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

IPKeys Technologies

Federal cybersecurity contractor whose CLaaS platform automates NIST Risk Management Framework compliance and continuous monitoring for the Department…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Secure Digital Solutions

Secure Digital Solutions is a Minneapolis-based information security consulting firm offering virtual CISO, risk and compliance advisory services,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Apollo Secure

Automated compliance and security-readiness platform for startups, small businesses, and schools, generating policies, running vulnerability scans, and mapping…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Tenacy

Lyon-based, France-hosted GRC platform helping organizations manage multi-framework cybersecurity compliance from a single system, positioned around EU digital…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

IRM (Information Risk Management)

UK-founded cyber GRC and penetration testing consultancy, now the cybersecurity division of Capgemini Group, built around its SYNERGi…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Responsible Cyber

Singapore-based cyber risk and third-party risk management vendor offering CISO-as-a-service consulting alongside its RiskImmune vendor-risk platform.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Solidrange

A Riyadh-based, Sharaka Capital-backed GRC automation startup whose EasyCompliance platform has landed government and publicly listed customers across…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Pervade Software

Cardiff, Wales-based vendor whose OpView and OpAudit platforms combine SIEM-style monitoring, vulnerability tracking and compliance evidence management, and…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

LogicManager

A Boston-based enterprise risk management (ERM) platform, founded and grown without outside venture funding, that helps organizations tie…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Corporater

A Norwegian GRC and business-management software vendor with 12 global offices, offering a configurable low-code platform (branded GPRC…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Ncontracts

A Nashville-area GRC platform built specifically for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions, combining risk and compliance…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Cyberday

A Finnish information security management system (ISMS) and compliance platform, formerly Agendium, that helps European small and mid-sized…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Hicomply

A North East England-based compliance automation platform, backed by growth-capital firm BGF, that helps fast-growing businesses achieve and…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Isora GRC

A collaborative GRC assessment platform built by public-benefit company SaltyCloud, originally focused on higher-education and public-sector security teams,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Stealth – ISS Group Inc.

An Arlington compliance and consulting firm with SDVOSB and WOSB certifications and over two decades of federal experience.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

BD Emerson

BD Emerson is a Richmond, Virginia-based cybersecurity, compliance, and privacy consulting firm founded in 2020, offering cybersecurity consulting,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

TovenAI

AI agents that automate manual, data-intensive compliance surveillance and evidence work for institutional trading firms.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Prescient Security

Prescient Security is a Nashville-based audit and penetration-testing firm delivering SOC 2, ISO, FedRAMP, and CREST-accredited compliance services.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Klever Compliance

Boutique GRC advisory firm providing tool-agnostic Compliance Management as a Service for mid-sized organizations building right-sized governance programs.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

GoComply

Early-stage GRC platform that continuously validates whether written security policies are actually enforced in practice, not just documented.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Cybeta

A DoD-pedigreed cyber-risk quantification firm whose IP was absorbed by insurance broker Howden.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Cable

A continuous control-testing startup for sponsor banks and fintech partners, acquired by Synctera but still operating standalone.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

DynaRisk

London-based cyber risk scoring and dark web monitoring platform built for insurers underwriting and monitoring cyber policies.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

VISO TRUST

A San Francisco AI-powered third-party risk platform acquired by Australian GRC leader Protecht.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

BreakPoint Labs

A national-security red-team and DevSecOps firm acquired by Bluestone-backed Valiant Solutions.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Altamira

Altamira Technologies Corporation, based in McLean, Virginia, is a Northern Virginia government technology and data/AI solutions provider serving…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Aptible

A San Francisco compliance-automation vendor combining audit-prep workflow (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) with managed compliant cloud hosting,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Trava Security

Cyber risk management platform for small and midsize businesses that ties vulnerability and compliance posture directly to cyber…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

C2 Risk

London-based third-party and supply-chain risk management platform (formerly branded C2 Cyber), whose RiskStore platform helps public and private…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Ethico

A Charlotte-based ethics and compliance company, originally founded as ComplianceLine in 1997 and rebranded as Ethico in 2022,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Waterleaf International

A self-funded Florida managed-security and CMMC/SOC 2 compliance provider serving municipal and DoD-contractor clients.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

TrackLight

A government anti-fraud vendor led by the founders of Pondera Solutions, adding identity validation by acquiring Plum Identity…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Protecht

An Australian GRC vendor that added AI-driven third-party risk assessment by acquiring San Francisco-based VISO TRUST in April…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

AssurePoint

Sydney IRAP, ISM and Essential Eight assessment firm founded in 2025; acquired by A-LIGN in September 2026 to…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Fortreum

A Gryphon-backed cybersecurity advisory firm that added AI-driven FedRAMP and CMMC automation by acquiring Kovr.AI.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Mobile Mentor

A Microsoft-first managed services provider that added healthcare and legal compliance depth by acquiring 5th Gear in April…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

SBS CyberSecurity

A cybersecurity audit, consulting, and vCISO firm built around the regulatory compliance needs of U.S. community banks and…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Casco

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

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
43 /100

DQS

A 40-year-old global certification body (200+ standards, 20,000+ clients) now backed by private equity firm Montagu.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

RiskQ

Cyber risk quantification platform that translates security posture into financial and insurance-aligned risk terms for board and executive…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

CyNation

A London-based third-party and integrated risk management platform (CyDesk) that combines cyber posture, regulatory compliance, and AML/KYC/ESG risk…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

CISO Global

Scottsdale-based public cybersecurity company (Nasdaq: CISO, formerly Cerberus Sentinel) combining managed SOC services, compliance/pen-test consulting, and a small…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Enveedo

Enveedo is a Miami-based cyber risk management platform that helps mid-market companies plan, build, and operationalize a security…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Zeron

Mumbai-based cyber risk posture management startup that quantifies technical exposure into financial terms for enterprise risk teams and…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Secure&IT

Independent Spanish cybersecurity consultancy combining regulatory compliance advisory (ENS, GDPR, NIS2, DORA) with a managed SOC-CERT and industrial…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Basware

A PE-owned Finnish AP-automation leader extending into payment-fraud prevention via Trustpair and Glantus.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

FALKIN

FALKIN is a London startup building AI tools embedded in banking apps to flag scam manipulation before a…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
43 /100

Cytrusst

An India-based platform combining GRC, data-privacy compliance, third-party risk, and attack surface management in one workspace.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Synctera

A banking-as-a-service platform that embedded automated AML/KYC control testing by acquiring Cable in April 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Koniag Cyber

An Alaska Native Corporation cybersecurity subsidiary that built CMMC capability by acquiring SoundWay Consulting's practice.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Tyto Athene

A PE-backed federal IT integrator that built FedRAMP and CMMC compliance depth via MindPoint Group and stackArmor.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Montagu

A London private equity firm taking a majority stake in certification body DQS in April 2026.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Arkenstone Defense

A seed-stage Menlo Park managed platform for the federal compliance burden of selling into government.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

TruOps

Cloud-based GRC platform from longtime IT/security consultancy SDG Corporation, integrating IT risk, compliance, vendor risk, and vulnerability management…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Sagenso

Polish SME-focused platform combining ransomware behavior detection (Ransom SpAI) with a cybersecurity compliance-tracking SaaS tool (Telescope).

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

InnoSec

STORM platform quantifies cyber risk in business-impact terms for enterprises, insurers, and M&A due diligence, recognized as a…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

CyberNINES

An authorized CMMC C3PAO assessment organization acquired by ControlCase.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

ACG Cybersecurity

Paris-based independent cybersecurity consultancy specializing in penetration testing, ISO 27001 implementation, and regulatory compliance audits (GDPR, PCI DSS,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

SafeStack

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

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
42 /100

DeepView

Small UK compliance-archiving and data-leak-detection platform for regulated firms, monitoring WhatsApp, iMessage, and social media under FINRA/SEC/FCA rules.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Quantum Fort

Swiss cyber risk quantification firm, rebranded from Corax Cyber Security, translating technical exposure into financial risk metrics for…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Allgress

Allgress provides an integrated IT governance, risk, and compliance platform that helps organizations map controls, manage risk assessments,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Rimstorm

A managed CMMC Level 2 enclave provider for defense contractors, acquired by BOOST LLC in March 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Nuclea

A Brazilian financial-infrastructure operator building fraud and AML capability by acquiring Data Rudder, pending Central Bank approval.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
42 /100

Verdict Machine

Verdict Machine is an early-stage Tel Aviv startup using AI to assess and pre-approve institutional blockchain transactions against…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Howden

A global insurance broker that acquired Cybeta's cyber-risk analytics IP in May 2026.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Wipfli

A top-25 US accounting and advisory firm that added infosec and privacy compliance by acquiring CompliancePoint in 2026.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Gryphon Investors

A San Francisco private equity firm whose portfolio company Ncontracts acquired Quantivate to form a 4,000-institution GRC platform.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Datavault AI

A NASDAQ-listed data-tokenization company that diversified into cyber-risk compliance with a $94.5M all-cash CyberCatch acquisition.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Hard2Hack

A bootstrapped fractional-CISO practice led by a 35-year cybersecurity veteran.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Magnitude

A seed-stage San Francisco autonomous third-party-risk platform backed by Ballistic Ventures.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

SoundWay Consulting

A Cyber AB-authorized CMMC C3PAO whose CMMC business line was acquired by Koniag Cyber in March 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

FICO (Cybersecurity Score)

Analytics giant best known for consumer credit scoring that also produces a third-party cyber risk rating, competing in…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

3Point

A roughly 20-person Belgian defense-sector security consultancy with a proprietary threat-monitoring service, acquired by Cegeka.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

mhm

A five-year-old Calgary assurance firm and ISO 42001 accreditation pioneer acquired by Axiom GRC.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Cybernance

Austin-based cyber risk governance platform built on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, giving boards and executives a maturity-scoring system…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

RealSecurity

REAL Security (trading as RealSecurity) is a specialist cybersecurity distributor and consultancy based in Maribor, Slovenia, serving the…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

CyberNut

A K-12-focused security-awareness vendor that added a student digital-citizenship curriculum by acquiring Neptune Navigate in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Andersen

A global professional-services association extending into cyber and privacy advisory through BD Emerson and a collaboration with S-RM.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Stelau

A 24-year-old Paris digital-identity security consultancy acquired by iDAKTO to complete an end-to-end identity value chain.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

Capslock

A Manchester cyber-reskilling bootcamp (1,200+ career changers placed) fully absorbed into joint-venture partner mthree.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

HaystackID

An eDiscovery services provider adding GenAI-native document intelligence through its February 2026 acquisition of eDiscovery AI.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
40 /100

QuickStart

A cybersecurity workforce-development and talent marketplace company expanding AI-powered training via its IronCircle acquisition and a new Maryland…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

CompliancePoint

A 25-year-old Georgia compliance and privacy advisory firm being absorbed into Wipfli.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

Cyberangels

A Milan-based white-label cybersecurity platform bundling risk assessment, threat monitoring, compliance tracking, and embedded cyber insurance for SMEs…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

Catalyst Cyber

A Canberra federal-government cyber-assurance specialist acquired by ASX-listed Infotrust for about AUD 5M in March 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

ImagineX Cybersecurity

ImagineX's Atlanta cybersecurity advisory arm, carved out and acquired by TekStream.

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
38 /100

Security Centric

A Sydney cybersecurity consultancy with defence heritage, acquired by Virtual IT Group.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

Lovell Consulting

A five-year-old Paris GRC and IAM consultancy (EUR 4.2M revenue) acquired by cybersecurity group Squad.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

The Collective

The Collective is a Belgian cybersecurity consultancy based in Lochristi, specializing in Microsoft security services — including Microsoft…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
38 /100

mthree

A workforce-training company that took full ownership of cyber-reskilling provider CAPSLOCK in June 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
37 /100

Fifth Gear Technology Concepts

A healthcare- and legal-focused MSP and cybersecurity firm acquired by Mobile Mentor.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
37 /100

4A Security & Compliance

A boutique U.S. cybersecurity and compliance consultancy offering risk assessments, penetration testing, and vCISO services to regulated organizations,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
37 /100

CRACI

Helsinki pre-seed startup automating EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance and software-supply-chain documentation inside CI/CD pipelines.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
35 /100

Teron Labs

A Canberra product-security and cryptographic certification lab acquired by Applus+ Laboratories.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
35 /100

eDiscovery AI

A Minneapolis AI early-case-assessment startup acquired by HaystackID in February 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
35 /100

Insignis

A small women-owned national-security engineering firm acquired by Falfurrias-backed Woven Solutions.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
33 /100

Security Vitals

A Michigan CMMC compliance specialist combining with managed IT and security firm Brightline Technologies.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
33 /100

CyberCatch

Automated cyber risk assessment and compliance platform for small organizations tied to critical infrastructure, including municipal utilities, community…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
33 /100

THL (Thomas H. Lee Partners)

A Boston private equity firm that standardizes eSentire MDR across more than 35 portfolio companies.

Incumbent Governance, Risk & Compliance
33 /100

Lexverify

A Birmingham AI legal-compliance startup from the NCSC accelerator, acquired outright by Trust Stamp for GBP 190,000 in…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
33 /100

Delve

A San Francisco AI-compliance-automation startup facing unresolved, actively disputed fabrication allegations over its SOC 2 attestations as of…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
33 /100

TechnoMile

AI-enabled cloud software for government contractors; combined with facility-security software maker SIMS Software in January 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
32 /100

ThreatCaptain

An early-stage cyber risk quantification tool built for MSP sales teams, translating client security posture into estimated financial…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
32 /100

Cyberwatch Finland

A small Helsinki cybersecurity-culture consultancy acquired by Netum Group.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
30 /100

Zen Cyber

A small Canadian privacy and cybersecurity compliance consultancy acquired by TSXV-listed TrustBIX.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
30 /100

Ready Support Services

An intelligence-community ServiceNow and cloud-migration specialist acquired by Arlington Capital-backed Tyto Athene.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
28 /100

Neptune Navigate

A K-12 digital-citizenship curriculum provider acquired by CyberNut in July 2026.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
25 /100

Ikigai Ventures

A London-listed acquisition vehicle merging with the Dotlines Group in a GBP 55.7M all-share deal and rebranding as…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance