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Innovation Tier

Emerging / Unranked

Not enough independent evidence for a confident score yet — or a scaled public incumbent (Splunk, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and similar category giants) whose innovation pace has gone stale relative to the market it once defined, however large its install base or revenue.

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

GoodAccess

GoodAccess is a European SASE/ZTNA vendor offering secure remote access, cloud, and data-center connectivity that it markets as…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

SecureIQx

A technically differentiated, MIT-originated reachability-analysis startup acquired alongside Korbit.ai to strengthen Boost Security's AI-native application security platform.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

TrackLight

A specialized government fraud-prevention vendor led by experienced founders with a proven prior exit (Pondera/Thomson Reuters); Plum Identity…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Brite

A well-established (43-year), Top-250-ranked MSSP acquired as the first platform investment from Sole Source Capital's third fund, signaling…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Mondata

Cloud-based cybersecurity ecosystem (MD.ECO) for small and mid-size organizations, bundling managed detection and response, awareness, and governance/compliance support,…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

OpenVPN Inc.

OpenVPN Inc. is the commercial company behind the widely used open-source OpenVPN protocol, offering self-hosted (Access Server) and…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

Innefu Labs

A mature, 15-year-old Indian cybersecurity and identity vendor now scaling with a new Series B, deployed across India,…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
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

Zenarmor

Zenarmor, formerly known as Sunny Valley Networks, sells a single-pass SASE and next-generation firewall software layer that adds…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

Clone Systems

Philadelphia-based managed security service provider offering SOC-as-a-service, managed SIEM/EDR, vulnerability scanning, and PCI ASV compliance scanning for mid-market…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Tolmo

A Y Combinator- and Accel-backed early-stage AppSec vendor founded by proven operators (the Sqreen team), addressing the real…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

White Circle

Very early-stage but notably endorsed by senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepMind, suggesting credible technical positioning…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Alpha 2

A 12-year-old, credible national-security engineering firm acquired by Godspeed Capital-backed Aurex to expand its cryptographic and secure-communications capabilities;…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

Agari

Identity-based email security engine, now operating as Fortra's Agari, using machine learning trained on legitimate mail relationships to…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
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

SafeHill

A specialized threat-exposure-management vendor addressing a genuinely emerging risk (AI-generated code security); Arcane Security acquisition (March 19, 2026)…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Nucleon Security

French-built EDR and MDR vendor positioned around EU cybersecurity sovereignty, offering endpoint detection, AI-based malware analysis, and managed…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Venustech

Venustech is one of China's oldest and largest network security vendors, built on decades of firewall and intrusion…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

Furl

A newly launched, seed-stage remediation-focused startup founded by experienced security-industry veterans (Rapid7, Censys), addressing a widely-cited execution gap…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Unipath

A very young (founded 2024), small team acquired quickly by ControlUp to accelerate its Autonomous Endpoint Management roadmap;…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Clavister

Publicly traded Swedish network security vendor selling physical and virtualized firewalls, with a customer base concentrated among telecom…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security