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.
SecureCo
Builds stealth and obfuscation technology for data-in-transit protection, aiming to make network connections themselves harder to discover rather…
Asenion (formerly Fairly AI)
Asenion (formed when Fairly AI acquired Sweden's Anch.AI) is an AI governance, risk and compliance platform built to…
Aura
A Boston consumer digital-safety suite that acquired Pango (Hotspot Shield) with about $100M of acquisition financing.
Jit
A Boston AI context-graph startup acquired by Torq for a reported $50M to underpin an Enterprise AI SOC…
Voxmind
Early-stage London startup building on-device software to flag AI voice deepfakes on live phone calls in real time.
Sucuri
Website security platform providing a WAF, malware scanning and removal, and DDoS mitigation, widely adopted in the WordPress…
Tenacy
Lyon-based, France-hosted GRC platform helping organizations manage multi-framework cybersecurity compliance from a single system, positioned around EU digital…
ZeroPath
ZeroPath is a Y Combinator-backed developer tool that autonomously detects, verifies, and submits pull-request fixes for code vulnerabilities…
Cybriant
A managed detection and response (MDR) and managed SIEM provider giving small and mid-market organizations 24/7 security operations…
Japan Cyber Defense
A Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm that launched MIJXDR, a domestically built and hosted sovereign SOC/XDR platform aligned with Japan's…
Almure
A Tokyo seed-stage startup building confidential-computing infrastructure so enterprise AI agents can process sensitive data in hardware-isolated, encrypted…
Collective Defence
Newly combined managed-detection and collective-threat-sharing security firm formed from the February 2026 merger of MSSP ITC Secure and…
HyperBunker
Croatian hardware startup building an air-gapped, data-diode-based offline vault designed to keep backup data physically unreachable by network-based…
IRM (Information Risk Management)
UK-founded cyber GRC and penetration testing consultancy, now the cybersecurity division of Capgemini Group, built around its SYNERGi…
HARMAN Automotive Cybersecurity
In-vehicle intrusion detection and prevention division of Samsung-owned HARMAN International, built on the 2016 TowerSec acquisition, protecting automotive…
HORNE Cyber
HORNE Cyber is a Mississippi-based penetration testing, digital forensics, and managed security firm operating as a wholly owned…
Hotspot Shield
Hotspot Shield is a consumer VPN product, now owned by digital-safety company Aura, built on the proprietary Catapult…
STEALIEN
STEALIEN is a Seoul-based mobile application security company whose AppSuit runtime application self-protection (RASP) product holds Korea's top-level…
Mesh Security
A SentinelOne-backed Palo Alto startup building a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture execution layer, with a $12M Series A.
Manifold
San Diego startup providing AI detection-and-response (AIDR) that monitors autonomous AI agents at runtime on enterprise endpoints.
Spirion
St. Petersburg, Florida-based sensitive data discovery and classification platform (formerly Identity Finder), acquired by archTIS in September 2025.
Turnkey
A New York embedded-wallet and key-management infrastructure provider for crypto applications, expanding into verifiable computing.
Natoma
An MCP-focused AI-agent governance startup acquired by Snowflake alongside Observe and Select Star.
Vision Cybersecurity
A January 2026 spin-off of ISH Tecnologia serving 4,600+ Brazilian private-sector clients, backed by up to R$400M from…