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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.

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

Turnkey

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

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Natoma

An MCP-focused AI-agent governance startup acquired by Snowflake alongside Observe and Select Star.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Vision Cybersecurity

A January 2026 spin-off of ISH Tecnologia serving 4,600+ Brazilian private-sector clients, backed by up to R$400M from…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
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
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

CYFIRMA

CYFIRMA is a Singapore-headquartered external threat landscape management company, offering products spanning cyber threat intelligence (DeCYFIR), digital risk…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
47 /100

Ultra Cyber Ltd

A 200-plus-staff UK sovereign secure-communications and datalink security firm being acquired by Airbus Defence and Space.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
47 /100

IDenfy

Lithuanian identity verification and fraud-prevention platform combining document, biometric, and AML checks for onboarding regulated and online businesses.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
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

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

Klocwork (Perforce)

Long-established static application security testing tool for safety-critical embedded software, originally a Nortel spinoff, now owned and developed…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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
45 /100

SecurEnvoy

Long-running UK multi-factor authentication vendor, owned by publicly listed Shearwater Group, that turns existing devices into MFA tokens…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
45 /100

ThreatMate

MSP-focused platform combining attack surface discovery, automated penetration testing, and CISA-aligned configuration auditing into one risk-identification tool.

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
45 /100

Apexa iQ

An agentless asset assurance and attack surface management platform that unifies IT asset visibility with vulnerability, compliance, and…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
45 /100

TopHat Security

TopHat Security is a small Atlanta OT/ICS security vendor building digital-twin range and internet-scale ICS scanning tools for…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
45 /100

QryptoCyber

Post-quantum cryptography audit firm building automated Cryptographic Bills of Materials to help enterprises inventory and migrate vulnerable encryption.

Emerging / Unranked Quantum Resilience
45 /100

Arcabit

Warsaw-based antivirus and endpoint security vendor running a hybrid in-house/Bitdefender detection engine for SMB, education, and home users…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
45 /100

IndyKite

Identity-powered data platform that uses a knowledge-graph architecture to unify siloed identity and business data, aimed at making…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
45 /100

Cyjax

Cyjax is a UK-founded cyber threat intelligence provider offering investigative analysis, payment fraud detection, and physical security intelligence…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

APCON

Privately held network packet broker and visibility fabric maker whose IntellaView hardware feeds clean, deduplicated traffic to security…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

Infotex

A Lafayette, Indiana-based managed security service provider delivering SOC/SIEM monitoring and FFIEC-aligned compliance support built specifically for community…

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
45 /100

SNS Security

Montpellier-based French MSSP running a 24/7 SOC, CERT incident response, and penetration testing for mid-market enterprises across France…

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)