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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

Scanner

Credible, Sequoia-backed Series A infrastructure play addressing a real bottleneck (data access for security AI agents) with an…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

iSPIN

iSPIN AG is a Swiss cybersecurity consulting and managed services firm based in Bassersdorf, in business for over…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
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

NFIR

Dutch incident response and digital forensics specialist offering 24/7 IR, managed detection and response, and independent forensic investigations.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

QIZ Security

A credibly backed, early-stage post-quantum cryptography readiness vendor addressing a real and increasingly urgent enterprise migration challenge.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
45 /100

Cable

A well-timed compliance-automation acquisition for Synctera as BaaS regulatory scrutiny intensifies; Cable will continue operating as a standalone…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Beephish

Security awareness SaaS platform offering phishing simulation campaigns, interactive training, and multi-channel communications for employee cyber-risk reduction.

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
45 /100

Interface Masters Technologies

Silicon Valley OEM manufacturer of network TAPs, bypass switches, and packet brokers that feed traffic to IPS, IDS,…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

F8th

Toronto-based continuous authentication vendor using passive behavioral biometrics (mouse, keyboard and device signals) to detect account takeover and…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
45 /100

Enclave Networks

Enclave Networks is a UK-based startup offering zero trust network access as a lightweight VPN replacement, aimed primarily…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
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

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

Conifers.ai

Conifers.ai builds CognitiveSOC, an agentic AI platform that automates threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

SysTools Software

New Delhi-based data recovery and digital forensics vendor whose MailXaminer email forensics tool is used in law-enforcement and…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

SIEMonster

SIEMonster is a small, self-funded vendor of a multi-tenant, white-label SIEM platform built specifically for MSSPs and lean…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

MetCloud

Birmingham-based sovereign cloud provider pairing UK-hosted private cloud infrastructure with built-in cyber defense, targeting public-sector and defense customers.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
45 /100

Waterleaf International

A steady, self-funded regional managed-security and compliance provider well-suited to municipal and DoD-contractor clients needing bundled network-and-security services.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

EKCO

A fast-growing, Dublin-headquartered security-first MSP with a genuinely broad service portfolio built through sustained M&A across the UK…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

Technomile

A GovCon software platform, newly backed by Capitol Meridian Partners as majority owner, combining with a decades-established facility-security…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Raven

Experienced repeat founding team with a well-subscribed seed round and a technically credible thesis (signature-less runtime defense); still…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

Deepchecks

An Israeli open-source ML validation pioneer acquired by Check Point Software to strengthen trust and validation of AI-driven…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Keycard

A very young, a16z-backed AI-agent identity security startup that has moved quickly to acquire complementary technology (certificate management,…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
45 /100

Strobes Security

A Plano, Texas-based continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) and vulnerability assessment platform that consolidates findings from multiple scanners…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
45 /100

DeleteMe

A well-established personal data-removal service extending into adjacent social media privacy protection through acquisition, addressing a genuinely growing…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection