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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

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
45 /100

Mailprotector

MSP-exclusive, white-labeled email security platform (Shield) offering encrypted email, anti-phishing filtering, continuity, and archiving from a single console.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
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

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