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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

TrackLight

A government anti-fraud vendor led by the founders of Pondera Solutions, adding identity validation by acquiring Plum Identity…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
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)
45 /100

SOOS

Flat-rate software composition analysis, container scanning, and SBOM management platform.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

Flare Systems

Flare is a Montreal-founded identity-first cyber threat intelligence platform that continuously monitors the dark, deep, and clear web…

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
45 /100

SecureIQx

An MIT-founded SCA reachability engine acquired alongside Korbit.ai by Boost Security.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
45 /100

Brite

A 43-year-old, MSSP Alert Top-250 managed security provider acquired as Sole Source Capital's first Fund III platform investment.

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

Opsin

A San Jose startup that maps what enterprise AI agents like Copilot and Gemini can access, flagging data…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
45 /100

Aptible

A San Francisco compliance-automation vendor combining audit-prep workflow (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) with managed compliant cloud hosting,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Trava Security

Cyber risk management platform for small and midsize businesses that ties vulnerability and compliance posture directly to cyber…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

TechEnabler

São Paulo-based managed security provider offering a 24x7 SOC, DDoS mitigation and network observability across Latin America.

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

GoComply

Early-stage GRC platform that continuously validates whether written security policies are actually enforced in practice, not just documented.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

Menaya

Menaya (the rebranded GamaSec) runs an AI-powered external attack surface management platform that discovers and continuously scores an…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
45 /100

FYEO

A Denver-based threat intelligence and exposure monitoring vendor that pairs conventional dark-web/credential monitoring with blockchain and DeFi security…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
45 /100

Light Rider

Maryland quantum-integration company building quantum-entropy and quantum-LiFi security products, founded by a former U.S. Army cyber officer.

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
45 /100

GFI Software

Austin-based, Aurea-owned network security vendor whose GFI LanGuard vulnerability scanner and patch manager target small and midsize businesses.

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
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

Keycard

An a16z-backed agent-identity startup that acquired Anchor.dev and Runebook to add certificate management and MCP connectivity.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
45 /100

Alpha 2

A Chantilly, VA cryptographic and secure-communications engineering firm for space and intelligence systems, acquired by Aurex.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
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

Waterleaf International

A self-funded Florida managed-security and CMMC/SOC 2 compliance provider serving municipal and DoD-contractor clients.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
45 /100

White Circle

A seed-stage Paris real-time AI control layer endorsed by senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepMind.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security