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.
Cynamics
Cynamics is an AI-driven, agentless network detection and response platform that claims to infer full network visibility from…
Aravo Solutions
A San Francisco-based third-party risk management (TPRM) platform used by large global brands to onboard, assess, and continuously…
CloudQuery
A New York cloud asset-inventory company that merged with env0 to combine real-time visibility with IaC governance.
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…
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.
Hotspot Shield
Hotspot Shield is a consumer VPN product, now owned by digital-safety company Aura, built on the proprietary Catapult…
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…
Prescient Security
Prescient Security is a Nashville-based audit and penetration-testing firm delivering SOC 2, ISO, FedRAMP, and CREST-accredited compliance services.
Pervade Software
Cardiff, Wales-based vendor whose OpView and OpAudit platforms combine SIEM-style monitoring, vulnerability tracking and compliance evidence management, and…
CYFIRMA
CYFIRMA is a Singapore-headquartered external threat landscape management company, offering products spanning cyber threat intelligence (DeCYFIR), digital risk…
Ultra Cyber Ltd
A 200-plus-staff UK sovereign secure-communications and datalink security firm being acquired by Airbus Defence and Space.
IDenfy
Lithuanian identity verification and fraud-prevention platform combining document, biometric, and AML checks for onboarding regulated and online businesses.
Responsible Cyber
Singapore-based cyber risk and third-party risk management vendor offering CISO-as-a-service consulting alongside its RiskImmune vendor-risk platform.
Ncontracts
A Nashville-area GRC platform built specifically for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions, combining risk and compliance…
Klocwork (Perforce)
Long-established static application security testing tool for safety-critical embedded software, originally a Nortel spinoff, now owned and developed…