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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

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

iC Consult

A large, 29-year-old independent identity-security services leader, now backed by Bridgepoint after Carlyle's exit, valued at roughly EUR…

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
47 /100

NetQuest Corporation

Employee-owned New Jersey firm building packet brokers and optical network monitoring hardware that feeds threat-hunting and lawful-intercept systems…

Emerging / Unranked Network Security
47 /100

FortifyData

Cyber risk management platform combining attack surface management, third-party risk ratings, and compliance management, using active weekly scanning…

Emerging / Unranked Attack Surface Management
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

Bastion

AI-driven compliance and security automation platform for startups, built by former Palantir engineers to get companies SOC 2,…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

IPQualityScore

Fraud-prevention and IP/device risk-scoring API providing proxy/VPN/bot detection, device fingerprinting, and threat intelligence to security and fraud teams.

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
47 /100

Cyberday

A Finnish information security management system (ISMS) and compliance platform, formerly Agendium, that helps European small and mid-sized…

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

Nullify

An early-stage but well-funded (~$16.9M total) AI-native product-security startup addressing the AppSec talent shortage, backed by SYN Ventures.

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Antigen

Antigen is a Y Combinator-backed continuous offensive security platform that runs nightly automated attack simulations against an organization's…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
47 /100

Cyata

Part of Check Point's $150M three-company February 2026 acquisition spree, Cyata directly strengthens Check Point's end-to-end AI security…

Emerging / Unranked AI Security
47 /100

Nucleon Cyber

Threat intelligence vendor using patented polymorphic decoy sensors that mimic vulnerable networks to generate first-party intelligence on active…

Emerging / Unranked Threat & Vulnerability Management
47 /100

ESNC

Specialized SAP security vendor providing vulnerability scanning and real-time attack detection for SAP NetWeaver environments, a niche generalist…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Aiuken Cybersecurity

Madrid-based MDR and managed security services provider founded in 2012, now operating within the Allurity European MSSP group.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
47 /100

LogicManager

A Boston-based enterprise risk management (ERM) platform, founded and grown without outside venture funding, that helps organizations tie…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Jit

A Boston-based AI context graph startup acquired by Torq -- described as 'the established agentic security operations leader'…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Swivel Secure

UK-founded multi-factor authentication vendor behind AuthControl Sentry, now operating as part of Nasdaq-listed BIO-key International.

Emerging / Unranked Identity & Access Management
47 /100

IPKeys Technologies

Federal cybersecurity contractor whose CLaaS platform automates NIST Risk Management Framework compliance and continuous monitoring for the Department…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Sotero

Data-security-as-a-service platform that centralizes encryption of data at rest, in transit, and in use, aiming to give organizations…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Nillion

Switzerland-based decentralized "blind computation" network that lets applications process encrypted sensitive data without ever decrypting it on any…

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Solidrange

A Riyadh-based, Sharaka Capital-backed GRC automation startup whose EasyCompliance platform has landed government and publicly listed customers across…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
47 /100

Hackmetrix

Santiago-based compliance automation platform helping Latin American startups and mid-market companies reach ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI…

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance