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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

Midship

A Y Combinator-backed San Francisco AI SOX-automation startup being folded into Optro's GRC platform.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance
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

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

Kazimi

Berlin startup using privacy-preserving cryptographic proofs to help mobile apps tell real users from bots.

Emerging / Unranked Application 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

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

Beazley Security

An insurer-backed MSSP formed from Lloyd's insurer Beazley's cyber unit and Lodestone, offering managed detection, response, and advisory…

Emerging / Unranked Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
47 /100

Nebulock

A Boston hunt-first, AI-native SecOps platform with Fortune 500 customers less than a year out of stealth.

Emerging / Unranked Security Operations
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 Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
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

EigenQ

An Austin quantum-technology company going public via a SPAC merger with Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp.

Emerging / Unranked Data Protection
47 /100

Dam Secure

AI-native AppSec platform built to catch logic-level security flaws in AI/LLM-generated code that traditional scanners miss.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
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

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

SecureFlag

Hands-on secure coding training platform using virtualized, real-world development environments to teach developers, DevOps and QA engineers to…

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Detexian

Melbourne-based SaaS security posture management startup helping mid-market organizations find shadow IT and SaaS misconfigurations.

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
47 /100

ObjectSecurity

A San Diego firm specializing in binary-level vulnerability analysis for software and firmware where source code isn't available.

Emerging / Unranked Application Security
47 /100

Thales (CipherTrust Data Security Platform)

Thales's enterprise encryption, tokenization, and key-management platform, built from the Vormetric and SafeNet KeySecure acquisitions into a unified…

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

GhostEye

GhostEye is a Y Combinator-backed continuous red-team service that simulates real-world social-engineering attacks — help-desk vishing, deepfaked executive…

Emerging / Unranked Cloud Security
47 /100

TovenAI

AI agents that automate manual, data-intensive compliance surveillance and evidence work for institutional trading firms.

Emerging / Unranked Governance, Risk & Compliance