Incremental Innovator
Improves on existing approaches (50-69).
CertifID
A Grand Rapids startup verifying wiring instructions and counterparty identity to stop business-email-compromise wire fraud in real-estate closings,…
Oligo Security
Runtime application detection and response (ADR) that inspects live open-source library and function behavior to catch exploitable threats…
Lattice Semiconductor (Sentry Security Solutions)
Public FPGA maker Lattice Semiconductor's Sentry solution stack and secure control FPGAs provide hardware root-of-trust and platform firmware…
Cloud Range
Full-service, live-fire cyberattack simulation platform used to train and assess SOC and incident response teams.
TrustedSec
TrustedSec is a CREST-accredited penetration testing, red team, and incident response consultancy founded by David Kennedy, creator of…
Huskeys
AI-driven edge security management platform that orchestrates and tunes existing WAFs and CDNs across multi-cloud environments instead of…
Modulate
Modulate builds voice AI models that detect fraud, deepfakes, and toxic behavior in real time across gaming, contact…
Netskope
A security-service-edge vendor built around a cloud-native inline proxy for CASB, SWG, and ZTNA, which completed its IPO…
Native Security
An Israeli-US startup building a cloud security control plane that operationalizes AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI's own native…
GitGuardian
Secrets detection and non-human identity security platform that scans code, CI/CD, and collaboration tools for exposed credentials in…
StrikeReady
AI SOC platform using 'Composite AI' to investigate alerts across an entire security stack at flat-rate pricing, processing…
Linx Security
AI-native identity security platform that discovers, scores, and helps remediate risk across both human and non-human identities.
Defense Unicorns
A founder-led defense software-supply-chain company that reached unicorn status on a $136M Series B.
Ent AI
A San Francisco seed-stage startup building 'intent-aware' AI-native endpoint security, founded by the creators of RiskIQ and Microsoft…
Ocean
Ocean is an AI-native email security platform where autonomous agents investigate sender intent and conversation context to catch…
ID.me
McLean, Virginia identity network verifying more than 150 million users for federal and state agencies, healthcare organizations and…
Konvu
AI agents trace real code and runtime data flow to prove which flagged vulnerabilities are actually exploitable.
Secureframe
Automated compliance platform for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks, competing with Vanta and Drata but at…
HackerOne
Crowdsourced security platform connecting organizations with independent researchers for bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs.
Lema AI
Lema AI runs an autonomous, agentic system that continuously investigates how third-party vendors actually access and move enterprise…
Thinkst Applied Research
Deception technology and honeypot maker behind Thinkst Canary and the free Canarytokens project, bootstrapped to roughly $20 million…
Galileo
Galileo is an AI evaluation and observability platform that catches hallucinations, tool-call errors and safety regressions in LLM…
Corelight
Network detection platform built on the open-source Zeek framework, converting raw network traffic into structured 'network evidence' for…
Tamnoon
A hybrid human-plus-AI managed service that remediates cloud security findings from tools like Wiz and Prisma Cloud instead…